Books Gardening, 
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PETER HENDERSON. 
For those who have not yet seen our works on Gardening, we give below a brief statement of their 
scope and contents : 
“GARDENING FOR PROFIT.” 
To such as are intending to begin the business of Market Gardening, we offer for their instruction 
our work “Gardening for Profit,” published first in 1866, and new edition in 1873. ‘‘ Gardening for 
Profit” has had a larger sale probably than any work ever published on the subject of Horticulture. 
Upwards of fifty thousand copies have been sold, and we have hundreds of grateful testimonials from 
those who have been benefited by its teachings. The subjects of its contents are: 
The Men fitted for the Business; Amount of Capital Required and Greenhouses; Seeds and Seed Raising; How, When, 
and Working Force per Acre; Profits of MarketGardening; | and Where toSow Seeds; Transplanting; Packing of Vege- 
The Market Gardens near London; Location, Situation, and tables for Shipping , Preservation of Vegetables in Win- 
Laying Out; Soils, Drainage, and Preparation; Manures; | ter; Insects; Vegetables—-their Variety and Cultivation, 
Implements; The Uses and Management of Cold Frames; Monthly Calendar of Operations. " 
The Formation and Management of Hotbeds; Forcing Pits | 
Our second work, written in 1868, second edition in 1873, and the third edition December, 1878 
is entitled : 
“PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE.” 
and it, like its contemporary, was written to teach how flowers and plants can be best ‘“‘ grown for 
profit.” The success of this has been even more marked than the first, when we consider that it only 
refers to a business exclusively a luxury. Upwards of twenty-five thousand copies of this work have, 
been sold, and it has been the means of establishing thousands of persons in an agreeable, and in a 
majority of cases, profitable business. Its contents embrace : 
Aspect and Soil; Laying out -the Lawn and Flower Garden; of Bouquets, Baskets, etc.; Wire Designs for Cut Flowers; 
Designs for Ornamental Grounds; Planting of Flower Beds; Hanging Baskets; Parlorand Window Gardening; Wardian 
Soils for Potting; Temperature and Moisture; The Potting Cases, Ferneries, etc.; Formation of Rockwork; Insects; 
of Plants; Cold Frames—Winter Protection; Construction Are Plants Injurious to Health? Nature’s Law of Colors; 
of Hotbeds; Greenhouse Structures; Greenhouses attached Packing Plants; Plants by Mail; The Profits of Floriculture; 
to Dwellings; Modes of Heating; Base Burning Water Heater; How to Become a Florist; Short Descriptions of Soft- 
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Propagation of Plants by Seéds; What Varieties come True Wooded or Bedding Plants of the Leading Kinds ; What 
from ; Propagation of Plants by Cuttings; How Plants Flowers will Grow in the Shade; Greenhouse and _ Stove or 
and Flowers are Grown; Propagation of Lilies; Culture of Hothouse Plants, Annuals, Hardy Herbaceous, Perennial 
the Rose; Culture of the Verbena; Culture of the Tuberose; and Biennal Plants; Ornamental Shrubs and Climbers: 
Orchid Culture; Holland Bulbs; Cape Bulbs, Varieties and Culture of Grams Virres under Glass" se ira us 
Culture; Culture of Winter-Flowering Plants; Construction for RagDay “i. in 
Our first two books fell into the hands of 1>ny wh~had no desire to make gardening a business, 
‘but who yet wished for information on the subject ..r their private use. To such it was found that a 
book detailing operations on a smaller scale, yet e/nbracing, as far as possible, all thé information on * 
the subject, was much wanted. Tosupply this want we, in 1875, wrote: 
“GARDENING FOR PLEASURE,” | 
and it is flattering to state that the demand for it, for the time it has been issued, has been greater 
than either of its predecessors. Its scope of subjects is naturally greater than either ‘‘ Gardening for 
Profit,” or ‘“‘ Practieal Floriculture,” as it embraces directions for the propagation and culture of fruit,’ 
flowers, and vegetables. Its contents include: : 
Soil and Location ; Drainage; Preparation of the Ground ; | houses attached to Dwellings: A Detached Greenhouse or 
Walks ; Manures; How to Use Concentrated Fertilizers; |- Grapery; Heating by Hot Water; Greenhouse Pits without 
Special Fertilizers for Particular Plants; The Lawn; Design Artificial Heat; Combined Cellar and Greenhouses; Hot-. 
for Garden; Planting of Lawns and Flower Beds; Fall or beds; Shrubs; Climbers and Trees ; Hardy Herbaceous 
Holland Bulbs; Propagating of Plants by Seeds; -Propaga- } Perennials; Annual Flowering Plauts; Flowers which will 
tion of Plants Beane ype ane by Layering; About Grow in the Shade; Insects; Mildew; Frozen Plants; 
Grafting and dding; How Grafting and Budding are Mulching; Are Plants in Rooms Injurious to Health; Shad- 
Done; Treatment of Tropical Bulbs, Seeds etc.; The Potting ing; The Laws of Color in Flowers; Pruning; Hardy 
of Plants; Winter-Flowering Plants; Unhealthy Plants—the Grapes; Cold Grapery; The Hothouse or Forcing Grapery; 
Remedy; Plants Suited for Summer Decoration; Hanging The Strawberry; The Cottage Garljening—A Digression; 
Baskets ; Window Gardening; Parlor Gardening, or the The Vegetable Garden; Garden Implements; Monthly 
Cultivation of Plantsin Rooms; Wardian Cases; Ferneries; Calendar of Operations. ‘ 
Jardinieres; Winter-Forcing the Lily of the Valley; Green- . 
‘All these works were written by Peter Henderson, the senior member of our firm, and are simply 
a relation of his extensive experiences of over a quarter of a century in all departments of Horticul- 
ture. They are written in the plainest language, so that the instructions can be at once understood, 
no matter how ignorant the reader may be on the subject. The price of ‘‘Gardening for Profit,” 
“Practical Floriculture.” and ‘‘Gardening for Pleasure,” is $1.50 each (prepaid by mail) ; but to all 
ordering seeds. plants, or other articles to the value of. $1 00 (in one order), from this Catalogue any 
one of them will be added gratis. For conditions of this offer, please see Introduction. 
PEPER“ HENDERSON. & CoO., 
Seedsmen, Market Gardeners, and Florists, 
35 & 37 CORTLANDT ST., NEW YORK, 
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