INDEX 



Note: The asterisk (*"\ indicates an illustration. 



Ammoniac* ! copper carbonate, 182, 



232 

 Amount of sash needed in garden, 1 14 



of seed for 50 ft. row, 136 

 Annual cost of garden, 99 

 Anthracnose, bean, 171 

 April work, 162 

 Arsenate of lead, 235 

 Artificial watering, 190 

 Ashes, as a fertilizer, 225 



to improve soil texture, 159 

 Asparagus, forcing, 33 

 how to cut, 

 knife, 178* 



when to stop cutting, 186 

 bed, care of the, 157 

 how to make an, 157 

 in July, the, 192 

 salt on the, 157, 178, 192 

 soot for the, 189 

 August sowing, seeds for, 198 

 work, 196 



Back fence, the real use for a, 29 

 Backyard garden, calendar of a, 59 

 Backyard, the redemption of a, 49 

 Bacteria, beneficial, how to increase 

 the, 228 



importance of, the, 227 



in the soil, 215 

 Bagging grapes, 196 

 Barberry for a windbreak, 29, 59 

 Barrels, celery grown in, 40* 



strawberries grown in, 39,40* 

 Bean anthracnose, 171 



Bean poles,"clothes poles as, 34 



sunflowers for, 34 

 Bean strings, 46 

 Beans in coldframe, 125 



when not to cultivate, 171 

 Beets in coldframe, 123 

 Berry boxes, old, how to use, 155*, 156 

 Berry bushes in the plan, 135 

 Blackberries, summer pruning, 196 

 Blanching celery with boards, 196 



with earth, 197 

 Board, planting, 160 

 Boards, blanching celery with, 196 

 Bordeaux mixture, 23 1 

 Boys, and girls, and gardens, 85 

 Boys' garden, a, 86 



plan of, 88* 



yield of, 87 

 Brambles, pruning the, 149*, 150*, 196 



spraying, 181 



support for, 182* 



tender, how to care for, 212 

 Bran mash, poisoned, 238 

 Brassicas, 80 

 Bush fruits, how to mulch, 211 



how to plant, 161 

 Business man's garden, plan of, 45* 



Cabbage, harvesting, 33 



in coldframe, 130 



Calendar, of a backyard garden, 59 

 of season's work: January, 134; 

 Febuary, 148; March, 151; 

 April, 162; May, 170; June, 182; 

 July, 190; August, 196; Sep- 

 tember, 202 ; October, 204; No- 

 vember, 207 



