PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK— BOOKS. 



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



THE original Handbook of Plants was luBued In 1881 : In tbis new editioa, rewritten and enlarged. 

 Issued 1890, all the new genera ot Importance are added. All botanical terms are givitn, and alHo a 

 very full llBt of popular names, and all the generic names are accentuated. The natural syHti-m of 

 arrangement Ih adopted In the descriptions Instead of the Llnna-an or artificial syHtem ; and a carefully 

 complied glossary ot the technical terms used in describing plants. A monthly calendar of operations for 

 the gr'^nhouse and window garden, flower, fruit and kitchen garden, will undoubtedly render this edition 

 "■x yi"'/ valuable as a book of reference. Very full instructions are given for the culture and forcing of all Fruits 



^ Flowers and Vegetables of Importance: In short, there is sutllcicnt matter given on ail gardening Bublecis 



to allow this book to be termed The Americaji Oardener'B Dictionary. And It will be better adapted 

 to the wants of Amcricnn horticulturists than any of the more costly foreign works on gardening; for, 

 though from a foreign standpoint these are all they claim to be, yet for our American climate much of the Information, and especially th« 

 gardening instructions, are not only useless, but actually misleading". 



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About 5,000 genera of plants, alphabetically arranged, with thtir descriptions, sects and Insiecticidcs, Lawn, Manures. Mulcliing.Moles, Orchard, Orchid Cul 



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Individual hlHtories, usefulness, liardincss, requireinent.s, etc., and, where thuir 

 Importance justitles it, cultural Instructions are given— Local, Popular or Com- 

 mon Names — Correct Pronunciation —Cultivation of principal Vegetables, 

 Fruits and Flowers — Winter Forcing of Rose.s Bulbs and other Plants used for 

 Cut Flowers— Winter Forcing of vegetables and Fruits— Monthly Calendar of 

 Garden Operations. 



Annuals, Bedding and Borders, Bouquets, Budding, Cold Frames and Pits, 

 Color in Flowers, Conservatory, Designs, Draining, Fertilizers, Fountains, 

 Frozer Plants, Glass and Glazing, Grafting, Grasses, Greenhouse, Hanging 

 Basketr Heating, Hedges, Herbaceous Plants, Herbarium, Hybridization, In- 



ture, Ornan)ental Planting, Parlor Gardening, Plant Protection, Plants in 

 Kooins, Plants for Shady Places, Plants for Seaside, Poisonous or Unhealthy 

 Piantij, Potting, Propagation by Cuttings, Layers. Seeds, etc.. Pruning, Rock 

 Garden and Rock Work , Rotation of Crops, Scieens, Seeds, Shading. Soli, Sub- 

 soiling, Sub-tropical Garden, Temperature, Transplanting, Trencliing, Va^es, 

 Ventilating, Walks, Wardian Cases, Waterfalls, Watering, Water Lilies and 

 Water Plants, Weeds, Wintering Plants. 



Useful Tables and Memoranda on Temperature, Rain. Soil, Manures, Number* 

 of Plants and Trees to an Acre ; Quantity of Seeds.required per Acre ; tor a certain 

 number of Plants; to a given length of Drill, etc. 



^/iOWTHE FARM PAYS 



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By PETER HENDERSON and WM. CROZIER. 400 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. 

 Price, post-paid, $2.00. 



AN acknowledged authority for Farmers. Gives all of the Latest Methods of Growing Grase, 

 Grain, Root Crops, Fruits, etc. : and all about Stock, Farm Machinery, etc., etc. It Is written 

 In a plain and easj-to-be-understood language. Everything pertaining to scientific or ab- 

 struse subjects has been Ignored, the information given being the most direct to make the work ot 

 the farm pay, which the so-called Hcientiflc farmer rarely does. 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 

 continued success — hence, their advice Is practical and doubly valuable. 



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TraJnlnff for the Buslnesa of Forming— Agricultural CoUegre Education— Selec- 

 tion of SoTlrt— Farm Roads — Draining— Manures and the Moden of ApplicHtion — 

 Special KiTtiHzers — Green Manuring — Fertilizing by Feeding — Plowing. Harrow- 

 ing, Cultivating and Rolling Land — Cse of the Feet in Sowing and Planting— Ro- 

 tation of Crops— Crops for Soiling and Fodder— Abortion in Cows — Ora-'^s and its 

 Uanagement — Varieties of Grasses— Mixed Grasses for Pasture and Hay— Cutting 

 and Curing of Hay— Clover Hay— EnsUag©— Ensilage Compared with Roots— 



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Live Stock of the Farm— Cows for the Dairy— Feed and Care for Milk and Butter 

 —Young Cattle and their Care— Managument of the Dairy- Farm Horses— Sheep 

 — Swin^-Farm Buildings— Fences— Rearing and Keeping Poultrv— Pests of tha 

 Farm and their Remedies — Farm Macbinerv— Plows — Harrows — Cultivators- 

 Mowers and Reapers— Haying Machinery- FodderCurters^Carts— Farm Culture 

 of Vegetables and Fruits— Cabbage— Celery— Sweet Corn— Cucumbers for Pickles 

 — Melona as a Market Crop— Onions— Culture of Small Fruit*. 



By PETER HENDERSON. lH Pages. Illustrated. 



Price, post-paid, $1.00. 



— CONTENTS.— 



Popular Bulbs— Window Gardining— Plants In Rooms 

 — Propagation of Plants by Cuttings — Layers, Divisions 

 and Seed — Rose Growing in winter — Greenhou.'-e Structures and Heating — For- 

 mation and Renovation of Lawns — Onion Growing for Market— How to Grow 

 Cauliflower for Market — Growing and Preservintr 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. 



By PETER HENDERSON. H Paje*. 

 Price, post-paid, 25 Cents. 

 — CONTENTS.— 

 Descriptions of Bulbs, alphabetically arranged, 

 with Special (Cultural Instructions for each— Designs 

 for Beds of Tulips and Hyacinths— Saturaliiing Bulbs 

 In Lawns, etc.— The Window Garden of Bulbs— Hya- 

 cinth Glasses. Crocus Pots.etc. —Bulbs in Cold Frames 

 and pnts— When Bulbs shoiiid be Taken Up— Preparation and Outside Plantlng- 

 Spring-flowering Bulbs- Wlnte>nowering Bulbs — Summer-flowering Bulbs- 

 Forcing Bulbs. 



Insecticides and Fungicides: How to BIlx and Apply 



Them — Inlunoijs Insects, with Remedies, and the 



Plants and Trees they Usuaily .\ttaek— I'lant DLsea-^^ts 'sw h as Mildew. Rust, 



Rot. etc., etc)., with Remedies, and tlie Plants Usxially Affected— Insecticide and 



Fungicide Ingredients and their Average Cost — Spraying Ciilendar, etc. 



42 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 

 25 Cents. 



How to Make a Water Lily Tank and 

 Protect in Wintei^-Wlien Tender Species 

 may be Started — Keeping Water I.iiiis 

 over Winter— To Extend the Season of 

 Blooming — Soil for Growing Amiaticfv— 

 Water Lilies in Tubs aud Cement Basins— The Possihilltles nf Aquatic Gardening 

 — Hardy Aiiuatics— Knemii s of Aquatics and Remedies— Suitable Animals for the 

 Acimitic (Jiircien- How to Grow Water Lilies from Seed— An Amateur's Succeaa— 

 8p.'ries and Varieties of Water Lilies and Aquatics. 



CONDENSED VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEED CULTURE. 



By PETER HENDERSON. Price, post-paid. It Cents. 

 An elght^page pamphlet, containing. In a contJensed form, InBtructlona for the cultivation of Garden Vegetables and Flowere from seeds. 

 Also, full directions for making Hot-Beds and Cold Frnmes. 



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