Political Economy of the Apple 1
A few Flowers easily raised 16
Flower-Farming 21
A Letter from the Farm 25
The Cost of Flowers 28
Haying 31
The Value of Robins 34
Sounds of Trees 39
Unveiled Nonsense 43
Natural Order of Flowers 46
Roses 49
Chestnuts 51
Green Peas 55
Hens 58
Farming 60
Gardening under Difficulties 63
Corn 66
Dandelions 69
How to beautify Homes 72
Birch and Aspen 75
Autumn 78
Plant Trees! 81
Farewell to “Summer Rest” 84
Preliminary 87
Our Creed 88
Almanac for the Year 89
Educated Farmers 98
An Acre of Words about Aker 101
Farmer’s Library 105
Nine Mistakes 107
Agricultural Societies 108
Shiftless Tricks 111
Electro Culture 114
Single-Crop Farming 117
Improved Breeds of Hogs and Cattle 119
Absorbent Qualities of Flour 122
Portrait of an Anti-Book Farmer 124
Good Breeds of Cows 128
Cutting and curing Grass 131
Country and City 133
Lime upon Wheat 134
Culture of Hops 136
White Clover 138
Plowing Corn 139
Clean out your Cellars 142
When is Haying over? 144
Laying down Land to Grass 145
Theory of Manure 149
Fodder for Cattle 151
The Science of Bad Butter 153
Cincinnati, the Queen City 157
Care of Animals in Winter 161, 243
Winter Nights for Reading 163
Feathers 163
Nail up your Bugs 165
Ashes and their Use 168
Hard Times 170
Gypsum 171
Acclimating a Plow 171
Scour your Plows bright 173
Plow till it is Dry and plow till it is Wet 174
Stirring the Soil 175
Subsoil Plowing 176
Fire-Blight and Winter Killing 177
Winter Talk 179
“Shut your Mouth” 181
Spring Work on the Farm 182
Spring Work in the Garden 185, 292
Fall Work in the Garden 190
Guarding Cherry-trees from Cold 191
Shade Trees 192, 252
A Plea for Health and Floriculture 195
Keeping Young Pigs in Winter 198
Sweet Potatoes 199
Management of Bottom Lands 199
Cultivation of Wheat 202
Pleasures of Horticulture 214
Practical Use of Leaves 215
Spring Work for Public-spirited Men 218
Farmers and Farm Scenes in the West 220
Ornamental Shrubs 224
Gooseberries 227
Pulling off Potato Blossoms 229
Blading and topping Corn 230
Maple-Sugar 231
Lettuce 237
Geological Definitions 238
Draining Wet Lands 240
O dear! shall we ever be done Lying? 242
Deep Planting 245
Corn and Millet for Fodder 245
Seed Saving 246
Rhubarb 248, 286
Peas 250
Hot-beds 253
Original Recipes 254
Cooking Vegetables 256
Farmers, take a Hint 260
Mixing Paint and laying it on 262
Garden Weeds 267
Lucerne 269
Family Government 270
List of Flowers, Seeds, and Fruits 271
Garden Seeds 274
Farmers’ Gardens 277
Early Days of Spring 279
Parlor Flowers 280
A Salt Recipe 281
Culture of Celery 282
Sun-flower Seed 290
Rich and Poor Land 294
Getting ready for Winter 295
Esculent Vegetables 297
Field Root Crops 303
Cultivation of Fruit-trees 304
A List of Choice Fruits 316
The Nursery Business 319
The Breeding of Fruits 322
Pruning Orchards 327
Slitting the Bark of Trees 330
Downing’s Fruits of America 332
Letter from A. J. Downing 339
Attention to Orchards 344
Wine and Horticulture 346
Do Varieties of Fruit run out? 349
Strawberries 353, 359, 364
Raspberries, Gooseberries, Currants 364
Spring Work in the Orchard 367
Grapes and Grape Vines 372, 373
Autumnal Management of Fruit-trees 374
Pears grafted upon the Apple Stock 376
Seedlings from Budded Peaches 378
Care of Peach-trees 381
Renovating Peach-trees 382
An Apologue or Apple-logue 384
Select List of Apples 385
Origin of some Varieties of Fruit 401
The Quince 403
Cutting and keeping Grafts 404
Frost Blight 405
Seedling Fruits 407
Time for Pruning 410
Plums and their Enemies 413
Root Grafting 417
Blight and Insects 419
Apples for Hogs 424
The Flower Garden 425
Preparation of Seed for Sowing 429
Sowing Flower Seeds—Transplanting 431
Parlor Plants and Flowers in Winter 432
Protecting Plants in Winter 439
To preserve Dahlia Roots 440
Hedges 441
Watering Trees, etc. 443
Labels for Trees 444
Transplanting Evergreens 445
Flowers, Ladies, and Angels 446
Horticultural Curiosities 447
The Corn Crop 451
Potato Crop 460
Potting Garden Plants for Winter Use 468
Mary Howitt’s Use of Flowers 469
What are Flowers good for? 470
The Blight in the Pear-tree 471
Progress of Horticulture in Indiana 489
Browne’s Poultry Yard 495
Close of the Year 497