HORTICULTURIST'S RULE-BOOK, 



Designed as a pocket companion. The book has been prepared with great care 



and much labor. It contains in handy and concise form a great number of 



the rules and receipts required by fruit-growers, truck gardeners, florists, 



farmers, etc. Undoubtedly the best thing of the kind ever published. 



BY L. H. BAILEY, 



Editor of The American Garden, Horticulturist of the Cornell Experiment Station and 

 Professor of Horticulture in Cornell University, 



OONTENTS OJ* THE> BOOK. 



IV. 



V. 



VI. 

 VII. 



VIII. 



I. Insecticides. 

 II. Injurious insects, with preventives 



and remedies. 

 III. Fungicides for plant diseases. 



Plant diseases, with preventives 

 and remedies. 



Injuries from mice, rabbits, birds, 

 etc., with preventives and reme- 

 dies. 



Weeds. 



Waxes and washes for grafting and 

 for wounds. 



Cements, paints, etc. 

 IX. Seed Tables: i. Quantities required 

 for sowing given areas 2. Weight 

 and size of seeds of kitchtn garden 

 vegetables. 3. Longevity of seeds. 

 4. Time required for kitchen gar- 

 den seeds to germinate. 

 X. Planting: Tables: i. Dates for sow- 

 ing or setting kitchen garden veg- 

 etables in different latitudes. 2. 

 Tender and hardy vegetables 3. 

 Usual distances apart for planting 

 fruits and vegetables. 4. Number 

 of plants required to set an acre 

 at given distances apart. 



Maturity and Yields: i. Time re- 

 quired for the maturity of kitchen 

 garden vegetables. 2. Time re- 

 quired for the bearing o f fruit 

 plants. 3. Longevity offruit plants. 

 4. Average yields of variouscroi>s. 



Methpis of keeping: and storing 



fruits and vegetables. 

 XIII. Multiplication and Propagation of 

 Plants: i. Methods ofmultiplying 

 plants. 3. Ways of grafting and 

 budding. 3. Particular methods 

 by which various fruits are propa- 

 gated. 4. Stocks used for various 

 fruits. 



Standard Measures and Sizes : i . 

 Standard flowerpots. 2. Standard 

 and legal measures. 3. English 

 measures for saleof fruits and veg- 

 etables, 



Tables of weights and measures. 



XI. 



XII. 



XIV. 



XVI. Miscellaneous tables, figures and 

 notes: i. Quantities of water 

 held in pipes and tanks. 2. Ther- 

 mometer scales. 3. Effect of wind 

 in cooling glass roofs. 4. Per 

 cent, of light reflected from glass 

 at various angles of inclination. 

 5. Weights of various varieties of 

 apples per bushel. 6. Amount of. 

 various prod ucts yielded by given 

 quantities offruit. 7. Labels. 8. 

 Miscellany. 



XVII. Rules: i. Loudon's rules of hor- 

 ticulture. 2. Rules of nomencla- 

 ture. 3. Rules for exhibition. 

 XVIII. Postal rates and regulations. 



XIX. Weather signs, and protection 



from frost. 



XX. Collecting and preserving: i. 

 How to make an herbarium. 2. 

 Preserving and printing of flowers 

 and other parts of plants. 3. 

 Keeping cut-flowers. 4. Perfum- 

 ery. 5. How to collect and pre- 

 serve insects. 



XXI. Elements, symbols and analyses: 



1. The elements and their chemi- 

 cal symbols. 2. Chemical com- 

 position of a few common sub- 

 stances. Analyses: (a) Fruits 

 and Vegetables; (b) Seeds and 

 Fertilizers; (c) Soils and Min- 

 erals. 



xxil. Names and histories : i. Veg- 

 etables which have different 

 names in England and America. 



2. Derivation of names of various 

 fruits and vegetables. 3. Names 

 of fruits and vegetables in various 

 languages. 4. Periods of culti- 

 vation and native countries ofcul- 

 tivated plants. 



XVIII. Facts and statistics of horticulture 

 and the vegetable kingdom. 



XXIV. Glossary of technical words used 

 hv horticulturists. 



Calendar. 



XXV. 

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