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PETER HENDERSON'S LAST BOOK. 



^Henderson's .Hew .Handbook of Plants 



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CENERKL HORTICULTURE, 



To the late Mr. Henderson's friends and admirers a melancholy interest vill 

 always cluster around this, his last work. The Handbook of Plants was first issued in 

 1881 ; and while its author had reason to be pleased with the nattering reception it met 

 with, he felt that it had been somewhat hastily prepared, and so early in 1889, with his 

 characteristic energy and industry, the work was not only revised, but rewritten and 

 greatly enlarged. Mr. Henderson read, corrected and passed the last pages of the new 

 edition December 26th, 1889, a week later, January 3d, 1890, he was stricken with the 

 sickness, which on January 1 7th following culminated in his death. The delay incident 

 to printing and binding the bo< . made the middle of February reached before copies 

 were received, so that the bound and completed volume, that in the estimation of many 

 will be Peter Henderson's most enduring monument — he never saw. 



This new edition comprises about fifty per cent, more genera than the former one, 

 and embraces the botanical nan. 1 (accentuated according to the latest authorities), deriva- 

 tion, natural order, etc., together with a short history of the different genera, and concise 

 instructions for their propagation and culture. A valuable feature of the book, particu- 

 lary to amateurs, is the great care that has been given to obtain all the leading local or 

 common English names, together with a comprehensive glossary of Botanical and Tech- 

 nical terms. Plain instructions are also given for the cultivation of the principal 

 vegetables, fruits and flowers — both for the Amateur, Florist and Market Gardener — 

 with very full instructions on forcing Tomatoes, Grapes, Cucumbers, Mushrooms, Straw- 

 berries, etc., together with comprehensive practical directions about soils, manures, roads, 

 lawns, draining, implements, greenhouse buildings, heating by steam and hot water, 

 propagation by seeds and cuttings, window gardening, shrubs, trees, etc. In short, 

 everything relating to general horticulture is given in alphabetical order, in a way so 

 complete as to make it, as a book of reference, equally as valuable as encyclopedias of 

 gardening four times its size. Hendersons New Handbook of Plants contains about 



800 illustrations. 



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