Edited by PROFESSOE L. H. F.AII.KV. 



many new and original illustrations have been added. The book 

 comprises full practical directions for seed-sowing, the making of 

 all kinds of layers, stools, cuttings, propagation by bulbs and 

 tubers, and very complete accounts of all the leading kinds of 

 budding, grafting and inarching. Aside from this, The Nursery 

 List is an alphabetical catalogue of about 1,500 plants, of fruit, 

 kitchen-garden, ornamental and greenhouse species, with direc- 

 tions for their multiplication. The book is the most complete 

 treatise of its kind in the language, and is the standard reference 

 book of nurserymen. 



"This book should be in the home of not only every horticulturist, but of 

 every family, irrespective of occupation, who love flowers or ornamental plants, 

 for it treats of the propagation of these as well as of food-plants." Michig an 

 Fruit-Grower. 



THE HORTICULTURIST'S RULE -BOOK: 



A compendium of useful information fop fruit-grow- 

 ers, truck-gardeners, florists, and others. Fourth edition. 

 312 pages. 75 ets. 



This is the standard work of reference for horticulturists, and is 

 now so well known that a detailed description is no longer neces- 

 sary. The fact that the index contains 2,000 entries shows the 

 great range of its contents. It is heaping full of information up- 

 on such matters as recipes for insecticides and fungicides, descrip- 

 tions (with remedies) of insects and diseases, weeds, lawns, graft- 

 ing-waxes, seed and planting-tables, tables of yields, rules for 

 greenhouse heating and management, with figures, methods of 

 storing produce, tariff and postal rates, rules of societies for nam- 

 ing and exhibiting specimens, score-cards and scales of points, 

 analyses of fertilizing substances, lists of current horticultural 

 books and journals, with prices and publishers, etc. 



THE FORCING-BOOK: A Manual of the Cultiva- 

 tion of Vegetables in Glass 



Houses. 266 pages, 88 illustrations. $1.00 



A handbook of instructions upon the forcing of vegetables for 

 market, which is the completest work of the kind yet published in 

 this country. It is based on careful experimentation at the Cor- 

 nell University Station, and a long familiarity with the forcing 

 business. It contains full estimates of the cost of heating forcing- 

 houses and of the labor necessary to run them, with illustrated 

 chapters on the construction of forcing-houses, and their manage- 

 ment. Very complete directions are given for the watering, venti- 

 lating, shading, and piping of houses ; for the control of insects 

 and fungous diseases, the making of forcing-house soils, etc. 

 Tlien follow detailed instructions as to how to force lettuce, cauli- 



