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HENDERSON’S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS 6enéear sioxicuttore. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 526 Pages. 
Profusely Illustrated. 
Price, post-paid, $3.00. 
HE standard American dictionary of plants, flowering, ornamental, economic, etc., including vegetables and fruits; in fact, a complete work on cultivated 
plant life. 
for everything of importance. 
plants. 
Everything is arranged alphabetically, from Aaron’s Beard to Zygophyllum; very complete descriptions are given, with full cultural instructions 
A full list of popular names and all botanical terms are given; also a glossary of the technical terms used in describing 
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 Americaa Gardener’s Dictionary. 
CONTENTS. 
About 5,000 genera of plants, with their descriptions, histories, usefulness, hardiness, 
requirements, etc., and cultural instructions are given—Popular or Common Names—Cor- 
rect Pronunciation—Cultivation of Principal Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers—Winter 
Forcing of Roses, Bulbs and other Plants used for Cut Flowers—Winter Forcing of Vege- 
tables and Fruits—Calendar of Garden Operations. 
Annuals, Bedding and Borders, Bouquets, Budding. Cold Frames and Pits, Conserv- 
atory, Designs, Draining, Fertilizers, Fountains, Frozen Plants. Giaeing: Grafting, Grasses, 
Greenhouse. Hanging Baskets, Heating, Hedges, Herbaceous Plants, erbarium, Hybrid- 
ization, Insects and Insecticides, Lawn, Manures, Mulching, Moles, Orchard, Orchid Cul- 
ture, Ornamental Planting, Parlor Gardening, Plant Protection, Plants for Shady Places, 
Plants for Seaside, Poisonous or Unhealthy Plants, Potting, Propagation by Cuttings, Lay- 
ers, Seeds, etc., Pruning, Rock Garden, Rotation of Crops, Screens, Seeds, Shading, Soil, 
Sub-soiling, Sub-tropical Garden, Temperature, Transplanting, Trenching, Vases, Ventilat- 
ing, Walks, Wardian Cases, Waterfalls, Watering, Water Lilies and Water Plants, Weeds, 
Ruantening Plants. 
Useful Tables and Memoranda on Temperature, Rain, Soil, Manures, Numbers of 
Plants and Trees toan Acre, Quantity of Seeds required per Acre; for a certain number 
of Plants; to a given length of drill, ete. 
GARDENING FOR’ PROFIT. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 375 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
F you wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read Gardening for Profit. The 
personal success of its author during his long career as a market gardener, 
and the success of thousands from the time he first made his cultural meth- 
ods known up to the present day, show the popular estimation 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. It tells the whole 
story, from seleetion and treatment of soils to marketing the produce; also 
covers the forcing of vegetables, strawberries, etc. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 404 Pages. 
‘ GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. 
Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 325 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
F you wish to become a Commercial Florist, then of all books you shoul@ 
procure Practical Floriculture. 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, itis equally valuable 
to the amateur and all having conservatories, greenhouses, window gardens, ete. 
Admitted to be the leading American authority on this subject. 
W AS written to meet the wants of those desiring information on gardening for private use. Its scope therefore embraces directions for the culture and propa= 
gation of Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits. 
It has had a large sale, and gone through several editions, the present having been revised and greatly en- 
larged; it exhaustively treats onthe Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden, Fruit Garden, Greenhouse, Grapery, Window Garden, Lawn, the Water Garden, etc. 
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—Propaga- 
tion of Plants by Cuttings—How Grafting and Budding are Done—The Potting of Plants— 
Winter-flowering Plants—Plants suited for Summer Decoration—Window Gardening—Cul- 
ture of Water Lilies and other Aquatic Plants—The Chrysanthemum—Parlor Gardening or | 
CONTENTS. 
the Cultivation of Plants in Rooms—Greenhouses attached to Dwellings—Detached Greens 
houses, Modes of Heating, etc.—Greenhouses and Pits without Artificial Heating—Flowers 
that will grow in the Shade—Incects and other Parasites injurious to Plants—Humbugs in 
Horticulture—Hardy Grapes—The Cold Grapery—The Hot House or Forcing Grapery—The 
Strawberry—The Vegetable Garden—Monthly Calendar of Operations. 
BEST METHODS OF GROWING VEGETABLES. 
PRICE; 25:CENTS<. 2 aN : 
PAMPHLET giving in a concise form the latest methods of growing gar- 
den vegetables, including special treatment for growing exhibition vege- 
tables, a useful table, giving temperatures in which seeds best germi- 
nate, the time required to ‘‘come up”’ and days to mature; the use of the feet in 
seed sowing; how to prevent scab in potatoes; combating insects and plant 
diseases ; apparatus for applying insecticides, fungicides; the proportions of fer- 
tilizing constituents in various vegetablecrops; the fertilizers bestsupplying the 
needful; stimulating plants into quick growth and early maturity ; the making 
and management of cold frames and hot beds, etc. 
HENDERSON’S PICTURESQUE GARDENS. 
Price, $2.50, post-paid. 
160 Pages, 94x12 inches; 340 Photographic Illustrations. 
HOW THE FARM PAYS. 
By PETER HENDERSON and WM. CROZIER. 400 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. 
Price, post-paid, $2.00. : 
N acknowledged authority for Farmers. Gives all the Latest Methods of 
Growing Grass, Grain, Root Crops, Fruits, ete.; and all about Stock, 
Farm Machinery, etc., ete. Itis writtenin a plain and easy-to-be-under- 
stood language. Everything pertaining to scientific or abstruse subjects hag 
been ignored, the information given being the most direct to make the work of 
the farm pay. This is perhaps the first book of the kind ever written by two 
men while actually engaged ir the work which, to both, has been such a con- 
tinued success—hence, their advice is practical and doubly valuable. 
(Ornamental Gardening Illustrated.) By CHARLES HENDERSON. 
This beautiful book is fully described on the third page of cover. 
BULB’ CULTURE. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 24 Pages. Price, post-paid, 25c. 
Tells how to plant and flower Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Lilies, and all 
important bulbs, both indoors and in the garden. 
THE CULTURE OF WATER LILIES AND AQUATICS, 
By PETER HENDERSON. 42 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 25c. 
The growing of hardy and tender Water Lilies in artificial tanks, tubs, etc.; 
also in natural ponds and streams. 
Special Offer: 
GARDEN AND FARI1 TOPICS. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 244 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.00- 
A compilation of various essays on Bulbs, Window Gardening, Plant Propa- 
gation, Rose Growing in Winter, Greenhouse Construction and Heating, Ren- 
ovating Lawns, and various Vegetable and Farm Crops. 
INSECTS AND PLANT DISEASES, 
WITH REMEDIES. 
By PETER HENDERSON & CO. 76 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 25¢- 
If ordered at one time, we will supply the full set of eleven Books offered above, carriage prepaid, for $. y | 1 OG 
(Separately, they would cost $14.00.) This setof Books forms a Complete Library ofthe Garden, Greenhouse and Farm. o 
