I46 INDEX 



Page 



Potash 74 



Price of seeds 27 



Prices, average, in the wholesale markets 9-12 



Tables 22-23 



Production, cost of, and profits 24 



Profits and cost of production 24 



Quicklime 75 



Raising new varieties 105 



Regulating the shoots 72 



Retail florists as growers 34 



Root rot of Sweet Peas 1 27 



St. Louis market, average wholesale prices 23 



Sclerotinia disease of Sweet Peas 121 



Screens 47 



Seeds: 



Amount required for given space 28 



Cost of 32 



Germination of 53, 57 



Growing plants under glass for 27 



Number per ounce 54 



Prices of 27 



Time for sowing 55 



Yield from 28 



Shading the flowers 113 



Sheep- manure 74 



Shoots, regulating the 72, 1 19 



Single stem system of growing Sweet Peas 42, 69, 71 



Snails, preventive of 121 



Soil: 



Disinfecting 52 



Preparation 47-49 



Reclaimed 75 



Sterilization 50 



Soot as fertilizer 74 



Sowing in Autumn: 



Outdoors 1 09 



Indoors 54 



In benches indoors 59 



In pots 58, 1 16 



Time of 55 



Spikes per plant per week 119 



Sprayers, auto air pressure 70 



Spraying 70 



Stakes, cost of 32 



