PETER HENDERSON ACO., NEW YORK- 





ooks e Horticulture i floriculture. 



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



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

 vegetables and fruits; in fact, a complete work on cultivated plant life. Everything is arran^,'ed 

 alphabetically, from Aaron's Beard to Zygophyllum ; very complete descriptions are given, -with 

 full cultural instruction for everything of importance. A full list of popular names and all botanical terms are given ; also a 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, 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, usefuInesSj hardiness, re- 



?uirenients. etc., and cultural instructions are criven — Popular or Common Names — Corrt-ct 

 'ronunciation— Cultivation of Principal Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers — Winter Korcini^ 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 Pits, Conservatory, 

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

 himse. 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 Shady Places, Plants for 

 Seaside, Poisonous or Unhealthy Plants Potting, Propagation bv Cuttings, Layers Seeds 

 etc.. Pruning, Kock Garden, Rotation of Crops, Screens, Seeds, Shading, Soil, Sub-.soiIing 

 Sub-tropical (iarden. 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,<^uantity of Seeds required per Acre ; for a certain number of Plants; 

 to a given length of drill, etc. 



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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 exiiaustively treats on the Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden, Fruit Garden, Green- 

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



By PETER HENDERSON. 404 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 



CONTENTS. 



Cultivation of Plants in Rooms— Greenhouses attached toPwellings^Detached Greenhouses, 

 M.i.les of Heating, etc.— Greenhouses and I'lts with<iut Artillcial Heating— Flowers that will 

 grow- in tile Shade— Insects and other Parasites injurious to Plants— Hiitnl,ugs in Horti- 

 culture — Hardy (irapes — The Cold (Jrapery— The Hot house or Forcing liraperj' — Ttie Straw- 

 berry — The Vegetable Garden— Monthly Calendar of Operations. 



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

 and Flower Beds — Fall or Holland Bulbs, etc.— Prop.igati.m of p|jiiit>li.v Siecl> — I'mpugul mn 

 of Plants by Cuttings— How Grafting and Budding an- H.uii- Tiie Potting of I'l.mt'^Wln- 

 ter-flowering Plants^-Plants suited for Summer Lleeoratinn— Wind.. w liardirung— Culture 

 of Water LUies and other Aquatic Plants— The Chrysantheiuuni-Parlor Gardening or the 



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By PETER HENDERSON. 325 pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 



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

 TiCAii Flobiculture. We have any number of complimentary letters from people who actually knew nothing 

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

 And although written especiallj' 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. 



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

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

 Oi'namental 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 — Gla...s, 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— Plants most in demand for Window 



Decoration in Winter— Culture of Wintei^flowering Plants 

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



c. — Hanging 



What Flowers will grow iu the Shade-Succession Crops in the Greenhouse^Packing Plants 

 —Plants by Mail— Insects and Diseases Affecting Plants— Mildew— Diary o£ Operations lor 

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



Flowers— Plants used for Decoration of Rooms— Con.struction of Bouquet.* et 

 Baskets— Parlor or Window Gardening— Forniation of Rockwoik and Plat'its 



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 be selected 

 as premiums. 

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



IF you wisb to grow Vegetables for Sale, read Gabdening foe Profit. The personal success 

 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 Cloth in lieu of .Sashes— Spring Raising of Cabbage, Caulifiower and 



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

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

 When and ^Vllere 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. 



