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The Garden Story (Ellwanger). — A 

 delightful book portraying the beauties 

 andpleasures of gardening in the most fas- 

 cinating style; it is eminently practical, 

 and useful, too, for the author loves, 

 knows and grows the 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 

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Fruit Garden (Barry). $2.00. 



Gardening for Profit (Henderson). 

 $2.00. 



Practical Floriculture (Hender- 

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On the Rose (Parsons). $1.00. 



Truck Farming at the South (Oem- 

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Ornamental Gardening I Long). $2 00. 



Art Out of Doors ( Van Renssalaer). — 

 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- 

 teresting subject handled in a popular 

 and masterly way. $1.50. 



Botanical Dictionary (Paxton). His- 

 tory and culture of plants known in gar- 

 dens. New and enlarged edition. $7.20. 



The Wild Garden (Robinson). How 

 to make all outdoors beautiful, more es- 

 pecially the wilder and rougher parts or 

 the grounds about our homes, by the 

 greatest master in that art. Splenuidlv 

 illustrated from life. $4 80. 



How to Know the Wild Flowers 

 ( Dana). Guide to the names, haunts and 

 habits of our common wild flowers. Il- 

 lustrated. $1.75. 



According to Season (Dana). — Talks 

 about the flowers in the order of their ap- 

 pearance in the woods or fields. $0 75. 



The English Flower Garden (Robin- 

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 ornamental gardening extant. It deals 

 with hardy flowers ot 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 au- 

 thor is the greatest master in ornamental 

 gardening who ever lived. $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, veg- 

 etable or flower growing; 302 pages, 

 $0.75. 



The Soil (Prof. King).— Its nature, re- 

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The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft 

 of Shakespeare (Ellacombe). $3.50. 



Vegetable Gardening (Prof. Green, ot 

 University of Minnesota). $1.25. 



American Fruit Culturist (Thomas). 

 $2.50. 



Nuts for Profit (Parry).— A treatise 

 on the propagation and cultivation of 

 nut-bearing trees. $1.00. 



How to Grow Cut Flowers (Hunt). 

 — The only book on the subject. It is a 

 thorough^- 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. 



Bulbs 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 in 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 Berjsy 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. 



Small Fruit Culturist (Fuller). $1.50. 



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