(Sarrim-Crafi Series. 



Edited by PROFESSOR L. H. BAILEY. 



CMPRISING practical Land -books explaining the 

 methods practiced by the horticulturist. They 

 are tastily bound in green flexible cloth. Four 

 volumes are now ready, all written by PROFESSOR 

 BAILEY, of Cornell University. 



PLANT-BREEDING: Bein * Five Leetupes u P n 



the Amelioration of Domes- 

 tie Plants. 293 pages, 20 illustrations. $1.00 

 This is the only book devoted to this subject. It comprises five 

 chapters or lectures : The Fact and Philosophy of Variation ; 

 the Philosophy of the Crossing of Plants ; How Domestic Varieties 

 Originate ; Borrowed Opinions, being translations from the writ- 

 ings of Verlot, Carriere, and Focke ; Pollination, or How to Cross 

 Plants. Chapter III. contains the list of fifteen rules for plant- 

 breeding which De Varigny, the eminent French writer, has called 

 "the quindecalogue of the horticulturist," and of which he says, 

 "Solomon if he had devoted himself to horticulture could not 

 have judged more soundly than Mr. Bailey." It is the purpose of 

 the book to tell how varieties of cultivated plants come about, and 

 how man may originate them. 



"I have read the work on 'Plant-Breeding,' by Professor L. H. Bailey, with 

 keen interest, and find it just what I expected from such a source : viz., a 

 most satisfactory treatise on a subject of most pressing horticultural impor- 

 tance. Professor Bailey combines a breadth of view with knowledge of detail, 

 and produces written work most delightful to the scholar, and at the same 

 time fit to command the respect and correct the practice of the craftsman. I 

 honor Professor Bailey as a leader in the elevation and advancement of horti- 

 culture, for which the last quarter of the nineteenth century will be notable in 

 the history of husbandry. I shall earnestly commend the work to my horti- 

 cultural classes." E. J. WICKSON, 



Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Berkeley, Cal. 



THE NURSERY-BOOK : A Complete Guide to the 

 Multiplication of Plants. 



Third edition, thoroughly revised and extended. 365 pages, 152 

 illustrations. $ 1 .00 



This manual, which has been one of the most popular of recent 

 horticultural books, was first published in 1891. In this third edi- 

 tion, all the features of the first two editions have been preserved, 

 and the work has been extended to include many new subjects, 

 such as seed-testing, mutual influence of stock and cion, the ques- 

 tion of the devitalizing effects of graftage, the management and 

 fertilizing of nursery lands, the grading of trees, storing of trees, 

 trimming trees in the nursery, the healing of wounds, dwarfing 

 trees, root-grafted vs. budded trees, and a full glossary. Very 



