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INDEX 



Marketing blackberries, 262 



fruits, 192 



grapes, 246 



oranges, 281, 283, 285 



pineapples, 275 



vegetables, etc., 148 

 Materials for budding, 51 



spraying, 303, 320 

 Matted row of strawberries, 236 

 May garden work, 148, 163 



home grounds in, 339, 342 



orchard and fruit work, 339, 342 

 Mendel's law, 25 

 limits of, 26 

 results of, 26 

 Mesophytes, 2 

 Methods of pollination, 20 

 Mice, 56, 58 



protection against, 198 

 Miscible oils, 315 

 Mixtures of fertilizers, 292 

 Moisture for plant growth, 1, 2 

 Mound layering, 46 



and root division, 47 

 examples of, 46 

 Mulch for currants, 264 



for strawberries, 236, 239 



of loose soil, 299 

 Mushrooms, 129 

 Muskmelons, 127, 128 

 Mustard, 97, 351 



Nests for birds, 384, 388 



protect, 389 

 Nicofume, 315, 321 

 Nicotine sulfate, 315, 321 

 Nitrate of soda, 293 

 Nitrogen, 6, 286-7 



from legumes, 394-5 



-gathering bacteria, 287-9 



in air, 8 



sources of, 282 

 November garden work, 154, 169 



home grounds in, 340, 345 



orchard and fruit work, 340, 345 

 Nozzles for spraying, 324 



work of, 325 

 Nursery, a cherry, 60 



a peach, 60 



a plum, 60 



and orchard projects, 60 



forest, 360 



inspection, 58 

 form, 59 



of apples and pears, 60 



problems, 58 

 Nuts, chapter on, 270 



Nuts, exercises, 285 



October garden work, 152, 168 



home grounds in, 340, 344 



orchard and fruit work, 340, 344 

 Oil emulsions, 313-4 

 Oils, miscible, 315 

 Olives, 273-4 



acreage map, 279 

 Okra, 125 

 Onion group, 91 

 Onions, 106-7 



curing, 109 



types, 110 

 Orchard, avocado, 278 



blasting, 298 



cherry, 203-4 



culture, 179, 230, 300, 301, 331 



diseased and starved, 186 



enemies, 202, 224-5 



fertilizers, 180, 211, 213 221, 232 



fillers, 207, 210 



harrows, 331-2 



inter-cropping, 179, 192, 208 



mango, 277 



olive, 274 



peach, 205-6 



plum, 229 



projects, 192 



renovation, 184 



spraying, 303 



weeds, 351 



work by months, 337, 341 



years' work, 329, 330 

 Oranges, 278 



acreage map, 279 



culture, 281 



enemies, 282 



grove, 281 



harvesting and marketing, 281-2 



packing, 283 



propagation, 280 



pruning, 280 



setting, 280 



Valencia, 280 

 Organic matter, adding, 289 

 Ornamentals, growing, 375 

 Osmosis apparatus, 6 



by roots, 5 



experiments, 8 

 Oxygen, 6 



for plants, 2, 8 

 Oyster shell lime, 296, 297 



Packing apples in boxes, 190-2, 399 



cherries, 226 



co-operative, 329 



peaches, 212, 214-5 

 Para-dichloro-benzine, 217 



