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By T. GREINER. 



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% Absolutely the best book on gardening published ; over gooo copies sold in 3 years and 



I the demand rapidly increasing. For sale at all the leading bookstores in the United States 

 Zand Canad a. 272 pages, gx6 inches, every line of which is full of practical information. 



"Hew re make the garben pay" 



Contains almost one hundred thousand words, ts finely printed 

 in large readable type, is handsomely bound, copiously illustrated 

 at great expense, with almost 200 practical illustrations, and is, in 

 all respects, both as to the matter it contains and the manner in 

 which it has been printed, hound and published, superior to any 

 work of its kind ever issued. 



It is not only a common-sense helper for every gardener, large or small, but 

 will also prove an ornament to any centre table. 



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CHAPTER I. HOME GARDENING.— Gardening for Pleasure, Health, Profit 



and Moral it v. 

 CHAPTER II. MARKET GARDENING AND TRUCK FARMING.-Garden- 



ing for profit only. 

 CHAPTER III. FARMER'S KITCHEN GARDEN.-Selection of locality and 



arrangement of beds. 

 CHAPTER IV. REQUIREMENTS OF SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING. 



— Selection of soil and location. 

 CHAPTER V. HINTS IN MARKETING.-Secrets of success exposed. 

 CHAPTER VI. MANURES FOR THE GARDEN.-I. Stable manure and how 



to mana ge i t. 

 CHAPTER VTI. MANURES FOR THE GARDEN.-II. Commercial Fertil- 

 izers, their value and uses, 

 CHAPTER VIII. MANURES FOR THE GARDEN.-III. Nitrates, wood-ashes, 



and other specific fertilizers. 

 CHAPTER IX. GARDEN IMPLEMENTS AND HOW TO USE THEM. 

 CHAPTER X. COLD FRAMES.— Their construction and use. 

 CHAPTER XI. MANURE HOT BEDS.-Their construction and use. 

 CHAPTER XII. FIRE HOT BEDS AND THEIR CONSTRUCT!! >X. 

 CHAPTER XI II. COLD FORCING HOUSES.— How to build and manage. 

 CHAPTER XIV. HOT FORCING HOUSES.— Simple, sensible structures, 



successfully managed ; cost, construction, etc. 

 CHAPTER XV. EARLY PLANTS FOR THE HOME GARDEN.-Various 



means and devices for everybody. 

 CHAPTER XVI. DRAINAGE.— Where needed and how done. 

 CHAPTER XVII. IRRIGATION.— Surface soaking, and Sub-Earth Flooding. 

 CHAPTER XVIII. INSECTS AND OTHER FOES. -Their ways of sowing 



mischief, and how to keep them in check. 

 CHAPTER XIX. FUNGUS DISEASES OF PLANTS.-How to prevent and 



cure them. 

 CHAPTER XX. SEEDS AND SEED SOWING.-Bv machine and by hand. 

 CHAPTER XXI. NOVELTIES, AND WHY WE TEST THEM. 

 CHAPTER XXII. SYSTEM AND ROTATION OF CROPPING. 

 CHAPTER XXIII. WEEDS. AND HOW TO MANAGE THEM. 

 CHAPTER XXIV. THINNING AND TRANSPLANTING. 

 CH APT ER XXV. PROTECTION AGAINST DROUTH AND FROST. 

 CHAPTER XXVI. HIRED HELP.— Employment and treatment of labor. 

 CHAPTER XXVII. MONTHLY MEMORANDA. -A Chronological Summarv 



of the year's work. 

 CHAPTER XXVIII. CULTURAL DIRECTIONS. How the various crops 



ot our gardens are grown most easily and profitably. 



e Mr. T. Greiner, that justly-celebrated writer and authority on gardening 

 £ and horticultural topics, in 1889 compiled the results of his notes and experience 

 * for many years into a voluminous and exhaustive book on the subject entitled 



fV'HOWTO MAKE THE GARDEN PAW 



I have undertaken the publishing and placing before 

 the American public of this the best and most practical j 

 work ever written for the benefit of the American 

 vegetable gardener. I am confident it will prove the 

 stepping-stone to successful gardening for many | 

 thousands who are now unacquainted with this, the 

 noblest calling on earth, while I know it will give 

 many profitable common-sense ideas to those 

 who are even now high up in the profession. 

 In giving a brief summary of the work, I cannot do \ 

 better than quote the following from Mr. Greiner's in- 

 troductory remarks in " How to Make the Garden Pay:" 



"Gardening, in the minds of average people, is a I 

 dreadful combination in its requirements of skill and 

 unceasing drudgery. Many, especially farmers, doubt 

 their ability to acquire the one without giving more 

 time and thought than they can afford to devote to the 

 garden, and fear the other, hence, home gardening is 

 often at a discount. To disabuse the minds of the 

 masses of this only too common error, to convince people in rural districts and 

 in the suburbs of cities, that gardening in reality is a very strong combination 

 of pleasure, health and profit, and to point out the ways and means how to I 

 relieve the task of all semblance of drudgery — that is one of the aims, and per- 

 haps the chief one of this volume. 



" While in the following pages I shall attempt to teach the whole of the art, I 

 in the aspects that have been revealed to me during long years of practice, study 

 and experiment, and propose to conform these instruction's with the needs of the ' 

 new beginner, both in kitchen and market gardening, I am quite certain that 

 even the experienced horticulturist can find new truths and valuable suggestions , 

 in it, and it will pay all— novice and expert — to look these pages over carefully. I 

 " Any one of the readers who thus far has remained in the old ruts, let him 

 turn over a new leaf and try the newer ways that I point out ; for gardening, like 

 lite, is what you yourself make of it— a paradise of pleasure or a veritable sheol 

 of drudgery. You have the decision in your own hands. You may leisurely 

 accompany your visitors through the well-kept grounds that are beaming with 

 thrifty, sparkling vegetation, as your own countenance is beaming with pleas- 

 ure and satisfaction, and that is as free from weeds as your face is free from care ; 

 or you may crawl through the beds on hands and knees, piling up stacks of 

 weeds, with a face sour arid distorted in discontent and in hatred of yourself 

 and the life you are leading. My instructions, if faithfullv followed, will insure j 

 you the former conditions and save you from the curse of the latter." 



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- F. P. Shaw, Fountain, Minn.: I have planted vour seed lor lour years. Last season I 

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J vegetables should have. When you see a work like this it niakes you wonder how 



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Iowa Seed Company, Des Moines, Iowa: '"How to Make the Garden Pav' 



received. As far as we have examined this work, would say, we consider it very 



ably written and illustrated, and the ideas of the writer are so well and plainly 



I expressed as to be easily understood by all classes of readers and it is sure to be a 



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If you wish to secure a copy of this, the most practical work on gardening ever 

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