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INDEX 



Birds, fruit shrubs for, 384 



in winter, 387-8 



knowing, 388 



watering, 387 

 Biting insects, fighting, 312 



poisons for, 310 

 Bitter rot, 199 

 Blackberry enemies, 262 



locations, 258 



marketing, 262 



permanency, 262 



picking, 262 



planting, 261 



protection, 262 



pruning, 261 



section, 258 



soils, 258 



varieties, 258, 261 



uses, 262 

 "Black leaf 40," 320 

 Black rot of grapes, 250 

 Blasting for orchards, 298 

 Blooming seasons of flowers, 380 

 Blossoming dates, 221, 232 

 Blossoms, strawberry, 234 

 Blueberry planting and care, 267 



section, 266 



soils, 267 



uses, 267 

 Book authors, see Authors 

 Books for libraries, 390 

 Bordeaux mixture, 304-5, 320 

 Border, vegetable, 65 

 Borders, flower, 378 

 Borers of apples, 196-7 



grapes, 249 



peaches, 215, 217, 218 

 Box packing guide, 399 

 Breathing by leaves, 3 

 Breeding applied in garden and 

 orchard, 22 



of plants, 22 



plots, 28 

 Bridge grafting, 56 

 Broccoli, 101 



Brown rot of cherries, 227 

 peaches, 218-9 

 plums, 231 

 Brussels sprouts, 101 

 Bucket pump, 318 

 Buckwheat, wild, 353 

 Bud formation, 7, 9 



scales, 7 

 Budding and grafting, 49 

 chip, 53 

 flute, 53 

 June, 51 



Budding and grafting, materials for, 51 

 methods of, 49, 60 

 peaches, 50 

 prong and plate, 52 

 September, 50^ 

 shield, 49, 50 

 types of, 52 

 Buds, fruit, 8 

 kinds of, 8 

 Bulblets, 36 



of hyacinth, 37 

 Bulbous plants propagated, 34 

 Bulbs, multiplying by, 38 

 of different tyrjes, 34, 35, 38 

 winter and spring, 380 

 Buttercup, division of, 36 

 Building, beautified, 368, 373, 376, 

 377 

 tall, 367 

 Buildings, planting to suit, 367 



well located, 369 

 Bulletin references, end of each 



chapter 

 Bush fruits, acreage map, 252 

 chapter on, 252 

 exercises, 269 

 picking, 269 

 projects, 269 

 propagation, 269 

 surveys, 269 



Cabbage, 98 



in flat, 91 



resistant to yellows, 100 



types of heads, 99 

 Calcium, 6 

 Calendar for spraying, 318, 320, 321 



of fruit work, 338, 341 



of garden work, 146, 157 

 Callousing cuttings, 40 

 Canker on apple, 201 



worm, 197 



worms on apple, 313 

 Canning vegetables, 119 

 Cantaloupes, 127 

 Carbon, 6 



Carbonate of copper, 306 

 Carbon dioxide obtained by plants, 2 

 Carrots, 112 

 Castor beans, 376 

 Catalpa seedlings, 360 

 Cats destroy birds, 385 



protection'from, 385 

 Cauliflower, 101, 102 

 Cedar apple, 200 



trees, 359 

 Celeriac, 104 



