•PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK- 



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Horticulture a Agriculture. 



By PETER HENDERSON. 526 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post paid, $3.00. 



THE standard American dictionary of plants, flowering, ornamental, economic, etc., including 

 vegetables and fruits; in fact, a complete work on cultivated plant life. Everything is arranged 

 alphabetically, fro m Aaron's Beard to Zygophyllvm ; very complete descriptions are given, with 

 full ealtHral instruction for everything of importance. A full list of popular names and all botanical terms are given ; also a glossary 

 of the teuhnical terms ased in describing plants. A monthly calendar of operations for the greenhouse and window garden, flower, 

 fruit and kitchen, garder, 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. 



CONTENTS. 



mental Planting, Parlor Gardening, Plant Protection, Plants for Shady Places Plants for 

 Seaside, Poisonous or unhealthy Plants, Potting. Propagation l>v Cuttings Layers Seeds 

 etc., Pruning, Koek Gard.-n, Rotation of Crops, Screens, Sc. -.Is. shading Soil Sub-soiling 

 Sub-tropical Garden, Temperature, Transplanting. Trenching, Vases. Ventilating Walks' 

 JVaidian Cases, Waterfalls, Watering, Water Lilies and Water Plants, Weeds, Wintering 



Useful Tables and Memoranda on Temperature, Rain. Soil, Manures, Numbers 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. 



Ahout 5, 000 genera of plants, with their descriptions, histories, usefulness, hardiness, re- 

 quirements, etc., and cultural instructions are given — Popular or Common Names — ( lorrect 

 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, 

 Pesigns, Draining, fertilizers. Fountains. Frozen Plants, (Hazing. Grafting, Grasses, Green- 

 house. Hanging Baskets, Heating, Hedges, Herbaceous Plants. Herbarium, Hybridization, 

 Insects and Insecticides, Lawn, Manures, Mulching, Moles, Orchard, Orchid Culture, Orna- 



By PETER HENDERSON. 404 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post paid, $1.50. 



WAS written to meet the wants of those desiring information on gardening for private use. Its scope 

 therefore embraces directions for the culture and propagation 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, Green- 

 house, Grapery, Window Garden, Lawn, the Water Garden, etc. 



CONTENTS.- 



Preparation of the Ground— Walks— The Lawn— Design for Gardens— Planting of Law n 

 and Flower Beds — Fall or Holland Bulbs, etc. — Propagation of Plants by Seeds — Propagation 

 of Plants by Cuttings— How Grafting and Budding are Done— The Potting of Plants — Win- 

 ter-floweritig Plants — Plants suited for Summer [)<-. -oration — Window Gardening— Culture 

 of Water LUies and other Aquatic Plants— The Chrysanthemum— Parlor Gardening or the 



Oil ti vat ion of Plants in Rooms— Grp^nhntisps attache to Dwellings— Dptafhor! Oropn houses 

 Modes of Heating-, etc. — Greenhouses and Hits without Artificial Heatiner — Flowers that will 

 grow in the Shade— Insects and other Parasites injurious to Plants— Humbugs in Horti- 

 CUlture — Hardy <i rapes— The Cold (Jrapery— The Hot house or forcing Grapery— The Straw- 

 berry—The Vegetable Garden— Monthly Calendar of Operations. 



ITPRACTIC/iL FLORICULTURE 



By PETER HENDERSON. 325 pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post paid, $1 .50. 



IF you wish to become a Commercial Florist, then of all books you should procure Prac- 

 ticaii Floriculture. We have any number of complimentary 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. 



CONTENTS. 



How to hecomo a Florist— The Prolits of Floriculture— Aspect and Soil— The Preparation 



Garden — Designs for 

 —Soils for Totting — 

 its — Cold Frames for 

 — Glass, Glazing and 

 igation of Plants by 

 ants most in demand 

 lemand for Window 



for New and the lie 

 Ornamental Grounds 

 Temperature and Mo 

 Winter Protection— Cu 

 Shading— Mode, ol II. 



Gutting* Propagat nig Kos.-s liy I i 

 in Spring— Cold Frame Plants 



vation of Old Lawns — Laying out tlii 

 nil Mower Gardens — Planting of Fl( 

 iture— The Potting of Plants— Drain 

 lstruction of Hot lieds— Greenhouse 1 

 ting— Propagation of Plants hy Sei 



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 tracture 



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Decoration in Winter— Culture of Winter-flowering Plants 

 for Cut Flowers— Rose Growing in Winter— Bulbs for Winter 



Flowers— Plants used for Decoration of Rooms — Construction of Bouquets etc —Hanging 

 l£V>keV—- Parlur or Window Gardening— Formation of Roekwork and Plants for Rocks— 

 » bat Mow ers will grow m t h<- Shade— -Succession Crops in t he Greenhouse— Packing Plants 

 —Plants by Mail— Insects and Diseases All., ling Plants— Mildew— Diary of operations for 



the \ ear— The Culture of Foreign Grape. Vines under Gla™ 



By PETER HENDERSON. 375 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 



IF you wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read GARDENING for Profit. The personal srecess 

 of its author during his long career ns a market pjardener, and the success of thousands from the 

 time he first made his cultural methods known up to the present day, show the popular estima- 

 tion of tho value set upon this great work. While written particularly for the Market Gardener and 

 Trucker, yet it is of equal value for large privato gardens. 



CONTENTS. 



getables 



quired and Working Force per Acre — Pi 

 Laying Out — Soils. Drainage and Prepai... 



Frames— Protecting Cletk In lieu of Sashes— Spring Raising of Cabbage, Cauliflower and 



The Forcing of all important Y< 

 nnd Fruits under Glass— The Men Filled for 



the Business— The Amount of Capital re- 



f Market Gardening— Location, Situation and 

 Manures— The Uses and Management of Cold 



Lettuce— Formation and Managemen, of Hot Beds— Forcing Pits or Greenhouses— Wide 

 OreenliOUteB for Vegetable Crops— Forcing Strawberries — Seeds and Seed Raising — How, 

 When and Where to Sow Seeds — Transplanting — Vegetables, their Varieties and Cultivation 

 — When to Sow a nil Plant in tile Southern States— Packing of Vegetables for Shipping— 

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

 of Operations. 



