Up-to-Date Books for the Garden- 
Lover's Library 
Around the Year in the Garden. By F. F. Rock- 
well. A seasonable guide and reminder for work with 
vegetables, fruits, and flowers; descriljes the work to be 
done week by week from January to December. $2.50. 
Dwarf Fruit Trees. By F. A. Waugh. A practical 
book, giving full details of the jjlanting, pruning, care 
and general management, etc. Net, 90 cts. 
Beginners' Guide to Fruit-Growing. By F. A. 
Waugh. A simple statement of the elementary practices 
of propagation, planting, culture, etc. Net, $1. 
Carnation-Culture, Commercial. By J. Harrison 
Dick. A practical guide to modern ' methods of 
growing the American carnation for market purposes. 
$1.90. 
Chrysanthemum, The. By A. Herrington. This 
book will prove beneficial to all growers of the autumn 
queen. It comprises chapters on culture and exhibitions, 
composts, plantings, benches, general cultural details, 
crown and terminal buds, feediiig, etc. 90 cts. 
First Principles of Soil Fertility. By A. Vivian. 
A comprehensive treatise on the methods of maintain- 
ing the fertility of the soU. Net, $1.40. 
Fertilizers and Crops. By L. L. Van Slyke. This 
new book is_ a timely presentation of facts, not only 
giving practical methods for using fertilizers in crop 
growing, but placing special emphasis on the reasons 
underlying their use, etc. Net, $3.25. 
Fruits and Vegetables Under Glass. By Wm. 
Turner. A complete text-book on the subject and the 
only practical one ever published. Up-to-date in every 
particular. $3.65. 
Garden Guide (The Amateur Gardeners' Hand- 
book). 4th edition. A book for gardeners everywhere, 
giving direct, simple, and reliable information on vege- 
table-, fruit- and flower-garden, planning the home 
grounds, care of lawns, priming directions, trees, shmbs, 
and climbers, bulbs, the rock-garden, how to propagate 
plants, other allied subjects too numerous for mention. 
Copiously iflustrated; paper $1.25; cloth, $1.75. 
Greenhouses: t heir Construction and Equip- 
ment. By W. J. Wright. An up-to-date treatise on 
greenhouse construction. The most complete work on 
the subject. Net, $2. 
Greenhouse Heating. Containing a reprint of four 
prize essays on the subject, with comments by an expert 
heating engineer. A collection of answers to pertinent 
questions on greenhouse heating is also included in the 
pamplilet. 25 cts. 
Greenhouse Management. By L. R. Taft. Illus. 
Tills is an almost indispensable companion volume to 
Greenhouse Construction. Minute and practical are the 
various systems and methods of growing and forcing 
roses, violets, carnations, and all the most important 
florists' plants, as well as fruits and vegetables. .12.25. 
Garden Making. By L. H. Bailey. A complete 
treatise on all subjects of gardening, giving valuable 
suggestions for the utilizing of home and groimds. $2.90. 
Home Vegetable Garden. By A. Kruhm. A prac- 
tical and suggestive guide for the man who wants to 
raise his own vegetables. Not, $1.50. 
Horticulture, Standard Cyclopedia of. By L. H. 
Bailey. Six volumes. Entire work newly written, greatly 
enlarged, up-to-date. Fullest, newest and most authori- 
tative of all work of its kind and constitutes the most 
conscientious attempt that has ever been 7nade to com- 
press the whole story of horticultural thought, learning 
and achievement into one set of books. Whatever plant 
may_ reasonably prompt a question as to the genus, 
species, history or method of cultivation, the owner of 
the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture will have at 
hand in this work a means of qu'ckly satisfying 
his need for authoritative information. This unrivaled 
combination of horticultural knowledge is supple- 
mented by 24 exquisite color plates, besides 96 full- 
page halftone plates and more thaTi 4,000 text cuts. 
The set, !8;48. 
Hardy Garden, Another. By Mrs. H. R. Ely. 
Simple methods of conducting gardening operations, 
particularly in the small home garden in raising vege- 
tables, fruits, and flowers. $2.5C'. 
Lilies. By H. S. Adams. An authoritative and in- 
structive manual for growers of lilies, treating upon 
then- culture indoors and in the garden, and giving a 
classification of varieties and their peculiarities. $1.35. 
Manual of Gardening. By L. H. Bailey. A prac- 
tical guide to planning, making and caring for home 
grounds; growing vegetables, fmits, flowers; spraying 
and all the work to be done in the garden. $3.25. 
Milady's House Plants. By F. E. Palmer. Tells of 
the plants whit^h any woman can successfully grow in- 
doors and what steps to take to insure this success. 
Profusely illustrated with instructive pictures specially 
posed by the author, demonstratinig many operations in 
plant-growing which wonderfully simplify the work and 
enhance its interest. Paper 80 cts., cloth $1.10. 
Mushroom Growing. By B. M. Duggar. The whole 
subject is treated in detail, minutely and plainly, by a 
practical man actively engaged in growing mushrooms. 
Net, $2. 
Plant Culture. By George W. Oliver, Propagator 
for the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C. $3.50. 
Plant Propagation, Greenhouse and Nursery 
Practice. By M. G. Kains. A practical book giving 
directions of many modes by which cultivated plants 
may be propagated and multiplied. Net, $2.25. 
Potato, The. This is the most complete, reliable 
and authoritative book published on the subject. How 
to grow quality and other new and valuable informa- 
tion. Net, $1. 
Practical Flower Garden, The. By Mrs. H. R. 
Ely. How to plan j'our flower-garden, what to plant, 
and how to arrange your flowers for effect. $3. 
Practical Landscape Gardening. By Robert B. 
Cridland. The most thoroughly up-to-date book on 
landscaping; the importance of careful planning; locat- 
ing the house, arrangement of walks and drives, their 
construction; lawns and terraces; how to lay out a 
flower-garden, rose garden, hardy border, wild garden, 
rock-garden; planting plans and planting lists; archi- 
tectural features of tlie garden. A liook that should be 
in every gardener's library. Cloth, $2.75. 
Principles and Practice of Pruning. By M. G. 
Kains. Prepared to meet the needs of practical and 
amateur growers. Lavishly illustrated by 300 actual 
photographs of specimens showing good and bad prac- 
tice. Net, $2.50. 
Rose Culture, Commercial. By Eber Holmes. 
Size 7J4 X 5 in.; 165 pages; profusely illustrated. This 
book embraces the growing of roses under glass and 
outdoors. $2. 
Subtropical Vegetable Gardening. By P. H. 
Rolfe. Presents the principles upon M'hich the successful 
growing of subtropical vegetables depends. $2.50. 
Sweet Peas for Profit. By Plarri.sou Dick. A prac- 
tical guide to the most up-to-date methods of growing 
sweet peas under glass in winter, and in the open aii' for 
a summer crop. .$1.90. 
Vegetable Forcing. By R. L. Watts. Exceedingly 
valuable to all practical growers whether producing for 
commercial purposes or for the home table. Not, $2.50. 
Vegetable Gardening. By R. L. Watts. A com- 
plete, concise and authentic book. It covers every phase 
of vegetable gardening and is invalualale as a handbook 
for practical growers. Not, $2.50. 
Violet Culture, Commercial. By Prof. B. T. 
Galloway. Third edition; completely revised a,nd reset. 
Size 434 x6M in.; 248 pages, most instructively illus- 
trated. A treatise on the growing and marketing of 
violets for profit, giving ovory dotaU necessary to 
success. $1.90. 
Water Gardening, The Book of. By Peter Bisset. 
Size 7 3.-4 X 10 in.; 200 pages, illustrated. Contains all 
the practical information necessary to the selection, 
grouping and successful cultivation of aciiiatic and other 
plants required in the making of a water-garden and 
its surroiuidings. $3.65. 
Woman's Hardy Garden, A. By Mrs. H. R. Ely. 
Mrs. Ely tells in a charming manner her long and suc- 
cessful experience in planting and caring for a large 
garden of hardy plants, shrubs, bulbs, etc. $2.50. 
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