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D. M. FERRY & CO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



BOOKS 



• • • FOR SALE BY • • • 



D. M. Ferry St Co., 



And. Sent Free on Receipt of Price. 



FARM, GARDEN, FRUITS, FLOWERS, Etc. 



Allen's New American Farm book $2 50 



American Grape Growing and Wine Making 1 50 



Barry's Fruit Garden. 2 00 



Eommer's Method of Making Manures paper 25 



Brill's Farm Gardening and Seed Growing 1 00 



Broom Corn and Brooms cloth 50 



•Cauliflowers, and How to Grow Them paper 20 



Elliott's Hand Book for Fruit Growers paper GO 



Fvery Woman Her Own Flower Gardener. paper 75 



Ferns and Ferneries paper 30 



Flax Culture paper 30 



Fuller's Practical Forestry, the latest publication; 



very complete 1 50 



Fuller's Grape Culturist 1 50 



Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist 1 50 



Fuller's Strawberry Culturist, new 25 



Fulton's Peach Culture 1 50 



Gregory on Onion Raising paper 30 



Gardening for Profit, New and Enlarged Edition 2 00 



Gardening for pleasure, " " " 2 00 



Harris' Talks on Manures 1 75 



Hop Culture in the U. S 1 50 



Hop Culture paper 30 



How to Destroy Insects on FloAvers and House 



Plants paper 30 



HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP 



American Bird Fancier paper $ 50 



Canary Birds paper 50 



Coburn's Swine Husbandry 1 75 



Dadd's Am. Reformed Horse Book, 8vo.. new 2 50 



Dadd's Am. Reformed Cattle Doctor, 8vo., new 2 50 



Harris on the Pig 1 50 



Herbert's Hints to Horse Keepers 1 75 



Hog Raising and Pork Making paper 40 



How to Tell the Age of a Horse 25 



Keeping One Cow 1 00 



How to Grow Onions on Muck Soil paper $ 25 



Kalamazoo Celery; its Cultivation and Secret of Suc- 

 cess paper 50 



The Language of Flowers .' paper 25 



My Vineyard at Lakeview 1 25 



Onion Culture paper 20 



Our Farm of Four Acres paper 30 



Practical Floriculture 1 50 



Quinn's Money in the Garden 1 50 



Quinn's Pear Culture 1 00 



Robinson's Ferns, in Their Homes and Ours 1 50 



Robinson's Mushroom Culture 50 



Roe's.Play and Profit in My Garden 1 50 



Silos, Ensilage and Silage 50 



Stewart's Irrigation 1 50 



The Rose 125 



Tobacco Culture paper 25 



Truck Farming at the South 1 50 



Waring's Drainage for Profit and Health 1 50 



Waring's Elements of Agriculture 1 00 



Wheat Culture paper 50 



White's Cranberry Culture 1 25 



White's Gardening for the South 2 00 



"Window Gardening 1 50 



, SWINE, POULTRY, Etc. 



Lewis' Practical Poultry $1 50 



Profits in Poultry, Useful and Ornamental Breeds 1 00 



Quinby's New Bee Keeping 1 50 



Randall's Practical Shepherd 2 00 



Stewart's Shepherd's Manual 1 50 



Stoddard's An Egg Farm 50 



Willard's Practical Butter Book 1 00 



Willard's Practical Dairy Husbandry 3 00 



Wright's Practical Poultry Keeper 2 00 



Youatt on Sheep 1 00 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Allen's Rural Architecture $1 50 



Atwood's Country and Suburban Houses 1 50 



Batty's Practical Taxidermy and Home Decoration 1 50 



Everybody's Paint Book 100 



Hooper's Dog. and Gun paper 30 



How to be Your Own Lawyer 1 50 



Hunter and Trapper $ 75 



Norton's Scientific Agriculture 75 



Reed's House Plans for Everybody 1 50 



Scribner's Ready Reckoner and Log Book 35 



Silk Culture paper 30 



THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.— A neat little work of 120 pages, printed in fine style, on beautifully tinted paper, 

 and contains several fine engravings. It gives the language and the poetry of flowers, and valuable suggestions in reference to 

 floral decorations and floral conversation. It is so arranged that the botanical name of the flower may be referred to. Price, 

 postpaid, paper, 25 cents. 



INSECTS ON FLOWERS AND HOUSE PLANTS, AND HOW TO DESTROY THEM.— Gives full directions 

 for destroying Insects on Plants, both out-door and in-door. It tells how to fertilize and stimulate plants, the experience of 

 •cultivators in keeping their plants healthy. Among the topics are these: Red Spider, Aphis, Green Fly, Worms in Pots, Rose 

 Slugs, Rose Bugs, Snails, Caterpillars, how to Destroy Insects on Garden Fruit Trees and Vegetables, etc. It also tells how to 

 Destroy Ants and all House Bugs. Price, postpaid, 30 cents. 



WINDOW GARDENING.— Treats of the general managememt of "Window Gardens, kinds of Window Boxes and 

 Stands best adapted to plants, temperature required, how and when to be watered, soil and fertilizers best adapted to them. 

 It has directions for making propagating boxes, heating cases and cold frames, and gives a carefully selected fist of such 

 plants for small conservatories as are recommended by long experience, and which are distinguished for masses of flowers, 

 zfine leaves, interesting habits and easy cultivation. It has chapters on hanging baskets, Ferns, Ivies, climbing plants for win- 

 dows, and creepers for balcony shields. It contains 300 pages and 250 illustrations. Bound in cloth. Price, $1.50, postpaid. 



EVERY WOMAN HER OWN FLOWER GARDENER.— Is the title of a book which contains the combined ex- 

 perience of trained experts, put into clear, easy form for every woman who wants to be successful at flower gardening. It 

 starts at the very beginning and if you never tried gardening in your life you can make a success of it by following a simple 

 routine. Price, postpaid, 75 cents. Bound in paper. 



QUINN'S MONEY IN THE GARDEN.— A practical treatise on gardening, giving full and explicit instructions for 

 the preparation and cultivation of a garden for profit. Price, postpaid, $1.50. 



THE ROSE, by H B. Ellwanger.— This is without doubt the most complete and satisfactory work on the subject. Mr. 

 Hllwanger has long been recognized as an authority on The Rose. It gives concisely and plainly all the information that 

 •every rose culturist requires. Price, postpaid, $1.25. 



$1,000 WORTH OF LAW FOR $1.50 "How To Be Your Own Lawyer," is the title of a book containing over 



500 pages, adapted to use in every State and Territory in the Union, and by far the best and most complete work of the kind 

 ever published. It contains valuable information on points of law for the Farmer, Mechanic and Merchant; gives form for 

 Legal Documents a Dictionary of Legal Terms and Valuable Tables for all. Handsomely bound in cloth. Price, postpaid, 

 $1.50. 



EVERYBODY'S PAINT BOOK.— A book on in-door and out-door painting, which should have a place in every house- 

 hold in the land It is designed to teach people how to do their own painting, and is particularly valuable in the country 

 home It gives directions for mixing and applying paints, tells about Varnishing, Staining, Polishing, Paper Hanging, 

 Kalsomining, Etc. It has chapters on Painting Out Buildings, Roofs, Farm Implements, Wagons, Carriages, House Cleaning 

 and Home Decorating. It is bound in cloth, contains a large number of illustrations, and costs hut $1.00, postpaid. 



