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By PETER HENDERSON. 526 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $3.00. 



THE original Handbook op Plants was issued in 1881 ; In this new edition, rewritten and enlarged. 

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

 very full list of popular names, and all the generic names are accentuated. The natural system of 

 arrangement is adopted in the descriptions instead of the Linnsean 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 

 valuable as a book of reference. Very full instructions are given for the culture and forcing of ail Fruits, 

 Flowers and Vegetables of importance; in short, there is sufficient matter given on all 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; for, 

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

 gardening instructions, are not only useless, but actually misleading. 



CONTENTS i—> 



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



About 5,000 genera of plants, alphabetically arranged, with their descriptions, 

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

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

 mon 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— Monthly Calendar of 

 Garden Operations. 



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

 Color in Flowers, Conservatory, Designs, Draining, Fertilizers, Fountains, 

 Frozer Plants, Glass and Glazing, Grafting, Grasses, Greenhouse, Hanging 

 Basketr Heating, Hedges, Herbaceous Plants, Herbarium, Hybridization, In- 



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, 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, Numbers 

 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.* 



By PETER HENDERSON and WM. CROZIER. 400 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. 

 Price, post-paid, $2.00. 



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

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

 In a plain and easy-to-be-tinderstood language. Everything pertaining to scientific or ab- 

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

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

 kindever written by two men while actually engaged in the work which, to both, has been such a 

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



^-— CONTENTS 



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

 tion of Soils — Farm Roads — Draining — Manures and the Modes of Application — 

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

 ing, Cultivating and Rolling Land — Use of the Feet in Sowing and Planting — Ro- 

 tation of Crops— Crops for Soiling and Fodder— Abortion in Cows — Grass and its 

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

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



Live Stock of the Farm— Cows 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 Poultrv— Pests of the 

 Farm and their Remedies— Farm Machinery— Plows— Harrows — Cultivators— 

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

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

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



By PETER HENDERSON. 244 Pages. Illustrated. 



Price, post-paid, $1.00. 



— 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. 



J PETER HENDERSON. 24 Pagef 



Price, post-paid, 25 Cents. 

 — CONTENTS.— 



Descriptions of Bulbs, alphabetically arranged, 

 with Special Cultural Instructions for each— Designs 

 for Beds of Tulipsand Hyacinths— Naturalizing Bulbs 

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

 cinth Glasses, Crocus Pots.etc.— BulbsinCold Frames 

 and Pits— When Bulbs should be Taken Up— Preparation and Outside Plantlng- 

 Spring-flowering Bulbs — Winter-flowering Bulbs — Summer-flowering Bulbs- 

 Forcing Bulbs. 



Insecticides and Fungicides : How to Mix and Apply 



Them— Injurious Insects, with Remedies, and the 



Plants and Trees they Usually Attack— Plant Diseases (such as Mildew, Rust, 



Rot, etc., etc)., with Remedies, and the Plants Usually Affected — Insecticide and 



Fungicide Ingredients and their Average Cost — Spraying Calendar, etc. 



42 Pages. Illustrated. Price, pott 

 25 Cents. 



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 

 Aquatic Garden— How to Grow Water Lilies from Seed— An Amateur's Success- 

 Species and Varieties of Water Lilies and Aquatics. 



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 of Garden Vegetables and Flowers from seeds 

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



Cnorill /^fnt» . " ordered at one time, .we i will supply the full set of ten books offered on pages 80 and 81 C/\*% OT\ /\/\ 

 ^ lKl>i/<l I II I Kl carnage prepaid, for $9.00. (Separately, they would cost $11.35.) This set of books r"(lP TkU I II I 



OpUUlUl V/1101 s forms A COMPLETE LIBRARY OF THE GARDEN, GREENHOUSE AND FARM. 1 UI tj) ' •V/U 



