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HENDERSONS HANDBOOK OF PLANTS AND GENERAL HORTICULTURE. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 536 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, S3.00. 



THE standard American dictionary of plants, flowering, ornamental, economic etc.. including vegetables and fruits; in fact, a complete work on cultivated plant 

 life. Everything is arranged alphabetically from Aaron's Beard to Zygopkyllum; very complete descriptions are given, with full cultural instruction, 

 for eyeryttiing of importance. A full list of popular names and all botanical terms are given; also a 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, renders it valuable as a book of 

 reference; in short, there is sufficient matter given on all gardening subjects to allow this book to be termed The American Gardener's Dictionary. 



-CONTENT*. 



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, Froren Plants, 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 Gar- 

 dening. Plant Protection. Plants lor Shady Places. Plants for Seaside. Poisonous 

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

 Pruning, Rock Garden, 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. 



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 given length of drill, etc. 



GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 375 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid S1.50. 



IF you wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read GARDENING 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 popular 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 story, 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, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid $1,50. 



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

 procure PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. We have any 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 having conservatories, greenhouses, 

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

 subject. 



& J2> GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. j& & 



By PETER HENDERSON. 404 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid, SI.50. 



WAS 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, thepresent having been revised 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 GARDEN 

 ORACLE. 



PRICE, 25 CENTS. 



A BOOKLET giving in a concise form the latest and best methods of 

 growing vegetables for home, market and exhibition; condensed cultural 

 instructions for flower seeds; how to make and renovate lawns, cold 

 f rames and hot beds; combating bugs, worms and insects, including apparatus 

 for applying insecticides and fungicides: spraying calendar; culture and storing 

 root crops for farm stock; fertilizing constituents consumed by various garden, 

 field and fruit crops, etc., etc. 



HOW THE FARM PAYS. 



By PETER HENDERSON and W1H. CROZIER. 400 pages. Profusely illustrated. 

 Price, post-paid, $2.00. 



AN acknowledged authority for Farmers. Gives all the Latest Methods of 

 Growing Grass. Grain, Root Crops, Fruits, etc.; and all about Stocks 

 Farm Machinery' etc. It is written in a plain and easy-to-be-under- 

 stood language. Everything pertaining to scientific or abstruse subjects has 

 been ignored the information given being the most direct to majie the uork of 

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

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

 tinued success — hence their advice is practical and doubly valuable. 



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A compilation 

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various 

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GARDEN AND 



By PETER HENDERSON. 244 Pages 



essays on Bulbs. Window Gardening. Plant 

 Vegetables and Farm Crops. 



FARM TOPICS. 



. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.00. 



Propagation. Rose growing in Winter. Greenhouse 



Construction 



and 



Heating 



HENDERSON' S BULB CULTURE. 



Revised and enlarged edition. 68 pages. Profusely illustrated. Price, post- 

 paid, 50c. 



This newly revised and enlarged edition gives the up-to-date methods of 

 treatment lor all kinds of Hardy and Tender Winter, Spring. Summer and 

 Autumn Flowering Bulbs. Tubers, Corms, etc. — Bulbs lor Gardens and Lawns — 

 Design Bedding — Mixed Borders — Naturalizing — Situations, Soils and Prep- 

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

 the House and Greenhouse — Forcing — Flowering 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 

 illustrated. Price, post-paid, 50c. 



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

 phaeas. Nelumbiums, Victorias and all other Ornamental Aquatics, both in 

 natural and aitificial 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. 



S^FPIAT OFPFR- If ordered at one time, we will supply the full set of ten booksofferedaboveandon following page, carriage prepaid, for 4S10 flfl 

 O J; tl»l/il* Uf r LH. ( Separately, they would cost $14.25.) This set of books forms a complete library of the garden, greenhouse & farm. «?'*>• VV 



