INDEX 



Canadian wood-ashes, 31 

 Carbonate, ammoniacal copper, 182, 



232 

 Carrots, in coldframe, 123 



sprouting, 21 



when to harvest, 185 

 Catalogues, 138 

 Cauliflower, in coldframe, 129 



when to harvest, 184 

 Celery, blanching with boards, 196 



blanching with earth, 197 



grown in barrels, 40* 



how to care for, 191 



in the coldframe, 127 



in the small garden storing, 209 



liquid manure for, 198 



outdoors, keeping, 205 



storing for winter, 207* 



trench, how to make a, 208 

 Chickens in the garden, 35 

 Children's gardens, 85 

 Clay soil, handling, 159 

 Clothes pole, as a bean pole, 34 



vegetables and vines on, 30*, 



34, 35* 

 Cloth sash for hotbeds, advantages 



of, no 



Clover as a fertilizer, 226 

 Coldframe as a greenhouse, a, 115 



beans in the, 125 



beets in the, 123 



building the, 109*, 1 14 



cabbage in the, 130 



carrots in the, 123 



cauliflower in the, 129 



celery in the, 127 



and hotbed, difference between, 

 106 



eggplant in the, 124 



gain made with a, 105 



hardening-off seedlings in the, 1 19 



how to prepare the, 117 



leeks in the, 125 



lettuce in the, 120 



onion in the, 124 



parsley in the, 126 



peas in the, 131 



peppers in the, 122 



Coldframe, reasons for having a, 106 



how to transplant in the, 119 



spinach in the, 126 



the management of a, 116 



tomatoes in the, 121 



ventilating the, 118* 



watering, the, 118 

 Collars, paper, for, seedlings, 177* 

 Combination planting, commercial 

 methods of, 37 



planting, crops for, 38 

 Combined spray mixtures, 239 

 Combining succession with rotation, 



79 



Commercial fertilizer, amount to use, 

 223, 225 



fertilizer, rule for using, 224 



fertilizers, how to use, 222 



fertilizers, kinds of, 225 



methods of combination planting, 



37 



Companion cropping, 36 

 Compost pile, how to make a, 201 

 Consumer coming into his own, 9 

 Cooperative vegetable growing, 65 

 Copper-carbonate, ammoniacal, 182, 



232 



Corn, how to prevent varieties mix- 

 ing, 57 



by June 2Oth, 19 



sprouting, 20 



the main crop, 172 

 Cost of garden, annual, 99 



of tools, 144 

 Cover crop, in the garden, 204 



rye as a, 202, 204 

 Cow manure, value of, 219 

 Cowpeas and soy beans, 226 

 Cropping, companion, 36 

 Crops for combination planting, 38 



hurryirg, 19 



succession, a rule for, 176 

 Crop, corn the main, 172 

 Cultivate, how to, 171 



when not to, beans, 171] 

 Cucumber on clothes poles, 34 

 Cucurbits, 80 

 Cultivating potatoes, 193 



