464 



GARDEN FARMING 



Beets, sugar, planting, 157 

 types, 157 



types, 151 



Bench, construction of, for bottom 

 heat, 77 



greenhouse, 76 



materials, 78 



subirrigation, 80 



width, 78 



wooden, 78 

 Bermuda onion, 318-320 



culture, 319 



marketing, 320 



seed, 319 



soil, 319 

 Blight, celery, 211 



potato, 355 

 Bordeaux mixture, 14 



equipment for making, illustrated, 



358 



preparation of, 357 

 Bottom heat, bench construction for, 



77 



Brassica alba, 303, 454 

 campestris, 454 

 Japonica, 303 

 juncea, 303 

 napus, 454 

 nigra, 303, 454 

 oleracea var. acephala, 266 

 capitata, 162 

 gemmifera, 159 

 rapa, 454 

 Broad beans, 123 

 Brussels sprouts, 159-161 

 culture, 1 60 

 harvesting, 160 

 illustrated, 160 

 types, 161 

 Bunch onions, production of, 323 



Cabbage, 161-184 

 distribution, 161 

 farm crop, 174-184 

 fertilizer for, 175 

 diseases, 178 



clubroot, seedlings af- 

 fected with, 178 

 enemies, 176 



aphis, or louse, 177 

 bug, harlequin, 176 

 flea beetle, 176 

 maggot, 176 

 root maggot, 177 

 harvesting and marketing, 178 

 planting, in field, 175 

 preparing the soil, 174 

 seed bed, 174 



Cabbage, farm crop, soil, 174 

 storage, 180 



in pits, 179 



storage house, illustrated, 180 

 interior arrangement, il- 

 lustrated, 181 

 types, 161 

 uses of, 183 

 varieties, 183 



market-garden crop, 162-166 

 culture, 165 

 fertilizing the soil, 165 

 harvesting and marketing, 166 

 preparation for planting, 163 

 soil, 164 



truck crop, 167-173 

 culture, 170 

 cutting, illustrated, 171 

 enemies and diseases, 170 

 fertilizer, side dressing, illus- 

 trated, 170 

 fertilizers, 168 

 harvesting, 171 

 marketing, 173 



packed in double compart- 

 ment crates, illustrated, 167 

 packed in ventilated barrels 



for shipment, 166 

 seed bed, 169 

 soil, 1 68 



transplanting, 169 

 varieties, 17 



Charleston Wakefield, il- 

 lustrated, 172 

 Jersey Wakefield, illus- 

 trated, 172 



Capacity of supply pipes, table, 69 

 Capsicum annuum, 341 

 Car service, refrigerator, 98 

 Cardoon, 184 

 Care of hotbeds, 58 

 Car-heater stove, illustrated, 370 

 Carrot, 185-187 

 botany, 185 

 crop in the field, 186 

 culture, 185 

 harvesting, 186 

 varieties, 187 

 Cauliflower, 187-194 

 botany, 187 

 cold storage, 104 

 distribution, 187 

 field crop, 187 

 forcing, 193 

 harvesting, 190 

 head, illustrated, 188 

 in Norfolk area, 192 

 insects and diseases, 190 



