[August, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1871 .] 
read some oe the notices by the press 
OF THE BEST BOOK ON 
MARKET AND FAMILY GARDENING 
EVER PUBLISHED IN THIS COUNTRY. 
Gardening for Profit. 
BY DETER 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
Here is a liook that will interest not only those who 
follow gardening for profit, but also the boys and the ma¬ 
trons upon the farm, who too often have the whole care 
and management of the family garden. Every minutia 
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, be¬ 
cause from it he can learn how much a small patch of 
ground can be 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 
soils.— Farmers' 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 our 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 experiences of one of the 
most extensive and most successful gardeners of New 
Jersey, and whose opinion is accepted as authority. 
[The Forth-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 slioddied, 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, Va.). 
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. 
There is a common-Bense directness and simplicity 
about the instructions they (Mr. Henderson’s books) give 
and the advice they offer, which, whilst winning the 
reader’s attention, at the same time give him the assur¬ 
ance that their author knows whereof he speaks. Every 
thing is plain, practical, and, even when most novel, at 
once felt to be in accordance with reason. 
[Arthur's Home Magazine. 
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 you in 
FINERY 
a newspaper article how to raise lettuce and asparagus, 
but Peter, in his little book, published by 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 gardenei's know as to how 
to select and to best raise the vegetables and fruits which 
make the most profit .—Picayune (New Orleans). 
To labor upon land without an intelligent understand¬ 
ing of the properties of various soils, is as absurd as 
blindly to pursue any other calling requiring preparatory 
knowledge. This volume is intended not merely for 
those engaged in raising vegetables for market, but to 
instruct men who cultivate gardens for the supply merely 
of their own tables. The subject is illustrated by a mul¬ 
titude of engravings of implements and plants. 
[New Hampshire Statesman. 
The author has had long experience, and is well quali¬ 
fied to give lessons in this department of labor. All 
kinds of vegetables are described, and the whole subject 
so treated as to point out the way to the surest and 
largest profit . — Christian Press (New York). 
Mr. H. is a practical author. We remember him as a 
poor, indomitable, persevering Florist and Gardener. 
To-day we find him on the top round of fame, for no man, 
foreign or American, is better known in the Eastern and 
Western States, among florists and agriculturists, than 
Peter Henderson, the self-made millionaire. He gives ns 
the result of his working experience . — Providence Pi'ess. 
A man who has made his property by market garden, 
ing, and can afford to pay $8,000 per acre for land for that 
purpose, as we have been informed he has recently, 
ought to have an experience worth buying, especially 
when it costs the purchaser but $1.50. 
[Rochester Democrat. 
It was with great satisfaction that we opened this trea¬ 
tise, encouraged by its introduction to believe it a really 
valuable work; and such it is. Its rules and directions 
are clearly and intelligibly stated. Any one can work by 
them and under them, if he chooses. It is not large, but 
full of matter relating to the essentials of successful gar¬ 
dening.— Christian Intelligencer (New York). 
The directions apply mainly to the market garden, yet 
the amateur or private gardener will experience no diffi¬ 
culty in applying them to a more limited area. The 
amount of valuable practical information condensed into 
this small volume, makes it one of the most desirable 
books of the kind that have been published. 
[TheEvangelist, (New York). 
This is no stilted, impractical work. It is from the pen 
of a practical and successful gardener. It contains plain, 
unaffected talk, and facts such as every man going into 
gardening as a business will be glad to obtain. We can 
recommend it to every owner of a garden. 
[Cincinnati Weekly Gazette. 
Although this work, as a whole, is adapted only to the 
climate of North America, and more particularly to that 
of New York and vicinity, yet the amateur and lover of 
horticultural pursuits in Bermuda, by a careful perusal of 
the various topics of which it treats, may learn many use¬ 
ful lessons, and receive much valuable information, and 
much plain converse, and clear instruction and sugges¬ 
tions relative to the modus operandi of one of the “most 
healthful, most useful, and most noble employments of 
man.”— Bermuda Gazette HTamilton, Bermuda). 
ILLUSTRATED. 
It is not a collection of stale ideas, gotten up by some 
ex-professioual man, but is the written experience of 
one who has spent years in agricultural pursuits. Its 
directions for preparation of the soil, planting seeds, 
transplanting, etc., are plain and simple. 
[Nerv Hampshire Sentinel. 
All the vegetables that thrive in the open air in our 
latitude are described, together with the best methods 
for growing them. The author also imparts practical 
instructions on the subjects of drainage, and the forma¬ 
tion and management of hot-beds. Numerous well-exe¬ 
cuted wood cuts tend to make clearer the instructions of 
tlie author .—Philadelphia Inquirer. 
The author of this treatise is one of the best known 
and most successful of those gardeners who supply New 
York with green vegetables ; and as he writes from long 
and dear-bought experience, the positive, dogmatic tone 
he often assumes is by no means unbecoming. The book 
itself is intended to be a guide for beginners embarking 
in the author’s business, and gives full and explicit direc¬ 
tions about all the operations connected with market- 
gardening, lists of varieties of the most profitable vege¬ 
tables, and much sound advice on kindred topics. Though 
designed for a special class, it cannot fail to be valuable 
to the amateur and private gardener, and unlucky experi¬ 
ence has taught us that the information contained in a 
single chapter would have been worth to us the price of 
tlie book .—Daily Mercury (New Bedford). 
It is unquestionably the most thorough and the best 
work of its kind we have yet had from 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.). 
Sir. Henderson writes from knowledge, and is not one 
of those amateur cultivators whose potatoes cost them 
ton dollars a bushel, and whoso eggs ought to be as 
valuable as those of that other member of their family— 
the goose of golden-egg-laying memory — for they are all 
but priceless. No; he is a practical man, and he has tlie 
art of imparting the knowledge ho possesses in a very 
agreeable manner; and he has brought together an ex¬ 
traordinary amount of useful matter in a small volume, 
which those who would “garden for profit” ought to 
study carefully . — Evening Traveller (Boston). 
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. Y. Tribune. 
We have devoted more space to this little work than 
we usually do to tomes much more pretentious. We have 
done so because of the rare merits of the book in its 
fund of information, useful to the farmer and market- 
gardener, and because of the dearth of that kind of 
knowledge. We earnestly advise that fraternity, for 
whom this work was written, to buy it and study it. If 
any among them have never yet read a book, let this be 
their primer, and we will vouch for the excellence and 
endurance of the priming. The work is profusely illus¬ 
trated with wood cuts .—Louisville Daily Journal. 
Sent post-paid, JPrice, $l.SO. 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., 245 Broadway, New York. 
