GARDENING FOR PROFIT: 



A GUIDE TO THE SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION OF THE 



MARKET AND FAMILY GARDEN. 



BY PETER HENDERSON. 



This work has had a constant and remarkable sale ever since it was issued, and 

 the later enlarged and revised edition is as well received as was the first. It was 

 the first work on Market Gardening ever published in this country. Its author is 

 well known as a market gardener of many years 1 successful experience. In this 

 work he has recorded this experience, and given without reservation, the methods 

 necessary to the profitable culture of the 



It is a work for which there was an urgent demand before its issue, and one 

 which commends itself, not only to those who grow vegetables for sale, but to the 

 cultivator of the 



to whom it presents methods quite different from the old ones generally practiced. 

 It i s an ORIGINAL AND PURELY AMERICAN work, and not made up as books on gar- 

 dening too often are, by quotations from foreign authors. 



Every thing is made perfectly plain, and the subject treated in all its details, 

 from the selection of the soil to preparing the products for market. 



CONTENTS. 



Men fitted for the Business of Gardening. 



The Amount of Capital Required, and 



"Working Force per Acre. 



Profits of Market Gardening. 



Location, Situation, and Laying Out. 



Soils, Drainage, and Preparation. 



Manures, Implements. 



"Uses and Management of Cold Frames. 



Formation and Management of Hot-beds. 



Forcing Pits or Greenhouses. 



Seeds and Seed Raising. 



How, "When, and "Where to Sow Seeds. 



Transplanting Insects. 



Packing of Vegetables for Shipping. 



Preservation of Vegetables in "Winter. 



Vegetables, their Varieties and Cultivation. 



In the last chapter, the most valuable kinds are described, and tho culture 

 proper to each is given in detail. 



Sent post-paid, price $I.5O. 

 ORANGE JTTDD COMPANY, 751 Broadway, New-York; 



