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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



Success in Market Gardening. Rawson. 

 11.10. 



Sweet Potato Culture. Fltz. 50 cents. 



Insects Injurious to Vegetables. Chit- 

 tenden. $1.50. 



Vegetable Gardening. Watts. $1.75. 



Periodicals: 



The Garden Magazine, Garden City, N. 

 Y., per year, $1.50. 



The Market Growers' Weekly .Tournal. 

 Louisville, Ky., per year, $1.00. 



The Vegetable Grower, Chicago, Illi- 

 nois, per year, 50 cents. 



Farmers' Bulletins, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture: 



Asparagus, No. 61. 



Beans, No. 289. 



Cabbage, No. 433. 



Celery, No. 282. 



Frames as Factor in Truck Growing, 

 No. 458. 



The Home Vegetable Garden, No. 255. 



Mushrooms, Culture of. No. 204. 



Onion Culture, No. 354. 



Sweet Potatoes, No. 324. 



Tomatoes, No. 220. 



Cucumbers, No. 254. 



Greenlionse ^fanagenient and Floricul- 

 ture 



Books: 



Commercial Violet Culture. Galloway. 

 $1..50. 



The Forcing Book. Bailey. $1.25. 



Greenhouse Construction. Taft. $1..';0. 



Greenhouse Management. Taft. $1.50. 



Practical Floriculture. Henderson. 

 $1.50. 



The American Carnation. Ward. $3.50. 



The Chrysanthemum. Herrington. 50 

 cents. 



The Rose. Ellwanger. $1.25. 



Periodicals: 



The Florists' Exchange, New York City, 

 per year, $1.00. 



The Florists' Review, Chicago, Illinois, 

 per year, $1.00. 



The American Florist, Chicago, Illinois, 

 per year, $1.00. 



Farmers' Bulletins, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture: 



Propagation of Plants, No. 157. 



Annual Flowering Plants, No. 195. 



Landscape Gardening 



Books: 



Landscape Gardening. Parsons. $3.50. 



Landscape Gardening. Waugh. 50 

 cents. 



Lawns and How to Make Them. Bar- 

 ron. $1.17. 



What England Can Teach Us About 

 Gardening. Miller. $4.32. 



Periodicals: 



Country Life in America, New York 

 City, per year, $4.00. 



Park and Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, 

 per year, $1.00. 



Farmers' Bulletins, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture: 



Beautifying Home Grounds, No. 185. 



Tree Planting in School Grounds, No. 

 134. 



PUGET SotTND, EARLY ORCHARDS OF. See 



Hi.itori/ of Orcharding in Old Oregon. 



Pumpkin 



The pumpkin is a well-known product 

 of American farms, generally grown in 

 corn-flelds In the same area as the corn. 

 Sometimes it is grown as a separate crop, 

 as food for stock, or occasionally in large 

 quantities for the markets. It is easily 

 grown and reasonably profitable. The 

 scientific name is Cucurbita pepo, a spe- 

 cies of the gourd family, and is largely 

 cultivated in Europe as well as in Amer- 

 ica. The pumpkin varies much in form, 

 color and size. We have seen the larger 

 kinds weighing 75 to 100 pounds; but the 

 smaller varieties are best for home use. 

 When ripe the pumpkin is boiled, baked, 

 or made into various kinds of pie, butter 

 or sauce. It is difficult to keep any par- 

 ticular variety of pumpkin from mixing 

 with other varieties, if they are grown 

 closely enough together for the bees to 

 carry the pollen from one to another. 

 When mature, if they are gathered in the 

 autumn before freezing and stored in a 

 cool place, they may be kept for winter 

 use. Certain varieties will keep until 

 late in the season. With the early pio- 

 neers of the United States it was an im- 

 portant article of food, because it was 

 healthful, nutritious, productive and 

 cheap; also because other fruits, such as 



