Vegetable crops /
Homer C. Thompson [and] William C. Kelly.
- 5th ed.
- New York : McGraw-Hill, 1957.
- viii, 611 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- McGraw-Hill publications in the agricultural sciences .
CONTENTS
Vegetables and vegetable growing Classification of vegetables Soils and soil preparation Manures and soil improving crops Commercial fertilizers and lime Seeds and seed growing Plant growing and plant-growing structures Planting vegetable crops in the open Cultivation, mulches and chemical methods of weed control Irrigation Rotation, succession and intercropping Control of diseases and insects Marketing Storage of vegetables Perennial crops Potherbs or greens Salad crops Cole crops Root crops Bulb crops The potato The sweet potato Beans and peas Solanaceous fruits The cucurbts, or vine crops Sweet corn, Okra, Martynia Chayote, yam, Dasheen, Manioc