1893 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



581 



5 I A B C of Carp Culture, bv Geo. Finley 35 



5 1 A B C of Strawberry Culture, by T. B. Terry 



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



5 I An EB-}r-Fiirm, Stoddard** 45 



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



I Barn Plans and Out-Bulldings* 1 50 



I Canary Birds. Paper, 50 



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



10 I Puller's Grape Culturist** 140 



I Farming For Boys* 75 



This is one of Joseph Harris' happiest productions, and it 

 seems to me that it oiinlit to make larm-liie taseinatingtoany 

 boy who has any sort of taste for giudening. 



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



This is by Francis Brill, the veteran seed-grower, and is tlie 

 onlj' book on gardening that I am aware of that tells how 

 market-gardeners and seed-growers raise and harvest tlieir 

 own seeds. It has 166 pages. 



IS ' Gardening for Pleasure, Henderson* 1 85 



while '■ Gardening tor Profit "is written with a view of mak- 

 ing gardening pay, it touches a good deal on the pleasure part; 

 and "Gardening for Pleasure " takes up this matter of beauti- 

 fying your homes and improving your grounds without the 

 special point In view of making money out of it. I 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 



Tnis is a late revision of Peter Henderson's celebrated work. 

 Nothing tliat has ever before been put in print has done so 

 much toward making market-gardening a science and a fasci- 

 nating industry. Peter Henderson stands at the head, without 

 question, although we have many other books on these rural 

 employments. If you can get Ijut one book, let it be the 

 above. It has 376 pages and 138 cuts. 



1 2b 



. . -,. r Although it 



goes over the same ground occupieil by Peter Henderson, it 

 particularly emphasizes thorough cultivation of the soil in 

 preparing yotfr ground; and this matter of adapting it to 

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

 vein. If your chiUren have any sort of fancy for gardening it 

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

 pages and 46 engravings. 



10 I Success inMaiket-Gardening*. 



90 



I Gardening for Young and Old, Harris* 



This is Joseph Harris' best and happiest effort. 



10 



75 

 1 8(1 

 25 

 25 

 25 



Garden and Farm Topics, Henderson**. 

 Gray's School and Field Book of Botany 



Gregory on Cabbages ; papei-* 



Gregory on Squashes; paper* 



Gregory on Onions ; paper* 



The above three books, by our friend Gregory, are all val 

 uable. The book on squashes especially is good reading for 

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

 at the very foundation of success in almost any kind of 

 business. 



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



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

 most explicit and full directions for gardening under glass of 

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

 cold-frames, cold-greenhouses, hot-houses or glass structures 

 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 [rrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Or- 



chard, Stewart* 1 40 



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

 on this matter that is attracting so much interest, especially 

 recently. Using wat«r from springs, brooks, or windmills, to 

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

 problem before us at the present day. Th«" book has 274 pages 

 and 142 cuts. 



3 I Maple Sugar and the Sugar-bush** 35 



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

 my request. As the author has, perhaps, one of the finest 

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

 astic lover of all farm industries, he is betterfltted. perhaps, to 

 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, with the least possible expendi 

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

 lasses wants the sugar-book. It has 42 pages and 36 cuts. 



1 Poultry for Pleasure and Profit** 10 



11 Practical Floriculture, Henderson* 1 35 



10 Profits In Poultry* 90 



2 I Practical Turkey-raising 10 



By Fanny Field. This is a 25-cent book which we offer for 10 

 cts. J postage, 2 cts. 



4 I Peahody's Webster's Dictionary 10 



Over 30,000 words and 250 illustrations. 



2 I Rats: How to Rid Farms and Buildings of 

 them, as well as other Pests 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 



?iests, and who has not? It is written in such a happy vein 

 hat every member of the family %vill read it clear through, 

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

 plete summing up of the best information the world can 

 furnish. 



1 I Silk and the Silkworm 10 



10 I Small-Fruit Culturist, Fuller 1 40 



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

 market-gardener wlio lives in Arlington, a subui-b of Boston, 

 Mass. Friend Rawson has been one of the foremost to make 

 irrigation a practical succes.-,, and he now irrigates his grounds 

 by means ol a windmill and steam-engine whenever a drought 

 threatens to injure the cruixs. The Ijook has 208 pages, and i.' 

 nicel.v illustrated with 110 engravings. 



I Ten Acres Enougli ... i Oii 



I The Silo and Ensilage, by Prof. Couk, new 



editi<ni, fully illustrated 25 



] Talks on Manures* 1,78 



This book, ijy Joseph Harris is, perhaps, the most compie 

 hensive one we have on the subject, and the whole matter is 

 considered by an able writer. It contains 366 pages. 



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

 10 I The New Agriculture; or, the Waters Led 



Captive • 75 



2 I Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases 10 



5 1 Tile Drainage, by W. I. Chamberlain 35 



Just out. Fully illustrated, containing every thing of im- 

 portance clear U|i to tlic present date. 



Tile singli' cliai>tir on digging ditches, with the illustrations 

 given by Pnf. Chamberlain, should alone make the book 

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

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

 in doing almost any thing else; and by following the plan 

 directeciin this bonk, one man will often do as much as two 

 I men without this knowledge. The book embraces every thing 

 connected with the subject, and was written by the author 

 while he was enga ed in the work of digging the ditches and 

 laying the tiles HIMSELF, for he has laid literally miles of 

 tile on his own farm in Hudson, O. 



5 I Tomato (Culture 35 



In three parts. Part first— by J. VV. Day, of Crystal Springs, 

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

 marks by A. I Root, adapting It to the North. Part second- 

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

 especially for canning-factoiies. Part third— By A. I. Root, 



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

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

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

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

 some years past; namel.v, tomato-growing in the Soutn to 

 sui(i>ly the Nortliern markets. The little book, which is fully 

 illustrated, gives us some pleasant glimpses ot the possibili- 

 ties and probabilities of the future of Southern agriculture. 



' Even though you do not grow tomatoes to any eensiderable 

 extent, you will find 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 by T. Greiner, and it gives full particulars ot 

 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 the seed. The author thinks that 2000 

 bushels of the large tropical onion can by this method be 

 i raised on an acre. 



I 2 I The New Celery Culture ... 15 



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

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

 I with stable manure, chemical fertilizers, or any thing else that 



will do the business. Then put out your plants 7 inches apart 



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

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



but enough succeeded in 189i to demonstrate that, like the new 



onion culture, it promises gre.at possibilities. 



3 I Winter Care of Horses and Cattle. 35 



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



j but it Is so intimately connected with hi." potato-book that it 

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

 cow, I think it will pay you to invest in the book. It has 44 

 pages and 4 cuts. 



1 8 I What to Do and How to be Happy While 



' Doing It, by A. I. Root 50 



i 3 I Wood's Common Objects of the Micro- 



i scope** 47 



NEW BOOKS ON GARDENING. 



2 1 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 plain that a schoolboy ought 

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

 tance except fruin 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 person who picks up 

 Greiner's books will like to read them through. 



5 I Manures; How to Make and How to Use 



them ; in paper covers 45 



6 I The same in cloth covers 65 



Covering the whole matter, and discussing every thing to be 

 found on the farm, refuse from factories, mineral fertilizers 

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

 matter. It is written by F. W. Sempers. 



7 I Market-gardening and Farm Notes, by 



Burnett Landreth 90 



The Landreths are th.e pioneer seedsmen of America; and 

 the book is worth f ul ly 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 exceedingly practical, 

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

 than it discourses on theory. 



A. T. ROOT, ffedina. O. 



