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Garden and Farm 



BOOKS. 



Flo\A/ers, Vegetables, Fruits, 



Farm Crops, Dairying, Animals, 



Spraying, Etc 



HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS and general hokticulture. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 526 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 '.T Beard to Zy go phy Hum; very complete descriptions are given, with full cultural instructions for every* 

 thing 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 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, Fertilizers, Fountains, Frozen Plants, Glazing, 

 Grafting, Grasses, Greenhouse, Hanging Baskets, Heating;. Hedges, Herbaceous 

 Plants, Herbarium. Hybridization, Insects and Insecticides, Lawn, Manures, 



Mulching, Moles, Orchard, Orchid culture, Ornamental Planting, Parlor Gar- 

 dening. Plant Protection, Plants for Shady Places, Plants for Seaside, Poison- 

 ous 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, Transolanting, 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, 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 gar- 

 dener, 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. 32S 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 compli- 

 mentary 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. 



=GAP,DENING FOR PLEASURE.= 



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By PETER HENDERSON. 404 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 



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

 agation 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 



CONTENT*.- 



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 — Winter-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 — De- 

 tached 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 Horticulture — Hardy Grapes — The 

 Cold Grapery — The Hot House or Forcing Grapery — The Strawberry — The 

 Vegetable Garden — Monthly Calendar of Operations. 



BEST METHODS OF GROWING VEGETABLES. 



PRICE, 25 CENTS. 



A PAMPHLET giving in a concise form the latest methods of growing gar- 

 den vegetables, including special treatment for growing exhibition vege- 

 tables, a useful table, giving temperatures in which seeds best germi- 

 nate, the time required to '" come up " and days to mature; the use of the feet 

 in seed sowing; how to prevent scab in potatoes; combating insects and plant 

 diseases; apparatus for applying insecticides, fungicides; the proportions of fer- 

 tilizing constituents in various vegetable crops; the fertilizers best supplying 

 the needful; stimulating plants into quick growth and early maturity; the 

 making and management of cold frames and hot beds, etc. 



HOW THE FARM PAYS. 



By PETER HENDERSON and W/H.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-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 

 Aien 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 PICTURESQUE GARDENS. 



160 Pages, 9:1x12 inches; 340 Photographic Illustrations. Price, S2.50, 



(Ornamental Gardening Illustrated.) By CHARLES HENDERSON. 



post-paid. This beautiful book is fully described on the third page of cover. 



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 NA/ater 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. 



GARDEN AND FARM TOPICS. 



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



A compilation of various essays on Bulbs, Window Gardening, Plant Propa- 

 gation, Rose Growing in Winter, Greenhouse Construction and Heating, Reno- 

 vating Lawns, and various Vegetable and Farm Crops. 



INSECTS AND PLANT DISEASES. 



WITH REMEDIES. 

 By PETER HENDERSON & CO. 76 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 25c. 



Qr**^/-'! 51 1 Cifff^V • '* ordered at one time, we will supply th 



OJJCCldl VfllCl . (Separately, they would cost $14.00.) This set of 



e full set of eleven Books offered above, carriage prepaid, for 



Books forms a Complete Library of the Garden, Greenhouse and Farm. 



$11.00 



