WORKS ON FORESTRY AND GARDENING. 



JuU Published. 

 THE PRACTICE OF FOEESTRY. Bj' Christopher Y. Michie, 



Forester, Cullen. Crown Svo, with Illustrations, 6s. 

 "A book of an eminently practical nature, . . . dealing with evident ability with every 

 question that is likely to meet the forester in his daily ikot^."— Scotsman. 



THE LARCH: Being a Practical Treati.sf. ox its Culture and General 



Management. By the same Author, ^^"ith Illustrations. New and Clieaper Edition. 



Enlarged, with additional Chapter on the " Larch Disease." Crown Svo, 5s. 



" Within its pages the planter will find more information upon the best modes of treatment 



and culture of the larch-tree, whether in the nursery or plantation, than in any other book 



extant in the English language." — Journal of Forestry. 



" The work is a most valuable addition to our standard literature on arboriculture."— Ban/ 

 Journal. 



New awl Revised Edition. 

 THE FORESTER : A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearixg, 



AND General Management of Forest Trees. Bj' .Iames Brow.v, LL.D., Inspector of 



and Reporter on Woods and Forests, Benmore House, Port Elgin, Ontario. Fifth Edition, 



Revised and Enlarged. With numerous Engravings on Wood. Royal Svo, half-bound, 36s. 



"It is an authoritative guide, and a reference book which no forester should be without." — 



Land and Water. 



" As a practical text-book for the young forester, the work is invaluable, and no intelligent 

 young man following the profession ought to rest satisfied until he is in possession of a copy, 

 and has carefully studied it in all its details." — Journal of Forestry. 



Keiv and Cheaper Edition. 

 HANDY BOOK OP THE FLOWER GARDEN; Being Practical 



Directions for the Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement of Plants in Flower Gardens 

 all the year nund. Embracing all Classes of Gardens, from the largest to the smallest. 

 With Engraved Plans of grouping in Beds and Borders. By David Thomson, Gardener to 

 His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G., at Drumlanrig. Fourth Edition, crown Svo, 5s. 

 " We are acquainted with the results produced by the able author, as well as with his book, 



and therefore can iironouiice the book the best on the subject yet written or likely to be written 



for a long time to come." — The Field. 



HANDY BOOK OF FRUIT CULTURE UNDER GLASS. By the 



Same. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Illustrated with numerous Engravings. 



Crown Svo, 7s. 6d. 

 "No work of the kind of which we have any knowledge is at all to be compared with this. 

 It is the result of ripe experience, close thought, and ample acquaintance with the subject in 

 all its jiarts." — Scotsman. 



CULTIVATED PLANTS : THEIR PROPAGATION AND Im- 

 provement. By F. W. BuRBiDGE, Author of "The Narcissus ; its History and Culture, ' etc. 

 With 191 Engravings, and Index. Crown Svo, 12s. 6d. 

 " This is a book not for the ordinary villa gardener, but for the professional gardener, and for 

 those amateurs who, by their interestin the pursuit, and the skill and patience they bring to 

 bear upon it, rank in success and authority with the professionals."— <S(a»idard. 



Keiv Edition Revised. 



DOMESTIC FLORICULTURE, WINDOW GARDENING, AND 



Floral Decorations. Being Directions for the Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement 

 of Plants and Flowers as Domestic Ornaments. By the Same. Crown Svo, with upwards 

 of 200 Illustrations on Wood. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 7s. 6d. 

 " A charmingly illustrated vade-mecum on Window-Gardening, Floral Decorations, and the 

 whole field of adaptation of floral science to domestic ornament."— .4cademt/. 



Fourth Edition, Enlarged. 



THE HANDY BOOK OF BEES, AND THEIR PROFITABLE 



Management. Bv A. Pettigrew. Crown Svo, 3s. 6d. 

 "The author of this volume is evidentlv a practical man, and knows a great deal more about 

 bees and their habits than most of the bee-keepers in England ; indeed, he may be said to be a 

 very master in the art of bee my simes,."— Bell's Life in London. 



Xew Edition, Thoroughly Revised and Greatly Enlarged. 

 STEPHENS' BOOK OF THE FARM. Detailing the Labours of the 

 Farmer, Farm-Steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Farm-Labourer, Field-Worker, 

 and Cattleman. Fourth Edition, Revised, and in great part Rewritten, by James JI acdonald, 

 of the " Farming World," etc. Assisted by many of the leading Agriciltvral Actho- 

 RiTiES OF the day. Illustrated with numerous Portraits of Animals and Engra\'ings of 

 Implements, etc. To be coinjAeted in Six Divisional Vohnneg, strongly bound in cloth. 

 Now ready. DIVISIONS I., II., and III., price 10s. 6d. each. 

 " Few books on farming have acquired such a pojiularity as this lifework of its able author ; 

 few publications on the subject have so well deserved the conspicuous place which it now 

 occupies amongst the standard works on agriculture." — The Farm. 



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