HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS and general horticulture. 



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By PETER HENDERSON, 536 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $3.00. 

 T^HE standard American dict^ 



. CONTENTS. 



About 5000 genera of plants with their. descriptions, histories, "sefu'ness, 

 hardiness, requirements, etc., and cultural instructions are given- popular or 

 Common Names— Correct Pronunciation— Cultivation of Pnncipal Vegetables 

 Fruits and Flowers- Winter Forcing of Roses, Bulbs andother Plants .used: or 

 Cut Flowers— Winter Forcing of Vegetables and Fruits— Calendar of Gaiden 



^AnnuX Bedding and Borders Bouquets Budding, Cold Frames and Pits, 



Conservatory, Designs, Draining, Fertilizing, Fountains, Frozen Plants, Glazing 

 Grafting! Grasses, Greenhouse, Hanging Baskets, Hating Hedges Herbaceous 

 Plants, Herbarium, Hybridization, Insects and Insecticides, Lawn, Manures, 



Mulching Moles, Orchard, Orchid Culture, Ornamental Planting Parlor Gar- 

 dening 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, Tienching Vases 

 Ventilating Walks, Wardian Cases, Waterfalls, Watering, Water Lilies and 

 Water Plants, Weeds, Wintering Plants. , 



Useful Tables and Memoranda on Temperature, Ram, Soil, Manures, Num- 

 bers of Plants and Trees to an Acre, Quantity of Seeds required per Acre; lor 

 a certain number of plants; to a given length of dull, etc. 



GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 375 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post paid, $1.50. 

 IF vou wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read GARDENING FOR PROFIT 



II The personal success of its author during his long career as a market 



1 gardener, and the success of thousands from the time he first made his 

 cultural methods known up to the present day show the popular estimation 

 of the value set upon this great work. While written Pf^ularly orthe 

 Market Gardener and Trucker, yet it is of equal value for laige private gar 

 dens It tells the whole story from selection and treatment of soils to mar- 

 keting the produce; also covers the forcing of vegetables, strawberries, etc. 



PKACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 325 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 



IF vou wish to become a Commercial Florist, then of all books you should 

 procure PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. We have any number of com- 

 plimentary letters from people who actually knew nothing of the florists 

 business, but who followed the instructions in this work and are now lv.ll- 

 fledged florists." And although written especially for the Commercial £loiist, 

 it i. equally valuable to the amateur and all having conservatories greenhouses, 

 window gardens, etc. Admitted to be the leading Amencan authority on this 

 subject. 



^GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 404 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 



X A /AS written to meet the wants of those desiring information ^J^^n^or^^se ^XS^t-t Mf, e^sg^f l?eitly°^ 



HENDERSON'S "PICTURESQUE GARDENS." Ornamental Gardening Illustrated. 



___ . ., .^„ na .. ■-> :„-u„,. 3<n „l,r,tr,<rmr,hir illustrations: nrice. $2.00 post-paid. 



By CHARLES HENDERSON 



160 pages 9} x 12 inches; 340 photographic illustrations; price, $2.00 post-paid. 



T-HIS unique new booWn^r^ 



T ^Ttn^^^ *»' — * teXt ma " er l ° deSCribe the "^ and namC ^ 



plants, vines, trees and shrubs needed to produce a srmilar effect ^design garde ning, there have been none issued so rich with illustrations of example. 



In it welo^o SuIarXleto? 2S&£ SSFXEMTZ? pTctu^f luc^ g^t^iety of lawn and garden creations that some fruitful suggestions must be 

 found adaptable to the environment of every home, whether pretentious or modest. 



HENDERSON'S GARDEN ORACLE. 



PRICE, 25 CENTS. 



A BOOKLET giving in a concise form the latest and best methods of grow- 

 ing vegetables for home, market and exhibition; condensed cultural in- 

 structions for flower seeds; how tomakeand renovate lawns, cold frames 

 and hot beds; combating bugs, worms and insects, including apparatus lor 

 applying insecticides and fungicides; spraying calendar; culture and storing 

 root crops for farm stock; fertilizing constituents consumed by various garden, 

 field and fruit crops, etc., etc. 



HOW THE FARM PAYS. 



By PETER HENDERSON and WM. CROZIER. 400 pages. Profusely 

 illustrated. Price, post-paid, $2.00. 



AN acknowledged authority for farmers. Gives all the Latest Methods pf 

 Growing Grass, Grain, Root Crops, Fruits, etc.; and all about Stock, 

 Farm Machinery, etc. It is written in a plain and easy-to-be-under- 

 stood 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 con- 

 tinued success— hence their advice is practical and double valuable. 



GARDEN AND FARM TOPICS By PETER HENDERSON. 244 pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.00. 



A compilation of various essays on Bulbs. Window Gardening, Plant Propagation, Rose growing in Winter, Greenhouse Construction and Heating, Renovating 

 Lawns and various Vegetable and Farm Crops. 



HENDERSON'S BULB CULTURE. 



Revised and enlarged edition. 68 pages. Profusely illustrated. Price, post- 

 ' paid, 50c. 



This newly revised and enlarged edition gives the up-to-date methods of 

 treatment for all kinds of Hardy and Tender Winter, Spring, Summer and 

 Autumn Flowering Bulbs, Tubers, Corms, etc.— Bulbs tor Gardens and Lawns- 

 Design Bedding— Mixed Borders— Naturalizing— Situations, Soils and Prep- 

 3- Time and Depth to Plant— Treatment after Flowering— Bulbs for 

 the House anl Greenhouse-Foroing-Flowering Bulbs in Glasses of Water, etc. 

 —Keeping Dormant Bulbs— Hints on Buying and Selecting for D.fferent Pur- 

 poses, etc 



The CULTURE of WATER LILIES &- AQUATICS. 



By PETER HENDERSON & CO. Revised and Enlarged Edition. 

 Profusely illustrated. Price, post-paid, 50c. 



This new edition gives the latest methods of growing and flowering Nym- 

 phaeas, Nelumbiums, Victorias and all other Ornamental Aquatics, both in 

 natural and artificial ponds, pools, tanks, etc.; including suitably situated 

 natural waters— Making Artificial Ponds, etc.— How and When to Plant- 

 Proper Depths— Soil— Wintering Tender Species— Propagation from Seeds 

 and Otherwise— Bogs— Marginal Plants and Planting— Descriptions of Vane- 

 ties — Aquaria Plants, etc. 



"' — ^. ' IT — ^.i-i-r-o If ordered at one time we will supply the full set of ten Books offered above, carriage prepaid, for $12 00 



SPECIAL OFFER: (Separately, they would cos. '$13.77) This^of Books forms a Complete Library of the Garden, Greenhouse and Farm. <PI^V 



