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HENDERSON’S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS AND GENERAL HORTICULTURE. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 536 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $3.00. 
HE 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 Zygophyllum; very complete descriptions are given, with full cultural instructions for every- 
thing of inportance. 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. 
so 1 i ee CON DENTS: 
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, Fertilizing, Fountains, Frozen 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 for Shady Places, Plants for Seaside, Poisonous 
or Unhealthy Plants, Potting, Propagation by Cuttings, Layers, s, 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, $1.50. 
F 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. 
F you wish to become a Commercial Florist, then of all books you 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, 
mln don gardens, etc. Admitted to be the leading American authority on this 
subject. 
GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 404 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
AS written to meet the wants of those desiring information on gardening for private use. Its scope therefore embraces directions for the culture and prop- 
W agation of Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits. It has had a large sale, and gone through several editions, the present having been revised and greatly en- 
larged; it exhaustively treats on the Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden, Fruit Garden, Greenhouse, Grapery, Window Garden, Lawn, the Water Garden, etc. 
HENDERSON’S ‘‘PICTURESQUE GARDENS.”’ 
Ornamental Gardening Illustrated. 
By CHARLES HENDERSON. 160 pages, 93 x 12 inches; 340 photographic illustrations; price, $2.50 post-paid. 
adornments are reflected in over three hundred magnificent photographic illustrations from nature—many of these views are 5x7 inches, some larger, few 
ae unique new book mirrors the charms of the prettiest parks, lawns and gardens of Europe and America. The picturesque, the natural and the gardenesque 
smaller; they are grouped and printed in a most artistic manner on heavy-coated paper with just enough text matter to describe the view and name the 
plants, vines, trees and shrubs needed to produce a similar effect or design. 
Although there are countless works of exhaustive precept on landscaping and gardening, there have been none issued so rich with illustrations of example, 
In it we force no particular styles or fashions, but describe and picture such a great variety of lawn and garden creations that some fruitful suggestions must be 
found adaptable to the environment of every home, whether pretentious or modest. 
HENDERSON’S GARDEN ORACLE. 
PRICE, 25 CENTS. 
BOOKLET giving in a concise form the latest and best methods of grow- 
A ing vegetables for home, market and exhibition; condensed cultural in- 
structions for flower seeds; how to make and renovate lawns, cold frames 
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 WM. CROZIER. 400 pages. Profusely 
illustrated. Price, post-paid, $2.00. 
N acknowledged authority for Farmers. Gives all the Latest Methods of 
Growing Grass, Grain, Root Crops, Fruits, etc.; and all about Stock, 
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 make the work 
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 double valuable. 
GARDEN AND FARM TOPICS. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 244 pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.00. 
A compilation of various essays on Bulbs, Window Gardening, Plant Propagation, Rose growing in Winter, Greenhouse Construction and Heating, Renovating 
Lawns and various Vegetable and Farm Crops. 
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 for all kinds of Hardy and Tender Winter, Spring, Summer and 
Autumn Flowering Bulbs, Tubers, Corms, etc.—Bulbs for Gardens and Lawns— 
Design Bedding—Mixed Borders—Naturalizing—Situations, Soils and Prep- 
aration—Time and Depth to Plant—Treatment after Flowering—Bulbs for 
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 artificial 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—Aquana Plants, etc. 
' If ordered at one time, we will supply the full set of ten Books offered above, carriage prepaid, for 
Special Offer: (Separately, they would cost $14.25.) This set of Books forms a Complete Library of the Garden, Greenhouse and Farm, $12.00. 
