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GARDENING. 



May 



FRIZES FOR ESSAYS. 



Through the kindness of one who is 

 deeply interested in horticulture, the 

 Horticultural Society of Northern Illinois 

 is enabled to make the following offers: 



1. $15 will be given to the person send- 

 ing in a paper best answering this ques- 

 tion: "Why and how should horticulture 

 be taught in ourrural schools?" Compe- 

 tition open to the world. 



2. $5 will be given to the boy or girl 

 under 18 years of age sending in the best 

 report of the growth and development of 

 any fruit, vegetable or ornamental i-lant 

 or tree, planted and cared for by him or 

 her during the season of 1897. 



3. $5 will be given to the boy or girl 

 under 18 j*ears of age giving the best 

 report of the exercises held at his or her 

 school on Arbor Day, 1897. 



Competition for the last two prizes is 

 limited to those living in the twenty- 

 three most northern counties of Illinois 

 (district of the Horticultural Society of 

 Northern Illinois). 



Papers should be plainly written, on 

 one side of the paper only, and enclosed 

 in an envelope with the nameand address 

 of the writer upon a separate slip of paper. 

 Papers should be in the hands of the 

 secretary not later than November 1, 

 1897. The prize-winning papers will be 

 read at the annual meeting of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of Northern Illinois, 

 which will be held at DeKalb, December 

 1 and 2, 1S97. Every boy and girl enclos- 

 ing a two cent stamp with their report 

 will receive some new variety of vegeta- 

 ble seed or fruit plant during the fall of 

 1897, or spring of 1898. Address all 

 communications to the secretary, D wight 

 Herrick, Kochelle, 111. 



SOIL AROUND ST. PAUL, MINN. 



Replying to Mrs. Comb's inquiry 

 would say her soil is probably in need of 

 something like sodium nitrate. 



If, however, the leaves of her spinach, 

 lettuce, etc., were large and green, there 

 is no necessity of the sodium nitrate. 

 Cow manure as ordinarily collected and 

 prepared is apt to be weak in nitrogen 

 If she would use about 3 pounds of good 

 hardwood ashes and not over one halt 

 pound of nitrate of soda for every square 

 rod, I think she would be sure to remedy 

 the difficulty. If ashes are not ot the best 

 quality, she might use sulphate ol potash 

 ani bone dust, from some drug supply 

 house, half a pound for each square rod. 

 Use the nitrate ofsoda, solphate of potash, 

 etc., as a top dressing after spading and 

 preparing seed bed. J. M. Underwood. 



California Privet. 



Nothing offered but 2 year old cut back 



and transplanted. 

 2 to 3 feet, S3. 00 per 100. 

 I to 2 feet, $2.00 per 100. 



Large stock of Norway and Silver Maples; 

 also Carolina Poplars in any quantity or 

 car lots. Trees and Plants, alt kinds. 



It will pay you to write for prices. 



No retail catalogue. 



N. P. BROOKS, Lakewood (Nurseries), N. J. 



When you write an 

 advertiser please state 

 that you saw the adv. 

 in Gardening. 



HORTICULTURAL BOOKS. 



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We can supply any of the following 



How to Grow Cut Flowers (Hunt). 

 — The only book on the subject. It is a 

 thoroughly reliable work by an eminently 

 successful practical florist. Illustrated, 

 $2.00. 



GREENHOUSe CONSTRUCTION (Taft) — It 

 tells the whole story about how to build, 

 and heat a greenhouse, be it large or 

 small, and that too in a plain, easily un- 

 derstood, practical way. It has 118 

 illustrations, $1.50. 



Bclbs and Tuberous Rooted Plants 

 (Allen). — Over 300 pages and 75 illustra- 

 tions. A new work by a specialist in this 

 line. Tells about lilies, cannas, dahlias, 

 hyacinths, tulips; and all manner of bulbs 

 and how to grow them indoors and out- 

 sides, summer and winter. $2.00. 



Mushrooms: How to Grow Them 

 (Falconer). — The only American book on 

 the subject, 29 illustrations. Written by 

 a practical mushroom grower who tells 

 the whole story so tersely and plainly 

 that a child can understand it. This book 

 has increased mushroom growing ill this 

 country three fold in three years. $1.50. 



Success in Market Gardening (Raw- 

 son). — Written by one of the most promi- 

 nent and successful market gardeners in 

 the country, and who has the largest 

 glasshouses for forcing vegetables for 

 market in America. Outdoor and indoor 

 crops are treated. Illustrated, $1.00. 



The Rose (Ellwanger). — The standard 

 work on roses in this country and written 

 from a field affording the widest experi- 

 ence in practical knowledge and opportu- 

 nities for comparison, and where every 

 variety of rose ever introduced is or has 

 been grown. $1.25. 



The Biggle Berry Book (Biggie). — A 

 condensed treatise on the culture of straw- 

 berries, raspberies, currants and goose- 

 berries; with truthful colored illustrations 

 of 25 varieties of strawberries, 8 rasp- 

 berries, 5 currants, and 5 gooseberries; 

 35 illustrations in black and white; and 

 portraits of 33 of the most noted berry 

 growers all over the country. 50cts. 



The Propagation of Plants (Fuller). 

 — An illustrated book of about 350 pages. 

 It tells us how to propagate all manner 

 of plants, hardy and tender from an oak 

 to a geranium, and describes every pro- 

 cess — grafting, budding, cuttings, seed 

 sowing, etc., with every manipulation 

 pertaining to the subject It is the voice 

 of practical experience, by one of the most 

 brilliant horticulturists living. $1.50. 



Manures (Sempers). — Over 200 pages; 

 illustrated. It tells all about artificial, 

 farmyard and other manures, what they 

 are and what they are good for, the dif- 

 ferent manures for the different crops and 

 the different soils, how to apply them, 

 and how much to use and all in such a 

 plain way that no one can misunderstand 

 it. The author is an active, practical, 

 horticultural chemist. 50 cents. 



Dictionary of Gardening (Nicholson). 

 — An inimitable work. An encyclopaedia 

 of horticulture. It is the ready book of 

 reference for all cultivated plants, includ- 

 ing the most obscure genera and species 

 as well as the most familiar. It is stand- 

 ard authority on nomenclature. An Eng- 

 lish work but as much appreciated here 

 as in Europe. Four volumes. $20.00. 



Window Flower Garden (Heinrich). 

 75 cents. 



books, postpaid, at the prices given: 



The Garden's Story (Ellwanger).— A 

 delightful book portraying the beauties 

 and pleasures of gardening in the most 

 fascinating style; itiseminently practical, 

 and useful too, for the author loves, 

 knows and grows ihe plants he writes 

 about; and has a field for observation 

 and practice second to none in the coun- 

 try. Price $1.50. 



Fruits and Fruit Trees of America 

 (Downing). $5.00. 



Fruit Garden (Barrv) $2.00. 



Small Fruit Culturist (Fuller). $1.50. 



Gardening for Profit (Henderson). 

 $2.00. 



Practical Floriculture (Henderson). 

 $1.50. 



On the Rose (Parsons j. $1.00. 



Truck Farming at the South (Oemler). 

 $1.50. 



Ornamental Gardening (Long). $2.00. 



Art Out of Doors (Van Rensselaer) — 

 Hints on good taste in gardening. $1 50. 



The Flowers of Japan and the Art of 

 Floral Arrangement. Colored and plain 

 plates. (Conder.) $12.50. 



Sweet Scented Flowers and Fra- 

 grant Leaves (McDonald). A very in- 

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 and masterly way. $1.50 



Botanical Dictionary (Paxton). His- 

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 $7.20. 



The Wild Garden (Robinson). How 

 to make all outdoors beautiful, more espe- 

 cially the wilder and rougher parts of the 

 grounds about our homes, by the great- 

 est master in that art. Splendidly illu - 

 trated from life. $-L80. 



How to Know the Wild Flowers 

 ( Dana). Guide to the names, haunts and 

 habits of our common Wild Flowers. 

 Illustrated. $1.75. 



According to Season (Dana). — Talks 

 about the Flowers in the order of their 

 appearance in the woods or fields. $0.75. 



The English Flower Garden (Robin- 

 son). — This is the best book on outdoor 

 ornamental gardening extant. It deals 

 with hard}' flowers of all kinds, and tells 

 us how to grow them and how to plant 

 them to secure the most perfect growth 

 and charming results; it enumerates and 

 describes most every plant of the kind 

 worth growing; it has 832 pages and 

 many hundreds of illustrations. Its 

 author is the greatest master in orna- 

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 $6.00. 



Plant Breeding (Prof. Bailey). — Deals 

 with variation in and crossing of plants, 

 and the origin of garden varieties, etc., 

 293 pages. $1.00. 



The Horticulturist's Rule-Book 

 (Prof. Bailey). — A compendium of useful 

 information for all interested in fruit, 

 vegetable or flower growing. 302 pages. 

 75 cents. 



The Soil (Prof. King). — Its nature, 

 relations and fundamental principles of 

 management, 303 pages. 75 cents. 



The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft 

 of Shakespeare (Ellacombe). $3.50. 



Vegetable Gardening (Prof Green, of 

 University of Minnesota). $1.25. 



American Fruit Culturist (Thomas). 

 $2.50. 



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