By PETER HENDERSON. 526 Pages. 
Profusely Illustrated. 
HE standard American dictionary of plants, flowering, ornamental, economic, etc., including 
vegetables and fruits; in fact, a complete work on cultivated plant life. Everything is arranged 
alphabetically, from Aaron’s Beard to Zygophyllum; very complete descriptions are given, with 
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full cultural instruction for everything of importance. A full list of popular names and all botanical terms are given; also a glossary 
of the technical terms used in describing plants. 
A monthly calendar of operations for the greenhouse and window garden, flower, 
fruit and kitchen garden, renders it valuable as a book of reference; in short, there is sufficient matter given on all gardening subjects 
to allow this book to be termed The American Gardener’s Dictionary. 
About 5,000 genera of plants, with their descriptions, histories, usefulness, hardiness, re- 
quirements, etc., and cultural instructions are given—Popular or Common Names—Correct 
Pronunciation—Cultivation of Principal Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers—Winter Forcing of 
Roses, Bulbs and other Plants used for Cut Flowers—Winter Forcing of Vegetables and 
Fruits—Calendar of Garden Operations. i 
Annuals, Bedding and Borders, Bouquets, Budding, Cold Frames and Pits, Conservatory, 
Designs, Draining, Fertilizers, Fountains, Frozen Plants, Glazing, Grafting, Grasses, Green- 
house, Hanging Baskets, Heating, Hedges, Herbaceous Plants, Herbarium, Hybr zation, 
Insects and Insecticides, Lawn, Manures, Mulching, Moles, Orchard, Orchid Culture, Orna- 
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By PETER HENDERSON. 
Preparation of the Ground—Walks=The Lawn—Design for Gardens—Planting of Lawn 
and Flower Beds—Fall or Holland Bulbs, ete.—Propagation of Plants by Seeds—Propagation 
of Plants by Cuttings—How Grafting and Budding are Done—The Potting of Plants—Win- 
ter-flowering Plants—Plants suited for Summer Decoration—Window Gardening—Culture 
of Water Lilies and other Aquatic Plants—The Chrysanthemum—Parlor Gardening or the 
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By PETER HENDERSON. 325 pages. 
TICAL FLORICULTURE. 
How to become a Florist—The Profits of Floriculture—Aspect and Soil—The Preparation 
for New and the Renovation of Old Lawns—Laying out the Flower Garden—Designs for 
Ornamental Grounds and Flower Gardens—Planting of Flower Beds—Soils for Potting— 
Temperature and Moisture—The Potting of Plants—Drainage in Pots—Cold Frames for 
Winter Protection—Construction of Hot Beds—Greenhouse Structures—Glass, Glazing and 
Shading—Modes of Heating—Propagation of Plants by Seeds—Propagation of Plants by 
Cuttings—Propagating Roses by Grafting and Budding—Greenhouse Plants most in demand 
in Spring—Cold Frame Plants most sold in Spring—Plants most in demand for Window 
By PETER HENDERSON. 
The Forcing of all important Vegetables 
and Fruits under Glass—The Men Fitted for 
the Business—The Amount of Capital re- 
quired and Working Force per Acre—Profits of Market Gardening—Location, Situation and 
Laying Out—Soils, Drainage and Preparation—Manures—The Uses and Management of Cold 
Frames—Protecting Cloth in lieu of Sashes—Spring Raising of Cabbage, Cauliflower and 
CONTENTS. 
404 Pages. 
AS written to meet the wants of those desiring information on gardening for private use. Its scope 
therefore embraces directions for the culture and propagation of Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits. 
It has had a large sale, and gone through several editions, the present having been revised and 
greatly enlarged ; it exhaustively treats on the Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden, Fruit Garden, Green- 
house, Grapery, Window Garden, Lawn, the Water Garden, etc. 
CONTENTS. 
Fully Iitustrated. 
[ you wish to become a Commercial Florist, then of all books you should procure PRAC- 
We have any number of complimentary letters from people who actually knew nothing 
of the florists’ business, but who followed the instructions in this work and are now ‘full-fledged florists.” 
And although written especially for the Commercial Florist, it is equally valuable to the amateur and all having 
conservatories, greenhouses, window gardens, etc. Admitted to be the leading American authority on this subject. 
CONTENTS. 
375 Pages. 
F you wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 
of its author during his long career as a market gardener, and the success of thousands from the 
time he first made his cultural methods known up to the present day, show the popular estima- 
tion of the value set upon this great work. While written particularly for the Market Gardener and 
Trucker, yet it is of equal value for large private gardens. 
CONTENTS. 
mental Planting, Parlor Gardening, Plant Protection, Plants for Shady Places, Plants for 
Seaside, Poisonous or Unhealthy Plants, Potting, Propagation by Cuttings, Layers, Seeds, 
etc., Pruning, Rock Garden, Rotation of Crops, Screens, Seeds, Shading, Soil, Sub-soiling, 
Sub-tropical Garden, Temperature, Transplanting, Trenching, Vases, Ventilating, Walks, 
Wardian Cases, Waterfalls, Watering, Water Lilies and Water Plants, Weeds, Wintering 
ants. 
Useful Tables and Memoranda on Temperature, Rain, Soil, Manures, Numbers of Plants 
and Trees to an Acre, Quantity of Seeds required per Acre ; for a certain number of Plants; 
to a given length of drill, ete. 
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grow in the Shade—Insects and other Parasites injurious to Plants—Humbugs in Horti- 
culture—Hardy Grapes—The Cold Grapery—The Hot house or Forcing Grapery—The Straw- 
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Decoration in Winter—Culture of Winter-flowering Plants 
con Cut Blowers tore GLOWnE, in Winter—Bulbs for Winter 
Flowers—Plants used for Decoration of Rooms—Construction of s. — 
Baskets—Parlor or Window Gardening—Formation of ROGWOrk eae oe 
What Flowers will grow in the Shade—Succession Crops in the Greenhouse—Packing Plants 
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Greenhouses for Vegetable Crops—Forcing Strawberries—Seeds and Seed Raising—How, 
When and Where to Sow Seeds—Transplanting—Vegetables, their Varieties and Cultivation 
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