146 PETER HENDERSON & CO.— PREMIUMS. 



WE HAVE NOW READY NEW AND REVISED EDITIONS OF 



Peter Henderson's Books 



TP YOU desire to engage in Market Gardening or Trucking, read the new and revised Edition of *' Gardening 

 for Profit." 375 pages. Fully illustrated. Price, $2.00, post paid, by mail. 



IF* YOU desire to engage in the business of growing Cut Flowers or Plants for sale, read the new and revised 

 Edition of " Practical Floriculture." 325 pages. Fully illustrated. Price, §1.50, post paid, by mail. 



IF YOU wish to cultivate Vegetables, Flo^vers or Fruits for private use only, read the new and revised edition of 

 " Gardenings for Pleasure." This book treats on everything connected with gardening indoors and 

 out, and has been specially written for amateurs. 404 pages. Fully illustrated. Price, $2.00, post paid. 



The scope of this book includes: Preparation of the Ground — ^^Valks — The Lawn — Design for Gardens — Planting of Lawn and 

 Flower Beds — Fall or Holland Bulbs, etc. — Propagation of Plants by Seeds — Propagation of Plants by Cuttings — How Grafting- 

 and Budding are Done — The Potting of Plants — ^Winter-Flowering Plants — Plants suited for Summer Decoration — Window Gar- 

 dening — Culture of Water Lilies and other Aquatic Plants — The Chrysanthemum — Parlor Gardening, or the Cultivation of Plants in 

 Rooms — Green-houses Attached to Dwellings — Detached Green-houses, Modes of Heating, etc. — Green-houses and Pits without 

 Artificial Heating — Flowers which 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 Strawberry — The Vegetable Garden — 

 Monthly Calendar of Operations. 



IF YOU contemplate making a business of Farming, read " How the Farm Pays." 400 pages. Fully 



illustrated. Price, $2.50, post paid, by mail. 

 IF YOU wish a book that will give you the common and scientific names of all ornamental and useful plants, 



together with instructions for their culture and propagation, read the ^^Handbook of Plants." 410 



pages. Price, $3.00, post paid, by mail. 

 IF YOU desire a book containing special essays on the leading crops of the Green-house, Vegetable and Fruit 



Garden, read *' Garden and Farm Topics." 244 pages, fully illustrated. Price $1.50, post 



paid, by mail. (A list of essays in this book is given on page 4 of Catalogue for 1887.) 

 Within the past two years " Gardening for Profit," " Practical Floriculture," ana 

 *' Gardeningf for Pleasure " have been thoroughly revised, and many parts rewritten by their author, the 

 senior member of our firm, Mr. Peter Henderson. Inasmuch as the older editions have been the means of helping 

 thousands to a pleasant, healthy and profitable business, that these new and much enlarged books will continue to 

 do so there can be no question. 



ANY OF THE ABOVE BOOKS HA! BE HAO FREE ON ORDERS ACCOiANlEO BY THE CASH, 



in the shape of premiums on orders made up from this Cafalogue. The terms and conditions necessary to secure the 

 books are given in detail below, and customers are requested to read the conditions of our offers carefully. 



OFFER. No. I. — On all orders from this Catalogue, accompanied by the money, amounting to $.5rGio and 

 upward (in one order), the purchaser can obtain without charge *< Garden and Farm Xopics " (value $1.50). 

 This is the only one of the two $1.50 books that we publish ourselves, so we can afford to give it with a smaller order 

 than that named in offer No. 2. 



OFFER No. 2. — On all orders from this Catalogue, accompanied by the money, amounting to Sio.oo aiid 

 upward (in one order), the purchaser can obtain, without charge, the new and revised edition of " Practical 

 Floriculture " (the value of which is $1.50). 



OFFER No. 3. — On all orders from this Catalogue, accompanied by the money, amounting to si 5. 00 and 

 upward (in one order), purchasers can obtain, without charge, the new and revised edition of '^Gardening' for 

 Profit," or the new and revised edition of "Gardening for Pleasure" (the value of which is $2.00 each). 



OFFER No. 4.. — On all orders from this Catalogue, accompanied by the money, amounting to $20.00 and 

 upward (in one order), purchasers may select the two bcoks named in offer No. 3 ("Gardening for Profit" and 

 "Gardening for Pleasure "), or instead a copy of " Henderson's Handbook of Plants" (value $3.00), or, 

 if they desire, a copy of the new Farm Book, "How the Farm Pays " (value $2.50). 



We have tried to make the terms so clear that there can be no misunderstanding, and we have only to add one 

 more condition — but it is an imperative one — and that is, whenever an order is sent us that carries any of our books as 

 a premium, the book or books desired mi/s/ be selected at the time, and if customers fail, in ordering, to state the book 

 they want, they must not be disappointed if we fail to honor subsequent demands made for it. 



PETER HENDERSON M^k 37 Cortlandt St., N. Y. 



JOHN O. RANKINi JR., 34 CORTLANDT ST. N.V. 



