REWRITTEN, ENLARGED AND ILLUSTRATED. 



Issued January 10th, 1891. 



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NEW HANDBOOK OF PLANT! 



AND GENERAL) HORTISUIdTUF^E. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 



A NEW AND REVISED EDITION, WITH COPIOUS ILLUSTRATIONS, NOW READY. 



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

 former one, and embraces the botantical name (accentuated according to the 

 latest authorities), derivation, natural order, etc., together with a short history 

 of the different genera, and concise instructions for their propagation and cul- 

 ture. A valuable feature of the book, particularly 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 Technical 

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

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

 Gardener — Particularly full instructions on forcing Roses, Bulbs and other 

 plants used for cut flowers in winter, also Tomatoes, Grapes, Cucumbers, Mush- 

 rooms, Strawberries, etc., together with comprehensive practical directions about 

 soils, manures, roads, lawns, draining, implements, greenhouse buildings, heat 

 ing by steam and hot water, propagation by seeds and cuttings, window garden 

 ing, 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 encyclopaedias of gardening four times its size. 

 Henderson's New Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture contains 

 nbout 800 illustrations. 



Price, $4.00, Post-Paid. 



'<■<? given free as a premium on an order f torn this Catalogue, amounting to $40.00. 



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