180 
Dairying, Animals, 
By PETER HENDERSON, 654 Pages. 
of importance. 
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, Glaz- 
ing, Grafting, Grasses, Greenhouse, Hanging Baskets, Heating, Hedges, Herba- 
ceous Plants, Herberium, Hybridization, Insects and Insecticides, Lawn, Man- 
GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 
By PETER HENDERSON, 375 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.75. 
If you wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 
he personal success of its author during his Jong 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 
wpon this great work. While written particularly for the Market Gardener 
and Trucker, yet it is of equal value for large private gardens. _ It tells the whole 
story, from selection and treatment, of soils to marketing the produce; also 
covers the forcing of vegetables, strawberries, etc. 
GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. — 
By PETER HENDERSON: 404 pages fully illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.75. 
Was written to meet the wants of those desiring information on gardening for private use. Its 1 0 
) e It has had a large sale, and gone through several editions, the present having been revised and greatly enlarged; it exe 
haustively treats on the Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden, Fruit Garden, Greenhouse, Grapery, Window Garden, Lawn, the Water Garden, ete. 
tion of Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits. 
HENDERSON’S “PICTURESQUE GARDENS.” Ornamental Gardening Illustrated. — 
160 pages, 9%4x12 inches; 340 photographic illustrations; price, $2.00 post-paid. 
This unique new book mirrors the charms of the prettiest parks, lawns and gardens of Europe and America. The picturesque, the natural and the gardenesque 
ornments are reflected in over three hundred magnificent photographic illustrations from nature—many of these views are 5 x 7 inches, some larger, few smaller; 
they are grouped and printed in a most artistic manner on heayy-coated paper with just enough text matter to describe the view and name the plants, vines, trees 
BY CHARLES HENDERSON. 
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 GUIDE and RECORD. 
PRICE 25 CENTS. 
We think that this book contains more essential information in a simple style 
and form, easy of reference, and more complete than many works much more 
Pretentious. It treats concisely and sufficiently about vegetable and flower 
gardening and their-branches. It contains understandable articles on Vegetable 
Culture, Flowers from Seeds, Bulb Culture, Lawns, Preparing the Garden 
Ground, Fertilizers, Insecticides and Plant Diseases, Canning Vegetables, and 
many other garden pointers. 
It is of convenient pocket size 5 x 814 inches, containing 64 pages of text in- 
cluding index. Also 12 pages, one for each month for a diary. 
HENDERSON’S BULB CULTURE. 
Revised and enlarged edition. 68 BeGeeS Profusely illustrated. Price, post 
paid, 50c. 3 
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, ete.—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 and Glasses of Water, 
etc.—Keeping Dormant Bulbs—Hints on Buying and Selecting for’ Different 
Purposes, etc. 
SPECI AL OFFER: If ordered at one time, we will supply the full set of nine Books offered above, carriage prepaid, for 
n © (Separately, they would cost $13.50.) This set of Books forms a Complete Library of the Garden, Greenhouse and Farm. 
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Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, Farm Crops, 
Drainage, 
Fertilizers, Spraying, Ete. 
HENDERSON’S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS, AND GENERAL HORTICULTURE. — 
Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $3.00. : 
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 Zogyphyllum; very complete descriptions are given, with full cultural instructions for everything 
A full list of popular names and all botanical terms are given; also a glossary of the technical terms used in describing plants. 
endar 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. 
—————__—___—_—_———_ CONTENTS. 
Irrigation, 
A monthly eal- 
ures, Mulching, Moles, Orchard, Orchid Culture, Ornamental Planting, Parlor 
Gardening, Plant Protection, Plants for Shady Places, Plants for Seaside, Poi- 
sonous or Unhealthy Plants, Potting, Propagation by Cutting, Layers, Is, 
ete., 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. 2 : 
Useful Tables and Memorandum 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, ete. 
PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 
By PETER HENDERSON, 325 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.75. 
If you wish to become a Commercial Florist, then of all books you should 
procure PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. We have any number of com- 
limentary letters from people who actually knew nothing of the florists’ 
pinnae but who followed the instructions in this work and are now “full 
fledged florists.’’ And although written especially for the Commercial Florist, f 
it is equally valuable to the amateur and all having conservatories, greenhouses, __ 
windy gardens, etc. Admitted to be the leading American authority on this 
subject. 
Its scope therefore embraces directions for the culture and propaga 
HOW THE FARM PAYS. ; 
By PETER HENDERSON and WM. CROZIER. 400 pages. Profusel 
illustrated. Price, post-paid,.$2.00 z : : 
An acknowledged authority for farmers, Gives all the Latest Methods of - 
Growing Grass, Grain, Root Crops; Fruits, ete., and all about Stock, Farm 
Machinery, etc. It is written in-a plain and easy-to-be-understood language. 
Everything pertaining to scientific or abstruse subjects has been ignored, 
the information given being the most direct to make the work of the farm pay 
This is perhaps the first book of the kind ever written by two men while actu- 
ally engaged in the work which to both has been such a continued success— 
hence their advice is practical and doubly valuable. 
The CULTURE of WATER LILIES and AQUATICS 
By PETER HENDERSON & CO. Revised and Enlarged Edition. 
Profusely illustrated. Price, post-paid, 50c. e 
This new edition gives the latest methods of growing and flowering Nym- 
phaeas, Nelumbiums, Victorias and all other Ornamental Aquatics, both ne 
natural and artificial ponds, pools, tanks, etc.; including suitably situated a. 
natural waters—Making Artificial Ponds, ete—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, ete. - : 
$11.50 
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