INDEX 



Raspberries, summer pruning, 196 



Record book, pages of, 93* 



Records, garden, the need of, 91 

 result of three years, 95 



Redemption of a backyard, the, 49 



Repairs and tools, 141 



Requirements, special, of fruit, 147 



Result of three years' records, 95 



Returns from an invalid's garden, 15 



Reward, the thorough gardener's, 91 



Rhubarb, bed, how to make a, 158 

 forcing, 33 

 how to harvest, 178 



Rolling the soil, 28 



Root crops in the plan, 135 



Root pit, how to make, 206 



Roots, how to store, 206 



Rotation, combining, with succession, 

 79 



Row-marker, a, 170* 



Rule for using commercial fertilizers, 

 a, 224 



Runner cutter, strawberry, 1 80* 



Runners, strawberry, when to re- 

 move, 1 80 



Rye as a cover crop, 202, 204 



Salsify, 82, 85* 



Salt as a fertilizer, 225 



on the asparagus bed, 157, 178, 



192 

 Sash, amount needed in garden, 114 



cloth, advantages of, no 

 Scarifier, 141*, 172* 

 Science, what, has done for the gar- 

 dener, 49 

 Scuffle hoe, 172* 

 Season, of planting, the, 150 



the busy growing, 170 



the fall planting, 213 



the quiet, 207 



the planning, 133 

 Seed-bed, the, 159 

 Seed, how much, to plant, 136 



potatoes, for, 22 



sowing, in the hotbed, 109, 117 



vitality of, 98 



Seedlings, hardening off, no, 119 



paper collars for, 177* 



transplanting in hotbed, 148 

 Seeds, and yields for 50 ft., 136 



for August sowing, 198 



in England, 139 



keeping, 141 

 Seedsmen, 138 



Seed sowing, the principles of, 163 

 September sowings, 203 



work, 202 



Setting out tender plants, 176 

 Seven weeks, potatoes in, 20 

 Six hundred per cent, from one-tenth 



of an acre, 92 



Small fruits, what bothers the, 241 

 Soaking of vegetable seeds, 21 

 Soap solution, 237 

 Soda, nitrate of, for vegetables, 189, 



191, 192 

 Soil, bacteria in the, 215 



heavy, how to dig, 211* 



light, how to dig, 211* 



preparation, the importance of, 

 158* 



rolling the, 28 



sterilization, effect of, 227* 



trenching the, for cutworms, 204, 

 210 



what manure does in the, 218 

 Soot, for the asparagus bed, 189 

 Sources of plant food, the, 225 

 Sowing, August, seeds for, 198 



for succession, 166, 175 



seed in a hotbed, 109, 117 



September, 203 

 Soy beans and cowpeas, 226 

 Spading, value of, 61 

 Spinach, in coldframe, 126 



New Zealand, 174 

 Spraying brambles and currants, 181 



potatoes, 193 



the fruits, 190 

 Spray, mixtures combined, 239 



pump, 188*, 239 

 Sprouting, vegetables, 20, 21 



tray for potatoes, 21* 

 Square rod, fertilizer to use per, 225 



