BOOKS ON GARDENING 



AGRONOMY : PRACTICAL GARDEN- 

 ING FOR HIGH SCHOOLS 



By WiLLARD N. Clute, Flower Technical High School for Girls, Chicago, 111. 

 8vo, cloth, xi + 296 pages, illustrated, $1.00 



This manual is designed both for the general reader who desires 

 a comprehensive rudimentary knowledge of the principles of garden- 

 ing and for the high-school student. The author discusses the origin 

 and composition of soils ; manures ; the effects of heat, light, and 

 moisture on the plant ; planting ; cultivating ; pruning ; propagating ; 

 lawn-making ; plant breeding ; evolution ; and the origin of domestic 

 races of plants. Each chapter takes up the fundamentals of the subject 

 in hand and is followed by directions for laboratory and field work. 

 The book is unique in meeting the needs especially of high schools 

 of towns and cities and of the amateur gardener. While it covers 

 the ground thoroughly and scientifically, it requires no previous 

 knowledge for its comprehension. 



SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENS 



By \\'. H. D. jMeier, State Normal School, Framingham, Mass. 

 8vo, cloth, 319 pages, illustrated, 80 cents 



This handy manual will be found especially valuable as a guide 

 for the home gardener and the teacher of school gardening. It 

 gives definite instruction in planning for, planting, and caring for 

 bulbs, shrubs, trees, flowering plants, and vegetables, whether grown 

 in the house in any form or in the yard or garden. The problems 

 met in cultivating each individual plant are considered one at a time 

 and definite directions given. 



GINN AND COMPANY Publishers 



