J. E. TILTOX & CO/S PUBLICATIONS. 



Garden Flowers, and How to Cultivate Them. 



BY EDWAED S. RAND, JR., 



AUTHOR OF " FLO-VVEKS FOR THE PARLOR AND GARDEN." 



" J. E. Tilton & Co. have added two more books to the very valuable 

 books on Gardening already published by them. One of these is ' Garden 

 Flowers, and How to Cultivate Them.' The author is Mr. E. S. Rand, jun. ; 

 and the book is a treatise on the culture of hardy, ornamental trees, shrubs, 

 annuals, herbaceous and bedding plants. The book is elegantly printed 

 and bound, and has many delicate illustrations. It is in the form of an 

 alphabetical index, which gives the name of the plant, its varieties, a de- 

 scription of each, and such information as may further the desig^n of the 

 author in imparting accurate knowledge of a subject interesting- to every 

 one who has a garden or a lawn, or who cultivates flowers, shrubbery, or 

 trees. The book supplies a want long felt, and which other treatises have 

 only partially met. It explains the conditions under which plants live 

 and thrive ; and, in short, gives to every reader the abundant knowledge 

 possessed by the writer. Mr. Rand is already known to the public by his 

 work on ' Parlor Gardening.' A third volume from his pen, describing 

 * Greenhouse Plants,' is now in press. The three volumes are essential 

 both to the florist and amateur." — Com. Adv. 



" This is a work, which, much as it was needed, has never before been 

 placed before the public. It is a full, comprehensive book of garden flow- 

 ers, for the use of all who cultivate them, conveying the very sort of knowl- 

 edge that amateurs will seek, — the preparation of soil, the application of 



