The Horticulturists Rule- Book. 



learned. The list has been prepared at immense labor and with great care. 

 It is expected that similar, lists for fruits and ornamentals will be added in 

 other years. 



The present volume is in many directions fragmentary, and incomplete 

 in design. It is prepared undet the pressure of many new enterprises, and 

 it has the faults inherent in new ventures. It is particularly desired that 

 future volumes shall be broader in iheir scope, and that European horticul- 

 ture, particularly in all its relations to our own, shall receive greater atten- 

 tion. It is the purpose to present in each volume a few fresh and attractive 

 accounts of the horticultural interests of other countries, in extension of the 

 plan already inaugurated in our last chapter. 



The author is aware that the accumulations of the year can never be 

 complete unless the horticulturists of the country cooperate in making 

 them, and he will be grateful for any facts which are worthy of record. 



L. H. BAILEY. 

 December 31, 1889. GARDEN HOME, Ithaca, N. Y. 



CONTENTS. 



NEARLY COMPLETE. 



T. GENERAL ANNALS : Review of Yields and Prices of 1889. Horticul- 

 tural Work of the Experiment Stations. Horticultural Work of the 

 Department of Agriculture. Economic Entomology. Arsenites for the 

 Curculio Combating Insects \\iih their Parasites. Vegetable Pathol- 

 ogy Laws foi Checking Insect Ravages and Plant Diseases. Oriental 

 Fruits. The New Plants ct" the Southern States. Fruits for the Cold 

 Prairie States. Fruits for the Cold North, and Protection of some Ten- 

 der Fruits-. Notes on Fruits in California. Recent Tendencies in Or- 

 namental Gardening, and in Ornamentals. Chrysanthemums. Orchids. 

 The National Flower Discussion. Laws to Regulate Weights and 

 Measures. Societies. 



II. RECENT HORTICULTURAL LITERATURE : Reviews of Books on 

 Horticulture for 1889. Review and Abstracts of all Bulletins of Horti- 

 cultural Interest which have Appeared from the Congressional Experi- 

 ment Stations. Lists of the Horticultural Periodicals of the World. 



Ill TOOLS AND CONVENIENCES OF THE YEAR. 



IV. ANNALS OF PLANTS: Complete Lists of all the Fruits, Vegeta- 

 bles and Ornamental Plants Introduced in 1889. A Complete List of all 

 the Varieties of Vegetables now Cultivated in North America, with Re- 

 vision of the Names by the Horticultural Committee on Nomenclature. 

 Plane Portraits in all Periodicals of the Year. 



V. DIRECTORIES: Officers of all the National, State, Provincial and 

 other Important Horticultural Organizations of North America. Hor- 

 ticulturists of the Experiment Stations. Botanic Gardens of the World. 



VI. OBITUARIES AND BIOGRAPHIES FOR THE YEAR. 



VII. HORTICULTURE IN OTHER LANDS. 



Price, in Cloth, about 250 Pages, Illustrated, $1.00. 



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