STANDARD BOOKS. 



Pear Culture for Profit. 



By P. T. Quinn, practical horticulturist. Teaching how 

 to raise pears intelligently, and with the best results, 

 how to find out the character of the soil, the best meth- 

 ods of preparing it, the best varieties to select under 

 existing conditions, the best modes of planting, pruning, 

 fertilizing, grafting, and utilizing the ground before the 

 trees come into bearing,, and, finally, of gathering and 

 packing for market. Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo. . $1.00 



The Secrets of Health, or How Not to Be Sick, and 

 How to Get Well from Sickness. 



By S. H. Platt, A. M., M. D., late member of the Con- 

 necticut Eclectic Medical Society, the National Eclectic 

 Medical Association, and honorary member of the Nation- 

 al Bacteriological Society of America; our medical editor 

 and author of "Talks With Our Doctor" and "Our Health 

 Adviser " Nearly 600 pages. Profusely illustrated. An 

 index of 20 pages, so that any topic may be instantly 

 consulted. A new departure in medical knowledge for 

 the people the latest progress, secrets and practices of 

 all schools of healing made available for the common 

 people health without medicine, nature without humbug, 

 common sense without folly, science without fraud. 12mo. 

 576 pp., 81 illustrations. Cloth $1.50 



Gardening for Young: and Old. 



By Joseph Harris. A work intended to interest farmers' 

 boys in farm gardening, which means a better and more 

 profitable form of agriculture. The teachings are given 

 in the familiar manner so well known in the author's 

 "Walks and Talks on the Farm." Illustrated. Cloth, 

 12mo . . ... . $1.00 



Money in the Garden. 



By P. T. Quinn. The author gives in a plain, practical 

 style, instructions on three distinct although closely con- 

 nected branches of gardening the kitchen garden, mar- 

 ket garden and field culture, from successful practical 

 experience for a term of years. Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo. 

 $1.00 



The Pruning Book. 



By L. H. Bailey. This is the first American work exclu- 

 sively devoted to pruning. It differs from most other 

 treatises on this subject in that the author takes particu- 

 lar pains to explain the principles of each operation in 

 every detail. Specific advice is given on the pruning of 

 the various kinds of fruits and ornamental trees, shrubs 

 and hedges. Considerable space is devoted to the pruning 

 and training of grapevines, both American and foreign. 

 Every part of the subject is made so clear and plain that 

 it can be reaclily understood by even the merest beginner. 

 Cloth, 8vo, 530 pages. Illustrated $1.50 



