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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
39 
Gardening for Profit. 
A Guide to tile Successful Cultivation ot 
the Market ami Family Garden. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 
Finely Illustrated. Price, Post-paid, S1.50. 
NOTICES BT THE PRESS. 
Here is a book that will interest not only those.who 
follow gardening for profit, but also the boys and the 
matrons upon the farm, who too often have the whole 
care and management of the family garden. Every minu- 
tia of garden management is plainly given and illustrated. 
There are a hundred things told and described in this 
book that any wide-awake cultivator would give five 
times the cost to know. It interests the enterprising boy, 
because from it he can learn how much a small patch of 
ground can he made to yield. It interests the farmer, be¬ 
cause he can learn from it how well good cultivation and 
the proper management of soils will pay , and how an un¬ 
kindly soil can be ameliorated. He can learn much of 
what every farmer needs to know of the treatment of 
Boils .—Fanners' Advertiser (St. Louis). 
This volume, which is alike creditable to Mr. Hender¬ 
son’s head and heart, and which powerfully illustrates the 
push inherent in the Scottish character, ought to be in 
the hands of every gentleman who would turn his gar¬ 
dening propensities to good account. 
[. Scottish American Journal (New York). 
We are sure we shall do oui readers a favor if we can 
induce them to purchase and consult this book. We know 
of nothing on the subject equal to it. 
[The Telegraph (Painesville, O.). 
It is the summing up of the experience of one of the 
most extensive and most successful gardeners of New 
Jersey, and whose opinion is accepted as authority. 
[The North-western (Belvidere, Ills.) 
He (Mr. Henderson) began life as a poor boy, and by 
industry and aptitude has made a large fortune ; and, un¬ 
like his prototype, Grant Thorburn, he knows how to 
keep It. But he has neither shoddied nor speculated, 
nor traded; and not a dollar of his riches comes from a 
less honorable source than the culture of the soil. And 
now, with an unselfishness that does him honor, he gives 
us this book ; and the book is nothing less than the key 
to wealth—the same key he has used for twenty years— 
polished by wear, and working easily by long usage. 
[Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Ya.) 
In every department it is full and complete, furnishing 
an invaluable manual for the market gardener, while for 
the cultivator of a family garden its hints and instruc¬ 
tions are none the less practical and interesting. It has 
chapters upon location, situation and laying out of lands 
for gardening; soils, drainage and preparation ; manures 
and implements ; formation, management, and uses of 
hot-beds and cold frames ; how, when, and where to sow 
seeds ; vegetables, their varieties and cultivation; and 
upon several other kindred subjects. The most valuable 
kinds of vegetables are described, and the culture proper 
to each is given in detail.— New Hampshire Sentinel. 
We are creatures of habit, and many persons live with¬ 
out the pleasures and comforts of a garden because they 
have never known what these pleasures and comforts 
are. To all such we say, buy a little land and buy Peter 
Henderson’s “Gardening for Profit,” and learn to live 
under your own vine and apple-tree. We can’t tell yon in 
a newspaper article how to raise lettuce and asparagus, 
but Peter, in his little book, published by the Orange 
Judd Co., New York, tells the whole story in the most 
lucid manner.— Gleaner and Advocate (Lee, Mass.) 
Peter Henderson’s “ Gardening for Profit,” at $1.50, 
will tell more than even most gardeners know as to how 
to select and to best raise the vegetables and fruits which 
make the moBt profit.— Picayune (New Orleans). 
It is unquestionably the most thorough and the best 
work of its kind we have yet had form the pen of an 
American author. It is written in a clear, concise style, 
and thus made more comprehensive than works which 
smack more of the office than the farm or garden. 
[Daily Evening Times (Bangor, Me.) 
There are marvels of transformation and rapid repro¬ 
duction recorded therein, which might well shame the 
dull fancy of the author of Aladdin or of Kaloolah. 
There is no theory about it; a man who has made him¬ 
self rich by market-gardening plainly tells our young 
men how they can get rich as easily as he did, and with¬ 
out wandering to California or Montana for it either. 
[Horace Greeley in the N. 7 . Tribune. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
THE 
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON 
THE SHEEP. 
DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR 
AMERICAN SHEPHERDS. 
By HENRY STEWART. 
IL.LUSTRA.TIQID. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
We like this book very much, as it treats of the modern 
improved breeds of sheep. It treats of sheep as an in¬ 
dustrial product; of the summer management of sheep ; 
of the best soils; of the best pastures and grasses; the 
best way to feed roots ; management of ewes and lambs; 
winter management; breeds and breeding sheep; wool, 
its structure and uses; diseases and remedies, etc. We 
would advise every breeder to get this manual.— The 
Michigan Fanner, Detroit. 
Mr. Stewart is a veteran shepherd, and his knowledge 
has been gathered in the reliable, if sometimes tardy 
school of experience, and by this means alone he has 
learned successfully how to meet the needs of the modern 
improved breeds of sheep in American climate, and under 
American methods.— The Weekly Blade, Toledo, O. 
It is a work of 252 pages, handsomely illustrated, show¬ 
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illustrations that will be of great service to the shepherd. 
— Colman's Rural World, St. Louis. 
Henry Stewart has written, and Orange Judd Co. have 
published, the most thorough and practical treatise upon 
the management and breeding of sheep, that has yet been 
prepared for the shepherd. With the exception of Ran¬ 
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Merinos and fine wool, the American shepherd has hither¬ 
to had no help except from English works, not only out 
of date, but incomplete, giving no account of the modern 
improved breeds, or of the diseases to which they are 
subject, and the occasional paper read before the Farm¬ 
er’s Club. He can congratulate himself now upon the 
possession of a manual superior in every respect, and 
thoroughly trustworthy.— The World, New York. 
The book cannot fail to be of great value to all farmers 
who are breeding this kind of stock, and its sale will be 
large, especially in the West, where sheep growing is ac¬ 
quiring new importance.— The Indiana Farmer, Indiana¬ 
polis. 
We have seen no agricultural work for a long time 
which appears so well calculated to answer its purpose.— 
The Dirigo Rural, Bangor, Me. 
Avery practical treatise on a very important depart¬ 
ment of stock raising.— The Congregatimalist, Boston. 
It contains a condensed amount of practical informa¬ 
tion, of which every farmer who attends less or more to 
sheep raising should avail himself.— The United Pres¬ 
byterian, Pittsburgh. 
PRICE, POST-PAID, $1.50. 
Play and Profit 
IN MY GARDEN. 
By E. P. ROE, 
Author of “ Barriers Burned Away,” etc. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
The author takes us to his garden on the rockyliill-sides in 
the vicinity of West Point and shows us how out of it, after 
four years’ experience, he evoked a profit of $1,000, and this 
while carrying on pastoral and literary labors.It 
is very rare that so much literary taste and skill are mated 
to so much agricultural experience and practical good sense. 
—Harper's Magazine. 
This book is as poetical as it is practical. Still he is no 
dreamer. He goes into every essential detail with as much 
minuteness and precision as if he were writing a manual for 
the practical farmer. Indeed few works professedly de¬ 
voted to agriculture give more sound and valuable informa¬ 
tion on the secret of winning golden harvests from the soil 
than this brief idyllic sketch.— N. Y. Tribune. 
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