INDEX 



Sterilization, soil, effect of, 327' 

 Store, roots, how to, 206 

 Storing celery, for winter, 207* 



in the small garden, 209 

 Storing manure without loss, 201, 221 

 Strawberries grown in barrels, 39, 40* 



how to plant, 161 



mulching, 210 



yield per acre, 39 

 Strawberry bed, management of the, 

 iSi 



utilizing the, 38 , 



runner-cutter, 180* 



runners, when to remove, 180 

 Street sweepings, 16, 219 

 Succession, combining with rotation, 

 79 



crops, a rule for, 176 



planting scheme, a, 81 



sowing for, 166, 17s 

 Summer pruning of blackberries and 

 raspberries, 196 



of tree fruits, 181 

 Sunflowers for bean poles, 34 

 Support for, brambles, 182* 



dwarf fruit trees, 29 



grapes, 30 

 Sweet pea seed, soaking of, 2i 

 Swiss chard, 84*, 85 i 



Transplanting, in July, 191 



seedlings in hotbed, 148 



vegetables for, 136, 137 

 Tray, sprouting, for potatoes, 21* 

 Trellis, a simple, 47* 



for tomatoes, 30, 46 



portable, for tomatoes, 187 

 Trench, celery, how to make, 208 

 Trenching the ground to destroy in- 

 sects, 204, 210 

 Trowels, 141* 



Tomatoes, amount of unpecled to a 

 quart, 32 



in the coldframe, 121 



on clothes pole, 34 



one-fifth of a ton of, 3 1 



pruning, 58, 193 



trellis for, 30, 46 

 Tomato plants on single pole, 13* 



trellis, a portable, 187 



vines, how to trim, 193 

 keeping over winter, 33 

 Ton, one-fifth of a, of tomatoes, 3 1 

 Tools, and repairs, 141*, 142*, 143* 

 IS4*, 170*, 171*, 172* 



cost of, 144 

 Twelve hundred per cent, profit from 

 20 X 27 ft. of ground, 43 



Tank, washing, for vegetables, a, 183 

 Tender plants, setting out, 176 

 Ten-dollar garden, a, 54 



expenses of, 58 



plan of, SS* 

 Ten dollars, what one woman can do 



with, S4 

 Ten-minutes-a-day garden, a, 68, 71* 



yield of, 78, 79 

 Thinning, economical, 199 



vegetables, 179 

 Tobacco water, 237 

 Transplant in a coldframe, how to, 



119 

 Transplanting, and planting in March, 



Under-capitalization, 7 

 Usefulness of hotbed, 17 



Value of, cow manure, 219 



fresh manure, 221 



hog manure, 219 



horse manure, 219 



manure, the, 162 



spading, 61 

 Varieties, and kinds of vegetables,'l39 



of corn, how to prevent, mixing, 

 S7 



of fruit, 147 

 Vegetable garden, pests of the, 244, 



24s 

 plan for a small, loi* 



