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Fruit for the West 50 



Fruits, to cultivate 27 



Fruit-trees, how to propagate 40 



" transplanting '42 



Fumigating bees, instructions for. . . 154 



G. 



Game Bantam fowls Ill 



Game fowls 109 



Gapes in fowls 131 



Gardening, profits of 37 



Garden irrigation 37 



Garden rotation 15 



Grafting fruit-trees 40 



Grafting-wax 41 



Grape, propagation and training of. . 31 



" Tarieties of. 29 



Green apples, how to ship 66 



Goose, the Canada, account of 124 



" the domestic, its habits 122 



" the wild 124 



Guano as a manure 96 



H. 



Hardy fruits for the West 67 



Herbaceous plants 89 



H'erbs aromatic, pot and sweet. 26 



Hives and boxVs for bees 150, 163 



I. 



Instincts, wonderful, of bees 140 



Irrigation, garden .' 37 



K. 

 Kidney dwarf-beans, how to cultivate IS 



Rilling and packing poultry 134 



Kitchen-garden, soil for 7 



li. 



Lettuce, how to cultivate 22 



Lice, kinds peculiar to bees 152 



Iff. 



JI nlay fowl 103 



Manure, guano as a 96 



Medicinal plants i 26 



Melon, how to cultivate 22 



Mice enemies of bees 151 



Minorca fowls 105 



Moss roses, perpetual 92 



Moulting, care of fowls during 134 



N. 



Nectarine, seven varieties of 66 



O. 



Okra, how to cultivate 23 



Onions, how to cultivate 23 



P. 



Packing apples for shipping 66 



Parsley, how to cultivate 24 



Peach, diseases of the 58 



" thirteen varieties of the 58 



Pea-fowls 119 



Pear, dwarf, varieties of '. 55 



Pears, autumn, six varieties of 53 



Pear, select varieties of the 51 



Pears for Southern cultivation 55 



" hardy, for the West 68 



" summer, eight varieties of 51 



" winter, five varieties of. 54 



Peppers, how to Cultivate 24 



Perennials, hardy, forty Tarieties 89 



PAGB 



Phelps's bee-feeder, description of . .. 166 



Pip, or thrush, in fowls 181 



Plum, diseases of the 62 



" eleven varieties of the 60 



Pole beans, how to cultivate 18 



Polish fowls 106 



Poultrv and eggs, how to ship 134 



" " feeding 127 



" houses and yards for 128 



Profits of gardening 37 



Pruning, season for, and mode of . . . . 43 



ft. 



Queen bee, description of the 139 



Queen bees, anecdote of two 139 



Quince, propagation and culture of. . 36 

 B. 



Badish, how to cultivate 24 



Bhubarb, how to cultivate 24 



Boses, climbing, 92 



Boses, bybrid, perpetual 91 



Boses, perpetual moss 92 



Boses, summer 92 



Botation, garden 15 



S. . 



Seed, saving various kinds of . . ^ 11 



Seeds, duration of germinating power 11 



Shipping, packing apples for 66 



Shipping poultry and eggs 134 



Shrubbery, garden 69 



Shrubs, flowering, list of 25 varieties, 91 

 Soil, best kind for the flower-garden, 69 

 Soil, preparation of kitchen-garden. . 7 

 Sowing, preparation of ground for. . . 12 



Sowing seeds, how to be done IS' 



Spanish fowls 105 



Spiders and ants enemies of bees. . . . 152 



Spinach, how to cultivate 25 



Strawberry, soil and culture for 34 



Summer tfpples, thirteen varieties of, 44 



" pears, eight varieties of 51 



Sussex fowls. ..." 109 



Swarming, indications of 144 



" of bees in summer 144 



T. 



Toads and frogs enemies of bees 151 



Tomato, how to cultivate 25 



Transplanting, weather suitable for.. 13 



" fruit-trees 42 



Transporting bees 141, 153 



Tuberous-rooted plants 90 



Turkey, the domestic Ill 



Turkey, the wild 113 



V. 

 Vegetables, how to cultivate. ....'... 11 



W. 

 Weather beshBuited for transplanting 13 



White .Spanish fowls 105 



Wild goos^. 124 



Wild turkff^ Audubon's account of. . 114 

 Winter apples, six best varieties of. . 50 



" chimney-plant^ in 93 



** housing bees in 1,50 



" pears, five varieties of. 54 



Working bees, description of 140 



X. 

 Yards and houses for poultry 123 



