« NEW iiss —NDED 1847. ee 
Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, Farm Crops, 
Dairying, Animals, Drainage, Fertilizers, 
Spraying, Etc. 
HENDERSON’S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS AND GENERAL HORTICULTURE. 
By PETER HENDERSON 526 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, Postpaid, $3.00. 
HE standard American dictionary of plants, flowering, ornamental, economic, etc., including vegetables and fmuits; in fact, a complete work on cultivated 
Tt plant life. Everything is arranged alphabetically, from Aaron's Beard 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. 
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 Insgcticides, Lawn, Manures, 
CONTENTS. 
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 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, postpaid, $1.50 
F you wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 
The personal success of its author during his long career as a market 
gardener, 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 gar- 
dens. It tells the whole story, from selection and treatment of soils to mar- 
keting the produce; also covers the forcing of vegetables, strawberries, etc. 
PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 325 pages, fully illustrated. Price, postpaid, $1.50 
le 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. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 404 Pages. 
Fully Illustrated. Price, Postpaid, $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. 
CONTENTS. 
Preparation of the Ground—Walks—The Lawn—Designs for Gardens— 
Planting of Lawn and Flower Beds—Fall or Holland Bulbs, ete.—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 
BEST METHODS OF GROWING VEGETABLES. 
PRICE, 25 CENTS. 
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. 
Cultivation of Plants in Rooms—Greenhouses attached to Dwellings—De- 
tached Greenhouses, Modes of Heating, ete.—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. | 
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HOW THE FARM PAYS. i 
By PETER HENDERSON and WM.CROZIER. 400 pages, profusely illustrated, — 
Price, postpaid, $2.00, } 
N acknowledged authority for Farmers. Gives all the Latest Methods of ' 
Growing Grass, Grain, Root Crops, Fruits, ete.; 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 jarm 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. 
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