INDEX 



Nasturtium, soaking of, seed, 2i 



New Zealand spinach, 174 



Nitrate of soda, for vegetables, 189, 



191, 192 

 Nitrification, 215 

 Nitrogen, 222, 225 

 "Nitrogen-fixers," 216 

 Nodules, 216 

 November work, 207 



October work, 204 



One foot of ground, five crops on, 70 



Onions, how to harvest, 200 



in the coldframe, 124 

 Orchard, pests, 242, 243 



winter mulch in the, 202 

 Outdoors, celery, keeping, 20; 



Paper, collars for seedlings, 177* 



pots, 155 

 Paris green, 234 

 Parsley in coldframe, 126 

 Pea brush, gathering, 144 



horse-weeds for, 64 

 Peas, how to brush, 179 



in the coldframe, 131 

 Peppers in the coldframe, 122 

 Perennial vegetables, in the plan, 135 



labels for, 164*, 165* 

 Pests of the orchard, 242, 243 



of the vegetable garden, 244, 245 

 Phosphoric acid, 225 

 Plan, berry bushes, in the, 135 

 Plan for a small vegetable garden, loi 



berries and fruits in the, 135 



of a boy's garden, 88 



business man's garden, 45 

 ten-dollar garden, 55 

 40 X 45 ft. garden, 60 



perennial vegetables in the, 135 



root crops in the, 135 



the garden, 134 

 Planning season, the, 133 

 Plant food, elements of, 222, 225 



sources of, 225 

 Plant early, 16, 145, 151 



Planting and transplanting in March, 



151. 152 

 Planting, board, 160* 

 early, 16, 145, 151 

 fruits, distances for, 147 

 grapes, 161 



scheme, succession, 81 

 February, 149 

 season, the, 150 

 season, the fall, 213 

 tables for vegetable gardens, io2, 



104 

 vegetables, distances for, 102, 

 136 

 Plants, growing in a chicken brooder, 

 18 

 tender, setting out, 176 

 Poisoned bran mash, how to make, 



238 

 Portable trellis for tomatoes, 187 

 Potash, 222, 22J 

 Potatoes, best hill of, 22 



cultivating and spraying the, 193 

 for seed, 22 

 in seven weeks, 20 

 sprouting, 20* 

 sprouting tray for, 21* 

 when to plant early, 156 

 Pots, paper, 155 

 Preparing the soil, the importance of, 



I58' 

 Principles of seed sowing, 163 

 Privet for windbreak, 29 

 Profits and yields, 8 

 Profit, 600 per cent, from one-tenth 

 of an acre, 92 



1,200 per cent, from 20 x 27 ft. of 

 ground, 43 

 Prune the grape vine, how to, 212,* 



213* 

 Pruning pole, home-made, 199* 

 Pruning, summer, of fruits, l8l 



tomatoes, 58, 193 

 Pyrethrum, 238 



Quart, amount of unpeeled tomatoes 

 to a, 32 



