Standard Gardening Books 



GARDEN GUIDE 



the amateur gardeners' 

 Handbook 



Garden Guide 



FOUKTII IOdition 



384 pages and over 275 teaching 

 illustrations with beautiful cover 

 in four colors. 



Tlie gem of pardoning literature. 

 Over S.G.OOO copies sold tliroughout 

 the United States and Canada. 



(iAKDEN Guide has wonderful 

 iliiipl (Ts devoted to the N'egetahlo 

 :inil Fiuit (5aidens, with practical 

 layouts and planting plans. 



It tells you in full about how to 

 liK'iiaie and fcitilizo your ground, 

 iiow to distinguish and get rid of 

 insect pests. 



All the flowers and bulbs with 

 planting plans; the lawn, orna- 

 Mieutal trees and shrubs, vines, 

 water plants. 



TTow to prune your plants; how 

 to propagate plants; how to con- 

 struct hotbeds and forcing frames; 

 how to spra.v; about tools, rustic 

 furniture, birds of the garden, can- 

 ning. Winter storage of food and 

 plants, etc. 



Coveis every step from spading 

 the ground to preserving the har- 

 vest. 



Price, paper cover, $1.00; post- 

 paid, $1.10; cloth cover, $1.50; 

 . postpaid, $1.65. 



Home Fruit Grower 



By yi. G. Kains 



A clear, simple, practical and comprehensive volume for 

 the amateur who seeks to giow high (juality fruits for homo 

 needs, whether to eat out of hand as dessert, or to put up 

 iu some culinary way. 



The author was particularly well fitted to have written 

 this book, having been reared in just such a fruit planta- 

 tion, and in a village where for more than half a centuiy 

 the leading hobby has been high quality fruit growing for 

 family use. Witli this standard of excellence he has united 

 the best modern methods of seoiving choice specimens — - 

 iMctliods little practiced, or even unknown, in his boyhood 

 da.\s — tillage, spraying, thinning, fertilizing, cover cropping, 

 pievcnting frost injuiies, low heading, rational pruning — 

 I ach simple in it.self and each conducive to the production 

 ■ t an abundance of the best fruit. 



Heavily illustrated with teaching pictures. Beautiful cover 

 in four colors. Paper, $1.00; postpaid, $1.10; cloth, 

 superior paper, $1.50; postpaid, $1.65. 



BECKERTS SEED STORE 



101-103 Federal St. PITTSBURGH, PA. 



North Side 



