INDEX 



Accessibility of land, 9 



Acreage under market gardens and 



fruit, 31 

 Agricultural motors, 26, 145 



organisation, 156, 166 



Air drainage, 15 

 Alternate system of planting, 32 

 Altitude and elevation, 13 

 Appearance and quality, 54 

 Apples, 27, 30, 56, 62, 68, 102, 



164 



Approach roads, 9 



Apricots, 67, 103 



Arrangement of crops, 11, 17, 23, 



28, 32, 35 

 Asparagus, 27, 40, 98, 113, 163 



sprays, 1 19 



Aspect, value of, 1 3 

 Aspen wood wool, 95 

 Assessment of market gardens, 



i57> 165 

 Asters, 31 



Auction sales at markets, 133 



Baby baskets, 85, 106 

 Bags and sacks, 92 

 Bananas, imported, 151 

 Barrels, fruit, 91 

 Baskets, 60, 65, 80, 84 

 Beans, broad, 84, 163 



French (kidney), 115, 163 



runner, 84, 116, 163 



Bedding plants, 120 

 Beetroot, 117, 163 

 Belts of trees, 16 



Board of Agriculture, 8, 76, 82, 



148, 152, 157 

 Borecole (kale), 85, 163 

 Boundary hedges, 15 



Boxes for fruit and flowers, 87 

 Bracken for packing, 97 

 Broccoli, 116, 163 

 Brussels sprouts, 27, 84, 163 

 Buckwheat husk, 97 

 Bulbs, 31 



Bunching flowers, 117 

 vegetables, 111 



Cabbages, 27, 49, 63, 84, 85, 1 

 Californian pears, 67 

 Canals, conveyance by, 154 

 Canvas, Hessian, 92 

 Cardboard boxes, 86, 90 

 Carnations, 71 

 Carriage of produce, 139 

 Carrots, 63, 64, 91, 98, 111 

 Carts for produce, 136 

 Cauliflowers, 27, 84, 85, 163 

 Celery, 27, 63, 113, 163 

 Channel Islands, 6, 107 

 Cherries, 30, 67, 70, 107, 164 

 Cherry-plum hedge, 18 

 Chip baskets and punnets, 86 

 Chrysanthemums, 27, 31, 40, 

 117 



Claigmar Vineyard, 41 

 Cleanliness, 43, 62 

 Climatic characters, 10 

 Coleworts, 98, 115, 163 

 Collecting crops, 59 

 Colour in fruits, 56, 69 

 Commercial gardening, 46 

 Comparison of varieties, 49 

 Compensation for crops, 7 



injuries, 159 



Competition in production, 1 

 Concentration in cities, 1 

 Consignment to market, 126 

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