THE GARDEN-CRAFT SERIES. 



By L. H. BAILEY. 



T T NDER this title, MACMILLAN & Co. are issuing a series of 

 handbooks upon horticultural practices. The books ex- 

 pound the accepted methods of performing the various opera- 

 tions of the garden, orchard, and glass-house, in simple and 

 direct language. They are bound in flexible cloth, and are 

 designed to be carried in the pocket, and to be used by busy 

 men. Various subjects are now in preparation. The Horti- 

 culturist's Rule-Book and the following have been already 

 issued : 



PLANT-BREEDING. 



BY 



L. H. BAILEY, 



PROFESSOR OF HORTICULTURE IN THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY; EDITOR OF 

 " THE RURAL SCIENCE SERIES," ETC. 



i2mo. 293 pages. Cloth. Price $1.00. 



CONTENTS. 



LECTURE I. The Fact and Philosophy of Variation. 



" II. The Philosophy of the Crossing of Plants. 



" III. Specific Means by which Garden Varieties originate. 



" IV. Borrowed Opinions, of B. Verlot, E. A. Carriere, and W. O. 

 Focke, on Plant-Breeding. 



" V. Detailed Directions for the Crossing of Plants. 

 GLOSSARY. 



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 



66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. 



