INDEX 



405 



Celery, 102, 105 



blanching, 103 

 Characteristics, power to impress, 23 

 Characters, dominant, 24 



pairs of, 26, 27 



recessant, 24 

 Chard, Swiss, 109 



Cherries and plums, chapter on, 222 

 enemies of, 226 

 picking, 226 

 propagation, 51, 52, 60 

 uses of, 226 

 Cherry, acreage map, 223 



Montmorency, 224 



orchard cultivation, 225 



orchard location, 223 



propagation, 224 



pruning, 225 



soils, 222 



sour, 222 



starting the orchard, 224 



varieties, 223 

 Chestnuts, 270 

 Chip-budding, 53 

 Chives, 109 

 Chlorophyll, disappearance of, 8 



in leaves, 3, 8 

 Christmas rose, 34 

 Citrus fruit exercises, 278 



section, 278 

 Cleft grafting, 55, 56 

 Cleistagamous flowers, 13 

 Clematis, panicled, 375 

 Clumps of shrubs, 373 

 Codling moth, 195-6 



remedies for, 195-6 

 Coldframe and hotbed, 85 

 cabbage in, 86 

 chapter, 81 

 contest, 88 

 studies, 88 

 uses of, 86 

 Collards, 110 



Compressed air sprayers, 318-9 

 Contact insecticides, 313, 320 

 Contest in attracting birds, 388-9 



in beautifying, 382 



in fruit scoring, 192 



in seed saving, 20 



in strawberries, 240 



with hotbeds, etc., 88 

 Cool season crops, 90, 91, 92, 95, 106 

 Co-operative packing, 329 

 Copper sulfate, 306, 320 

 Corn breeding, 29 



field, 122 



improving, 29, 30, 32 



Corn breediug, pop, 122 



salad, 98 



sweet, 121 

 Cost of peaches, 395 

 Cover crop in gardens, 288 

 peaches, 208 

 vineyard, 248 

 Cover crops, 74, 80, 180 

 Cowpeas for orchards, 298 

 Crab grass, 359 

 Cranberry, care, 268 



flooding, 267 



gathering, 268 



planting, 268 



propagation, 268 



section, 267 



soils, 267 



uses, 268 

 Cress garden, 98 



upland. 111 

 Cross, pollination, 12 

 Crude oil emulsion, 314 

 Cucumber, 126 



salting and pickling, 130 

 Cultivating with horse, 162 

 Cultivation of strawberries, 237 

 Culture of cranberries, 268 



currants, 264 



flowers, 380 



gooseberries, 266 



grapes, 244 



orchards, 179, 300 



oranges, 281 



pineapples, 274 



years', orchard, 330 

 Curculio bites, 336 



on core fruits, 202 



on plum, 217 

 Currant, cultivation, 264 



enemies, 265 



fertilizing, 264 



leaf-spot, 265 



locations, 263 



maggot, 265 



mulching, 264 



picking, 264 



planting, 264 



pruning, 264 



renewals, 265 



sawfly, 265 



scale, 265 



section, 263 



soils, 263 



types and varieties, 263 

 Cuttings and layerings, 39 

 callousing, 40 

 care of, 41 



