10 KECOKD OF HORTICULTUKE. 



Gardening for Profit. A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of 

 Market and Family Garden. Illustrated. By Petek Hender- 

 son. New York : Orange Judd & Co. 243 pp. $1 50. 



Gardening for Profit is certainly a very attractive title 

 for a book. 



Profit is the name of a brilliant star which leads the 

 American into many unknown places, and to extremes 

 that would astonish the slow, plodding people of the Old 

 World. The author of this work is a well-known gardener 

 and florist Avho believes in doing things with all his 

 might. Moderation is not in his vocabulary, but to drive 

 business has become a matter of habit. " Gardening for 

 Profit" is just such a book as we might expect from a man 

 like the author. It is chiefly devoted to the cultivation 

 of vegetables, and shows plainly how to produce them in 

 quantities, and of the best quality. Farmers and gardeners 

 who have been used to that too common practice of skin- 

 ning the soil, will be surprised at the quantity of manure 

 whicli Mr. Henderson recommends per acre. But they 

 may rest assured that the gardeners in the vicinity of our 

 great cities can make money only in proportion to the quan- 

 tity of enriching materials which they apply to the soil. 



If the young men of our country who contemplate the 

 cultivation of the soil for a living will read this work, we 

 can assure them that they will be taught a lesson that will 

 be worth a hundred times the cost of this volume. 



Mr. Henderson shows the folly of undertaking the 

 cultivation of too much land, a mistake which nine tenths 

 of all the land-owners in the United States have made or 

 are now makins:. 



