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H ENDERSON'S GARDEN Guide and Record 



FREE WITH EVERY ORDER amounting to $1.00 or over, IF ASKED FOR WHEN ORDERING 



REVISED and MANY NEW GARDENING POINTS ADDED for 1913 including CANNING and PRESERVING VEGETABLES for WINTER USE by MRS. RORER 



THIS booklet is in convenient pocket form, with a waterproof cover, so that it may be taken right out in the garden where 

 it will often come in handy in giving cultural directions and answering concisely, in simple language, the perplexing hundred and 

 one gardening questions. The information given on the various subjects, while not exhaustive, is strictly up-to-date, and may 

 be quickly found by glancing at the ready reference index. Another valuable feature is the blank pages for making notes, such as the 

 kind of vegetable, fruit or flower, date of sowing or planting, first product, continuity, quality, etc. In fact many little records should 

 be kept in it to refresh one's mind regarding another season's gardening operations. 



Among the "GARDEN BEAUTIFUL" and "GARDEN BOUNTIFUL" Topics discussed are: 



Flowers from Seed: 



Selections for Different Purposes. 

 Brief Instructions How to Grow An- 

 nuals, Biennials, Perennials. 

 Special on Asters,Pansies and SweetPeas. 

 How the English Grow Their Big 

 Sweet Peas. 



Garden Culture of the Rose: 



Combating Insects and Diseases. 



Chrysanthemums : 



How to Grow Exhibition Flowers. 



Dahlia Culture. 

 Bulb Culture: 



In Gardens, Pots and Naturalized. 



Peony Culture. 

 Pruning Shrubs: 



Which Flower on New and Which 

 on Old Wood. 



Lawns and Grass Plots: 



Making and Maintaining. 



How to Eradicate Worms and Moles 



in the Soil and Weeds in Walks. 



Preparing Garden Ground: 



Fertilizing, Draining, Cultivating. 



Vegetable Culture: 



Brief Directions and How to Grow the 

 Big Prizetakers. 



Planting Table: 



Days from Sowing until ready to Use, etc. 



The Fall Vegetable Garden: 



\A/hat and How to Grow for Suc- 

 cession. Etc., Etc. 



Vegetables for Winter Use: 



What and How to Store. 



Coldframe Vegetables: 



For Winter Use, What and How to 

 Grow. 



How to Prevent Potato Scab. 



Garden Culture of 



Strawberries and Other Small 



Fruits. 

 Insects and Plant Diseases : 



Latest Methods of Treatment. 

 How to Make 



Coldframes and Hot Beds. 



The Essential Fertilizing Ingre- 

 dients: Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid 

 and Potash — consumed by good average 

 crops of vegetables and fruits on one 

 acre as a guide to what fertilizer the 

 land requires. 



The quantities of fertilizers re^ 

 quired for different areas. 



Our Garden Friends that should 

 not be destroyed. 



Seedlings Illustrated of the leading 



vegetables so they may be distinguished 

 from weeds. 



An Interesting and Valuable 

 Table of 



The Time Required to Digest 

 Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts. 



Etc., Etc. 



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