Premium Book-Offer for 1891. 
In* compliance with the adopted custom of many of the leading seedmcn, of offering Books on Gardening as pre- 
miums on seed and plant orders, I have decided to make the following liberal propositions to my customers for the 
coining season, in order that both my seed and the books, mentioned below, may have a more extensive dissemination. 
In selecting the copies to be used for this purpose I have been careful to choose the very best and most valuable 
publication yet issued which treat upon these subjects. The following brief description of the different books is but 
a partial summary of the contents of each, and will convey but a limited idea ct their value; I would recommend 
these to my customers as indispensable factors to the highest success in gardening and scientific farming; all should 
possess the whole or at least a part of them as they will prove a source of endless help and profit to the possessor. 
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD CYCLOPEDIA. 
544 pages ; 12mo.; 249 illustrations. 
This book is a complete ready reference library for farm- 
ers and housekeepers, being filled with useful facts, hints and 
suggestions upon all subjects pertaining to rural and domes- 
tic affairs, embracing the results of experiment and research 
by scientific and practical men and women in all civilized 
countries. It contains the cream or substance of more than 
a dozen ordinary agricultural and household books, and is 
the only first class work of the kind ever sold at less than six 
dollars. It is a book to be consulted every day m any emer- 
gency, and to be read at all times with interest and profit. 
It is such a book as every farmer and housekeeper needs and 
ought to have, supplying the universal want of a reliable 
counsellor upon every topic relating to the farm and house- 
hold, and will save its small cost every week in the year. 
The work is profusely illustrated, and is divided into two 
general headings, viz. : The Farm and The Household , each 
of which occupies half the book. These are again subdivided 
into a number of departments, as per the following sug- 
gestive headings: Rural Architecture, Fences and Gates, 
Field Crops, Fertilizers, The Garden, Orchard, and Vine- 
yard, Small Fruits, Live Stock, The Poultry Yard. '1 he 
Dairy, The Apiary, Farm Implements, and Around the 
Farm. The Household department is subdivided under the 
following headings : Cooking Receipts, Ladies’ Fancy Work, 
Floriculture, The Home Physician, '1 he Toilet, The Laun- 
dry, and closes with Hints and Helps; this department alone 
is worth to any household more than the price of the whole. 
Price postpaid $i.oo, sent to any address upon receipt of 
price. 
SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING. 
By W. W. Rawson. 
The Boston market has long been celebrated for the superior quality of its vegetables, as well as for their beau- 
tiful appearance, and the inquiry is often made how these results are accomplished. 
An experience of twenty-five years as a practical market gardener, in daily communication with the Boston 
market, has given the writer an opportunity to become thoroughly acquainted with every department of the business 
connected with growing and marketing the stock. 
The annexed table of contents will show what the author has endeavored to illustrate : The book contains, in 
addition to Introductory Matter, chapters on the following: 
I. On Location and Soil ; Drainage ; and Irrigation. 
II. Preparation of the Soil ; Laying-Out of Land for the Different Crops ; Rotation of Crops; Manures and 
Fertilizers; Application of Manure. 
III. Farm Implements. 
IV. Selection of Seeds; Their Vitality ; Sowing the Seed; Cultivation of the Crops; Harvesting, cr Gather- 
the Crops ; Seed-Growing ; Management of Hot-Beds ; Amounts of Capital and Labor required. 
V. Artichokes; Asparagus; Beans, Dwarf and Bush; Pole or Running Beans; English or Broad Beans; 
Beets ; Borecole (kale) ; Broccoli ; Brussels Sprouts. 
VI. Cabbage; Carrots; Cauliflower; Celeriac, or Turnip-Rooted Celery. 
VII. Treating of Celery. 
VIII. Chicory; Chinese Yam; Chives; Corn, Field and Sweet; Corn Salad, or Fetticus; Cress, or Pepper 
Grass; Cucumbers. 
IX. Dandelions; Egg Plant; Endive; Herbs, sundry varieties ; Kohl Rabi ; Leek. 
X. Lettuce; Martynia; Mint; Mushrooms; Musk Melon, Cantaloupes, and Water Melon; Mustard; 
Nasturtium ; Okra. 
XI. Onions; Parsley; Parsnips; Peas; Peppers. 
XII. The Potato; Radishes, and Horse Radish. 
XIII. Rhubarb; Salsify; Spinach; Squashes; Tomatoes; Turnips. 
price, $1.00 ; sent by mail to any address in the United States, upon receipt of price* 
