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PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— WHOLESALE CATALOGUE— BOOKS. 



Garden and Farm 



..BOOKS.. 



Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, Farm 



Crops, Dairying, Tlnimals, Drainage, 



Fertilizers, Spraying, etc. 



HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS and general horticulture. 



By PETER HENDERSON, 536 Pages. Profasely lUustrated. Price, post=paid, $3.00. 



rHE standard American dictionary' of plants, flotvering. ornamental, economic, etc., including vegetables and fmits; in fact, a complete work on cultivated plant 

 life. Everj'thing is arranged alphabetically from Aaron's Beard to Zygophylliim; very complete descriptions are given, with full cultural instructions for every- 

 thing of imoortance A full list of popular names and all botanical terms are given ; also a glossary of the technical terms used in des:ribing plants. A 

 nonthly 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 

 ; sufficient matter given on all gardening subjects to allow this book to be termed T.'".e American Gardener's Dictionary. 



^CONTENTS 



About 5000 genera of plants with their descriptions histories, usefulness, 

 hardiness, requirements, 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 Pits, 

 Conservatory, Designs, Draining Fertilizers. Fountains, Frozen Plants, Glazing, 

 Grafting, Grasses, Greenhouse, Hanging Baskets, Heating, Hedges, Herbaceous 

 Plants. Herbariiim, Hvbridization, Insects and Insecticides, Lawn, Manures, 



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

 dening, Plant Protection, Plants lor Shadv Places. Plants for Seaside, Poisonous 

 or Unhealthy Plants, Potting, Propagation by Cuttings, Layers, Seeds, etc 

 Prunmg, Rock Garden; Rotation of Crops. Screens, Seeds Shading Soil. Sub 

 soUin-j, Sub-tropical Garden, Temperature, Transolanting Trenching, Vases 

 \"entilating. Walks, Wardian Cases, WaterfaUs, Watering, Water Lilies and 

 Water Plants, Weeds, Wintering Plants. 



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

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

 a certain number of Plants; to a n;i^"en length of drill, etc. 



GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 37S pages, fuUyiUustrated. Price, post=paid $1.50 



IF you wish to g-ow \ egetailes for Sale, read Q.\RDEM\Q FOR 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 popvdar estimation 

 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 gar- 

 dens. It tells the whole stor>-. from selection and treatment of soils to mar- 

 keting the produce: also covers the forcing of vegetables strawberries etc. 



PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 325 pages, fuUyiUustrated. Price, post=paid SI.SO 



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

 procure PRACTICAL FLORICULTLRE. We have anv 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 " full- 

 fledged florists." And although written especially for the Commercial Florist 

 it is equally valuable to the amateur and all ha^ang conservatories, greenhouses 

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

 subject. 



=QARDENINQ FOR PLEASURE.= 



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By PETER HENDERSON. 404 pages, fuUyiUustrated. Price, post=paid, $1.50. 



.■\S written to meet the wants of those desiring information on gardening for private use. Its scope therefore embraces directions for the culture and prop- 

 agation of Flowers Vegetables and Fruits. It has had a large sale, and gone through several editions, the present having been re\4sed and greatly 

 enlarged ; it exhaustively treats on the Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden. Fruit Garden, Greenhouse, Grapery, Window Garden, Lawn, the Water Garden, etc. 



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



By CHARLES HENDERSON. 160 pages 9| x 12 inches; 340 photographic iUustrations; price, $2.50 post-paid. 



THIS unique new book mirrors the charms of the prettiest narks lawns and gardens of Europe and America. The picturesque, the natural and the gardenesquc 

 adornments are rerlected m over t.iree hundred magnificent photographic illustrations from nature — many of these views are 5x7 inches, some larger few- 

 smaller; they are grouped and printed in a most artistic manner on heavy-coated paper with just enough text matter to describe the view and name 

 the plants, vines, trees and shrubs needed to produce a similar effect or design. 



Although there are countless works of exhaustive ^rcrepi on landscaping and gardening there have been none issued so rich with illustrations of example. 

 In it we force no particular styles or fashions but describe and picture such a great variety of lawn and garden creations that some fruitfxil suggestions must be 

 found adaptable to the en\-ironment of every home, whether pretentious or modest. 



BEST METHODS OF QROWINQ VEGETABLES. 



PRICE, 25 CENTS. 



A PAMPHLET gi\'ing in a concise form the latest methods of growing gar- 

 den vegetables, including special treatment for growing exhibition vege- 

 tables a useful table gi%Tng temperatures in which seeds best germi- 

 nate the time required to " come up '' and days to mature; the use of the feet 

 in seed sowing; how to prevent scab in potatoes; combating insects and plant 

 diseases; apparatus for apphang insecticides fungicides; the proportions of fer- 

 tilizing constituents in various vegetable crops; the fertilizers best applying 

 the needful ; stimulating plants into quick growth and early maturity ; the making 

 and maiiagement of cold frames and hot beds, etc. 



HOW THE FARM PAYS. 



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

 iUustrated. Price, post=paid, S2.00. 



AN acknowledged authority for Farmers' . Gives all the Latest Methods r.\ 

 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. Even-thing pertaining to scientific or abstruse subjects has 

 been ignored the information given being the most direct to make tlie icork c) 

 the farm pay. This is perhaps the first book of the kind ever written by twu 

 men while actually engaged in the work which to both has been such a con- 

 tinued success — hence their ad\-ice is ;,ractical and doublv valuable 



GARDEN AND FARM TOPICS. By peter Henderson. 244 Pages, luustrated. 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 vario-us Vegetable and Farm Croijs. 



HENDERSON'S BULB CULTURE. 



Revised and enlarged edition. 68 rages. Profusely Ulustrated. F>rice, 

 post-paid, SOc. 



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 for Gardens and Lawns — 

 Design Bedding — Mi.xed Borders — Naturalizing — Situations, SdUs and Prep- 

 aration — Time and Depth to Plant — Treatment after Flowering — Bulbs for 

 the House and Greenhouse — Forcing — Flov.-ering Bulbs in Glasses of Water, etc. 

 — Keeping Dormant Bulbs — Hints on Buying and Selecting for Different Pur- 

 poses, etc. 



THE CULTURE OF WATER LILIES AND AQUATICS. 



By PETER HENDERSON & CO. Revised and Enlarged Edition. 

 Profusely lUustrated. Price, post-paid, SOc. 



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

 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 Varie- 

 ties — Aquaria Plants, etc. 



Cf*f»r>i o I Offpi* • " ordered at one time, we will supply the fuU set of ten Books offered a'.-ove carriage prepaid, for 



OpCClctl V^fllCl . (Separately, they would cost 314.25.) This set of Books forms a Complete Library of the Garden, Greenhous 



se and Farm. 



$12.00. 



