Index 



489 



sponge, vegetable, 281. 

 Spongospora siiiterranea, 204. 

 spraying outfit, 396. 

 sprouting tests, 400. 

 Spurge Famil5^ 8. 

 Squash, botany of, 311. 

 bug, 286. 



discussion of, 301. 



-vine borer, 286. 

 squashes, listed, 11. 

 Stachys Sietoldn, 9. 

 Starnes, quoted, 299. 

 steam-heated hotbeds, 350. 

 sterilizing soil, 413. 

 stink-bug, 318. 



Stizolobium, 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 endohiotica, 203. 



Tanacetum vulgare, 7. 

 tanier, 7. 

 tansy, 7. 



Taraxacum officinale, 7, 65. 

 tarnished plant-bug, 128. 

 taro, 7. 



tarragon, 7, 334. 

 tender plants, 410. 

 tepary bean, 241, 253. 



listed, 10. 

 testing seeds, 397. 

 Tetragonia expansa, 4, 51. 

 TetranycJius telarius, 269, 434. 

 Thompson, 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 tahaci, 142. 

 thyme, 6, 334. 

 Thymus, species, 6. 

 Thyreocoris pulicarius, 128. 

 Tiliaceje, 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. 

 Trapacete, 10. 

 Trapa, species, 10. 



