INDEX 



Currants, spraying, 181 

 Cutter, the strawberry runner, 180* 

 Cutworm, outwitting the, 90*, 177*, 

 210 

 trenching the soil for the, 210 



Diary, garden, 59, 92* 



Dibbling, 154*, 155 



Difference between coldframe and 



hotbed, 106 

 Distances for planting fruits, 147 



for planting vegetables, IO2, 104, 

 136 



for thinning vegetables, IO2, 179 

 Drilling, 163 

 Ducks in the garden, 35 

 Dwarf fruit trees, how to, 212 



supports for, 29 



Earliest vegetables, the, 145 



Early frosts, getting the best of, 204 



planting, 16, 17, 145 

 Earth, blanching celery with, 197 

 Economical thinning, 199 

 Economy in the garden, 16 

 Effect of soil sterilization, the, 227* 

 Eggplant in the coldframe, 124 

 Elements of plant food in fertilizers, 



222, 225 



England, seeds in, 139 

 Evergreens for a windbreak, 29 

 Expenses of ten-dollar garden, 58 



Fall planting season, the, 213 

 February plantings, 149 



work, 148 

 Fertilizer, ashes as a, 225 



how much to use, 222, 225 



lime as a, 225 



salt as a, 225 



to use per square rod, 225 

 Fertilizers, clovers as, 226 



commercial, how to use, 225 



Fertilizers, kinds of, 225 

 rule for using, 224 

 elements of plant food in, 222, 



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Fifty dollars from twenty-four tomato 



plants, II 



Five crops on one foot of ground, 70 

 Flat, 145, 146* 

 Forcing asparagus, 33 



rhubarb, 33 

 Formalin, 233 



Fourth of July garden, a, 23 

 Fresh manure, the value of, 221 

 Frosts, early, getting the best of, 



204 



Fruit bushes, care of the first year, 

 1 80 



in the plan, 135 



garden, how to plant the, 160 



how to thin, 195 



distances for planting, 147 



varieties of, 147 



supports for dwarf, 29 



trees, how to dwarf, 212 

 Fruits, small, what bothers the, 241 



special requirements of, 147, 148 



spraying the, 190 



summer pruning of, 181 



Gain made with coldframes, 105 

 Garden, a fourteen-year-old boy's, 

 86 



amount of sash needed in, 114 



annual cost of, 99 



backyard, calendar of a, 59 



diary, 59, 92 



ducks and chickens in the, 35, 36 



how to water the, 189 



invalid's, returns from an, 15 



line, 143* 



plan, the, 134 



planted after the 4th of July, a, 

 23 



record, a vest-pocket system of, 

 92 



records, the need of, 91 



small, storing celery in the, 209 



