Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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7123Does that seem like too much work?
7123Or why not grow a few extra fancy strawberries in the well cultivated spots about these trees?
7123Why then, the reader may ask at this point, another garden book?
46052But how are we who know very little about such things to know which_ is_ the best?
46052***** The question is frequently asked: Would you advise plowing or spading the garden in fall?
46052And while we are at work at gardening, why not make it as attractive as possible?
46052Said one amateur gardener to me when I gave him this advice:"Why should one be so particular about the seed?
46052Why?
43531What can I have for dinner today?
43531Can it be used profitably as a mulch?
43531Is the crop a large one?
43531Is the demand brisk or dull?
43531Is the movement to your market large or light?
43531Is your railroad service efficient?
43531Should the quantity of seed potatoes used be subtracted from the total yield of large and small potatoes or from the salable crop?
43531The first group answers the question,"What size of seed piece generally affords the largest yield of large and small potatoes?"
43531The second group answers the query:"What size of seed piece generally gives the greatest yield exclusive of small potatoes?"
43531This being the case, why should not potatoes grown under a litter mulch be especially well developed and therefore make strong seed?
4512Are your temperatures lower than mine and evaporation less?
4512Does your soil hold more, than less than, or just as much available moisture as mine?
4512How did the early pioneers irrigate their vegetables?
4512Increasing Soil Fertility Saves Water Does crop growth equal water use?
4512Is it as deep and open and moisture retentive?
4512Or is your weather hotter?
4512Were they due to extreme soil infertility?
4512What is the texture of your soil, its water- holding capacity, and the dispersion of a drip into it?
4512What to do with a giant kohlrabi( or any bulb getting overblown)?
4512What to do?
4512_ Would lowering plant density as much as this book suggests equally lower the yield of the plot?
48063And Davy is the garden- pea and you the sweet- pea, is that it? 48063 And are n''t they nuts?"
48063And are potatoes biennials, too?
48063And did n''t Bessie want her violets?
48063And did the lily ever bloom again?
48063And does it belong to a family, too?
48063And does n''t the bloom of a blackberry look like the bloom of a plum, and a cherry, and a pear, and an apple, and all those things?
48063And how about hickory and walnuts?
48063And is that really all that the flower''s pretty color and sweet smell and delicious honey are for?
48063And is that what makes some flowers such funny shapes, too?
48063And peaches, and apples, and plums, and pears, all on one tree, too?
48063And the flower makes three, does n''t it? 48063 And what will you call my rose?"
48063And will the flowers that grew in the garden of the princess never bloom again?
48063And wo n''t my morning- glories have flowers on them?
48063And wo n''t my pansies come at all?
48063Are n''t beans of the Pulse family, too?
48063Are they Exogens?
48063Are we? 48063 But I''d be hungry again before the things grew, would n''t I?
48063But apples and plums and peaches are not roses, are they?
48063But are the seeds just alike?
48063But ca n''t we have all the things we like?
48063But do n''t you think it might all just happen so?
48063But do seaweeds and mosses and lichens and ferns and mushrooms all belong to one family?
48063But does that really grow like our plants on the shore?
48063But how can I care so much unless I can see them?
48063But is the peach a calyx, too?
48063But my nasturtium, Papa, what about that?
48063But toads do sit under mushrooms, do n''t they?
48063But what about the twining?
48063But what became of the wicked Kapoka? 48063 But why do you think they can see and hear?"
48063But-- but do n''t you think a flower_ ought_ to be a principal part?
48063Ca n''t I have strawberries, instead of the salad?
48063Ca n''t the class in botany sit by the teacher?
48063Can I, Mamma?
48063Can you name the three kinds of plants now?
48063Can you see me? 48063 Can you, Davy?
48063Can_ you_ see me? 48063 Did they really travel as you have told?"
48063Did you find any flowers on the ferns?
48063Do n''t you think it''s about big enough now?
48063Do n''t you think they look a little, a very little, like wild roses, only the flowers are smaller and white, instead of pink?
48063Do poison- ivy and Virginia creeper belong to the same family?
48063Do seeds from the same bush make the different roses?
48063Do sharks live on plants, too?
48063Do sunflowers belong to a family now?
48063Do the leaves really take up light?
48063Do they fry things?
48063Do they raise corn in any other country except America?
48063Do you mean for the flower, or for themselves?
48063Do you mean me?
48063Do you see the difference?
48063Do you suppose the poison- ivy knows that it is poison?
48063Do you suppose there are any more?
48063Do you think all these things like to be together?
48063Do you think any other flower could be queen over that?
48063Does the story mean that we should n''t care too much for our gardens?
48063Here is a flower which has three little petals and four large flower- leaves which you would think were petals, would n''t you? 48063 How about all that seaweed you were gathering yesterday?"
48063How about blackberries and raspberries?
48063How about the ferns?
48063How about the strawberries?
48063How deep, and how many seeds in a pot?
48063How did she get to be queen? 48063 How long will it take them to grow?"
48063How many kinds of seeds are there?
48063I wish it would be warm again,said Davy,"so there would be strawberries and nice things to eat in the garden; do n''t you, Prue?"
48063Is it, Papa? 48063 Is n''t this flower one of them, too?"
48063Is that simple or compound?
48063Is the rose really the queen of the flowers?
48063It is n''t at all, is it, Papa?
48063It''s an Endogen,he said, very decidedly,"is n''t it, Papa?"
48063Like Davy''s or mine?
48063More than for folks, I mean?
48063Oh, Papa, where did you get those funny violets?
48063Oh, and can you have more than one kind on a tree?
48063Oh, is my sweet rose- moss just old pursley weed?
48063Oh, is that why people sometimes call it Indian corn?
48063Oh, that will be playing''market,''wo n''t it? 48063 Oh, what makes some of my pea leaves look so dark?"
48063Oh, will my morning- glories die now?
48063Once upon a time there were two friars--"What are friars?
48063Papa, do n''t hazelnuts and chestnuts belong to the same family?
48063Papa, is it true that if you put fern seeds in your shoes, nobody can see you?
48063Papa,asked little Prue,"have n''t my morning- glories any useful relations, like my sweet- pease?"
48063Papa,_ are n''t_ mushrooms toad- stools, and_ do n''t_ they build them to sit on, in pleasant weather, and to get under, when it rains?
48063So you have noticed that, have you? 48063 That''s steam,"said Davy, wisely;"but what makes it warm?"
48063They did, did n''t they, Papa?
48063They went hand in hand, just as Davy and I do when we go walking, did n''t they?
48063This is the blade, and this is the stem,said Davy,"but what are stipules?"
48063Was there really ever a poor man and a little sick girl who had pease sent to them?
48063Well, once upon a time there was a princess with a beautiful garden--"Is this the same princess that turned into a red rose?
48063Well, that is a good start, but there are a good many kinds of roots and''bend- overs,''and what are''stuck- ins?''
48063What are in my other little pots?
48063What are the little flowers, and the big one in the center?
48063What are they, Davy?
48063What are they?
48063What did they do?
48063What do you mean by their working?
48063What else have we?
48063What is all the excitement?
48063What kind of pease were they?
48063What makes all the nuts have such big, thick hulls, anyway?
48063What makes seeds so different?
48063What makes the smoke?
48063What makes them all speckly?
48063What''s all this about strawberry short- cake and morning- glories?
48063What?
48063When can we eat it?
48063When_ will_ it be warm? 48063 Where did it come from?"
48063Where will you get dirt? 48063 Which is my side?
48063Who is he?
48063Why do n''t you have to plant them every year?
48063Why do they call it love- vine?
48063Why do you think it is an Endogen, Davy?
48063Why do you think so?
48063Why, did you plant one, Davy?
48063Why, no, are they violets? 48063 Why, no, but-- but do n''t folks have to choose queens, or something?"
48063Why, yes, but why did you think so, Prue?
48063Will it_ ever_ be warm again?
48063Will we_ ever_ have another garden?
48063135"And the apple blossom, too?"
48063A real, true fairy story?"
48063And if the flower knows, why should n''t the bee?"
48063And now what else is there that has the family mark-- we might call it the family seal?"
48063And yours, Alyssum, the one we call Pepper- grass, because he is so fiery?''
48063Are my pansies violets?"
48063But what''s this?
48063But where''s the rest of it?
48063By and by she asked:"And do you think I will have flowers for Davy''s birthday?
48063Ca n''t I have two pots of pansies?"
48063Can you find a buttercup?"
48063Can you see me, now?"
48063Can you see me?"
48063Can you_ see_ me, Mamma?
48063Did she just happen to be queen, or did the other flowers choose her?"
48063Did you ever notice, Davy, how much a cornstalk looks like an Indian, with plumes, and its ear, like a quiver for holding arrows?"
48063Did you make it all just now?"
48063Do you think you like that, Davy?"
48063How do you suppose they can tell which way to start-- which is right, and which is left?"
48063How much farther will it go?"
48063IV DID YOU EVER SEE THE LITTLE MAN IN THE PANSY?
48063Is it really a sister to that ugly weed?"
48063Is it, Papa?
48063Is there really anything like nutting to make a little boy and girl hungry?
48063Is there, Papa?"
48063It''s so long--""What do you_ s''pose_ it was?"
48063Now, Prue, why did you think it was an Exogen?"
48063Oh, what''s that in the center-- that tall plant?
48063Soon he said:"And where do sweet and sour and all the pepper and mustard and horseradish tastes come from?
48063That would suit you, would n''t it, Davy boy?"
48063The pollen would fall on the stigma anyway, would n''t it?"
48063Then with an old knife he dug down into the pot a little, and up came, what do you suppose?
48063Those really same ones-- did they ever really live, or did you make it up about them?"
48063What are those vines?
48063What did they do with him?"
48063What else have you brought, Davy?"
48063What will we have in those littlest pots?
48063When_ can_ we have a garden?"
48063Where do all these things come from?
48063Where is your brother, Mustard?
48063Why do n''t some go the other way?"
48063Why, where did Davy go?"
48063Why, who is its sister?"
48063Will they die?"
48063You know, do n''t you, that the pansies you love so much, Prue, are one kind of violet, cultivated until they are large and fine?"
48063You see--""But wo n''t my bean vines and corn grow up like that?"
48063[ Illustration: DAVY''S POT OF RADISHES]"Oh, may I pick it to- morrow for Davy''s birthday?"
48063[ Illustration:"DON''T YOU THINK THE BLACKBERRY LOOKS A LITTLE LIKE A WILD ROSE?"]
48063asked little Prue,"just to get bees to work for it?"
48063asked the little girl,"where do new roses come from?"
48063but how would you have biscuits and shortcake without wheat to make the flour of?"
48063he asked,"or Endogens?
48063said the one who was limping,''how is it you can walk along so spry, and feel so happy, with those dreadful pease in your shoes?''
48063what do you mean by Stella and Dian?"