HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS. 



BY PETER. HENDERSON. 



This new work is designed to fill a want that many amateur and professional Horticulturists have 

 often felt — the need of a concise yet comprehensive Dictionary of Plants. The work above named, 

 written and compiled with great care, we think will fully meet such a want. 



The scope of the work embraces the Botanical Name. Derivation, Linnaean, and Natural Orders of 

 Botany of all the Leading Genera of Ornamental and Useful Plants, up to the present time (comprising 

 every plant of importance relating to the mechanic arts, as well as to the greenhouse and vegetable 

 garden;, with concise instructions for propagation and culture. A valuable feature of the book, par- 

 ticularly to amateurs, is the great care that has been given to obtaining all known local or common 

 names; and a comprehensive glossary of Botanical and Technical terms is also given, which will be 

 found of great value even to the experienced Horticulturist. 



As a book of reference. HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS will take the place, 

 for all practical purposes, of the expensive and voluminous European works of this kind, as it has 

 been written with a view to meet the wants of those engaged in Horticulture in this country. In- 

 structions for the culture of many important plants have been given at length. 



We are much pleased with the thoroughness of the work 

 and the handsome shape in which it is issued, and shall 

 consider it a valuable addition to our library. 



Crosman Bros., Rochester, N. Y. 



I am satisfied that the Handbook of Plants will supply a 

 want long felt by every cultivator of flowers, and I predict 

 for it a large sale. B. K. Bliss. New York. 



We are very much pleased with the extent aud variety of 

 its infomiation.and the clearness of its practical directions. 

 Thos. A. Cox & Co., San Francisco. 



FROM FLORISTS AND NURSERYMEN. 



It is the best book of its kind ever published in America. 

 We have many such European works, but their expense de- 

 ters the multitude from the knowledge you have given for 

 so small a sum. Robt. J. Halliday, Baltimore, Md. 



A work of this kind carefully compiled, has been greatly 

 needed, and I consider the Handbook indispensable to nur- 

 serymen and florists. W. C Barry, Rochester. N. Y. 



We value the Handbook very highly for it s intrinsic merit 

 and usefulness. 



The Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove. Pa. 



I am convinced that more than any other it is the bookfor 

 our people; and allow me to congratulate you upon the 

 careful, accurate and thorough work that has so evidently 

 been bestowed upon it, and which any one may well be 

 proud of. Josiah Hoopes, West Chester, Pa. 



While only those who have had experience in such syste- 

 matic work can appreciate the amount of labor bestowed 

 upon its pages, every one who is in need of a horticultural 

 book of reference must feel grateful to you for the care and 

 exactness with which vou have filled a long felt want. 



F. M. Hexajiek, New Castle. N. Y. 



The Handbook of Plants I think will prove to be the most 

 valuable of any ever published in America on horticul- 

 tural subjects, for it fills a want long felt. 



John Henderson, Flushing, N. Y. 



Your last work*should be in the hands of every amateur 

 and professional in the laud. The article on Roses alone is 

 worth many times the cost of the book. 



Edwin Lonsdale, Germantown, Pa. 



FROM AMATEURS. 



You have done much heretofore to promote the cause of 

 Terraculrure in its various departments, but, without flat- 

 tery I consider this book one of the most useful and able 

 accomplishments of your busy life. The whole book is a 

 capital illustration of what enterprise, experience, and in- 

 domitable perseverance can accomplish. 



Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester, Mass. 



Henderson's Handbook of Plants fills a gap for which all 

 lovers of flowers and plants will gratefully thank you as a 

 public benefactor. Jas. W. Smith, Sag Harbor, L. I. 



1 am very much pleased with your work, and think it bet- 

 ter adapted to the wants of the practical plant-grower thau 

 an}- book I have seen. 



Mrs. S. B. Cone, Stockbridge, Mass. 



I have received your very excellent and needed Diction- 

 ary of Plants; it will supply necessities that are often ur- 

 gent. That it is well and thoroughly executed, I need 

 scarcely pause to assure you. T. S. Bell, Louisville, Ky. 



Now that 1 have made an examination, it is difficult to 

 see how we have gotten along without it. I am sure every 

 one who sees it will agree with me that it is worth its 

 weight in gold. John T. Crisp, Independence, Mo. 



ALBANY, N. Y. 

 The professional as well as the general reader will find 

 in your encyclopaedia much that is new and of special in- 

 terest, with very little verbiage. May it have thousands 

 of readers who w ill appreciate it as highly as 



Your friend, James Hendrick. 



PRESS NOTICES. 



In preparing this work, Mr. Henderson has added largely 

 to the gratitude American horticulturists already owe him. 

 It is somewhat on the plan of Paxton's and Johnson's dic- 

 tionaries, with the explanatory style of Lindley & Moore's 

 Treasury of Botany. It is in fact, a brief but intelligent 

 history of plants from an American standpoint, the plants 

 described being such as an American is likely to come 

 across either iu his reading or daily experience— Gar- 

 dener's Monthly, Philadelphia. 



The work is intended to, and does fill a place entirely un- 

 occupied in our horticultural literature, and the matter is 

 so concisely arranged that the cost of the work will put it 

 within the "reach of every owner of a garden. Careful ex- 

 amination shows it to be. as claimed, an indispensable 

 cade mecum. — Country Gentleman, Albany. 



Mr. Henderson, in preparing and publishing this volume, 

 has rendered a very important service, alike to scientific 

 and amateur gardeners, and to all who take an interest in 

 plants and flowers. It is literally an encyclopaedia con- 

 taining separate articles, descriptive of everything in the 

 vegetable world, under both the botanical and vulgar 

 names, giving information in regard to the origin ana 

 nature of the plants, mode of propagation, etc.; just the 

 book which everyone who undertakes their cultivation, or 

 who wishes to learn about them, will be glad to have at 

 hand. The article Rosa (Rose), for instance, has eleven 

 columns devoted to it: Cranberry, five columns; Straw- 

 berry, two columns. We do not recall a plant or flower 

 that is not appropriately treated.— Y. T. Observer. 



"Henderson's Handbook of plants " is the latest work of 

 the well-known writer, Mr. Peter Henderson of New York. 

 It is a book of over 400 pages, and as its title shows, is a list 

 with a description of all the useful plants, arranged alpha- 

 betically with the common and scientific names. Like all 

 of Mr. Henderson's literature, this seems to embrace much 

 in a small compass, and will be found very useful for 

 florists, fruit growers, gardeners and others. — Farmer's 

 Home Journal, Louisville, Ky. 



This is an encyclopaedia of plants giving derivation of 

 their names, time of discovery, place where found, where 

 and in what soil they will do best, together with much 

 general information, descriptive and otherwise. It will 

 prove of great interest and value to florists and horticul- 

 turists, as well as botanists, landscape gardeners, and those 

 who cultivate flowers and shrubs for private enjoyment. — 

 Herald and Presbyter, Cincinnati. 



We are in receipt of the " Handbook of Plants," by Peter 

 Henderson, and find it a very interesting and valuable 

 publication. It will become a standard work of reference, 

 no doubt, and find a place in the library of every country 

 gentleman— Farm Journal, Philadelphia. 



The object of the -Handbook of Plants" is to supply a 

 dictionary of those genera and species of plants to which 

 amateurs, or indeed professional gardeners and florists, or 

 even farmers, have frequent occasion to turn as a book of 

 reference. We have many such works, most of them, how- 

 ever, published in foreign countries, and therefore not to be 

 accepted as trustworthy guides in this country as regards 

 methods of propagation and culture.— Rural Sew Yorker. 



FROM SEEDSMEN. 



I have not yet had time to fully examine the Handbook of 

 Plants, but to have Peter Henderson at my elbow, within 

 nudging distance, is beyond all controversy, a great gain. • 

 Jas. J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass. 

 We are very much pleased with the arrangement of the 

 Handbook of Plants, and consider it a very valuable and 

 convenient book of reference. 



D. L.vsdreth & sons, Philadelphia. 



HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS is a large octavo volume of 412 pages, printed 

 on fine white paper, and handsomely bound in cloth. 



We will forward the book, post-paid by mail, on receipt of $3.00; or we will send it as a Premium 

 on orders for goods selected from this catalogue, for conditions of which offer, please refer to page 2. 



PETER HENDERSON & CO., 



35 & 37 Cortlandt Street, New York. 



