INDEX 



Garden, ten-dollar, a. 54 

 ten-dollar, plan of a, 55* 

 ten-minutes-a-day, a, 68, 71* 

 vegetable, pests of the, 244, 245 

 what your, can grow, 73 

 yield for one week, 69 

 28 x 28 ft., yield of, 51*, 53 

 40 x 45 ft., plan of, 60* 

 80 x 100 ft., yield of, 65 

 Gardens, boys, and girls, and, 85 

 Gardener's, reward, the thorough, 91 

 Gardener, what science has done for 



the, 49 



Gather vegetables, when to, 183 

 Getting the best of the early frosts, 



204 



Girls, and boys, and gardens, 85 

 Good seed, 21, 139 

 Grapes, bagging the, 196 

 planting, 161 

 support for, 30 

 Grape vine, how to prune the, 212*, 



213* 



Greenhouse, a coldframe as a, 115 

 Green manures, 204, 226 

 Growing season, the busy, 170 

 Grow, what your garden can, 73 



Hand weeders, 141*, 171* 

 Hardening off, seedlings, no, 119 

 Harvesting cabbage, 33 

 Harvest, onions, how to, 200 

 Heat-lovers, 80 

 Heavy soil, how to dig, 211* 

 Henderson, Peter, quoted, 9 

 Hill, best, of potatoes, 22 



how and when to, 178 

 Hoeing, value of, 14 

 Hoes, 142*, 172* 

 Hog manure, value of, 219 

 Home-made, hotbed mat, a, in 



pruning pole, 199* 

 Hone manure, value of, 219 

 Horse-weeds for pea brush, 64 

 Hotbed and coldframe, difference be- 

 tween, 106 



Hotbed, cloth sash for, no 

 cost of maintenance of, 17 

 how to build a, 107 

 mats. III, 112* 

 sowing seeds in a, 109 

 transplanting seedlings in a, 148 

 usefulness of, 17 

 ventilating the, 118* 

 How and when to hill, 178 

 How much fertilizer to use, 222, 225 

 seed for so-foot row, 136 

 seed to plant, 136 

 How to brush peas, 179 

 build a manure pit, 201 

 coldframe, 109*. 114 

 hotbed, 107, 108* 

 care for celery, 191 

 growing melons, 186 

 tender bramble*, 212 

 cultivate, 171 

 cut asparagus, 178 

 dig heavy soil, 21 1* 



light soil, 211* 

 dwarf fruit trees, 212 

 handle clay soils, 159 

 harvest onions, 200 

 rhubarb, 178* 

 increase the beneficial bacteria, 



228 

 make a celery trench, 208 



a compost pile, 201 



ammoniacal copper carbonate, 

 232 



an asparagus bed, 157 



a rhubarb bed, 158 



a root pit, 206 



Bordeaux mixture, 231 



hotbed mats, in, 112* 



kerosene emulsion, 236 



liquid manure, 220* 



poisoned bran mash, 238 



soap solution, 237 



tobacco water, 237 

 mulch the bush fruits, 211 

 pick melons, 192 

 plant bush fruits, 161 



strawberries, 161 



the fruit garden, 160 



