INDEX 



351 



Potash, 95 



Muriate of, 125 

 Potato, 63, 196 



beetles, 124, 281 



blight, 124, 283 



cooking test, 318 



rot, 283 



scab, 126, 285, 289 



score card, 317 

 Potatoes, 256, 260, 263, 264 



lime for, 126 



premiums for, 301 



seed. 79, 80 

 Pots, 253, 282 

 Potted plants, 230, 232 

 Premiums, at fairs, 310 



kinds of, 311 

 Preparing garden, 227 

 Primula, 170 



Principles of planning, 39, 40 

 Privet, 239 



Programs for arbor day, 150, 151 

 Protecting gardens, 27 

 Pruning, 256, 261 



berry bushes, 262 



blackberries, 266 



care in, 139 



completed, 225 



currants, 224 



grapes, 224 



implements, 46 



peaches, 224 



summer, 237 



trees, 137, 140, 156, 224, 247 



young trees, 137 

 Pyrethrum, 286 



Radish, 197, 254 



early, 254 



planting, 337 



winter, 263 

 " Rag doll " tester, 214 

 Rains for over-fertilization, 103 

 Rake, 41 

 Raking, 339 



Reading and gardening, 329 

 Record, pupils, for lettuce, 316 



value of, 314 

 Rhododendron, 148 

 Rhubarb, 197, 225, 231, 242, 243, 

 253, 271 



Road drag, 256 

 Rock-cress, 146 

 Roof gardens, 39 

 Root crops buried, 244 

 Root hairs, 59 



formation of, 60 

 Roots, types of, 65 

 Roses, 170, 243, .273 

 Rue, 203 

 Rutabaga, 203 



Tarragon, 203 

 Teachers as leaders, 8 

 Teachers practicing gardening, 



336 

 Temperatures of soils. 

 Tester, rag-doll, 214 

 Testing seed corn, 213 

 Tests, variety, 125 

 The Garden (poem), S 

 Thinning, 338 



fruit, 261 

 Thyme, 203 

 Tillage, for corn, 221 



objects of, 98 



types of, 98 



shallow, 99 

 Toads, 291 

 Tomato, blight, 233 



judging, 313 



pruning, 238 



score card, 314 



worms, 281 

 Tomatoes, 68, 201, 202, 262, 271 



early, 233 



staking, 127, 128 

 Tool house, 47, 48 

 Tools, 42 

 Top working, 167 

 Transplanting, 135, 136, 227, 257 



evergreens, 245 

 Trees, 133 



knowing, 140 



lessons with, chapter on, 153 



planting, 229 



transplanting, 272 



seedlings, 154 

 Trowels, 43 

 Tuberose, 171 

 Tubers, 146 



Tulip, 146, 147. 171, 173 

 Turnips, 201 



