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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. [February, 
Books fos* Winter Evenings. 
A few of the Good Books for tlie Farm, Gar¬ 
den, and Household, published by Orange Judd 
& Co., 245 Broadway, New York, are mentioned in the 
following list, and some of the notices of the same by the 
Press are given. In these long winter evenings there is 
much spare time, which may well be improved in reading 
interesting and instinctive books. Just such books are 
here offered. Any one of them will be scut post-paid on 
receipt of the price by the publishers. 
Gardening' for Profit. —A Guide to the 
successful cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. 
By Peter Ilenderson. Finely illustrated. Cloth, 12 mo, 
252 pp. Price $1.50. 
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 Ivaloolak.... 
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. 
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. 
The author has made himself rich during the eighteen 
years he has devoted to the business of market gardening, 
and his book is a plain record of his successful experi¬ 
ence.— [Providence Journal. 
It is unquestionably the most thorough and the best 
work of its kind we have yet had from the pen of an 
American author.— [Bangor Evening Times. 
Though designed for a special class, it cannot fail to be 
valuable to the amateur and private gardener, and un¬ 
lucky experience has taught us that the information con¬ 
tained in a single chapter would have been worth to us 
the price of the book.— [New 'Bedford Mercury. 
The Small Fruit Culturist.— By A. 
S. Fuller. Illustrated. Cloth,*12mo. 276 pp. Price $1.50, 
Mr. Fuller’s work is full of information concerning all 
the small fruits, and is a complete manual for the practi¬ 
cal gardener.— [Salem (Mass.) Observer. 
The facts and conclusions at which the author arrives 
are not based upon hearsay evidence. They are derived 
from personal tests of the multitudinous varieties of 
plants pnt forth by nurserymen and propagators from, 
time to time.—[Jewry City Times. 
This volume is the only one within our knowledge 
that is devoted exclusively to the cultivation of the small 
fruits. It is illustrated by more than a hundred beautiful 
engravings. — [ Worcester (Mass.) Palladium. 
It is written clearly and concisely, with apparent ease, 
and a perfect understanding of the subject, without di¬ 
gressions or interpolation, and so simply as to be within 
the comprehension of the most ordinary mind. 
[ Washington National Republican. 
The chapter on gathering and packing fruit is a valua¬ 
ble one, and in it are figured all the baskets and boxe» 
now in common use.— [Hover (N. II.) Gazette. 
Mew Boole of Flowers.— By Joseph 
Breck. Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo, beveled boards. 480 pp. 
Price $1.75. 
To the lovers and cultivators of flowerB, this will be a 
most welcome work, as it contains in a convenient space 
just what they wish to know.—[Boston Journal. 
It is precisely the book that one needs in beautifying 
the grounds of a rural home.—[ Christian Advocate (N. Y.). 
All of the plants described in this volume are such as 
can be cultivated without difficulty in the open ground 
in this climate; the present work has been greatly en¬ 
larged and improved.— [Boston Sat. Evening Express. 
The alphabetical descriptive list is full, embracing both 
botanical and common names, and the instructions for 
laying out, plotting, cultivating, etc., are satisfactory. 
[Montpelier (Vt.) Watchman. 
The book is a beautiful parlor ornament.— [Pittsburgh 
Chronicle. 
Hints to Horsekeepers. — By the late 
Henry William Herbert (Frank Forrester). Finely illus¬ 
trated. Cloth, 12mo. 425 pp. Price $1.75. 
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 
ought to buy the copyright of this book to gratuitously 
circulate it among tire people, who would thus learn how 
to care for our noblest domestic animals, at present sub¬ 
jected to so much abusive treatment by thousands of ig¬ 
norant human brutes placed in charge of horses. 
[New York Sun. 
Every person who has to do with a horse may derive 
useful hints and information from this work. 
[Providence Journal. 
The work possesses more value than can he touched in 
a mere cursory review, and we would recommend it to all 
our horse-loving readers_Directions for riding, driving, 
for ladies’ riding, for carriages and harness, are fully and 
thoroughly given, and probably no person having a horse 
could purchase and read the hook without feeling that a 
paying investment had been made, in the amount of 
practical knowledge thus placed at their command. 
[The Pioneer (N. J.). 
American Pomology.- Apples. By Dr. 
John A. Warder. 290 Illustrations. Cloth, 12mo, beveled 
boards. 744 pp. Price $3.00. 
It is undoubtedly the latest and best book on apples. 
[ Cleveland Evangelical Messenger. 
The illustrations are admirable, and give one a faith¬ 
ful and accurate idea of the fmit described. The pub¬ 
lishers have performed their part of the work quite as 
well as the author did his. W T ith most excellent paper, 
and clear, hold print, we have an American book on ap¬ 
ples which cannot be surpassed.— [Detroit Free Press. 
This is a superb volume, and contains a world of in¬ 
formation in regard to fruit and fruit-growing, especially 
the apple of all kinds.— [Christian Press (New York). 
It is a book which no one who owns an orchard, or 
even hopes to plant one, can afford to do without. 
[Jersey City Times. 
The Grape Culturist.— A Treatise on 
the Cultivation of the native Grape. By Andrew S. Ful¬ 
ler. Cloth, 12mo, 286 pp. Price $1.50. 
Mr. Fuller gives the knowledge necessary for the suc¬ 
cessful cultivation of the grape most clearly, and illus¬ 
trates it so plainly that no one can fail to understand it, 
and for this reason his book has become remarkably 
popular, and has not been, nor is it likely to be, super¬ 
seded by any other work on the same subject. 
The publishers have not spared expense upon this 
book, which will be found a valuable addition to the 
library of every farmer and fruit culturist. City people 
should send the “ Grape Culturist ” to their country 
friends.—[Ac to York Sun. 
This is a standard work on the cultivation of the vine, 
very popular, for the good reason that Mr. Fuller gives his 
knowledge of the vine and its habits, and illustrates so 
plainly that no one can fail to understand it. 
[Rochester Democrat. 
Tlie Percherou Horse.—Translated from 
the French of Charles Du Huys. Illustrated. Cloth, 12 
mo. 100 pp. Price $1.00. 
This work is a report made to the French Government 
upon the breeding and rearing of this admirable breed of 
draft horses. It is written with the view of indicating 
how to defend the race against degenerating, to improve 
it in all its estimable qualities, and at the same time to 
enable the breeders of Perche, the region of France from 
which these horses come, to supply the ever-hungry 
market. Interest in the Percherou has greatly increased 
in the United States as the breed lias become better 
known, and every new importation adds to it and to the 
firm friends of tlie breed. 
A horse like the Percherou, or the Normandy, makes a 
team with which the fanner can pull through anything; 
they are not slow on the road either. This hook con¬ 
tains a full history of the Percherons, and many hints on 
the breeding of draft horses.—[ Ohio Fanner. 
The Percheron Horse derives its name from the De¬ 
partment of Perche, in France, and lias long possessed 
the highest reputation in France as a draft horse, and 
especially for rapid draft_The publishers have issued 
this work in a neat little volume, and have illustrated it 
with portraits of several specimens of the breed re¬ 
cently imported into this country by Mr. Walters, of 
Baltimore, Md.— [Western Rural. 
Cotton Culture.— By Joseph B. Lyman, 
late of Louisiana, with an additional chapter oil Cotton 
Seed and its Uses, by J. R. Sypher. Illustrated. Cloth, 
12mo. 190 pp. Price $1.50. 
There is a store of useful information contained in 
this little work.—[Hannibal (Mo.) Courier. 
A map is prefixed, showing by colors the different 
limits of the soil for various qualities of cotton. The 
author claims that his work is not a compilation, but the 
result of direct personal observation.— [Boston Post. 
Tlie writer’s own experience of twelve years in cotton 
culture in Louisiana would give weight to his own state¬ 
ments and opinions. Tlie last chapter, upon cotton seed 
and its uses, is especially interesting, and supplies in¬ 
formation upon a subject of much importance to cotton 
planters, that can be obtained nowhere else in so com¬ 
prehensive a form, so far as we know. 
[Wilmington Daily Journal. 
Squashes#.— How to grow them. By James 
J. H. Gregory. Riper, 12mo. 69 pp. Price 30 cents. 
This treatise is worth five times its price to any man 
who grows squashes, either for family use or market. 
[Chicago Republican. 
We venture to say no person in the United States is 
better qualified to give instruction in the garden and field 
culture of the squash than Mr. Gregory.—[ Machine Union. 
A practical treatise on squash culture, giving full de¬ 
tails on every point, including keeping and mavketing the 
crop.— [Commonwealth (Boston). 
Mr. Gregory has tested the theories of writers by his 
own experience, and briefly stated all which is desirable 
to be known about the soil, seed, cultivation, and general 
management of the squash. 
[Philadelphia North American 
The Miniature Fruit Garden ; or, 
the Culture of Pyramidal and Bush Fruit Trees. By 
Thomas Rivers. Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo. 133 pp. 
Price $1.00. 
It is written in a clear and common-sense style, and 
cannot fail to he acceptable to that increasing class who 
cultivate a suburban garden plot. 
[.V. Y. Christian Advocate. 
Mr. Rivers’ book gives tlie directions that are needed 
in a concise and lucid form, as to the planting, pruning 
and culture of dwarf pear, apple, cherry, plum and peach 
trees, as pyramids and ns hushes, under glass and in es¬ 
paliers ; of nuts, figs, apricots, currants, etc. 
[.Brooklyn Union. 
