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



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gene* 



HORTfCULTU^t 



By PETER HENDERSON. 526 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $4.00. 



THE original Handbook of Plants was Issued la 1881 ; in this new edition, rewritten and enlarged, 

 Issued 1890, all the uew genera of importance are added. All botanical terms are given, and also a 

 very lull list of popular names, and all the geuerlc names are accentuated. The natural system of 

 arrangement is adopted in the descriptions instead of the I .Inna-an or artificial system ; and a carefully 

 compiled 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, will undoubtedly render this edition 

 *\ \J""I valuable as a book of reference. Very full instructions are given for the culture and forcing of all Fruits, 



Flowers and Vegetables of importance; in short, there is sufficient matter given on nil 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; lor. 

 hough from a foreign standpoint these are all they claim to be, yet for our American climate much of the information, and especially the 

 ;ardenlng Instructions, are not only useless, but actually misleading. 



CONTENTS. 



About 6,000 genera of plants, alphabetically arranged, with their descriptions, 

 ndividual histories, usefulness, hardiness, requirements, etc., and. where their 

 mportanee justifies it, cultural instructions are given— Local, Popular or Com- 

 non Names — Correct Pronunciation — Cultivation of principal Vegetables, 

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

 Hut Flowers^ — Winter Forcing of Vegetables and Fruits— Monthly Calendar of 

 Jarden Operations. 



Annuals, Bedding and Borders, Bouquets, Budding, Cold Frames and Pits. 

 Splor in Flowers, Conservatory, Designs. Draining, Fertili-vrs. Fountains, 

 frozen Plants, Glass and Glazing, Grafting, Grasses, Oreennouse, Hanging 

 iaskets. Heating. Hedges, Herbaceous Plants, Herbarium, Hybridization, In- 



sects and Insecticides, Lawn, Manures, Mulching, Moles, Orchard, Orchid Cul- 

 ture, Ornamental Planting, Parlor Gardening, Plant Protection, Plants in 

 Rooms, Plants for Shady Places, Plants for Seaside, 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, Trencning, Vases. 

 Ventilating, Walks, Wardiau Cases, Waterfalls, Watering, Water Lilies and 

 Water Plants, Weeds, Wintering Plants. 



Useful Tables and Memoranda on Temperature, Rain, Soil, Manures, Number* 

 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. 



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t*HOW THE FARM PAYS 



By PETER HENDERSON and WM. CR0Z1ER. 400 Pages. 

 Price, post-paid, $2.50. 



Profusely Illustrated. 



AN acknowledged authority for Farmers, (jives all of the Latest Methods of Growing Grass. 

 Grain, Root Crops, Fruits, etc.; and all about Stock, Farm Machinery, etc.. etc. It is writ- 

 ten in a plain and easy-to-be-uuderstood language. Everything pertaining to scientific or 

 ibstruse subjects has been ignored, the information given being the most direct to make the work 

 if the farm pay, which the so-called scientific farmer rarely does. This is perhaps the first book of 

 ;he kind ever written by two men while actually engaged In the work which, to both, has been 

 luch a continued success — hence, their advice is practical and doubly valuable. 



CONTENTS -■&= 



Live Stock of the Farm — Cow 



Training for the Business of Farming — Agricultural College Education — Selec- 

 tion of Sotls — Farm Roads — Draining — Manures and the Modes of Application- 

 Special Fertilizers— Green Manuring — Fertilizing by Feeding— Plowing. Harrow- 

 ng. Cultivating and Rolling Land — Use of the Feet in Sowing and Planting — Ro- 

 :att« m of Crops— Crops for Soiling and Fodder— Abortion in Cows — Grass and its 

 Management — Varieties of Grasses— Mixed Grasses for Pasture and Hay — Cutting 

 ind Curing of Hay — Clover Hay — Ensilage— Ensilage Compared with Roots — 



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— Harrows — Cultivators- 

 Mowers and Reapers— Haying Machinery— Fodder Cutters— CartSr— Farm Culture 

 of Vegetables and Fruits— Cabbage — Celery— Sweet Corn— Cucumbers for Pickles 

 — Melons as a Market Crop — Onions — Culture of Small Fruits. 



Bv PETER HENDERSON. 244 Pages. Illustrated. 

 Price, post-paid, St. 00. 



CONTENTS. 

 Popular Bulbs — Window Gardening — Plants in Rooms 

 —Propagation of Plants by Cuttings, Layers, Divisions 

 and Seed — Rose Growing in Winter — Greenhouse Structures and Heating — For- 

 mation 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 Application— Market Gardening around New York— The Use of the Feet in 

 Seed Sowing and Planting— Draining. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 24 Pages. 

 Price, post-paid, 25 Cents. 



CONTENTS. 

 Descriptions of Bulbs, alphabetically arranged, 

 with Special Cultural Instructions for each— Designs 

 for Beds of Tulips and Hyacinths— Naturalizing Bulbs 

 in Lawns, etc.— The Window Garden of Bulbs— Hya- 

 cinth Glasses, Crocus Pots, etc.— Bulbs in Cold Frames 

 and Pits — When Bulbs should be Taken Up — Preparation and Outsidi 

 Spring-flowering Bulbs — Winter-dowering Bulbs — Summer-flowei 

 Forcing Bulbs. 



' Planting 

 ing Bulbs- 



Plants and Tr* 

 Rot, etc.. etc.). 

 Fungicide lngr 



CONTENTS. 



Insecticides and Fungicides: How to Mix and Apply 



Them — Injurious Insects, with Remedies, and the 



es they Usually Attack— Plant Diseases (such as Mildew, Rust, 



with Remedies, and the Plants Usually Affected — Insecticide and 



edients and their Average Cost — Spraying Calendar, etc. 



42 Pages 



Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 



25 Cents. i 



How to Make a Water Lily Tank and 

 Protect in Winter— When Tender Species 

 may be Started — Keeping Water Lilies 

 over Winter — To Extend the Season of 

 Blooming — Soil for Growing Aquatics — 

 Water Lilies in Tubs and Cement Basins — The 



Possibilities of Aquatic Gardening 



Hardy Aquatics— Enemies of Aquatics and Remedies — Suitable Animals for the 

 juatic Garden— How to Grow Water Lilies from Seed An Amateur's 



Aquat 

 Sp. ' 



and Varieties of Water Lilies and Aquatic 



's Success— 



CONDENSED VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEED CULTURE. 



By PETER HENDERSON. Price, post-paid. 10 Cents. 

 An eight-page pamphlet, containing, in a condensed form. Instructions for the cultivation 

 Also, full directions for making Hot-Beds and Cold Frames. 



of Garden Vegetables and Flowers from seeds. 



Special Otter:?; 



ordered at one time, we will supply the full set of ten books offered on pages 80 and 81. 

 carriage prepaid, for $10.00. I Separately, they would cost $13.85.1 This set of books 

 forms A COMPLETE LIBRARY OF THE GARDEN. GREENHOUSE AND FARM. 



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