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 cultiva- 

 tion of horticultural crops and original descriptions of 

 all the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and orna- 

 mental 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-grow- 

 ing, vegetable culture, forestry, and the like, as well as 

 exact botanical information. . . . The contributors 

 are eminent cultivators or specialists, and the arrange- 

 ment is very systematic, clear and convenient for ready 

 reference." 



"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 given 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 organisms under examination only so far as these aid in 

 recognition and identification. To introduce unnecessary confusion is a serious 

 blunder. Professor Bailey has avoided the risk of confusion. In short, in range, 

 treatment and editing, the Cyclopedia appears to be emphatically useful: ... a 

 work worthy of ranking by the side of the Century Dictionary." The Nation. 



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