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INDEX 



Sage, 208 



Salsify, 198 ■ 



Salvia, 152 



Sand, baking of, 118 



packing of, 119 

 San Jos6 scale, 280 

 Sap ducts, 153 

 School, centre, 7 



competitions, 308 



collections, 309 

 School-garden, lesson in, 330 

 School Garden, Association of 



America, 343 

 School-room lessons, 136 

 Score card for contests, 312 



for vegetable display, 321 

 Seed, collection, 75, 76 



collecting, 262 



large, 72 



potatoes, 79 



selection, 66 



testing, 72, 73 



weed, 72 

 Seedling trees, 154 



transplanting, 155 

 Seeds, in hotbeds, 229 



oil in, 77 



gluten in, 78 



starch in, 78 

 Sensitive-plant, 144 

 Shooting star, 146 

 Shovels, 43 

 Shrubs, 134, 232, 269 

 Sieves, 43 



Slips, starting, 158 

 Smut on grain, 288 

 Soaking seeds, 205 

 Soap, whale-oil, 286 

 Sodding, 256 



Soil and its Improvement, chap- 

 ter on, 84 

 Soil, firming, 127 



liming, 84, 85 



preparing, 84 



water in, 104 

 Soils, baking, 115 



absorbing power of, 121 



analysis, 122 



exercises "with, chapter on, 

 113 



loose, 120 



Soils, packed, mulching, 118, 119, 

 120 



retain plant food, 103 



sampling, 113 



taking temperatures, 115 



testing for moisture, 113 



for organic matter, 114 

 for sourness, 115 



water-holding power, 121, 122 

 Snowdrop, 146 

 Soybeans, 234 

 Spade, 43 

 Spading fork, 42 

 Spiderwort, 174, 175 

 Spinach, 198, 263, 272 

 Spray calendar, table, 286 



materials, 233, 287, 288 

 Spraying, 253, 256, 258, 259 



for codling moth, 232 



for potato beetle, 124 



for scale, 225 



time for, 285 

 Sprayers, 283, 284, 285, 287 



and materials, 44 

 Spring beauty, 146 

 Spring seed orders, 224 

 Sprinkling can, 43 

 Squash, 68, 198, 261 

 Squill, 146 

 Staking, 37 

 Stakes, 44 



State Station addresses, 343 

 Starch in seeds, 78 

 Starting garden work, 322 



seeds, 225 

 Stock, 144, 152 

 Storing corn, 221 

 Strawberries, 82, 224, 231, 234, 

 239, 240, 244, 245, 255, 259, 

 267, 274 

 Streams, 123 

 Succession cropping, 205 



planting, 231, 239 

 Sugar beet, 182 

 Sugar beet exhibited, 301 

 Summer pruning, 262 

 Sunflower, 152 

 Sunlight, aquarium, 64 



need for growth, 62 

 Superintendents at fairs, 310 

 Sweet alyssum, 144 



