CYCLOPEDIA Of 

 AMERICAN HORTICULTURE 



COMPRISING DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTIVATION OF HORTICULTURAL 

 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 



By L. H. bailey 



ASSISTED BY MANY EXPERT CULTIVATORS AND BOTANISTS 



In Four Quarto Volumes, 

 Illustrated with over Two Thousand Original Engravings 



THIS monumental work, the most comprehensive 

 review of the vegetable world j^et made by an 

 American, is now in the press. Though distinctly 

 an American work, not only plants indigenous to 

 the North American continent are mentioned, but 

 also all the species known to be in the horticul- 

 tural trade in North America, of whatever origin. 

 It is really a survey of the cultivated plants of the 

 world. 



The Editor, Professor L. H, Bailey, has been 

 gathering material for this Cyclopedia for many 

 years. He has enlisted the cooperation of many 

 men of attainments, either in science or practice, 

 and the Cyclopedia has the unique distinction of 

 pi-esenting 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 culture, forestry, and the 



