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Contents 



PAGES 



2. The Growing of Seeds 402-407 



The Breeding of Seeds 403-405 



Seed-growing 405-407 



3. The Sowing of Seeds 407-413 



Particulars in Seed-sowing 408-411 



The Seed-Bed 411-413 



Sterilizing the Soil 413 



CHAPTER XVIII 



Other Management of the Vegetable-Garden , . . 414-438 



1. Double-cropping or Inter-cropping 414-418 



Succession-cropping 414^10 



Companion-cropping 417-ilS 



2. Transplanting . . . 418-423 



3. Weeds 423-425 



4. Insects and Fungi 425^38 



Insectides 429 



Fungicides 429^30 



Cutworms and Army-worms 430-432 



Wireworms 432-433 



"White grubs 433 



Grasshoppers 433 



Red-spider 434 



Blister-beetles 434 



Flea-beetles •. . . 435 . 



Greenhouse white-fly 435-436 



Root-knot Nematode or Eel-worm 436 



Millipedes 436-437 



Slugs 437-438 



