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By PETER HENDERSON. 



HE original Handbook op Plants was issued in 1881 ; in this new edition all the new genera of 

 importance are added. All botanical terms are given and also a very full list of popular names, 

 and all 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 for the 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 Vegetables of impor- 

 tance ; 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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About 6,000 genera of plants, alphabetically arranged, with their descriptions, 

 individual histories, usefulness, hardiness, requirements, etc., and, where their 

 importance justifies it, cultural instructions are given— Local, Popular or Common 

 Names— Correct Pronunciation— Cultivation of principal Vegetables, Fruits and 

 Flowers— Winter Forcing of Eoses, Bulbs 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 Pits, Color 

 in Flowers, Conservatory, Designs, Draining, Fertilizers, Fountains, Frozen Plants, 

 Glass and Glazing, Grafting, Grasses, Greenhouse, Hanging Baskets, Heating, 

 Hedges, Herbaceous Plants, Herbarium, Hybridization, Insects and Insecticides, 



REWRITTEN AND ENLARGED. ISSUED 1890. 526 PAGES, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. PRICE, POST-PAID, $4.00. 



Lawn, Manures, Mulching, Moles, Orchard, Orchid Culture, Ornamental Planting, 

 Parlor Gardening, Plant Protection, Plants in Booms, Plants for Shady Places, Plants 

 for Sea-side, Poisonous or Unhealthy Plants, Potting, Propagation by Cuttings, 

 Layers, Seeds, etc.. Pruning, Bock Garden and Bock Work, Botation 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 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 ; to a given length of Drill, etc. 



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BY PETER HENDERSON AND WM. CROZIER. 

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

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

 * V_ 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, which the so-called scientific farmer rarely does. 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. 



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Training for the Business of Farming— Agricultural College Education— Selection 

 of Soils— Farm Roads— Draining — Manures and the Modes of Application— Special 

 Fertilizers — Green Manuring— Fertilizing by Feeding— Plowing, Harrowing, Culti- 

 vating and Rolling Land— Use of the Feet in Sowing and Planting— Botation of 

 Crops— Crops for Soiling and Fodder— Soiling Crops— Abortion in Cows and its 

 Causes— Grass and its Management— Varieties of Grasses— Mixed Grasses for 

 Pasture and Hay— Cutting and Curing of Hay— Clover Hay— Ensilage— Ensilage 



Compared with Roots— Live Stock of the Farm— Cows for the Dairy — Feed and 

 Care for Milk and Butter— Young 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— Har- 

 rows, Cultivators— Mowers and Reapers — Haying Machinery— Fodder Cutters — 

 Carts — Farm Culture of Vegetables and Fruits— Cabbage— Celery— Sweet Corn- 

 Cucumbers for Pickles —Melons as a Market Crop— Onions— Culture of Small Fruits. 



400 PAGES, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. PRICE, POST-PAID, $2.50. 



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BY PETER HENDERSON. 



Propagation of Plants by Cuttings, Layers, Divisions and 

 Seed — Rose Growing in Winter— Greenhouse Structures and 

 Heating— Formation and Renovation of Lawns— Onion 

 — i^f- ., -'y- mr Growing for Market — How to Grow Cauliflower for Market- 

 Growing and Preserving Celery — Strawberry Culture— Root 

 Crops for Farm Stock — Culture of Alfalfa and Lucerne— ManureB and their Appli- 

 cation — The Use of the Feet in Seed Sowing and Planting — Draining, etc., etc. 



244 Pages, Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.00. 



Insecticides and Fungicides : 

 How to Mix and Apply Them— 

 I Injurious Insects, with Remedies- 

 Plant Diseases (such as Mildew, Rust, Rot, etc.), with 

 Remedies— Implements and Appliances for Spraying 

 and Dusting Insecticides and Fungicides on Plants, 

 Trees, etc — The Average Cost of Insecticide and Fungicide Ingredients, etc., etc. 



36 Pages, Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 25 Cents. 



Bulbs, alphabetically arranged, with Special 

 Cultural Instructions for each — Designs for 

 Beds of Tulips and Hyacinths— Preparation and Outside 

 Planting— Spring Flowering Bulbs— Winter Flowering 

 Bulbs — Summer Flowering Bulbs— Forcing Bulbs— Natural- 

 izing Bulbs in Lawns, etc.— The Window Garden of Bulbs— Bulbs 

 in Cold Frames and Pits— When Bulbs should be Taken Up, etc., etc. 

 24 Pages. Price, post-paid, 25 Cents. 



How to make a Water Lily Tank and ! 

 tect in Winter— Keeping Water Lilies over/i 

 Winter — Water Lilies in Tubs and Cement™ 

 Basins— How to Grow Water Lilies from Seed 

 — Species and Varieties of Water Lilies and 

 Aquatics— When Tender Species may be 

 Started— To Extend the Season of Blooming— Soil for Growing Aquatics— Hardy 

 Aquatics — Enemies of Aquatics, and Remedies— Suitable Animals for the Aquatic 

 Garden, etc., etc. 



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



SPECIAL OFFER: 



If ordered at one time, we will supply the full set of nine books, offered on pages 6 and 7, carriage prepaid, for $10.00. (Sepa- 

 rately, they would cost $13.75.) This tet of books form A COMPLETE LIBRARY OF THE GARDEN, GREENHOUSE AND FARM. 



FOR $10.00 



