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two of these latter wil] be enough for the majority of people, but if you like study, 

 take them and read them, and practice what you read. You will find, as you well 

 know, for all it looks so simple and easy on paper, that it does not work out so 

 easily, and many a person has been badly disappointed in the results. 



Besides these, we must have a few books on other topics, also —Fuller's "Prac- 

 tical Forestry," "Plant Life on the Farm," Thomas' " Farm Implements and Ma- 

 chinery," Above everything, we must not forget ' Our Friends and Our Foes,'* 

 "Birds and Bugs, and Bugs and Birds." We are having such a supply of these 

 valuable books that there is no reason for not knowing some of these at sight. 



" The Outlines of Entomology," by Miss M. E. Murtfelt, should be in the 

 hands of every fruit-grower. Its lessons are so simple and so well written, and so 

 easily understood and so valuable, that you must read this. "Insects^lnjurious to 

 Fruit" is one of the best published in the country, and will open up a field to you 

 that was unknown. 



Treat's "Injurious Insects of Farm and Garden," another good one in the same 

 line." 



"The Farmer's Friend and Foe" will give you a great many good hints also, 

 and you will know your friends and foes better after having read it. 



Well, we must do something about beautifying our place, and know how to 

 plant judiciously and correctly ; then we want one book at least on the subject of 

 landscape gardening—' 'Ornamental Gardening for Americans." 



A few miscellaneous books and the list is complete for most persons — not that 

 it is complete for a reference library, but probably as complete as most people will 

 like to make it on account of the expense : " Household Conveniences," Wright's 

 "Practical Poultry- Keeper," King's " Bee- Keeper's Text-Book," Henderson's 

 "Hand-Book of Plants," "Every Woman Her Own Flower Gardener," "The 

 Nursery Book." 



But after all this, we must not lose sight of the fact that the horticultural 

 library must fail of its best good if we leave out the grand array of horticultural 

 papers of our country. 



The wonderful development of horticulture in our country is due to the effi- 

 cient work of the press. It gives us each week or each month a most valuable col- 

 lection of experience, theories and practice, which we cannot afford to do without. 

 We should, therefore, have at least four or five good papers or magazines in order 

 to keep up with the work as it is going on about us. 



The books of late publication, and most valuable to the fruit-grower, are : 

 " Annals of Horticulture," Vol. 4, " New Potato Culture," " Horticulturist Rule 

 Book," "Cross-Breeding and Hybridizing," "The Modification of Plants by Cli- 

 mate." 



The cost of such a library to the fruit-grower is a serious obstacle. But I do 

 not know how you can better spend money than to get some facts into your head 

 about your business; in fact, you cannot aff"jrd to go without some just such horti- 

 cultural books ; get them one by one and go without something else ; you will find 

 it the best money you ever invested. The list down to the miscellaneous books 

 will cost $25 to $30, and I am sure that you will always enjoy such a library. A 

 larger and more extended list might have been given, but in all probability this 

 list is rather too long than too short; a few of the least important could be left off 

 and bring the cost down to about $20, and there it should stop if you want the 

 books that you need. 



