TWO IMPORTANT NEW WORKS 
The Strawberry in North America 
By S. W. FLETCHER 
Illustrated, cloth, l2mo 
This work is not only a practical guide to strawberry growing 
but also a sketch of the evolution of the strawberry in North Amer¬ 
ica, from the wilding of colonial days to its present posit ion as the 
most cosmopolitan of American fruits, second only to the apple in 
commercial importance. The volume includes chapters on the 
early history of the strawberry in the old world and the new, the 
botany and origin of the cultivated strawberry, the rise of straw¬ 
berry culture and the different ways in which it is practiced in dif¬ 
ferent parts of the country, with something of an attempt to eluci¬ 
date the principles that underlie these practices. 
Principles of Floriculture 
By EDWARD A. WHITE 
Professor of Floriculture in the New York State College of Agriculture 
at Cornell University 
Cloth, 12mo, $1.75 
The flower-growing business has become highly specialized. 
Science has, therefore, come to be an important factor in flower 
production, and there has arisen a demand for scientific informa¬ 
tion regarding all lines of floriculture. The purpose of the author 
of this book has been to consider the principles which underlie the 
successful culture of ornamental plants, and to present these in 
such a manner that the book may be useful in the class-room. It 
is believed that it will also be of service in a practical way to prac¬ 
tical men. Among the topics discussed are: the importance of the 
plant and flower growing industry; principles and methods of con¬ 
structing and heating glasshouses; factors which influence healthy 
plant growth; business principles in marketing flowers; glasshouse 
insects and their extermination; diseases of plants and their reme¬ 
dies, and the factors which underlie successful culture of standard 
florists’ crops. 
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