STANDARD BOOKS. 



Play and Profit in My Garden. 



By E. P. Roe. The author takes us to his garden on 

 the rocky hillsides in the vicinity of West Point, and 

 shows us how out of it, after four years' experience, he 

 evoked a profit of $1,000, and this while carrying on pas- 

 toral and literary labor. It is very rarely that so much 

 literary taste and skill are mated to so much agricultural 

 experience and good sense. Cloth, 12mo. . . $1.00 



Forest Planting. 



By H. Nicholas Jarchow, LL. D. A treatise on the care 

 of woodlands and the restoration of the denuded timber- 

 lands on plains and mountains. The author has fully 

 described those European methods which have proved 

 to be most useful in maintaining the superb forests of the 

 old world. This experience has been adapted to the dif- 

 ferent climates and trees of America, full instructions 

 being given for forest planting of our various kinds of 

 soil and subsoil, whether on mountain or valley. 

 Illustrated, 12mo $1.50 



Soils and Crops of the Farm. 



By George E. Morrow, M. A., and Thomas F. Hunt. The 

 methods of making available the plant food in the soil 

 are described in popular language. A short history of 

 each of the farm crops is accompanied by a discussion 

 of its culture. The useful discoveries of science are 

 explained as applied in the most approved methods of 

 culture. Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo $1.00 



American Fruit Culturist. 



By John J. Thomas. Containing practical directions for 

 the propagation and culture of all the fruits adapted to 

 the United States. Twentieth thoroughly revised and 

 greatly enlarged edition by Wm. H. S. Wood. This new 

 edition makes the work practically almost a new book, 

 containing everything pertaining to large and small 

 fruits as well as sub-tropical and tropical fruits. Richly 

 illustrated by nearly 800 engravings. 758 pp., 12mo. $2.50 



Fertilizers. 



By Edward B. Voorhees, director of the New Jersey Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. It has been the aim of 

 the author to point out the underlying principles and te 

 discuss the important subjects connected with the use 

 of fertilizer materials. The natural fertility of the soil, 

 the functions of manures and fertilizers, and the need 

 of artificial fertilizers are exhaustively discussed. Sepa- 

 rate chapters are devoted to the various fertilizing ele- 

 ments, to the purchase, chemical analyses, methods of 

 using fertilizers, and the best fertilizers for each of the 

 most important field, garden and orchard crops. 

 335 pp $1.00 



