Edited by PROFESSOR L. H. BAILEY. 



COMPRISING practical hand-books explaining the methods 

 practiced by the horticulturist. They are tastily bound 

 in green flexible cloth. Four volumes are now ready, 

 all written by PROFESSOR BAILEY, of Cornell University. 



PLANT -BREEDING: Bein S Five Lectures upon 

 the Amelioration of Domes- 

 tie Plants. 293 pages, 20 illustrations. $1.00 



This is the only book devoted to this subject. It comprises five 

 chapters or lectures : The Fact and Phylosophy of Variation ; 

 The Philosophy of the Crossing of Plants ; How Domestic Varieties 

 Originate ; Borrowed Opinions, being translations from the writ- 

 ings of Verlot, Carriere, and Focke ; Pollination, or How to Cross 

 Plants. Chapter III. contains the list of fifteen rules for plant- 

 breeding which DeVarigny, the eminent French writer, has called 

 "the quindecalogue of the horticulturist," and of which he says, 

 "Solomon if he had devoted himself to horticulture could not 

 have judged more soundly than Mr. Bailey." It is the purpose of 

 the book to tell how varieties of cultivated plants come about, and 

 how man may originate them. 



"I have read the work on ' Plant-Breeding,' by Professor L. H. Bailey, with 

 keen interest, and find it just what I expected from such a source ; viz., a 

 most satisfactory treatise on a subject of most pressing horticultxiral impor- 

 tance. Professor Bailey combines a breadth of view with knowledge of detail, 

 and produces written work most delightful to the scholar, and at the same 

 time fit to command the respect and correct the practice of the craftsman. I 

 honor Professor Bailey as a leader in the advancement of horticulture." 



E. J. WICKSON, 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley, Cal. 



THE HORTICULTURIST'S RULE -BOOK: 



A compendium of useful information fop fruit-grow- 

 ers, truek-gardeners, florists, and others. Fourth edition. 

 312 pages. 75 CtS. 



This is the standard work of reference for horticulturists, and is 

 now so well known that a detailed description is no longer neces- 

 sary. The fact that the index contains 2,000 entries shows the 

 great range of its contents. It is heaping full of information up- 

 on such matters as recipes for insecticides and fungicides, descrip- 

 tions (with remedies) of insects and diseases, weeds, lawns, graft- 

 ing-waxes, seed and planting-tables, tables of yields, rules for 

 greenhouse heating and management, with figures, methods of 

 storing produce, tariff and postal rates, rules of societies for nam- 

 ing and exhibiting specimens, score-cards and scales of points, 

 analyses of fertilizing substances, lists of currant horticultural 

 books and journals, with prices and publishers, etc. 



