144 INDEX 



Cultivation of Sweet Peas — Continued Page 



Planting 61 



Screens and shading 113 



Seed, the 53 



Soil preparation 47 



Sterilization 50 



Sowing 54 



Time of 55 



In benches 59 



In pots 58 



Outdoors in Autumn 109 



Spraying 70 



Staking 61 



Temperatures 67 



Ventilating 69 



Watering 66 



Cultivation in the open air 109 



Cultivation under glass 47 



Cuttings, Sweet Peas from 60 



Cutworms, remedy for 121 



Dedication 5 



Depreciation charges on establishment 32 



Detroit market, average wholesale prices 21 



Diseases and insect pests 121 



Diseases, controlling 50, 1 26 



Draughts, fatal 69 



Earliest of All Sweet Pea, Burpee's 131 



Easter, Sweet Peas at 14 



Eckford, Henry, the late, his work 142 



Engelmann's strain of Sweet Peas 138 



England, up-to-date cultivation for market in 115 



Exhibits of Sweet Peas at flower shows 13, 22 



Feeding 74, 1 20 



Fertilizers: 



Cost of 32 



Kinds of 72, 76, 120 



Flowers: 



Actual yield from two houses 31 



Average yield per plant 26, 27 



Packing the 99 



Shading the 113 



Formalin as a disease preventive 1 26 



Fuel, cost of 32 



Fumigating 70 



Future, What has it in store ? ' 11 



Grandiflora and Spencer types 88 



