The Latest and Best Work on Gardening*. 
A Manual of Vegetable Plants. 
By Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
102 pages, 12 mo., published by the author. Price, finely bound in muslin, 75 cents. 
paper , 40 cents. 
This book, which embraces the results of years of practical experience on the topics of 
which it treats, has probably received higher and stronger endorsement than any work n 
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. | PART SECOND. 
GROWING PLANTS UNDER GLASS. 
The Manure Hot-Bed 
Fire Hot-Bed 
Cost of Sash 
The Striped Flea-Beetle 
Our Preventive 
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 
Thp Potato— 
Notes on the Newer Varieties 
GROWING PLANTS IN THE OPEN GROUND. 
Cabbage Plants— 
Club Root 
The Cabbage Maggot 
Cotton Sheeting for Covers 
Shutters 
Use of “ Flats” 
Small Boxes For Single Plants 
Planting Early Cabbage Seed 
Soil for Hot-Beds 
Temperature 
Air and Light 
Damping Off 
Watering 
Cauliflower and Celery Plants 
Tomato, Pepper, aud Egg Plants 
Lettuce 
Sowing Fine Seeds 
Transplanting 
Assorting 
Mice—Preventing Depredations 
Cold Frames 
Sweet Potato Plants 
Growing at the North 
How to Prepare the Ground 
Best Varieties 
Requisites to Complete Success 
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IUPShould you wish to know more concerning this book, we will, upon application, 
send a special circular giving full particulars with the opinions of many who have read it. 
For a limited time I will present a copy of this book in cloth binding to any person 
requesting it when ordering Seeds of me to the amount of $1. or more; or in paper 
covers to any one ordering seeds to amount of 50 cents. No other premium to be 
given in either case. 
Address— Seed-Time and Harvest, 
La Plume, Lack’a Go., Pa. 
