THE GARDEN-CRAFT SERIES 



The Nursery-Book 



A Complete Guide to the Multiplication of Plants 



By L. H. BAILEY 



Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell University 

 FIFTH EDITION 365 PAGES 152 ILLUSTRATIONS $1.00 



THE detailed questions of propagation are answered in this admirable vol- 

 ume, which has become the standard work of reference for nurserymen. 

 It is now in its third edition,, and has been thoroughly revised and 

 greatly extended. It is intensely practical, and fully sets forth the processes 

 of budding, grafting, seed-sowing, etc., as well as many other important 

 items of nursery work. It is simply essential to the seedsman, nurseryman, 

 florist or grower of plants in any walk of life. As with all Professor Bailey's 

 works, there are unusually complete indexes and glossaries, rendering the 

 book most convenient in use. 



THE NURSEEY-BOOK includes Seedage (Requisites of Germination, Seed-Testing, 

 Handling and Sowing of Seeds); Separation and Division; Layerage; Cuttage (Gen- 

 eral Requirements of Cuttings, Various Kinds of Cuttings); Graftage (General Con- 

 siderations, Budding, Grafting, Inarching, Grafting Waxes) ; Nursery Management 

 (Nursery Lands, Grades of Trees, Storing and Trimming Trees, etc.); The Nursery 

 List (an alphabetical catalogue of about 1,500 plants, with directions for their 

 multiplication). 



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

 family, irrespective of occupation, who loves flowers or ornamental plants, for it treats 

 of the propagation of these as well as of food plants." Michigan Fruit- Grower. 



Plant-Breeding 



Being Five Lectures upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants 



By L. H. BAILEY 



Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell University 

 293 PAGES 20 ILLUSTRATIONS $1.00 



A WORK of unique interest, it being the only volume upon this subject. 

 When one considers the marvelous changes in our fruits, vegetables and 

 flowers within a generation, through the work of man in turning to his 

 purposes the impulses of nature, the great interest of this book may be indi- 

 cated. It tells how varieties of cultivated plants come about, and further, 

 how one may engage in the fascinating work of originating them. The grower 

 who gropes in the dark in his search for the ideal fruit or flower may here find 

 guidance and aid in the principles governing the work. 



PLANT -BREEDING comprises five chapters: The Fact and Philosophy of Variation; 

 The Philosophy of the Crossing of Plants ; How Domestic Varieties Originate ; Bor- 

 rowed Opinions, being translations from the writings of Verlot, Carriere, and Focke; 

 Pollination, or How to Cross Plants. Chapter III contains the list of fifteen rules for 

 plant -breeding, which De Varginy, the eminent French writer, has called "the quin- 

 decalogue of the horticulturist." 



