THE CYCLOPEDIA OF 



AMERICAN 

 HORTICULTURE 



By L. H. BAILEY 



of Cornell University, assisted by 



WILHELM MILLER 



And many expert cultivators and botanists 



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This great work comprises directions for the cultivation of hor- 

 ticultural crops and original descriptions of all the species of fruits, 

 vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants known to be in the 

 market in the United States and Canada. "It has the unique 

 distinction of presenting for the first time, in a carefully arranged 

 and perfectly accessible form, the best knowledge of the best 

 specialists in America upon gardening, fruit-growing, vegetable 

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 tion. . . . The contributors are eminent cultivators or 

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"We have here a work which every ambitious gardener will wish to 

 place on his shelf beside his Nicholson and his London, and for such users of 

 it a too advanced nomenclature would have been confusing to the last 

 degree. With the safe names here Riven, there is little liability to serious 

 perplexity. There is a growing impatience with much of the controversy 

 concerning revision of names of organisms, whether of plants or animals. 

 Those investigators who are busied with the ecological aspects of organisms, 

 and also those who are chiefly concerned with the application of plants to 

 the arts of agriculture, horticulture, and so on, care for the names of organ- 

 isms under examination only so far as these aid in recognition and identifi- 

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