INDEX 



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Fertilizers continued 



tity to apply, 25, 26; requirements 

 of celery, 24; table of fertilizer 

 values, 32, 33; time for apply- 

 ing, 26, 27, 28. 



Fillers for use in mixing fertili- 

 zers, 31. 



Fin de siecle variety, 126. 



Fish refuse or scrap, 22. 



Flumes, wood for conducting wa- 

 ter, 68. 



Float or drag for leveling soil, 12. 



"Floats," 18. 



Food value of celery, 2. 



Fungicides, 83, 84, 85, 89. 



Fusarium, 78. 



Giant Pascal variety, 126. 



Golden Self-blanching variety, 125, 

 127. 



Grasshoppers, 91. 



Guano, Peruvian, 23. 



Habitat of celery, 3, 7, 65. 



Handling celery, methods of, 109. 



Harrow, acme, 10; disk, 9; Meek- 

 er, 13; spring-tooth, 9. 



Hauling, wagon adapted to, 110. 



Healthfulness of celery growing, 134. 



Heart-rot or blanch-rot of celery, 81. 



Heating for storehouse, 104. 



Heterodera radicicola, 82. 



Holders for use on retail markets, 

 124. 



House for storing celery, 108. 



Horse-boots, 14. 



Hotbeds, care of, 41; covering for, 

 40; permanent, 39, temporary, 38. 



Insecticides, 91, 92, 93. 



Insects injurious to celery, 90-93; 

 carrot rust fly, 93; celery cater- 

 pillar, 92; celery leaf-tyer, 91; 

 celery looper, 93 ; grasshoppers, 

 91; tarnished plant bug, 92; ze- 

 bra caterpillar, 92. 



Insoluble fertilizers, 16, 32. 



Irrigation, 65-76; cost of applying 

 water, 66; deluge sprinkler meth- 

 od of applying, 66, 70, 71; meth- 

 ods of applying water, 67; on 

 muck soils, 67; quantity of water 

 required by celery, 66; skinner 

 sprinkler method, 71, 72, 73; 

 sources of water for irrigation, 

 65 ; subirrigation method of ap- 



Irrigation continued 



plying water, 72, 74, 75, 76; tem- 

 perature of water for irrigation, 

 76. 



Kainit, 18, 33. 



Kerosene emulsion, 92. 



Labor necessary for celery cul- 

 ture, 6. 



Leaf-spot disease, 80. 



Leaf-tyer, the celery, 91. 



Level culture, 61. 



Lime, effect on soils, 19. 



Limestone, 18. 



Looper, the celery, 93. 



Lygus pratensis, 92. 



Machine for lifting celery, 110. 



Machine for marketing rows, 13, 15. 



Mamestra picta, 92. 



Manures for use on celery land, 20, 

 21, 22; from fowls, 22; value of 

 barn manures, 21. 



Marker, horse, drawn, 14; wheel- 

 barrow, 15. 



Markets for celery, home and ship- 

 ping, 5. 



Marl, use on celery land, 19. 



Maturity, time of, 50, 51. 



Meat meal, 17. 



Meeker harrow, 13. 



Mice and rats, 93. 



Moisture, conservation of, 60; in 

 seed-bed, 45, 46; retention by 

 culture, 61, 64. 



Muck soils, 4. 



Mulch around plants, 59; soil or 

 dust, 64, 65. 



Muriate of potash, 18, 29, 30. 



Natural fertility of soils, 16. 



"New Celery Culture," 59. 



New land, treatment of, 8. 



Night soil as a fertilizer, 23. 



Nitrate of soda, 25, 27, 28, 31, 32. 



Nitrogen, sources of, 17; effect of, 

 28. 



Number of celery seeds in an 

 ounce, 1. 



Oyster shells, 19. 



Packing-house, plan of, 119. 



Packing, methods of, 114; in field, 

 115; in house, 117. 



Pans used for handling plants, 53. 



Paper twine, 101. 



Papilia asterias, 92. 



