The Latest and Best Work on Gardening. 
A Manual of* Ve^etable Plants. 
ISAAC S’. CriXjIjI^Ta-HAuST. 
102 pp. 12 mo., published by the author. Price, finely bound in muslin , 75 
cents; paper, 40 cents. 
This book, which embraces the resluts of years of practical experience on the topics of 
which it treats, has probably received higher and stronger endorsement than any work on 
Gardening heretofore published in this country. It is not a rehash of other writers’ ideas 
but claims to supply just what others have omitted; or, to dwell particularly full upon 
subjects on which they have failed to throw sufficient light. The author has endeavored, 
in its composition, to be as brief and concise as possible, knowing well that in this hurry¬ 
ing age the wheat will be considered more valuable without the chaff than with it. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PART FIRST. 
GROWING PLANTS UNDER GLASS. 
The Manure Hot-Bed. 
Fire Hot-Beds. 
Cost of Sash. 
Cotton Sheeting for Covers. 
Shutters. 
Use of “ Flats.” 
Small Boxes for Single Plants. 
Planting Early Cabbage Seeds. 
Soil for Hot-Beds. 
Temperature. 
. Air and Light. 
Damping Off. 
Watering. 
Cauliflower and Celery Plants. 
Tomato, Pepper, and Egg Plants. 
Lettuce. 
Sowing Fine Seeds. 
Transplanting. 
Assorting. 
Mice-Preyenting Depredations. 
Cold Frames. 
Sweet Potato Plants. 
Growing at the North. 
How to Prepare the Ground. 
Best Varieties. 
Requisites to Complete Success. 
PART SECOND. 
GROWING PLANTS IN THE OPEN GROUND. 
Cabbage Plants — 
Club Root. 
The Cabbage Maggot. 
The Striped Flea-Beetle. 
Our Preyentive. 
The Radish Maggot. 
The Use of Lime. 
Plaster or Gypsum. 
Special or Commercial Fertilizers. 
Preparing Ground for Cabbage Plants. 
Cultivation. 
Transplanting. 
Varieties. 
The Cut-Worm. 
The Green Cabbage Worm. 
Salting Cabbage. 
Watering Plants in Seed Bed. 
Celery Plants. 
Asparagus Plants. 
Strawberry Plants— 
Setting the Plants. 
Packing Plants for Transportation_ 
Care on Arrival. 
Growing Squashes. 
The Potato— 
Notes on the Newer Varieties. 
