1803 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



23T 



5 I A B C of Carp Culture, by Geo. Finley 3.5 



5 I A B C of Strawberry Culture, by T. B. Terry 



and A. 1. Root, 144 pages; 33 illustrations 35 



.T I An Egfr-Fiirm, Stofirlard** 45 



I Amateur Photographer's Hand-book**. ... 70 



I Barn Plans and Out-Buildings* 1 .")li 



i Canary Birds. Paper 5(i 



I Draining- for Profit and Health, Warring.. 1 5(i 



10 I Fuller's Grape Culturist ** 140 



Farming- For Boys* 7.t 



This is one of Joseph Haii-is' happiest |>rodin-tions. and it 

 seems to me that it ouKht to make farni-lile fa.seinatingtoanj 

 boy who has any sort of taste for gardening. 



7 I Farm, Gardening, and Seed-Growing** 90 



Tnis is by Francis Brill, the veteran seed-grower, and is the 

 only book on gardening that 1 am aware vt that tells how 

 market gardeners and seed-growers raise and harvest their 

 own seeds. It has 166 pages. 



12 Gai-deuing for Pleasure, Henderson* 1 85 



Vl/liik- • liaidemng tor Proiifi.-, written wiiii a view of niak 

 ing gardening Pay, it touches h good deal on the pleasure part; 

 and "Gaicleniiig for Pleasure " lakes up this matter ot beauti 

 fyingyoiir hones aud improving your grotiiids without the 

 special point in view of making money out of it. 1 think most 

 of you will need this if .you get '- Gardening for Profit." This- 

 work has 404 pages and 203 illustrations. 



12 I Gardening for Profit, new edition** ... 1 85 



This is a late revision of Peter Henderson's celebrated work 

 Notliing that has ever before been put in print has done si> 

 much toward making market-gardenint; a science and a fasci 

 nating industry. Peter Henderson stands at the head, vsithout 

 question, although we have many other books on tliese rural 

 employments. If you can get but one book, let it be tlu 

 above. It has 376 pages and 138 cuts. 



I Gardening for Young and Old, Harri.s** 1 25 



Tnis is Joseph Harris' best and happiest effort. Althoiigli it 

 goes over the same ground occupied by Peter Henderson, it 

 particularly emphasizes thorough cultivation of the soil in 

 preparing your ground; and this matter of adapting it to 

 young people as well as old is brought out in a most happj 

 vein. If your children have any sort of fancy foi gardening it 

 will pay >ou to make them a present of this book. It has 187 

 pages and 46 engravings. 



10 I Garden and Farm Topics, Henderson** 75 



I Gray's School and Field Book of Botany. . . 1. 80 



Gregory on Cabbages; paper* 25 



Gregory on Squashes; paper* 25 



I Gregory on Onions; paper* 25 



The above three books, b,> our friend Gregory, are all val 

 uable. The book on squaslies especially is good reading for 

 almost anybody, whether tliey raise squashes or not. It strikes 

 at the very foundation of success in almost any kind ot 

 business. 



15 I How to Make the Garden Pay.** 1 35 



By T. (ireiner. This is a new book, just out, and it gives the 

 most exiilirit and full directions for gardening under glass of 

 any book in the world Those who are interested in hot-beds, 

 cold-frames, cold-greenhou.-es, hot-houses or glass sti-uctures 

 of any kind for the growth of plants, can not afford to be with- 

 out the book. 



I Handbook for Lumbermen 10 



10 I Household Conveniences 1 40 



2 How to Propagate and Grow Fruit, Green* 15 



2 I Injurious Insects, Cook 25 



10 I Irrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Or- 



chard, Stewart* 1 4(' 



This book, so far as X am informed, is almost the only work 

 on this matter that is attracting so much interest, especiallj 

 recently. Using water from springs, brooks, or windmills, to 

 take the place of rain, during our great droughts, is the great 

 problem before us at the present day. The book has 274 page? 

 and 142 cuts. 



3 I Maple Sugar and the Sugar-bush** 36 



By Prof. A. J. Cook. This was written in the spring of 1887 at 

 my request. As the author lias, perhaps, one of the flnest 

 sugar-camps in the United States, as well as being an enthusi 

 astic lover of all farm industries, he is bettertitted, perhaps, t( 

 handle the subject than any other man. The book is written 

 in Prof. Cook's happy style, combining wholesome moral les 

 sons with the latest and best method of managing to get the 

 finest syrup and maple sugar, witii the least possible e.xpendi 

 ture of cash and labor. Everybody who makes sugar or mo 

 lasses wants the sugar-book. It has 42 pages and .So cuts. 



1 I Poultry for Pleasure and Profit** 10 



11 Practical Floriculture, Henderson* 1 35 



10 I Profits in Poultry* 90 



2 I Practical Turke.'T-raising 10 



By Fanny Field. This is a 2.'i-cent book which we offer for 10 



cts.; postage, 2 cts. 



4 I Peabody's Webster's Dictioiuiry 10 



Over 30,000 words and 250 illustrations. 



2 I Rats: How to Rid Farms and Buildings of 

 them, as well as other Posts of like Char- 

 acter 15 



This little book ought to be worth dollars instead of the few 

 cents it costs to any one who has ever been troubled with these 

 pests, and who has not! It is written in such a liapp.Y vein 

 that every member of the family will read it clear through, 

 just about as soon asthe.y get hold of it. It contains a com- 



Flete summing up of the best information the world can 

 urnish. 



1 I Silk and the Silkworm 10 



10 1 Small-Fruit Culturist, Fuller 140 



10 I Success in Market-Gardening-* 90 



This is a new book by a real, live, enterprising, successful 

 market-gardener who lives In Arlington, a suburb of Boston, 

 Mass. KrieiKl Kawson has been one ot the foremost to make 

 irrigation a inartiial succes;., and he now irrigates his grounds 

 by meant- ul a « iiidmill and steam-engine whenever a drought 

 threatens to injure the riops. The book ha.-- •2()8 pages, and ii- 

 mcel,\ illii.-iiatta with tlO engraving-. 



I 'iVn Acies Enough. . . ... 1 no 



I The Silo and Ensihifie, by Prof. Cook, new 



edition, fully illustrated 25 



I Talks on Manures* 1 To 



This book, Liy Joseph Harris is, perhaps, the most comi>ie 

 hensive one we have on the subject, and the whole maltei i.- 

 consideied t»y an able writer. It contains 36B pages. 



2 I Tlie Carpenter's Steel Square and its Uses. 15 

 10 I The New Agriculture; or, the Waters Led 



Captive 75 



2 I Treatise on (lie Horse and his Diseases lU 



5 I Tile Drainage, by W. I, Chamberlain 35 



Just out. h iill.\ illusfiatcd, iMintaining ever}' tiling of im- 

 portance ell ai u,i 111 till' iJlesellt liate. 



Tile single chj,pler on digging ditches, with the illustrations 

 given by Pr. f Chamberlain, should alone make the book 

 worth what it costs, to every one who has oi casioii to lay ten 

 rods or more of tile. There is iis mucli science in digging as 

 in doing almost an.v thing else; and by following the plan 

 directed in thi'< book, one man will often do as much as two 

 men withoui tliis Knowledge, Tliebook embraces every thing 

 connected with the subject, and was written by the 'author 

 while he w as eiiga ed in the work of digging the ditches and 

 laying the tiles H1M.SELF, for he has laid literally miles of 

 tile on his own farm in Hudson. O, 



5 1 Tomato Culture 35 



In three parts. Fart hist— by J. W. Day. of Crj'stal Springs, 

 Miss . treats of tomato culture in the South, with some re- 

 ntal ks by. \. I Root, adapting it to the North. Part second- 

 By D Cummins, of Conneaut, O.. treats of tomato culture 

 esjiecially for canning-factories. Part third— By .\. I. Root. 

 treats of plant-growing for market, and high-pressure garden- 

 ing in general. This little book is interesting oecause it is one 

 of the Hist rural books to come from our friends in the South. 

 It tells of a great industiy that has been steadily growing for 

 some years past; iiamelv, tomato-growing in "the Soutn to 

 supiily the Nortnein markets. The little book, which is fully 

 illustrated, gives u.s some ideasant glimpses oi the possibili- 

 ties and piolialiilities of the future of Southern agriculture. 

 Even though you do not grow tomatoes to any considerable 

 extent, you will tiiid the book brimful of suggestions of short 

 cuts in agriculture and horticulture, and especially in the line 

 of market-gardening. 



5 I The New Onion Culture*. 20 



This book is b.y T. Greiner, and it gives full particulars of 

 the plan of planting onion seed in a greenhouse, hot-bed, or 

 cold-frame, and planting the onions out in the field at the 

 time we usually sow tlie seed. The author thinks that 2000 

 bushels of the large tropical onion can by this method he 

 raised on an acre. 



2 i The New Celery Culture 16 



This summing-up of this new Industry amounts to this: 

 You Hx your ground just as rich as you can possibly get it, 

 with stable manure, chemi.ivl fertilizers, or any thing else that 

 will do the business. Then put out your plants 7 incnes ajiart 

 each way, and give them water enough to make them boom 

 right along from the word go. The idea is somewhat new; 

 but enough succeeded in 189; t.> demonstrate that, like the new- 

 onion culture, it promises great possibilities. 



3 i Winter Care of Horses and Cattle 35 



This is friend Terry's second book in regard to farm matters; 

 but it is so intimately connected with hit potato-book that it 

 reads almost like a sequel to it. If you have only a horse or a 

 cow, I think it will pay you to invest in the book. It has U 

 pages and 4 cuts. 



8 I What to Do and How to be Happy While 



Doing It, by A. 1. Root .50 



3 1 Wood's Common Objects of the Micro- 

 scope'** 47 



NEW BOOKS ON GARDENING. 



2 I Celery for Profit, by T. Greiner 25 



The first really full and complete book on celery culture, at 



a moderate price, that we have had. It is full of pictures, 

 and the whole thing is made so jilain that a schoolbo.y ought 

 to be able to grow paying crops at once, without any assis- 

 tance except from the book, 



3 I Onions for Profit 45 



Fully up to the times, and includes both the old onion cul- 

 ture and the new method. The book is fully illustrated, and 

 written with all the enthusiasm and interest that character- 

 ize its author, T. Greiner. Even if one is not particularly in- 

 terested in the business, almost any jierson who picks up 

 Greiner's books will like to read theih through. 



5 I Manures; How to Make aud How to Use 



them ; in ptiper covers 45 



6 1 The same in cloth covers 65 



Covering the whole matter, and discussing everj- thing to be 

 found on tlie farm, refuse from factories, mineral fertilizers 

 from mines, etc. It is a complete summing-up of the whole 

 matter. It is written bv F". W. .Sempers. 



7 1 Market-gardening and Farm Notes, by 



Burnett Landreth 90 



The Laiidreths are the pioneer seedsmen of America; and 

 the book is worth fully as much as we might expect it to be. I 

 think I received hints from it worth the price, before it had 

 been in my hands fifteen minutes. It is exceedingl.y in-actical, 

 and tells what has been done and what is BEING done, more 

 than it discourses on theory. 



A. I. ROOT, \redinn. O. 



