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Horticulture i floriculture. 



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



THE standard American dictionary of plants, flowering, ornamental, economic, etc., including 

 vegetables and fruits ; in fact, a complete work on cultivated plant life. Everything is arranged 

 alphabetically, fro a Aaron's Beard to Zygophyllum ; very complete descriptions are given, with 

 full ealtural instruction for everything of importance. A full list of popular names and all botanical terms are given ; also a glossary 

 of 1he teehnical terms ased in describing plants. A monthly calendar of operations for the greenhouse and window garden, flower, 

 friit and kitchen- gardei , renders it valuable as a book of reference ; in short, there is sufficient matter given on all gardening subjects 

 to allow this book to be termed The American Gardener's Dictionary. 



CONTENTS. 



About 5,000 genera of plants, with their descriptions, histories, usefulness, hardiness, re- 

 quirements, etc.. and cultural instructions are given— Popular or Common Names — Correct 

 Pronunciation — Cultivation of Principal Vegetables. Fruits and Flowers— Winter Forcing of 

 Roses, Bulbs and other Plants used for Cut Flowers— Winter Forcing of Vegetables and 

 Fruits — Calendar of Garden Operations. 



Annuals, Bedding and Borders. Bouquets, Budding. Cold Frames and Pit9, Conservatory, 

 Designs. Draining. Fertilizers, Fountains, Frozen Plants, Glazing. Grafting, Grasses. Green- 

 house. Hanging Baskets, Heating. Hedges, Herbaceous Plants. Herbarium, Hybridization, 

 Insects and Insecticides, Lawn, Manures, Mulching, Moles, Orchard, Orchid Culture, Orna- 



mental Planting, Parlor Gardening, Plant Protection, Plants for Shadv Places, Plants for 

 Seaside, Poisonous or Unhealthy Plants, Potting, Propagation bv Cutt'ings. Layers Seeds, 

 etc., Pruning, Rock Garden, Rotation 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. 



Price, post-paid, $1.50. 



WAS written to meet the wants of those desiring information on gardening for private use. Its scope 

 therefore embraces directions for the culture and propagation of Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits. 

 It has had a large sale, and gone through several editions, the present having been revised and 

 greatly enlarged ; it exhaustively treats on the Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden, Fruit Garden, Green- 

 house, Grapery, Window Garden, Lawn, the Water Garden, etc. 



CONTEJJTS.- 



Preparation of the Ground— Walks— The Lawn— Design for Gardens— Planting of Lawn 

 and Flower Beds— Fall or Holland Bulbs, etc. — Propagation of Plants by Seeds — Propagation 

 of Plants bv Cuttings— How Grafting and Budding are Done— The Potting of Plants— Win- 

 ter-flowering Plants — Plants suited for Summer Decoration— Window Gardening— Culture 

 of Water Lilies and other Aquatic Plants— The Chrysanthemum — Parlor Gardening or the 



Cultivation of Plants in Rooms— Greenhouses attached to Dwellings— Detached Greenhouses. 

 Modes of Heating, etc. — Greenhouses and Pits without Artificial Heating — Flowers that will 

 grow in the Shade — Insects and other Parasites injurious to Plants-^-Humbugs in Horti- 

 culture — Hardy Grapes — The Cold Grapery — The Hot house or Forcing Grapery — The Straw- 

 berry — The Vegetable Garden — Monthly Calendar of Operations. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 325 pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1. 



IF you -wish to become a Commercial Florist, then of all books you should procure Peac 

 tical Floriculture. We have any number of complimentary letters from people who actually knew nothing 

 of the florists' business, but who followed the instructions in this work and are now "full-fledged florists." 

 And although written especially for the Commercial Florist, it is equally valuable to the amateur and all having 

 conservatories, greenhouses, window gardens, etc. Admitted to be the leading American authority on this subject. 



CONTENTS. 



How to become a Florist— The Profits of Floriculture— Aspect and Soil— The Preparation 

 for New and the Renovation of Old Lawns — Laying out the Flower Garden — Designs for 

 Ornamental Grounds and Flower Gardens— Planting of Flower Beds— Soils for Potting — 

 Temperature and Moisture — The Potting of Plants — Drainage in Pots — Cold Frames for 

 Winter Protection — Construction of Hot Beds — Greenhouse Structures — Glass, Glazing and 

 Shading — Modes of Heating — Propagation of Plants by Seeds — Propagation of Plants by 

 cuttings — Propagating Roses by Grafting and Budding — Greenhouse Plants most in demand 

 in Spring — Cold Frame Plants most sold in Spring— Hants most in demand for Window 



Decoration in Winter — Culture of Winter-flowering Plants 

 for Cut Flowers — Rose Growing in Winter — Bulbs for Winter 



Flowers — Plants used for Decoration of Rooms — Construction of Bouquets etc Hanging 



Baskets— Parlor or Window Gardening— Formation of Rockwork and Plants for Rocks— 

 What Flowers will grow in the Shade — Succession Crops in the Greenhouse— Packing Plants 

 —Plants by Mail— Insects and Diseases Affecting Plants— Mildew—Diary of Operations for 

 the Year— The Culture of Foreign Grape Vines under Glass. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 375 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 



IF you -wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read Gardening for Profit. The personal sr ccess 

 of its author during his long career as a market gardener, and the success of thousands from the 

 time he first made his cultural methods known up to the present day, show the popular estima- 

 tion of the value set upon this great work. While written particularly for the Market Gardener and 

 Trucker, yet it is of equal value for large private gardens. 



CONTENTS. 



The Forcing of all important Vegetables 

 and Fruits under Glass— The Men Fitted for 

 the Business— The Amount of Capital re- 

 quired and Working Force per Acre— Profits of Market Gardening— Location, Situation and 

 Laying Out — Soils Drainage and Preparation— Manures— The Uses and Management of Cold 

 Frames— Protecting Cleth in lieu of Sashes— Spring Raising of Cabbage, Cauliflower and 



Lettuce— Formation and Management of Hot Beds— Forcing Pits or Greenhouses— Wide 

 Greenhouses for Vegetable Crops — Forcing Strawberries — Seeds and Seed Raising — How, 

 When and Where to Sow Seeds— Transplanting— Vegetables, their Varieties and Cultivation 

 — When to Sow and Plant in the Southern States— Packing of Vegetables for Shipping- 

 Preservation of Vegetables in Winter— Insects — Culture of Small Fruits— Monthly Calendar 

 of Operations. 



