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INDEX 



Cuttings and layerings, examples of ,43 



green wood, 42, 47 



hard wood, 40 



how stored, 40 



management, 44 



planting, 40 



principles of, 43 



root, 39, 47 



stems for, 39 



trees and shrubs grown from, 42, 

 147 



types of, 39, 40 ,47 

 Cut worms, 317 



December garden work, 156, 170 



home grounds in, 341, 345 



orchard and fruit work, 341, 345 

 De Vries, 23 

 Dewberries, 263 

 Diseases, blackberry, 262 



collecting, 202 



currant, 265 



fruit, 320, 321 



gooseberry, 266 



grape, 249, 250 



orange, 282 



preventing, 309 



raspberry, 257 



strawberry, 239 

 Disk harrow, 331 

 Dividing and transplanting, 34 

 Division of roots, 33 

 Dogs, damage by, 386 

 Downy mildew on grapes, 249 

 Drainage, 74, 80 



work by students, 154 

 Drouth resistance, 236, 239 

 Drying vegetables, 119 

 Duster at work, 326 

 Dusting potatoes, 144 



vs. spraying, 324, 325 

 Dwarf apple trees, 183 



Ear-row system, 30 

 Eggplant, 125-6 

 Emulsions of oil, 313-4 

 Endive, 112 

 Enemies, combating, 202 



losses from, 202 



of apple, pear, quince, 195 



of cherries, 226 



of plants, 3 



of plums, 231 

 Evaporation from leaves, 6 

 Exercises at close of each chapter 



bush fruit, 269 



forest, 365 



Exercise at close of each chapter 



grape, 251 



home grounds, 382 



orchard, 221, 232 



pruning, 346 



soil improvement, 301 



spraying, 327 



strawberry, 240 



weed, 354 



with birds, 388-9 

 fruit, 192 

 orchard enemies, 202 



wood lot, 365 

 Exhibits of fruit, 192 



garden products, 130, 153, 169 



scoring, 192 

 Exposure for orchards, 173, 192, 203, 



223, 228 



Farmers' bulletins, end of each 



chapter 

 Earm garden, 67, 68, 69 

 February garden work, 146, 159 



home grounds in, 337, 341 



orchard work, 337, 341 

 Feeding birds, 387, 389 

 Fertility, forms of, 395 



from legumes, 394, 395 



removed by crops, 394 

 Fertilizer, commercial, 291 



effect in orchard, 291 



formulas, 291 



home mixtures, 292 



materials, collection of, 9 



need of, 292 

 Fertilizers in gardens, 72, 73, 80 



for Irish potatoes, 133, 144 

 Fertilizing currants, 264 



grapes, 245 



orchards, 180, 211, 213, 221, 232, 

 291 



strawberries, 237 

 Field and laboratory exercises, close 



of each chapter 

 Field studies of weeds, 354 

 Figs, 272 



caprification of, 273 

 Fillers in orchards, 207, 210 

 Five-finger, 351 

 Fixation of type, 25 

 Flat of cabbage, 91 

 Flats in hotbeds, 82 

 making, 92 

 transplanting into, 93 

 Flicker, 388 



Flooding cranberries, 267 

 Flower borders, 378 



