Index 



489 



sponge, vegetable, 281. 

 Bpongospora suMerranea, 204. 

 spraying outfit, 396. 

 sprouting tests, 400. 

 Spurge Family, 8. 

 Squash, botany of, 311. 



bug, 286. 



discussion of, 301. 



-vine borer, 286. 

 squashes, listed, 11. 

 Stachys Sieholdii, 9. 

 Starnes, quoted, 299. 

 steam-heated hotbeds, 350. 

 sterilizing soil, 413. 

 stink-bug, 318. 



Stlzolobinm, species, 10, 241. 

 storage, field, 451. 



of cabbage, 75. 



of potatoes, 210. 



of sweet potatoes, 222. 



rot of celery, 127. 

 storing, 447, 454. 

 Strahan, James L., quoted, 455. 

 strawberry, mentioned, 2. 



tomato, 278. 

 string bean, 243. 

 striped cucumber beetle, 285. 

 Stuart, William, cited, 212. 

 Sturtevant, E. L., 1, 12. 

 sub-irrigation, 387. 

 sub-soiling, 373. 

 substitutes for glass, 353. 

 succession-cropping, 414. 

 succory, 113. 

 sugar-beet webworm, 165. 

 sugar corn, 316. 

 sulfate of ammonia, 381, 383. 



of potash, 383. 

 summer savory, 334. 

 Sunflower Family, 6, 9. 

 superphosphate, 384. 

 sweet basil, 334. 



cicely, 5. 

 sweet corn, botany of, 322. 



discussion of, 316. 



listed, 9. 

 sweet herbs, 331. 

 sweet marjoram, 334. 



sweet potato, botany of, 226. 



discussion of, 216. 



listed, 9. 

 Synchytrium endoMotioa, 203. 



Tanacetum vu^gare, 7. 

 tanier, 7. 

 tansy, 7. 



Taraxacum officinale, 7, 65. 

 tarnished plaUt-bug, 128. 

 taro, 7. 



tarragon, 7, 334. 

 tender plants, 410. 

 tepary bean, 241, 253. 



listed, 10. 

 testing seeds, 397. 

 Tetragonia expansa, 4, 51. 

 Tetranychus telarius, 269, 434. 

 Tliompson, H. C, grading sweet 

 potatoes, 446. 



on asparagus, 25. 



on home garden, 474. 



on sweet potatoes, 223. 

 thousand-legged worms, 436, 

 thrips, bean, 238. 



on onion, 142. ' 



Thrips tabaci, 142. 

 thyme, 6, 334. 

 Thymus, species, 6. 

 Thyreocoris pullcarius, 128. 

 TiliaeeEe; 5. 

 tillage, discussion of, 371. 



tools, 390. 

 tip-burn of lettuce, 102. 

 tobacco, 429. 

 tomato, botany of, 264. 



discussion of, 255. 



husk, 278, 279. 



listed, 11. 



strawberry, 278. 



tree, 254. 

 tools, discussion of, 388. 

 topee-tamboo, 7. 

 topinambour, white, 7. 

 Tragopogon porrifolius, 9, 197. 

 transplanting, discussion of, 418. 

 TrapacesE, 10. 

 Trapa, species, 10. 



