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Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, Farm Crops, 



Dairying, Animals, Drainage, Irrigation, 



Fertilizers, Spraying, Etc. 



HENDEKSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS, and general horticulture 



By PETER HENDERSON, 536 Pages. 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 Pear to Zygophyllum; 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 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 

 1b sufficient matter given on all gardening subjects to allow this book to be termed The American Gardener's Dictionary. 



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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, 



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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 CuUings, 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 Plants, Weeds, Wintering Plants. 



Useful Tables and Memorandum 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. 



IF 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 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 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, 

 window gardens, etc. Admitted to be the leading American authority on thit 

 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 propagation of Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits. It has had a 

 large sale, and gone through several editions, the present having been re- 

 vised and greatly enlarged; it exhaustively treats on the Vegetable Garden, 

 Flower Garden, Fruit Garden, Greenhouse, Grapery, Window Garden, Lawn, 

 the Water Garden, etc. 



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 practical 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 of 

 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 doubly valuable. 





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, Sumn. sr 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 

 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. 



CpCf^I A j /*>pppD . If ordered at one time, we will supply the full set of seven Books offered above, carriage prepaid, for <tQ C(\ 

 J1 L.V-'IAAl— Wl 1 1_1\ . (Separately, they would cost $10.60.) This set of Books forms a Complete Library of the Garden, Greenhouse and Farm. <P -'.-/ v 



FARMERS CYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE. 



A Compendium of Agricultural Science and Practice on Farm, Orchard and 



Garden Crops, and the Feeding and Diseases of Farm Animals. 

 By EARLEY VERNON WILCOX, Ph.D., and CLARENCE BEAMAN SMITH, 

 M.S., Asst. Editors in the Office of Experiment Stations, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



This is a practical and complete presentation of the whole subject of agri- 

 culture for the use of agriculturists who desire up-to-date, reliable information 

 on all matters pertaining to crops and stock, but more particularly for the actual 

 farmer. The volume contains Detailed Directions for the Culture of Every Im- 

 portant Field, Orchard and Garden Crop grown in America, together with de- 

 scriptions of their chief insect pests and fungous diseases, and remedies for their 

 control. It contains an account of modern methods in feeding and handling 

 all farm stock, poultry, etc., and the most recent remedies suggested for con- 

 trolling diseases. This is the greatest, most comprehensive and finest illus- 

 trated work on farming ever published in this or any other country. It is entirely 

 new, authentic, exhaustive and practical, adapted to all sections, East, West, 

 North and South. A work indispensable to every one having to do with 

 farming in any of its various branches. Price, in Cloth, $3.50; Half Morocco, $4.60. 



Bailey's New Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. 



This new Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture has been freshly written in 

 the light of the most recent research and experience largely by experts in their 

 various specialties all edited by L. H. Bailey for years the Dean of Horticulture 

 at Cornell University. It is not merely an ordinary revision or corrected edition 

 of the old Cyclopedia, but it is a new work from start to finish with enlarged 

 boundaries goegraphically and practically; it supersedes and displaces all pre- 

 vious editions or reprints of every kind whatsoever. 



The owner of the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture will have at 

 hand in this work a means of quickly satisfying his need for authoritative in- 

 formation. It is both an Encyclopedia and a Manual, for with the aid of its 

 Synopsis and Key, amateur and professional alike may quickly identify any 

 plant, shrub or fruit contained within the set, and then receive expert instruc- 

 tions for its cultivation. It is beautifully illustrated both in colors — sepia plates 

 and over 4000 engravings. It is published in six large volumes — at $6.00 each. 

 (purchaser paying Carriage) Volumes one and two are now ready — the others 

 are expected to be ready within the year. Sold only in complete sets. 



Prospectus with fuller information regarding the features mailed free. 



