LIORTICULTURIST'S RULE-BOOK.— By Professor L. H. Bailey. 

 Editor of American Gardening, Horticulturist of the Cornell Ex- 

 periment Station, and Professor of Horticulture in Cornell University- It 

 contains in handy and concise form, a great number of Rules and Recipes 

 required by gardeners, (ruit-growers, truckers, florists, farmers, etc. 



Synopsis of Contents : Injurious insects, with preventives and reme- 

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 remedies. Injuries from mice, rabbits, birds, etc., with preventives and 

 remedies. Waxes and washes for grafting and for wounds. Cements, 

 paints, etc. Seed Tables: Quantities required for sowing given areas. 

 Weight and size of seeds. Longevity of seeds. Time required for seeds 

 to germinate. Planting Tables : Dates for sowing seeds in diflFerent lati- 

 tudes. Tender and hardy vegetables. Distances apart for planting. Ma- 

 turity and Yields : Time required for maturity of vegetables ; for bearing of 

 fruit plants. Average yields of crops. Keeping and storing fruits and vege- 

 tables. Propagation of Plants: Ways of grafting and budding. Meth- 

 ods by which fruits are propagated. Stocks used for fruits. Standaid 

 Measures and Sizes: Standard flower-pots. Standard and legal meas- 

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 water held in pipes and tanks. Effect of wind in cooling ofi glass roofs. 

 Per cent, of light reflected from glass at various angles of inclination. 

 Weights of various varieties of apples per bushel. Amount of various pro- 

 ducts yielded by given quantities of fruit. Labels. Loudon's rules of 

 horticulture. Rules of nomenclature. Rules for exhibition. Weather signs 

 and protection from frost. Collecting and Preserving: How to make 

 an herbarium. Preserving and printing of flowers and other parts of 

 plants. Keeping cut-flowers. How to collect and preserve insects. Chem- 

 ical composition of fruits and vegetables, and seeds fertilizers, soils and 

 vegetables. Names and Histoyies: Vegetables which have different names 

 in England and America. Derivation of names of various fruits and vege- 

 tables. Names of fruits and vegetables in various languages. Glossary. 

 Calendar. 



Price, cloth, $i ; paper, 60 cents. 



pROSS-BREEDING AND HYBRIDIZING:— The Philosophy of the 

 Crossing of Plants considered with reference to their Cultivation- 

 How to Improve plants by Hybridizing.— By L. H. Batlev. It is the only 

 book accessible to American horticulture which gives the reasons, discour- 

 agements, possibilities and limitations of Cross- Breeding. Every man 

 who owns a plant should have it, if for no other reason than to post him- 

 self upon one of the leading practices of the day. The pamphlet contains 

 also a bibliography of the subject, including over 400 entries. 

 Price, paper, 40 cents. 



pHEMICALSAND CLOVER.— By H. W. Collingwood, Managing Ed- 

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 the all-important topic of commercial fertilizers in connection with green 

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 Price, paper, 30 cents. 



