472 



GARDEN FARMING 



Succession of crops, 5 

 Sugar beans (Lima), 124 

 Sugar beets, 156-158. See Beets 

 Sugar content of sweet corn, 216 

 Sulphur distillation, 251 

 Summer crookneck, illustrated, 419 

 Sweet corn, 214-228. See Corn, sweet 

 Sweet potatoes, 421-431 

 botany, 421 



foliage and flowers, illustrated, 



421 

 harvesting, 428 



illustrated, 429 

 plow for, illustrated, 428 

 insects and diseases, 427 

 marketing, 430 

 planting, 426 



illustrated, 426 

 plants, 43 



in bed, illustrated, 425 

 propagation, 423 

 bedding, 424 

 propagating bed, illustrated, 



425 

 soil, 422 



preparation, 422 

 storage house, 87 

 storing, 428 

 uses, 421 

 varieties, 431 



types, illustrated, 430 

 Swiss chard, 156 



Temporary hotbed, 59 



illustrated, 60 

 Thinning crops, 37 

 Tobacco plants, 45 

 Tomatoes, 431-453 



field crop at the North, 434-442 

 cultivation, 440 

 distance to plant, 436 

 distribution of, 437 

 fertilizers, 438 



plan for test of, 438 

 harvesting and marketing, 440 

 planting, 434 



hotbed for starting plants, 



illustrated, 433 

 training in field, 435 

 varieties, 442 



field crop at the South, 443-446 

 harvesting and marketing, 445 

 four-basket carrier for, 



illustrated, 445 

 wrapping, illustrated, 444 

 late crop for the South, 445 

 soil, 445 

 trained to stakes, 443 



Tomatoes, field crop at the South 

 training, 444 

 yield, 444 

 forcing, 446-453 



fruits, gathering of, 453 

 greenhouse, construction of, 

 446 



ventilation and watering, 



453 

 insects and diseases, 452 



nematodes, 447, 452 



mildew, 452 

 manuring, 451 

 plants, growing for, 448 

 pot-grown plant for, illustrated, 



449 



pollination, 450 

 root infested with nematodes, 

 illustrated, 447 



healthy, illustrated, 447 

 soil, 447 



sterilization, 447 

 origin, 431 

 types of, 432, 433 

 cherry, 433 

 commercial, 433 

 currant, 432 



Tools, hand, illustrated, 38 

 Tragapogon porrifofais, 406 

 Trains, pick-up, 99 

 Transplanting, 38 

 devices, 41 



machine in operation, illustrated, 46 

 machinery, 45 



Transportation of truck crops, 90-97 

 growth, 94 

 history, 94 

 large factor, 93 

 problems, 90 



Treatment for plant diseases, preven- 

 tive, 13 



Truck crop, transportation of, 90 

 Truck farming defined, i 

 Turnips, 453~455 

 botany, 454 

 harvesting, 455 

 seed sowing, 454 

 soil, 454 



Velvet beans, 124 



Ventilation of forcing structures, 285 

 Ventilation in greenhouses, 72 

 Ventilator attachment, illustrated, 63 



Walks in greenhouse, width of, 79 

 Water cress, 228-230 



botany, 228 



establishing crop, 229 



