B O O K S 



By PETER HENDERSON. 526 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $3.00. 



r HE original Handbook of Plants was issued in 1S81; in this new edition, rewritten and enlarged, 

 all the new genera of importance are added. All botanical terms are given, and also a very full 

 list of popular names, and aJl the generic names are accentuated. The natural system of arrangement 

 is adopted in the descriptions instead of the Linneean or artificial system ; and a carefully compiled glossary 

 of the technical terms used in describing plants. A monthly calendar of operations forthe greenhouse and 

 •window garden, flower, fruit and kitchen garden, will undoubtedly render this edition valuable as a book 

 of reference. Very full instructions are given for the culture and forcing of all Fruits, Flowers and Vege- 

 tables of importance ; in short, there is sufficient matter given on all gardening subjects to allow this book 

 to be termed The American Gardener's Dictionary. And it will be better adapted to the wants of American horticulturists than any 

 of the more costly foreign works on gardening; for though from a foreign standpoint these are all they claim to be, yet for our American 

 climate much of the information, and especially the gardening instructions, are not only useless, but actually misleading. 



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COIVTENTS. 



About 5,000 genera of -plants, alphabetically arranged, with their descriptions, individual 

 histories, usefulness, hardiness, requirements, etc.. and where their importan :e justifies it, 

 cultural instructions are given— Local. Popular or Common Names — Correct Pronuw 

 — Cultivation of principal Vegetables. Fruits and Flowers — Winter Forcing; oi 

 and other Plants used for Cut Flowers — Winter Forcing of Vegetables and Fruits — Monthly- 

 Calendar of Garden Operations. 



Annuals. Bedding and Borders. Bouquets. Budding. Cold Frames and Fit*. Color in Flow- 



nservatory. Design-. Draining, Fertilizers. Fountains. Frozen Plants, Glass and Glaz- 



:n_r Grafting, Grasses, Greenhouse. Hanging Basket-. Heating, Hedges, Herbaceous Plants, 



Ht-r barium. Hybridization, Insects and Insecticides, Lawn, Manures, Mulching, Moles, 



Orchard, Orchid Culture, Ornamental Planting. Parlor Gardening, Plant Protection, Plants 

 in Rooms. Plants for Shady Places, Plants for Seaside. Poisonous or Unhealthy Plant-. i'"t- 

 ting. Propagation by Cuttings, Layers, Seeds, • tc Pruning, Rock Garden and Rock Work. 

 Rotation of Crops, Screens, Seeds, Shading, Soil, Sub-soiling. Sub-tropical Garden. Tempera- 

 ture, Transplanting, Trenching, Vases, Ventilating. Walks. Wardian Cases, Waterfalls, 

 Watering, Water Lilies and Water Plants. Weeds, Wintering Plants. 



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 j 

 to a given length of Drill, etc. 



By PETER HENDERSON and WM. CROZIER. 400 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, postpaid, $2.00. 



AN acknowledged authority for Farmers. Gives all of the Latest Methods of Growing Grass, 

 Grain, Eoot Crops, Fruits, etc. ; and all about Stock, Farm Machinery, etc., etc. It is written 

 in a plain and easy-to-be-understood language. Everything pertaining to scientific or abstruse 

 subjects has 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 

 in the work which, to both, has been such a continued success — hence, their advice is practical 

 and doubly valuable. 



CONTENTS. 



Training forthe Business of Farming— Agricultural College Education — Selection of Soils 

 — Farm Roads — Draining — Manures and the Modes of Application — Special Fertilizer! — 

 Green Manuring — Fertilizing by Feeding— Plowing, Harrowing. Cultivating and Rolling 

 Land — Use of the Feet in Sowing and Planting — Rotation of Crops — Crops for Soiling and 

 Fodder — Abortion in Cows — Grass and its Management — Varieties of i Irassi — Mixed Grasses 

 for Pasture and Hay — Cutting and Curing of Hay — Clover Hay — Ensilage — Ensilage Com- 

 pared with Roots — Live Stock of the Farm— Cows for the Dairy— Feed and Care for Milk and 



Butter— \oung Cattle and their Care— Management of the Dairy— Farm Horses— Sheep- 

 Swine — Farm Buildings— Fences— Rearing and Keeping Poultry— Pests of the Farm and 

 their Remedies— Farm Machinery— Plows— Harrows— Cultivators— Mowers and Reapers- 

 Haying Machinery— Fodder Cutters— Carts— Farm Culture of Vegetables and Fruits— Cab- 

 bage— Celery— Sweet Corn— Cucumbers for Pickles— Melons as a Market Crop— Onions- 

 Culture of Small Fruits. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 244 Pages, lllusfrated. Price, post-paid, $1. 

 ContentB. 

 Popular bulbs — Window- Gardening — Plants in Room** — Propaga- 

 tion of Plants by Cuttings. Layers, 1 '(visions and Seed — Rose Grow- 

 ing in Winter — Greenhouse structures and Heating — Formation 

 and Renovation of Lawns — Onion Growing for Market — How to Grow Cauliflower for Mar- 

 ket — Growing and Preserving Celery— strawberry Culture — Root Crops for Farm Stock- 

 Culture of Alfalfa and Lucerne — Manures and their Application — Market Gardening around 

 Sew York — The Use of the Feet in Seed Sowing and Planting— Draining. 



Contents* 



Insecticides and Fungicides: How to Mix and Apply Them — 

 Injurious Insects, with Remedies, and the Plants and Trees they 

 Usually Attack— Plant Diseases such as Mildew. Rust. Rot. etc.. etc. i. with Remedies, and 

 the Plants Usually Affected — Insecticide and Fungicide Digredients and their Average Cost 

 —Spraying Calendar, etc. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 24 Pages. 

 Price, post-paid, 25 Cents. 

 Contents, 



Descriptions of Bulbs, alphabetically arranged, with Special 

 Cultural Instructions for each— Designs for Beds of Tulips and 

 Hyacinths — Naturalizing Bulbs in Lawns, etc. — The Window Gar- 

 den of Bulbs— Hyacinth Glasses, Crocus Pots, etc.— Bulbs in Cold 

 Frames and Pits— When Bulbs should be Taken Up — Preparation 

 and Outside Planting — Spring-flowering Bulbs— Winter-flowering Bulbs 

 Bulbs — Forcing Bulbs. 



-Summer-flowering 



42 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 25 Cts. 

 How to Make a Water Lily Tank and Protect in 

 Winter— When Tender Cpecies may be Started— 

 Keeping Water Lilies over Winter—To Extend the 

 Season of Blooming— Soil for Growing Aquatics — 

 Water Lilies in Tubs and Cement Basins— The Possi- 

 bilities of Aquatic Gardening— Hardy Aquatic — Ene- 

 mies of Aquatics and Remedies— Suitable Animals tor I 

 V\ atcr Lilies from Seed— An Amateur's Success— Species 

 Aquatics. 



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and Varieties ot 



n — How to Grow 

 Water Lili 2S and 



Condensed Vegetable and Flower Seed Culture. 



By PETER HENDERSON. Price, post-paid, 10 Cents. 



An eisht-pase pamphlet, containing, in a condensed form instructions for the cultivation of Garden Vegetables and Flowers from 

 seeds. Also, full directions for making Hot Beds and Cold Frames. 



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