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•PETER HENDERSON & CO., MEW YORK- 



HENDERSON'S NEW HAND BOOK OF PLANTS 



AND GENERAL 

 HORTICULTURE. 



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



■T^HE standard American dictionary of plants, flowering, ornamental, economic, etc., including vegetables and fruits; in fact, a 



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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 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 is sufficient matter 

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



-CONTENTS. 



About 5.000 genera of plants, with their descriptions, histories, usefulness, hardiness, re- 

 quirements, 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, Fertilizers, Fountains, Frozen Plants, Glazing, Grafting, Grasses, Green- 

 house, Hanging Baskets, Heating, Hedges, Herbaceous Plants, Herbarium, Hybridization, 

 Insects and Insecticides, Lawn, aianures. Mulching, Moles, Orchard, Orchid Culture, Orna- 



mental Planting, Parlor Gardening, Plant Protection, Plants for Shady Places, Plants fur 

 Seaside, Poisonous or Unhealthy Plants, Potting, Propagation by Cuttings, 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 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. 



GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 375 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 



IP 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 Gar- 

 dener 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 complimentary letters from people who actually 

 knew nothing of the florists' business, but who followed the in- 

 structions 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 au- 

 thority 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 propagation 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 exhaustively treats on the Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden, Fruit 

 Garden, Greenhouse, Grapery, Window Garden, Lawn, the Water Garden, etc. 



CONTENTS. 



Preparation of the. Ground— Walks — The Lawn — Design for Gardens — Planting- of Lawn 

 and Flower Beds — Fall or Holland Bulbs, etc. — Propagation of Plants by Seeds — Propagation 

 of Plants by Cuttings: — How Grafting and Budding are Done — The Potting of Plants— Win- 

 ter-flowering Plants^ — Plants suited for Summer Decoration — Window Gardening — Culture 

 of Water Lilies and other Aquatic Plants — The Chrysanthemum— Parlor Gardening or the 



Cultivation of Plants in Rooms— Greenhouses attached to Dwellings — Detached Greenhouses* 

 Modes of Heating, etc. — Greenhouses and Pits without Artificial Heating — Flowers that will 

 grow in the Shade — Insects and other Parasites injurious to Plants — Humbugs in Horti- 

 culture — Hardy Grapes— The Cold Grapery — The Hot House or Forcing Grapery — The Straw- 

 berry—The Vegetable Garden— Monthly Calendar of Operations. 



HENDERSON'S 



BEST METHODS OF GROWING VEGETABLES. 



Price, 25 Cents. 



ANEW PAMPHLET— gotten up tor popular use ; it gives in a 

 plain, concise form the latest and best methods for growing 

 garden vegetables, including the special treatment required 

 for growing big prize takers usually exhibited, such as squash, 

 tomatoes, onions, etc. ; a useful table, giving temperatures in 

 which seeds best germinate, the time required to "come up" and 

 days to mature ; the use of the feet in seed sowing ; how to prevent 

 scab in potatoes ; latest methods of combating bugs, worms, in- 

 sects ; rust and plant diseases; best insecticides, fungicides and 

 apparatus for applying them; the proportions of fertilizing con- 

 stituents in various vegetable crops ; the fertilizers best supplying 

 the needful; how, when and how much to apply; stimulating 

 plants into quick growth and early maturity ; the making and 

 management of cold frames and hot beds, etc. 



GARDEN AND FARM TOPICS. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 244 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.00. 

 Contents. 



Popular Bulbs— Window Gardening— Plants in Rooms — Propagation of Plants by Cut- 

 tings, Layei-s, Divisions and Seed — Rose Growing in Winter — Greenhouse Structures and 

 Heating — Formation 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. 



INSECTS AND PLANT DISEASES, 



WITH REMEDIES. 



By PETER HENDERSON & CO. 76 Pages. Illustrated. Price, postpaid, 25c. 



HENDERSON'S PICTURESQUE GARDENS. 



(Ornamental Gardening Illustrated.) 

 By CHARLES HENDERSON. 



160 Pages, 9%xl2 inches ; 340 Photographic Illustrations. Price, 

 $2.50, post-paid. This beautiful book is fully described on 

 page 1. 



HOW THE FARM PAYS. 



By PETER HENDERSON and WM. CROZIER. 400 Pages. 

 Price, post-paid, $2.00. 



Profusely Illustrated. 



AN acknowledged authority for Farmers. Gives all the Latest 

 Methods of Growing Grass, Grain, Koot Crops, Fruits, etc.; 

 and all about Stock, Farm Machinery, etc. , etc. It is written 

 in a plain and easy-to-be-understood language. Everything per- 

 taining 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 kiud ever 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 — Selection of Soils 

 ■ — Farm Roads — Draining — Manures and the Modes of Application — Special Fertilizers- 

 Green Manuring — Fertilizing by Feeding — Plowing, Harrowing, Cultivating and. Rolling: 

 Land — Use of the Feet in Sowing and Planting — Rotation of Crops — Crops for Soiling and 

 Fodder — Abortion in Cows — Grasss and its Management — Varieties of Grasses — Mixed Grasses 

 for Pasture and Hay— Cutting and Curing of Hay — Clover Hay — Ensilage — Ensilage Com- 

 pared 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 Building — Fences — Rearing and Keeping Poultry — 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 — Cab- 

 bage—Celery — Sweet Corn — Cucumbers for Pickles — Melons as a Market Crop — Onions — 

 Culture of Small Fruits. 



BULB CULTURE. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 24 Pages. Price, post-paid, 25c. 



Tells how to plant and flower Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, 

 Lilies, and all important bulbs, both indoors and in the garden. 



THE CULTURE OF WATER LILIES AND AQUATICS. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 42 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 25c 



The growing of hardy and tender Water Lilies in artificial tanks, 

 tubs, etc. ; also in natural ponds and streams. 



Cnn^ini f\t tr\t» • " ordered at one time, we will supply the full set of eleven Books offered above, carriage prepaid, for *®* CI I A/V 



OpcClal Viler. (Separately, they would cost $14.00.) This set of books forms A COMPLETE LIBRARY OP THE GARDEN, GREENHOUSE AND FARM. $11. UU 



