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PETER HENDERSON A. CO., NEW YORK -^ 



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 Bear 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 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, 



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 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 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 gar- 

 dener, and the success of thousands from the time he first made his cul- 

 tural 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 this 

 subject. 



GARDENING 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 propa- 

 gation of Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits. It has had a large sale, and gone through several editions, the present having been revised and greatly en- 

 larged; it exhaustively treats on the Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden, Fruit Garden, Greenhouse, Grapery, Window Garden, Lawn, the Water Garden, etc. 



HENDERSON'S "PICTURESQUE GARDENS." Ornamental Garden.ng Illustrated. 



By CHARLES HENDERSON. 160 pages, 91x12 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 

 adornments are reflected in over three hundred magnificent photographic illustrations from nature — many of these views are 5x7 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 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 ORACLE. 



PRICE, 25 CENTS. 



A BOOKLET giving in a concise form the latest and best methods of grow- 

 ing vegetables for home, market and exhibition; condensed cultural in- 

 structions for flower seeds; how to make and renovate lawns, cold frames 

 and hot beds; combating bugs, worms and insects, including apparatus for 

 applying insecticides and fungicides; spraying calendar; culture and storing 

 root crops for farm stock; fertilizing constituents consumed by various garden, 

 field and fruit crops, etc., 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 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 

 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. 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 in Glasses of Water, etc. 

 — Keeping Dormant Bulbs — Hints on Buying and Selecting for Different Pur- 

 poses, etc. 



The CULTURE of WATER LILIES and AQUATICS. 



By PETER HENDERSON & CO. Revised and Enlarged Edition. 

 Profusely illustrated. Price, post-paid, 60c. 



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 



