The Horticulturist's Rule-Book. 



A COMPENDIUM OF USEFUL INFORMATION FOR FRUIT-GROWERS 

 TRUCK-GARDENERS, FLORISTS, AND OTHERS. 



By L. H, BAILEY* 



Professor of Horticulture in the Cornell University. 

 Fourth Edition, with Maay Additions. 



I2mo. 312 pages. Limp Cloth, 75 Cents. 



This volume is the only attempt ever made in this country to codify and con 

 dense all the scattered rules, practices, recipes, figures, and histories relating to 

 horticultural practice, in its broadest sense. It is much condensed, so that its 

 three hundred pages comprise several thousand facts, the greater part of which 

 the busy man would never possess if he were obliged to search them out in the 

 voluminous literature of recent years. All the approved methods of fighting 

 insects and plant diseases used and discovered by all the experiment sta- 

 tions are set forth in shape for instant reference. This feature alone is 

 worth the making of the book. 



Amongst the additions to the volume, in the present edition, are the follow- 

 ing: A chapter upon " Greenhouse and Window-garden Work and Estimates," 

 comprising full estimates and tables of heating glass-houses, list of plants for 

 forcing, for cut flowers, for window-gardens, aquaria, and the like, with tem- 

 peratures at which many plants are grown, directions for making potting-earth 

 and of caring for plants, etc. ; a chapter on " Literature," giving classified lists 

 of the leading current writings on American horticulture, with publisher's 

 addresses and prices, and a list of periodicals, and directories of officers of 

 whom the bulletins of the various experiment stations may be obtained ; lists 

 of self-fertile and self-sterile fruits; a full account of the method of predicting 

 frosts and of averting their injuries ; a discussion of the aims and methods of 

 phenology, or the record of climate in the blooming and leafing of trees ; the 

 rules of nomenclature adopted by botanists and by various horticultural socie- 

 ties ; score-cards and scales of points for judging various fruits, vegetables, and 

 flowers; a full statement of the metric system, and tables of foreign money. 



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