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Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, Farm Crop: 



Dairying, Animals, Drainage, Irrigation 



Fertilizers, Spraying, Etc. 



HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS, and general horticulture. 



By PETER HENDERSON, 654 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $3.00. 

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

 life. Everything is arranged alphabetically from Aaron's Beard to ZogyphyUum; very complete descriptions are given, with full cultural instructions for everything 

 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 cal- 



' ; sufficient 

 give 



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 i 

 matter given ou all gardening subjects to allow this book to be termed The American Gardener's Dictionary. 



-CONTENTS. 



About oOOO genera of plants with their descriptions, histories, usefulness, 

 hardiness, requirements, etc., and cultural instructions arc given — Popular or 

 Common Names— Correct Pronunciation — Cultivation of Principal Vegetables, 

 Fruits and Flowers — Winter Forcing of Roses, Rulbs 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- 



ure- 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, 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 Plant.-. Weeds. Wintering Plants. 



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, etc. 



GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



By PETER HENDERSON, 375 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 

 If you wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



The personal success of its author during his long career a,- 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 gardens. It tells the whole 

 story, from selection and treatment, of soils to marketing the produce; also 

 covers the forcing of vegetables, strawberries, etc. 



PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



By PETER HENDERSON, 325 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 

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

 procure PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. We have any number ot 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. 



GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 404 pages fully illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 



Was written to meet the wants of those desiring information on gardening for private use. Its scope therefore embraces directions for the culture and propaga- 

 tion of Flowers. Vegetables and Fruits. It has had a large sale, and gone through several editions, the present having been revised and greatly enlarged; it ex- 

 haustively 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, 9',xl2 inches; 340 photographic illustrations; price, $2.00 post-paid. 



This unique new book mirrors the charms of the prettiest parks, lawns and gardens of Kurope and America. The picturesque, the natural and the gardenesque 

 adornments 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 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 landscapingtand 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 Buch 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. 



HENDERSONS GARDEN GUIDE and RECORD. 



PRICE 25 CENTS. 



We think that this book contains more essential information in a simple style 

 and form, easv of reference, and more complete than many works much more 

 pretentious. It treats concisely and sufficiently about vegetable anil 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 8}-4 inches, containing 64 pages of text in- 

 cluding index. Also 12 pages, one for each month for a diary. 



HOW THE FARM PAYS. 



By PETER HENDERSON and WM. 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 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 lias been such a continued success — 

 hence their advice is practical and doubly valuable. 



HENDERSON'S RULR 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 and Glasses of Water, 

 etc. — Keeping Dormant Bulbs — Hints on Buying and Selecting for Different 

 Purposes, 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 — Aquaria Plants, etc. 



SPECIAL OFFER: 



If ordered at one time, we will supply the full set of nine Books offered above, carriage prepaid, for 

 (Separately, they would cost $12.75.) This set of Books forms a Complete Library of the Garden, Greenhouse and Farm 



,.$11.50 



