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WORKS BY PROFESSOR BAILEY 



HE 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 cul- 

 tivation of horticultural crops and original descrip- 

 tions 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 care- 

 fulh^ arranged and perfectly accessible form, the best 

 knowledge of the best specialists in America upon 

 gardening, fruit-growing, vegetable culture, forestry, 

 and the like, as well as exact botanical information. 

 . . . The contributors are eminent cultivators or 

 specialists, and the arrangement 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 miich of the controversy concerning 

 revision of names of organisms, whether of plants or animals. Those in- 

 vestigators 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 edit- 

 ing, the Cyclopedia appears to be emphatically useful ; . . . a work worthy 

 of ranking by the side of the Century Dictionary."— TAe Nation. 



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