The Garden - Craft Series. 
Edited by PRror. L. H. BAILEY. 
THE HORTICULTURIST’S RULE-BOOK. 
A COMPENDIUM OF USEFUL INFORMATION FOR FRUIT-GROWERS, TRUCK- 
GARDENERS, FLORISTS, AND OTHERS. 
By L. H. BAILEY, 
Professor of Horticulture in Cornell University. 
Third Edition, Thoroughly Revised and Recast, with Many Additions. 
16mo. 302 pages. Cloth, Limp, 75 Cents. 
This volume is the only attempt ever made in this country to codify and con- 
dense all the scattered rules, practices, recipes, figures and histories relating 
to horticultural practice in its broadest sense. All the approved methods of 
fighting insects and plant diseases used and discovered by all the experiment 
stations are set forth in shape for instant reference. 
Among the additions to the volume in the present edition are: A chapter 
upon ‘‘Greenhouse and Window-garden Work and Estimates ;”’ a chapter on 
‘‘Literature,’’ giving classified lists of the leading current writings on Ameri- 
can horticulture ; lists of self-fertile and self-sterile fruits; a full account of 
the method of predicting frosts and of averting their injuries; a discussion of 
the aims and methods of phenology; the rules of nomenclature adopted by 
botanists and horticultural societies; score-cards and scales of points for 
judging various fruits, vegetables and flowers ; a full statement of the metric 
system, and tables of foreign money. 
PLANT -BREEDING. 
By L. H. BAILEY. 
16mo. 293 pages. -Cloth, Limp, $1.00. 
Uniform with ‘* The Horticulturists Rule-Book.”’ 
CONTENTS. 
The Fact and Philosophy of Variation. Borrowed Opinions, of B. Verlot, E. 
The Philosophy of the Crossing of A. Carriére, and W. O. Focke, on 
Plants. ; Plant-Breeding. 
Specific Means by which Garden Detailed Directions for the Crossing 
Varieties originate. of Plants. 
COMMENTS. 
‘‘T have read the work on ‘ Plant Breeding’ by Prof. L. H. Bailey with keen 
interest, and find it just what I expected from such a source; viz., a most sat- 
isfactory treatise on a subject of most pressing horticultural importance. I 
shall earnestly commend the work to my horticultural classes.’’ 
E. J. WICKSON, 
Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley, Cal. 
“The treatment is both scientific and practical, and will enable gardeners 
and horticulturists to experiment intelligently in cross-breeding. The sub- 
ject is fully elaborated, and made clear for every intelligent reader. Professor 
Bailey’s reputation, founded upon careful labor and observations in original 
investigations, is still further enhanced by the presentation of this excellent 
manual,’’—Vzck’s Monthly. 
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