&ers. 



Edited by PKOFESSOR L. H. BAILEY. 



flower, radish, asparagus, rhubarb, pea, salad plants and mints, 



root-crops, pepino, cucumber, muskmelon, bean, pepper, egg-plant, 



and others. The final chapter is a collection of summaries of the 



leading points in the management of each crop, so arranged that 



the busy man can turn, to any one of them instantly. The book 



should be had by every person who has a greenhouse. 



"The discussion of the various forms of houses, with their structural de- 



tails is very complete, although concise, and for the space it takes it gives 



more valuable information than can be found elsewhere in the same compass. 



All such practical questions us would be treated under the head of soil, fertil- 



izers irrigation shading, pollination, etc., have received careful study, and the 



beginner can feel safe in following them to the letter." Garden and Forest. 



"It would have saved us dollars and dollars if we could have had it a few 

 years ago." C. J. PENNOCK, Kennett Square, Pa. 



* * * Other volumes are preparing for this series. One, The 

 Pruning -Book, will be ready soon. 



bg Trrrfessrrr ?JmT:eg, 



Not included in either of the foregoing series. 



THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNLIKE : A coiiec- 



- - tion of 

 Evolution Essays Suggested by the Study of Domestic 

 Plants. Second edition. $2.00 



This is an illustrated volume of 515 pages by Professor Bailey, 

 containing an immense amount of fact, experiment and philosophy 

 respecting the evolution of plants, and particularly of their modi- 

 fication under cultivation. It is the most thorough discussion of 

 the running-out of varieties, acclimatization, and the like. It is, 

 in fact, the only book which can be called a philosophy of horti- 

 culture. It comprises thirty essays, as follows: The Survival of 

 the Unlike; Neo-Lamarckism and Neo-Darwinism ; The Plant 

 Individual in the Light of Evolution, or The Philosophy of Bud- 

 Variation, and its Bearing upon Weismannism ; Experimental 

 Evolution amongst Plants ; Van Mons and Knight, and the Pro- 

 duction of Varieties ; Some Bearings of the Evolution-Teaching 

 upon Plant-Cultivation ; Why Have our Enemies Increased ? . 

 Coxey's Army and the Russian Thistle, or a Sketch of the Philos- 

 ophy of Weediness ; Recent Progress in American Horticulture; 

 On the Supposed Correlations of Quality in Fruits; The Natural 

 History of Synonyms; Reflective Impressions of the Nursery 

 Business ; The Relation of Seed-Bearing to Cultivation ; Variation 

 after Birth ; A Pomological Alliance ; Sketch of the Relationship 

 between American and Eastern Asian Fruits ; Horticultural Geo- 

 graphy ; Some Emphatic Problems of Climate and Plants, Com- 

 prising "Speculative Notes upon Phenology (the Physiological 

 Constant, and the Climatal Modification of Phenological Phenom- 



