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MCLAURIN, JOHN. The Model Potato: an exposition of the proper 

 cultivation of the potato; the cause of its diseases, or "rot- 

 ting;" the remedy therefore; its renewal, preservation, produc- 

 tiveness, and cooking. Edited, with annotations, by R. T. 

 Traill. Frontispiece. New York. 1872. S. R. Wells. 102 pp. 

 7 in. 



M'MAHON, BERNARD. The American Gardener's Calendar. 

 Adapted to the climates and seasons of the United States; con- 

 taining a complete account of all the work necessary to be done 

 in the kitchen-garden, fruit-garden, orchard, vineyard, nursery, 

 pleasure-grounds, flower-garden, greenhouse, hothouse, and 

 forcing-frames, for every month in the year; with ample practi- 

 cal directions for performing the same; also, general as well as 

 minute instructions for laying out, or erecting, each and every 

 of the above departments, according to modern taste and the 

 most approved plans; the ornamental planting of pleasure- 

 grounds, in the ancient and modern style; the cultivation of 

 thorn-quicks and other plants suitable for live hedges, with the 

 best methods of making them, etc. To which are annexed 

 extensive catalogues of the different kinds of plants which may 

 be cultivated either for use or ornament in the several depart- 

 ments, or in rural economy; divided into eighteen separate 

 alphabetical classes, according to their habits, duration, and 

 modes of culture; with explanatory introductions, marginal 

 marks, and their true Linnaean or botanical, as well as English 

 names; together with a copious index to the body of the work. 

 Philadelphia. 1806. [c. 30th year of the independence of the 

 United States.] B. Graves, v + 666 pp. 8^x5}i 

 - . The American Gardener's Calendar. Adapted to the 

 climates and seasons of the United States; containing a com- 

 plete account of all the work necessary to be done in the kitchen- 

 garden, fruit-garden, orchard, vineyard, nursery, pleasure- 

 grounds, flower-garden, greenhouse, hothouse, and forcing- 

 frames, for every month in the year; with ample practical 

 directions for performing the same; also, general as well as 

 minute instructions for laying out, or erecting, each and every 

 of the above departments, according to modern taste and the 

 most approved plans; the ornamental planting of pleasure- 

 grounds, in the ancient and modern style; the cultivation of 

 thorn-quicks and other plants suitable for live hedges, with 

 the best methods of making them, etc. To which are annexed 

 catalogues of kitchen-garden plants and herbs; aromatic, pot 

 and sweet herbs; medicinal plants; and the most important 

 grasses, etc., used in rural economy, with the soil best adapted 

 to their cultivation; together with a copious index to the body 

 of the work. 4th ed., improved. Philadelphia. 1820. [c. 1819.] 

 T. P. M'Mahon. 618 pp. 8J^ x 5^. 

 -- . The same. 9th ed. 1839. [c. 1839.] 



. - . The American Gardener's Calendar. Adapted to the 

 climates and seasons of the United States; containing a com- 

 plete account of all the work necessary to be done in the kitchen- 

 garden, fruit-garden, flower-garden, orchard, pleasure-grounds, 

 vineyard, nursery, greenhouse, hothouse, and forcing-frames, 

 for every month in the year; with practical directions and 

 copious index, llth ed., with a memoir of the author, revised 

 and illustrated under the supervision of J. Jay Smith. Philadel- 

 phia. 1857. [c. 1857.] J. B. Lippincott & Co. ix + 637 pp. 

 9>x6. 

 MCMILLAN, WILLIAM. See Powell, Edwin C. Street and Shade 



Trees. 



McMiNN, J. M. See Saunders, Wm. 



McMuLLEN, THOMAS. Hand-Book of Wines, practical, theoretical, 

 and historical; with a description of foreign spirits and liqueurs. 

 New York. 1852. [c. 1852.] D. Appleton & Co. xii + 327 pp. 

 9x6. 



McMuRTRiE, WM. Report upon Statistics of Grape Culture and 



Wine Production in the United States for 1880. Washington. 



1881. Government Printing Office. Paper. 104 pp. (Special 



Report No. 36, United States Department of Agriculture.) 



MCNEIL, J. W. Fruits and Vegetables. Hazlehurst, Miss. 1888. 



[n. c.] Copiah Signal print. 21 pp. 9 x 5 %. 



MAETERLINCK, MAURICE. Old-Fashioned Flowers, and other out- 

 of-door studies. With illustrations by Charles B. Falls. New 

 York. 1905. Dodd, Mead & Co. 105 pp. 7 % in. 

 MAIN, THOMAS. Directions for the Transplantation and Manage- 

 ment of Young Thorn or Other Hedge Plants, Preparative to 

 their Being Set in Hedges. With some practical observations 

 on the method of plain hedging. Washington. 1807. A. & G. 

 Way, Printers. 38 pp. 7 % in. 



MANNING, ROBERT. Book of Fruits; being a descriptive catalogue 

 of the most valuable varieties of the pear, apple, peach, plum, 

 and cherry, for New England culture; to which is added the 

 gooseberry, currant, raspberry, strawberry, and the grape, with 

 modes of culture; also, hardy ornamental trees and shrubs. 

 With plates. First series for 1838. Salem. 1838. [c. 1838.] 

 Published by Ives & Jewett. 120 pp. 7 Vi x 4 %. 



-- . The New England Fruit Book; being a descriptive cata- 

 logue of the most valuable varieties of the pear, apple, peach, 

 plum and cherry, for New England culture; to which are added 

 other varieties; also, the grape, quince, gooseberry, currant, and 

 strawberry; with outjines of many of the finest pears, drawn 

 from nature; with directions for pruning, grafting, budding, 

 and general modes of culture. 2d ed., enlarged by John M. 

 Ives. 1844. [c. 1844.] Salem: W. & S. B. Ives. Boston. B. B. 

 Mussey. 133 pp. 7 MX 4%. 



. The New England Book of Fruits, being the 3d ed., revised 



MANNING, WARREN H. Directions for Surveying and Arranging 

 Home and School Grounds. Boston, Mass. 1900. [c. 1900.] 

 Published by the author. 12 pp. 7 l /i x 5. 



. A Hand Book for Planning and Planting Small Home 



Grounds; with a list of native and commonly cultivated plants 

 that are represented in the collection upon the Stout Manual 

 Training School grounds. Menominee, Wis. 1899. [c. 1899.] 

 Stout Manual Training School. 76 pp. 7 % x 5 J^. 



. The same. Issued by Talbot Mills, North Billerica, Mass. 



1907. 74pp. 



MANVILLE, A. H. Practical Orange Culture; including the culture 

 of the orange, lemon, lime, and other citrus fruits, as grown in 

 Florida. Jacksonville. 1883. [n. c.] Ashmead Bros. 122 pp. 

 7M.x5. 



MARSHALL, CHARLES. An Introduction to the Knowledge and 

 Practice of Gardening. 1st American from the 2d London 

 edition, considerably enlarged and improved. To which is 

 added an essay on quick-lime, by James Anderson. Vol. I. 

 Boston. 1799. [n. c.] Samuel Etheridge. ii + 276 pp. 7x4 K- 

 MARVIN, ARTHUR TAPPAN. The Olive: Its culture in theory and 

 practice. San Francisco. Payot, Upham & Co. 1888. [c. 1888. ] 

 146pp. 10 MX 7. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, History of the, 1829- 

 1878. Portrait of H. A. S. Dearborn. Boston. 1880. [c. 1880.] 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 545 pp. 9 }/i x 6. 

 MATCHETTE, W. H. Potatoes; how to grow more and better 

 potatoes, a guide for the business farmer. Illus. Waterloo, 

 la. [c. 1913.] The Galloway Bros.-Bowman Company. 47 

 pp. 9^in. 



MATHEWS, F. SCHUYLER. The Beautiful Flower Garden: Its 

 treatment, with special regard for the picturesque; with notes 

 on practical floriculture by A. H. Fewkes. Illus. Philadelphia. 

 1894. [c. 1894.] W. Atlee Burpee & Co. xi + 191 pp. 7 Vi x 5. 



. The Golden Flower Chrysanthemum. Verses by Edith 



M. Thomas, Richard Henry Stoddard, Alice Ward Bailey, 

 Celia Thaxter, Kate Upson Clark, Louis Carroll, Margaret 

 Deland, Robert Browning, Oliver Wendell Holmes, collected, 

 arranged and embellished with original designs. Illustrated, 

 with reproductions of studies from nature in water color by 

 James Sidney Callowhill, Aloiz Lunzer, and T. S. M. Borton. 

 n. d. [c. 1890.] L. Prang & Co. Pages unnumbered. 12 x 10. 

 MAYNARD, SAMUEL T. Landscape Gardening as Applied to Home 

 Decoration. 1st ed. 1st thousand. Illus. 1899. [c. 1899.] 

 New York: John Wiley & Sons. London: Chapman & Hall, 

 xvi +338 pp. 7^x5}^. 



. The Practical Fruit Gardener. Illus. Springfield, Mass. 



1894. [c. 1885.] The Phelps Publishing Company. 124 pp. 

 7}ix5. 



. The Practical Fruit Grower. Illus. Springfield, Mass. 



1886. The Phelps Publishing Company. 108 pp. 7\i in. 

 (American Agriculture. No. 1.) 



. The same. Profusely illustrated. 1898. [c. 1885.] 128 pp. 



7Y 2 x5. 

 . The same. New York. 1909. [c. 1885.] Orange Judd Com- 



. The Small Country Place. Illus. Philadelphia. 1908. 



J. B. Lippincott Company. 320 pp. 8 ^ in. 



-. Successful Fruit Culture. A practical guide to the culti- 



vation and propagation of fruits. Illus. New York. 1905. 



[c. 1905.] Orange Judd Company, xi + 274 pp. 7 Yz x 5. 

 ME\D, PETER B. An Elementary Treatise on American Grape 



Culture and Wine Making. Illus. New York. 1867. [c. 1867.] 



Harper & Brothers. 483 pp. 9H in. 

 MEECH, W. W. Quince Culture. An illustrated hand-book for the 



propagation and cultivation of the quince; with descriptions of 



its varieties, insect enemies, diseases and their remedies. Illus. 



New York. 1888. [c. 1888.] The American Garden. 143 pp. 



and enlarged. By John M. Ives. 1847. viii + 144 pp. 



. The same. 1888. Orange Judd Company. 



. The same. Revised and enlarged edition. 1896. [c. 1896.] 



Orange Judd Company, viii + 180 pp. 7 }/% x 5. 



MEEHAN, THOMAS. The American Handbook of Ornamental Trees. 

 Philadelphia. 1853. [c. 1853.] Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 

 xv +257 pp. 6^x4. 



MEIER, W. H. D. School and Home Grounds. Illus. Boston, 

 New York. [c. 1913.] Ginn. & Co. 319 pp. 8 in. 



MELL, P. H. See White, W. N. Gardening for the South. 



MENAND, L. Autobiography, and recollections of incidents con- 

 nected with horticultural affairs, etc., from 1807 up to this day, 

 1892; with portrait and allegorical figures; with an appendix 

 of retrospective incidents omitted or forgotten in the above, 

 miscellaneous, etc. Albany, N. Y. 1892. [c. 1892.] Weed, 

 Parsons & Company, xii + 200 pp. 7 1 A x 4 %. 



. The same. 2d ed. Cohoes, N. Y. 1898. [c. 1898.] L'Ind6- 



pendant Printing Office, xviii + 350 pp. 7 Yi x 5. 

 . The same. From 1807 up to this day 1898. 



. Miscellaneous documents on divers subjects as a sequel 



to my Biography, etc. From 1807 to 1896. 146 pp. 



MERCHANT, L. J. Fruit Garden of the West. Catalogue of fruit 

 growers and shippers in the great fruit region of Michigan. St. 

 Joseph, Mich. 1873. L. J. Merchant. 60pp. 7% in. (Adver- 

 tising matter interspersed ) 



