188 Principles of Plant Culture. 



If we have mastered the foregoing chapters, we are 

 now prepared to enter upon a more advanced stage of 

 culture, and to learn how to cause new plants to grow, 

 and how to treat the plants thus grown that they may 

 best serve our purpose. 



The following books are recommended for reading 

 in connection with the preceding chapter: Elementary 

 Meteorology, Waldo; Chemistry of the Farm, Waring- 

 ton; The Spraying of Plants, Lodeman; Economic En- 

 tomology, Smith; Fungous Diseases of the Grape and 

 Other Plants, Lamson-Scribner ; American Weeds and 

 Useful Plants, Darlington. 



