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By PETER HENDERSON. 



For those who have not seen our works on Gardening, we give below a brief statement of their scope and 

 contents. 



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 Working Force per Acre: Profits of Market Gardening; 

 The Market Gardens near London; Location, Situation, and 

 Laying out; Soils. Drainage and Preparation; Manures; Im- 

 plements; The Uses and Management of Cold Frames; The 

 Formation and Management of Hotbeds; Forcing Pits and 



Greenhouses; Seeds and Seed Eaising; How, When and Where 

 to Sow Seeds; Transplanting; Packing of Vegetables for Ship- 

 ping; Preservation ofVegetables in Winter: Insects: Vegeta- 

 bles, their Variety and Cultivation; Monthly Calendar of 

 Operations. 



Our second work, written in '. 



, second edition in 1873, and the third edition December, 1878, is entitled: 



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and it, like its contemporary, was written to teac'a 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 : De- 

 signs for Ornamental Grounds: Planting of Flower Beds; Soils 

 for Potting; Temperature and Moisture; The Potting of 

 Plants; Cold Frames — Winter Prote3tion; Construction of 

 Hotbeds; Greenhouse Structures; Greenhouses attached to 

 dwellings; Modes of Heating; Base-Burning Water Heater; 

 Propagation of Plants by Seeds; What Varieties come true 

 from Seed; Propagation of Plants by Cuttings; How Plants 

 and Flowers are grown; Propagation of Lilies; Culture of the 

 Bose: Culture of the Verbena; Culture of the Tuberose; Or- 

 chid Culture; Holland Bulbs; Cape Bulbs, Varieties and Cul- 

 ture: Culture of Winter-Flowering Plants; Construction of 



Bouquets, Baskets, &c; Wire Designs for Cut Flowers ; Hang- 

 ing Baskets; Parlor and Window Gardening; Wardian Cases, 

 Ferneries, &c. ; Formation of Bock- work; Insects: Are Plants 

 Injurious to Health ? Nature's Law of Colors; Packing Plants; 

 Plants by Mail: The Profits of Floriculture; How to become 

 a Florist; Short Descriptions of Soft-Wooded or Bedding 

 Plants of the Leading Kinds; What Flowers will Grow in the 

 Shade; Greenhouse and Stove or Hothouse Plants, Annuals, 

 Hardy Herbaceous, Perennial and Biennial Plants: Ornamental 

 Shrubs and Climbers; Culture of Grape Vines under Glass; 

 Diary of Operations for Each Day in the Tear. 



Our first two books fell into the hands of many who had no desire to make gardening a business, but who yet wished for inform- 

 ation on the subject for their private use. To such it was found that a book detailing operations on a smaller scale, yet embracing, 

 as far as possible, all the information on the subject, was much wanted. To supply this want we, in 1875, wrote 



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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 " Practical 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; 

 Walks; Manures; How to Use Concentrated Fertilizers: Spe- 

 cial Fertilizers for Particular Plants; The Lawn: Design for 

 Garden; Planting of Lawns andFlower-Beds; Fall or Holland 

 Bulbs; Propagation of Plants by Seeds; Propagation of Plants 

 by Cuttings; Propagating by Layering; About Grafting and 

 Budding: How Grafting and Budding are Done; Treatment of 

 Tropical Bulbs, Seeds, &c; The Potting of Plants: Winter- 

 Flowering Plants: Unhealthy Plants — The Remedy: Plants 

 suited for Summer Decoration; Hanging Baskets; Window 

 Gardening; Parlor Gardening, or the Cultivation of Plants in 

 Rooms: Wardian Cases; Ferneries; Jardinieres; Winter-Forc- 



ing the Lily of the Valley; Greenhouses attached to Dwell- 

 ings; A Detached Greenhouse or Grapery; Heating by Hot 

 Water: Greenhouse Pits Without Artificial Heat; Combined 

 Cellar and Greenhouse; Hotbeds; Shrubs: Climbers and Trees; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Perennials; Annual Flowering Plants; 

 Flowers which will grow in the Shade; Insects; Mildew; 

 Frozen Plants; Mulching: Are Plants in Rooms Injurious to 

 Health? Shading; The Laws of Colors in Flowers: Pruning; 

 Hardy Grapes ; Cold Grapery ; The Hothouse or Forcing Gra- 

 pery; The Strawberry; Cottage Gardening — A Digression; 

 The Vegetable Garden; Garden Implements; Monthly Calen- 

 dar of Operations. 



All these works were written by Peter Henderson, the senior member of our firm, and is simply a relation 

 of his extensive experience of over a quarter of a century, in all departments of horticulture. They are writ- 

 ten in the plainest language, so that the instructions can be at once understood, no matter how ignorant the 

 reader mav be of the subject. The price of " Gardening for Profit, " "Practical Floriculture," and "Garden- 

 ing for Pleasure," is $1.50 each (prepaid by mail); but to all ordering seeds, plants, or other articles to the 

 value of 810.00 and upwards (in one order), from this Catalogue, any one of them will be added gratis. 



PETER HENDERSON & CO., 



U MARKET GARDENERS JJTO , 

 35 CORTLANDT STREET, NEW YORK. 



