SCIENCE.— AD VERTI8EMENTS. 



TpHE C VCLQPEDIA OF A MERICAN H ORTICULTURE 



COMPRISING DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTIVATION OF HORTICULTURAL 

 CROPS, AND ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE SPECIES OF 

 FRUITS, VEGETABLES, FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS KNOWN 

 TO BE IN THE MARKET IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 



By L. H. BAILEY 



Assisted by Many Expert Cultivators and Botanists 



FOUR 4tO VOLS. ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER TWO THOUSAND ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS. 



Volume I., $5.00, ready shortly. Sold only hy subscnption for sets. 



SCOPE OF THE WORK 



The Editor, Professor L. H. Bailey, whose work at Cornell University and as author 

 and authority upon horticultural subjects has made him world-famous, has been gathering 

 material for this Cyclopedia for many years. He has enlisted the cooperation of men of 

 attainments, either in science or practice, everywhere, and the Cyclopedia has the unique 

 distinction of jjresenting for the first time, in a carefully arranged and perfectly accessible 

 form, the best knowledge of the best specialists in America upon gardening, fruit-growing, 

 vegetable culture, forestry and the like, as well as exact botanical information. It is all 

 fresh, and not a rehash of old material. No precedent has been followed ; the work is 

 upon its own original plan. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Its pictorial character is likewise notable. There are over two thousand illustrations, 

 all made expressly for this work, either from accurate photographs or from the specimens. 

 These illustrations have been drawn by competent horticultural artists, in nearly every case 

 under the eye of the Editor, or with the supervision of some one of the sub-editors. 



CONTRIBUTORS 



As above mentioned, the contributors are men eminent as cultivators or as specialists 

 on the various subjects. The more important articles are signed, and it is expected that 

 the complete work will include fully 5,000 signed contributions by horticulturists, cultivators 

 and botanists. The arrangement is alphabetical as to the genera, but systematic in the 

 species. A very simple but complete plan of key-letters is used, and the whole arrange- 

 ment is toward ease of reference as well as completeness of information. To each large 

 genus there is a separate alphabetic index. 



The whole will be complete in 1900 — Send for a descriptive Circular. 



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