CHAPTER IV. 



Seed Sowing. — Depth to plant. Time for sowing. Sowing 

 In stiff clay soils. Sowing seed with machine. Sowing seed by 

 hand. Using the feet for firming the soil around seeds. Thin- 

 ning. Protecting seeds against insects and birds. Transplant- 

 ing. Avoid transplanting as much as possible. Conditions of suc- 

 cess. Shortening the tops of plants. Firming the soil about the 

 roots of plants. Tomato cans for flower pots. The Farmer's 

 Kitchen Garden. — Arrangement of. 



CHAPTER V. 



Seeds and Seed Growing. — Good pedigrees in seeds. Test- 

 ing seeds. Simple germinating apparatus. Curing and storing 

 seeds. Changing seed. Stock seed. Seedsmen's specialties. 

 Seedsmen's humbugs. Novelties. Development of varieties. — 

 Rules for improving plants. Cross and self-pollination of plants. 

 Mixing of varieties. Distance between varieties to prevent mix- 

 ing. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Glass Structures. — Cold frames. Hotbeds. Hotbed manure. 

 Fire hotbeds. A greenhouse hotbed. 



Greenhouses. — Cheap kinds of. Methods of heating. Sash 

 for hotbeds and cold frames. Shutters. Mats. Ventilation and 

 temperature. Watering. Soil. Boxes. Substitutes for glass. 

 Shading the glass. Fifteen things to remember in connection 

 with building glass strucures. 



CHAPTER VIL 



Insects Injurious to Vegetables. — Insecticides and methods 

 of destroying insects. Pyrethrum. Paris green. London purple. 

 Tobacco. Kerosene emulsion with soap and with milk. Carbon 

 bisulphide. Catching insects by light at night. Application of 

 insecticides. 



Common Garden Insects and Methods of Destroying Them. — 



Colorado Potato Beetle. Imported and Native Cabbage Worms. 

 Cabbage Plusia. Wire Worms or Drill Worms. Cutworms. 

 Striped Cucumber Beetle. White Grub or May Beetle. Maggots. 

 Cabbage Flea Beetle. Leaf Lice or Aphis. Cabbage Lice or 

 Aphis. Sweet Corn Moth or Tassel Worm. Parsley Worm or 

 Celery Caterpillar. Chinch Bugs. Bean and Pea Weevil. 

 Squash Vine Borer. Squash Bug. 



