PETER HENDERSON & GO., NEW YORK.—BOOKS. 5 
mo 
s 
Ty 
OH’: fF 
feo oe ee) 
VZe SS : i 
cep 67) 
Wes 
[GSS NEW HAND Book: PLANTS iczn 
By PETER HENDERSON. 
HE original HANDBOOK OF PLANTS was issued in 1881; in this new edition all the new genera of 
importance are added. All botanical terms are given and also a very full list of popular names 
and all the generic names are accentuated. Thenatural system of arrangement is adopted in the 
3 descriptions instead ofthe Linnean or artificial system; and a carefully compiled glossary of the 
bo.” technical terms used in describing plants. A monthly calendar of operations for the greenhouse and window 
garden, flower, fruitand kitchen garden, will undoubtedly render this edition valuable as a book of reference. 
Very fullinstructions are given for the culture and forcing of all Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables of impor- 
tance; in short, thereis sufficient matter given on all gardening subjects to allow this book to be termed The 
American Gardener’s Dictionary. And it will be better adapted to the wants of American horticulturists 
than any of the more costly foreign works on gardening; for, though from a foreign standpoint these are all they claim to be, yet for our 
American climate much of the information, and especially the gardening instructions, are not only useless, but actually misleading. 
et, CONTENTS. ++ 
About 5,000 genera of plants, alphabetically arranged, with their descriptions, 
individual histories, usefulness, hardiness, requirements, etc., aud, where their 
importance justifies it, cultural instructions are given—Local, 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—Monthly Calendar of Garden Operations. 
Annuals, Bedding and Borders, Bouquets, Budding, Cold Frames and Pits, Color 
in Flowers, Conservatory, Designs, Draining, Fertilizers, Fountains, Frozen Plants, 
Glass and Glazing, Grafting, Grasses, Greenhouse, Hanging Baskets, Heating, 
Hedges, Herbaceous Plants, Herbarium, Hybridization, Insects and Insecticides, 
Lawn, Manures, Mulching, Moles, Orchard, Orchid Culture, Ornamental Planting, 
Parlor Gardening, Plant Protection, Plants in Rooms, Plants for Shady Places, Plants 
for Sea-side, Poisonous or Unhealthy Plants, Potting, Propagation by Cuttings, 
Layers, Seeds, etc., Pruning, Rock Garden and Rock Work, 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. y 
Useful Tables and Memoranda on Tempeiature, 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. 
REWRITTEN AND ENLARGED, ISSUED 1890. 526 PAGES, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED, PRICE, POST-PAID, $4.00. 
r= HOW THE. FAR 
N acknowledged authority for Farmers. 
in a plain and easy-to-be-understood language. 
C °___g 
M PAYS. 
) 
By PETER HENDERSON AND WM. CROZIER. 
Gives all the Latest Methods of Growing Grass, 
Grain, Root Crops, Fruits, ete.; and allabout Stock, Farm Machinery, etc., etc. It is written 
Everything pertaining to scientific or 
abstruse subjects has been ignored, the information given being the most direct to make the 
work of the farm pay, which the so-called scientific farmer rarely does. 
the first book of the kind ever written by two men while actually engaged in the work which, to 
both, has been such a continued success—hence, their advice is practical and doubly valuable. 
S 
This is perhaps 
wat, CONTENTS. +2*— 
Training for the Business of Farming—Agricultural College Education—Selection 
of Soils—Farm Roads—Draining—Manures and the Modes of Application—Special 
Fertilizers—Green Manuring—Fertilizing by Feeding —Plowing, Harrowing, Culti- 
yating and Rolling Land—Use of the Feet in Sowing and Planting—Rotation of 
Crops—Crops for Soiling and Fodder—Soiling Crops—Abortion in Cows and its 
Causes—Grass and its Management—Varieties of Grasses—Mixed Grasses for 
Pasture and Hay—Cutting and Curing of Hay—Clover Hay—Ensilage—Ensilage 
400 PAGES, PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED, 
> 
: NR GARDEN FARM ToPICS 
Propagation of Plants by Cuttings, Layers, Divisions and 
Seed— Rose Growingin Winter—Greenhouse Structures and 
Heating—Formation and Renovation of Lawns—Onion 
Growing for Market—How to Grow Cauliflower for Market— 
Growing and Preserving Celery—Strawberry Culture—Root 
Crops for Farm Stock—Culture of Alfalfa and Lucerne—Manures and their Appli- 
cation—The Use of the Feet in Seed Sowing and Planting—Draining, etc., etc. 
244 Pages, Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.00. 
Insecticides a Fungicides : < EMED j | 
fe, How to Mix and Apply Them— p Renee 
ip Injurious Insects, with Remedies— 
Sey) Plant Diseases (such as Mildew, Rust, Rot, etc.), with 
Jf Remedies—Implements and Appliances for Spraying 
and Dusting Insecticides and Fungicides on Plants, 
Trees, etc.—The Average Cost of Insecticide and Fungicide Ingredients, etc., etc. 
36 Pages, Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 25 Cents, 
ore wy 
Compared with Roots—Live Stock of the Farm—Cows for the Dairy—Feed and 
Care for Milk and Butter—Young Cattle and their Care—Management of the Dairy 
—Farm Horses—Sheep—Swine—Farm Buildings—Fences—Rearing and Keeping 
Poultry—Pests of the Farm and their Remedies—Farm Machinery—Plows—Har- 
rows, Cultivators—Mowers and Reapers—Haying Machinery—Fodder Cutters— 
Carts—Farm Culture of Vegetables and Fruits—Cabbage—Celery—Sweet Corn— 
Cucumbers for Pickles—Melons as a Market Crop—Onions—Culture of Small Fruits. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $2.50. 
\ 
Bulbs, alphabetically arranged, with Special 
Cultural Instructions for each—Designs for 
Beds of Tulips and Hyacinths—Preparation and Outside 
Planting—Spring Flowering Bulbs—Winter Flowering 
Bulbs—Summer Flowering Bulbs—Forcing Bulbs—Natural- 
izing Bulbsin Lawns, etc.—The Window Garden of Bulbs—Bulbs 
in Cold Frames and Pits When Bulbs should be Taken Up, etc., etc. 
24 Pages, Price, post-paid, 25 Cents. 
How to make a Water Lily Tank and Pro- 
tect in Winter—Keeping Water Lilies over 
Winter—Water Lilies in Tubs and Cement 
Basins—How to Grow Water Lilies from Seed 
—Species and Varieties of Water Lilies and 
Aquatics—When Tender Species may be 
Started—To Extend the Season of Blooming—Soil for Growing Aquatics—Hardy 
Aquatics—Enemies of Aquatics, and Remedies—Suitable Animals for the Aquatic 
Garden, etc., etc. 
42 Pages, Illustrated, Price, post-paid, 25 Cents, 
SPECIAL OFFER 1 /f ordered at one time, we will supply the full set of nine books, offered on pages4and 6, carriage prepaid, for $10.00. (Sepa- FOR 0 00 
a rately, they would cost $13.75.) This set of books form A COMPLETE LIBRARY OF THE GARDEN, GREENHOUSE AND FARM. a 
