PETER HENDERSON -& CO., NEW YORK.— BOOKS. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 376 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 



IF 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 gardens. 



CONTENTS. 



The Forcing of all important Vege- 

 tables and. Fruits under Glass— The Men 

 Fitted for the Business — The Amount of 

 Capital required and Working Force per Acre— Profits of Market Gardening— Location, 

 Situation and Laying Out— Soils, Drainage and Prep nation— Manures— The Uses and Man- 

 agement of Cold Frames— Protecting Cloth in lieu of Sashes— Spring liaising of Cabbage, 



Cauliflower and Lettuce— Formation and Management of Hot Beds— Forcing Pits or Green 

 houses— Wide Greenhouses for Ve etable Crops- — Forcing Strawberiies — Seeds and Seed 

 Raising— How, When and Where to Sow Seeds— Transplanting— -Vegetables, their Varieties 

 and Cultivation — When to Sow and Flant in the Southern States — Packing of Vegetables for 

 Shipping— Preservation of Vegetables in Winter — Insects— Culture of Small Fruits — Monthly 

 Calendar of Operations. 



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HENDERSON'S GARDEN ORACLE. 



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A BOOKLET 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 germinate, 

 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 fertilizing con- 

 stituents in various vegetable crops; the fertilizers best supplying the needful; 

 stimulating plants into quick growth and early maturity; the making and man- 

 agement of cold frames and hot beds, etc. 



VEGETABLE GARDENING AND TRUCK FARMING. 



The Vegetable Garden. By Vilmorin. An authorative work, on growing vegetables 

 intemperate climates 



Gardening for Profit. By Peter Henderson. (See special description.) 



Farmer's Cyclopedia of Agriculture. By Messrs. Wilcox and Smith, Experiment, 

 Station Editors in U. S. Bept. of Agriculture. A thoroughly up-to-date, practical, 

 concise and complete presentation of the whole subject of agriculture. Farm 

 orchard and garden crops, animals, feeding, dairying, poultry, irrigation, drainage, 

 fertilizing, spraying, etc. t>,l)U0 topics, 700 pages, 5U0 illustrations. Cloth bound, 

 3 .50 ; half morocco 



Southern Gardener's Manual. By PROF. Newman of S. C. College of Agriculture. 

 Full cultural instructions for growing vegetables and small fruits in Southern 

 States 



Principles of Vegetable Gardening. By Prof. L. H. Bailey. Soils; its treatment ; 

 vegetables; management from seeds to marketing anil storing 



Gardening for the South. By P. H. Mell. Practically a new work on growing 

 vegetables and fruits in the South, according to the methods of the most successful 

 southern gardeners. 683 pages, 280 illustrations 



Truck Farming at the South. By Dr. A. Oemler. A guide to raising vegetables for 

 northern markets, culture, packing, etc., by an experienced and successful grower. 



Success in Market Gardening. By W. W. Rawson. Vegetables out-of-doors and 

 under glass. Specially adapted to New England climate 



The Forcing Book. By Prof. Bailey. The cultivation of winter vegetables in 

 glass houses. The best and most complete book on this subject for those who grow 

 for home consumption or for market 



Vegetable Gardening. By S. B. Green. Professor of Horticulture, University n' 

 Wisconsin. A new work. Full of practical information about growing vegetables 

 for both home use and for marketing 



CULTURES OF SPECIAL VEGETABLES. 



Asparagus. By F. M. Hexamer. A practical new treatise on the best n-cthods of 

 raising, cultivat ing, harvesting- marketing-, forcing- and canning- asparagus : 



Bean Culture. By Glenn C. Sevey. The only" complete, comprehensive and author- 

 itative book published on the subject 



Cabbage, slow to Grow. By J. J. H. Gregory. Details of cuiture, keeping, market- 

 ing, etc 



Cabbages Cauliflower, etc. By C. L. Allen. A new work. Gives complete in- 

 structions from seedtime till harvest 



Cabbages* and Cauliflowers fur Profit. By J. M. Lupton. A new book on this 

 subject by a successful grower 



Carrots and Mangels. By J. J. H. Gregory. How to raise them, keep them and 

 feed them 



Celery Culture for Profit. By Greiner. New and improved methods of culture.. . 



Celery, Kalamazoo, Culture of. By C. von Bochove. Improved methods of 

 culture, "The Secret of Success," and full information 



Cucumber Culture for Amateurs. By W. J. May. An English treatise on the 

 growing of foreign cucumbers under glass 



Mushrooms, How to Grow Them. By Wm. Falconer. The best and most practi- 

 cal American work on growing- for home use or for market 



Mushroom Culture. By W. Hobinson. (Imported.) England's standard authority 

 on this subject 



Onion Culture, The new. By T. Greiner. For the home garden or market; new 

 and highly valuable methods are described 



Onions, How to raise Them Profitably. By 1? practical onion growers of long 

 experience, residing in dilfeient sections of the country 



Potato Culture, The A IS C of. By W. B. Terry How to grow quantity and 

 quality, and other new and valuable information 



Potatoes for Profit. By Van Orman. The result of 25 years' experience by a leading- 

 grower. 



The Potato. By Sam'l Frazer of Cornell Agricultural College. Cultivation, spray- 

 ing, harvesting, storing, marketing etc 



Sweet Potato Culture. By James Fitz. Full instructions from starting the plants 

 to harvesting and storing; the Chinese Yam, etc 



The New lihubarb Culture. By J. E. Morse. A new and complete guide to dark 

 forcing and held culture 



Squashes. By J. J. H. Gregory. Soil selection and preparation, culture, gathering, 

 winter storing, etc 



Tomato Culture. By W. W. Tracy. Contains the latest and most complete inform- 

 ation on the subject 



Tomato Culture. By Day, Cummins and Root. Culture in field, under glass an<' in 

 the South ; for home, for market, for canning- factories 



Peanut Plant. Its Cultivation and Uses. By B.W.Jones. Instructs the begin- 

 ner how to raise good crops 



Tobacco Culture. Full practical details by 14 experienced growers in different sec- 

 tions of the country 



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GENERAL FRUIT AND NUT CULTURE. 



The Principles of'Fruit Growing. By Prof. Bailey. A new work and one of the 

 most valuable on the subject, science and practice 



American Frui* Culturist. By J. J. Thomas. 2uth edition; just revised and en- 

 larged. A handbook of everything pertaining to fruit culture 



The Fruit Garden. By P. Barry. A standard work on fruit culture by an experi- 

 enced author and nurseryman 



The Practical Fruit Grower. By C. T. Maynard. Just what the beginner needs 

 and the successful man practices 



Fruit Harvesting, Storing and Marketing. By Prof. Waugh. A new and prac- 

 tical guide to the picking, sorting, packing, storing, shipping and marketing 



I*n *1b Fruits. By Prof. Card of R. 1. Agricultural College A new work. Cultiva- 

 tion, varieties, diseases, insects, evaporation, etc., etc 



Small Fruit Culturist. By A. S. Fuller. Rewritten, enlarged and up to date; 

 propagation, culture, varieties, marketing, etc 



Citrus Fruits. By Prof. Hume, of Fla. Agricultural Exp. Station. A new and up to 

 date work on the culture of oranges, pomelos, shaddocks, citrons, lemons, etc 



Florida Fruits and Blow to raise Them. By H. Harcourt. Cultivation, man- 

 agement, marketing of all fiuits adapted to semi-tropical regions in the U. S. ; 

 e vaporating fruits and how to use them 



The Nut Culturist. By A. S. Fuller. Propagation cultivation, marketing of nut- 

 bearing trees and shmbs 



Nuts for Profit. By J. R. Parry. Germination, budding, grafting, cultivation, 

 harvesting, marketing, recipes for preparation and serving" 



CULTURES OF SPECIAL FRUITS. 



Apple Culture, Field Xotes on. By Prof. Bailey. Practical and valuable instruc- 

 tion from planting to harvesting 



Cider Maker's Handbook. By J. M. Trowbridge. Making and keeping in perfec- 



tion, 



enthie facts 



Cranberry Culture. By J. J. White. Location, preparation, planting, management, 



Grape Culturist. By a. S. Fuller. One of the best works on cultivation and man- 

 agement of hardy grapes '." 



Grape Grow ing and Wine Making, American. By Prof. G. Hussmann. Revised. 

 Garden and vineyard management from planting to harvesting, both in the Fast, 

 West and California: all about making wine 



Grape Growers" Guide (under glass). By Wm. Chorlton. Cultivation suited to 

 America in warm and cold graperies, construction, heating 



Peach Culture. By Hon. J. A. Fulton. Revised. The best work on groving 

 peaches for profit or home use 



Pear Culture for Profit. By P. T. QuiNN. Soils, preparation, planting, manage- 

 ment, harvesting, marketing 



Plums uiid Plum Culture. By Prof. Waugh, A new and complete manual on all 

 known varieties of plums 



Quince Culture. By W. W. Meech. Revised and enlarged. Varieties, propagation, 

 cultivation, diseases, insects and remedies 



Strawberry Culturist. By A. S. Fuller. Field, garden, forcing and pot culture; 

 hybridizing, varieties, etc 



Strawberry Culture, The A 15 C of. By T. B. Terry, The latest on this subject 

 and by an experienced grower 



SOILS, MANURES, DRAINAGE IRRIGATION. 



The Soil. By Prof. King. Its nature, composition, functions, relations to plant life 

 and principles of management 



The Fertility of the Lund. By Prof. Roberts. Valuable to every tiller of the soil ; 

 controlling and increasing fertility through n anagement of soil, water rotation 



Fertilizers. By Prof. E. B. Voorhees. A valuable contribution to the subject; the 

 underlying principles of soils and fertilizing; the requirements of important crops, 

 and the best fertilizers to use for them 



Farming with Green Manure*. By Dr. C Harlan. The advantage of soiling and 

 green manuring ; details of practice and effects 



Farm I>rainage. By H. F. Fuench. The principles, processes and effects of draining 

 land with stones, wood, plows, open ditches, and especially with tiles 



Irrigation and Drainage. By Prof. F. H.King. The relationship bftween ! anoling, 

 soil water, soil culture, and effect, methods of seeming favorable pi ysical con- 

 ditions of the soil for most profitable crop results 



Tile Drainage. By W. J. chamberlain. The experience of forty years by a practical 

 agriculturist who lias laid 15 miles of tiles 



Irrigation Farming. By Lute Wilcox. The application of water in the production 

 of crops, appliances, principles and advantages 



INSECTS AND PLANT DISEASES. 



Fornication Methods. By Prof. Willis G. Johnson. An up-to-date work on the 

 practical application ot hydrocyanic acid g-as and carbon bisulphid, tor the destruc- 

 tion ot insects and larva* in orchards, granaries, greenhouses, etc.. illustrated 



Economic Entomology. By Prof. Smith, one o£ the highest authorities. Insects 

 easily indentihed ; preventives, machinery, fungous, diseases, etc 



Insects and Insecticides. By Prof. Weed. Tells how to combat insects in field, 

 orchard, garden, greenhouse and dwelling 



Fungi and Fungicides. By Prof. Weed. Fungous diseases of plants and their 

 treatment. Paper covers, .50; cloth covers 



The Spraying of Plants. By Prof. Lodeman. Insects and fungi; liquids and 

 powders, application, and apparatus 



Spraying Crops. By Clarence M. Weed. A revised and enlarged edition, telling 

 when and how garden and field crops, fruit and shade trees should he sprayed for 

 their various insect and fungous enemies. Illustrated 



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