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415 



Strawberries, Judging, 240 



location for, 233 



mulch for, 236, 239 



picking, 238 



plans for growing, 235-7, 240 



replanting,, 239 



runners of," 240 



soils, 233 



varieties, 234 

 Strawberry, improving the, 27 



runners, 46 

 Streams, forestry effects on, 365 

 Sweet corn, 121 

 Sweet potato, culture, 142, 144 

 enemies, 142 

 plant, 142 

 storage, 143 

 Sweet potatoes, 140 

 harvesting, 142 

 starting, 140, 144 

 transplanting, 141 

 Swiss chard, 129 

 Subtropical fruits, 270 



exercises, 285 

 Suckers, propagation by, 33, 38 

 Sucking insects, fighting, 312, 316 

 Sun scald of trees, 201 

 Surveys, bush fruit, 269 



cherry and plum, 232 



garden, 79 



grape, 251 



hotbed, 88 



manure, 301 



of cultural methods, 104 



orchard, 192, 221 



potato, 143 



spraying, 327 



strawberry, 240 

 Survival of like and unlike, 22 



Table, box packing guide, 399 



cost of peaches, 395 



flower, 380-1 



fruit, 189 



of apple packing, 399 

 apple varieties, 400 

 fertility removed, 394 

 fertilizers, 394-5 

 lime-sulfur, 397-8 

 planting distances, 396 

 plants per acre, 396 

 vegetable varieties, 391-2 



planting, 88, 92, 93, 380, 381 



potato, 393 



spraying, 320, 321 



tomato, 392 



Tank sprayer, 319, 322-3 

 Taxation, relief from, 363 

 Temperature for plants, 1 

 Tender vegetables, 89, 121 

 Tent caterpillar, 197 

 Testing seeds, 18, 20 

 Thinned peaches, 344 

 Thinning fruit, 182 



objects of, 182, 214 

 Tillage, 73, 80 



implements, 63, 70, 72 



practices, 301 



section on, 297 



systems for orchards, 300-1 

 Tip layering, 45, 47 

 of raspberries, 45 

 plants from, 45 

 Tobacco dust, 316,, 320 



extract, 316 

 Tomato varieties, 124, 392 



yields, 392 

 Tomatoes, 123-4 



improving, 28 



staked, 89, 392 



transplanting, 124 



tying up, 125 

 Tools for gardening, 62, 75-7, 79, 



108, 154 

 Top working trees, 55, 60, 187 



by budding, 56 

 Tongue grafting, 53 



of apples, 53 

 Towers for spraying, 323 

 Trap for rabbits, 59 

 Transpiration, 7 

 Transplanting, 34 



autumn crops, 90 



crops for, 88-9 



dates for, 88 



distances, 88 



effects of, 124 



layered plants, 44 



machine, 143 



spring crops, 90 



sweet potatoes, 141, 143 



warm season crops, 89, 92 

 Transplanted plants, 87, 88, 92, 143 

 Tree guards for cats, 385 

 Trees, along streams, 357, 364 



and shrubs at home, 355 



benefits of, 364 



for forest planting, 359 

 high buildings, 373 

 shade, 369 



grown from cuttings, 42 



growth of, 58-9 



