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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
359 
A VALUABLE BOOK. 
GARDENING FOR PROFIT, 
IN THE MARKET AND FAMILY GARDEN. 
BY PETGK HENDERSON. 
Illustrated. 
Tiiis is the first work on Market Gardening ever pub¬ 
lished in this country. Its author is well known as a 
market gardener of eighteen years’ successful experience. 
In this work lie has recorded this experience, and given 
without reservation the methods necessary to the profita¬ 
ble culture of the commercial or 
MARKET GARDEN. 
It is a work for which there has long been a demand, 
and one which will commend itself, not only to those 
who grow vegetables for sale, but to the cultivator of the 
FAIttlEY GARDEN 
To whom it presents methods quite different from the 
old ones generally practiced. It is an 
ORIGINAL AND PURELY .AMERICAN 
work, and not made np, as ho oks on gardening too often 
are, hy quotations from foreign authors. 
Everything is made perfectly plain, and the subject 
treated in all its details, from the selection of the soil to 
preparing the products for market. Frames, Hot-beds, 
and Forcing nouses, the management of which is usually 
so troublesome to the novice, are fully described, and the 
conditions of success and causes of failure clearly stated 
The success of the market gardeners near New York 
City is proverbial, and this is the only work that sets forth 
the means hy which this success has been attained. Val¬ 
uable hints are given to those who would raise Vegetables 
at the South for northern market^. 
The following synopsis of its contents will show the 
scope of the work : 
Men Fitted for the Business of Gardening. 
The Amount of Capital Required and 
Working Force per Acre. 
Profits of Market Gardening. 
Location, Situation, and Laying Oat. 
Soils, Drainage, anti Preparation. 
Manures. Implements. 
Uses and Management of Cold Frames. 
Formation and Management of Hot-beds 
Forcing Pits or Green-houses. 
Seeds and Seed Raising. 
How, When, and Where to Sow Seeds. 
Transplanting. Insects. 
Packing of Vegetables for Shipping. 
Preservation of Vegetables in Winter. 
Vegetables, their Varieties and Cultivation. 
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A GUIDE TO THE 
Successful Propagation and Cultivation 
OF 
FLORISTS’ PLANTS. 
BY 
PETER HENDERSON, 
Author of “ Gardening for Profit."’ 
BERGEN CITY, N. J. 
Mr. Henderson is known as the largest Commercial 
Florist in the country. In the present work lie gives a 
full account, of his modes of propagation and cultivation. 
It is adapted to the wants of the amateur, as well as the 
professional grower. 
NOTICES BY FLORISTS AND OTHERS. 
Certainly the most practical and desirable work that, 
has ever been published on this subject. We are selling 
them rapidly. Some no doubt will say that it exposes 
the ‘‘secrets” of the Trade too freely, and that it will 
make Gardeners and Propagators' so plenty that our oc¬ 
cupation, like Othello’s, will be gone. IT. A. Dreer, 
Seedsman and Florist, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Truly “ practical,” and ought, to be in the hands of 
every one engaged in the culture of Flowers. 
T. C. Maxwell & Bros., Geneva, N. Y. 
It, might, he entitled “ Floriculture Made Easy.” Ido 
not see why any one with ordinary common sense should 
not succeed, with this book in his hands. 
L. C. Lishy, Florist, Nashville, Tenn. 
No work ever before published in this country was 
practically valuable to those in want of direct informa¬ 
tion (upon this subject). Wii. Saunders, 
Sup’t Dep’t of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
Just the work for the young Florist or Amateur, as it. 
tells him clearly there is no such thing as failure, if its 
simple teachings are followed. 
Galvin & Geraghty, Florists, Newport, R. I. 
What is wonderful, the most of onr Professional Flo¬ 
rists here frankly admit their indebtedness to the work 
for information and suggestions. I am only an amateur 
in flowers, hut feel gratefully indebted to its author for 
the pleasure its perusal has given. 
George AY. Sanders, Baltimore, Md. 
Without exception the most practical work on Flori¬ 
culture in the English language. A11 the prosy fossils of 
-— &c., I consign to the lumber room. I shall order 
a dozen from the publishers to give to my friends. 
James Fleming, Nurseryman and Florist, 
Toronto, Canada. 
Complete in all its departments, a thoroughly common- 
sense book, valuable to all interested in Plants and 
Flowers. Geo. AV. Campbell, Nurseryman, Delaware, O. 
We have been asked hundreds of times by our custom¬ 
ers for a work on flowers ; now we get something credit¬ 
able to recommend. Elliott Bros. & Burgess, Florists, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Apart from its great working value, the book is de¬ 
lightful reading. Miss Anna Warner, 
“The Island,” West Point, N. Y. 
Thoroughly practical, yet, readable as a novel. 
New York Sun. 
A worthy contribution to every votary of Flora; style 
comprehensive, sharp and decisive, just what was to be 
expected from its well-known author. 
F. K. Phenix, Bloomington. Ill. 
Full to overflowing with valuable information. 
Francis Richardson, Toronto, Canada. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
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(tARDENIMI FOR THE SOUTH; 
OR, HOAV TO GROW 
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS. 
BY THE LATE 
AVI LLI AM N. AVHITE, 
OF ATHENS, GA. 
WITH ADDITIONS BY MR. J. VAN BUREN, AND 
DR. JAS. CAMAK. 
REVISED AND NEWLY STEREOTYPED. 
ILLUSTRATED. 
Though entitled “ Gardening for the South,” the work 
is one the utility of which is not restricted to the South. 
It is an admirable treatise on gardening in general, and 
will rank among the most useful horticultural works of 
the present day. Horticultural operations are clearly ex¬ 
plained, and more in detail than is usual in works of this 
kind. To those living in the warmer portions of the 
Union, the work will he especially valuable, as it gives 
file varieties of vegetables and fruits adapted to the cli¬ 
mate and the modes of culture which it is necessary to 
follow. 
CONTENTS. 
Chapter I.—Formation and Management, of Gardens in 
General. 
I Chapter 11.—Soils—Their Characteristics. 
Chapter Til.—The Improvement of the Soil. 
Chapter IAC—Manures. 
Chapter A 7 ".—Manures—Their Sources and Preparation. 
Chapter AT.—Rotation of Crops. 
Chapter ATI.—Ilot-beds, Cold Frames, and Pits. 
Chapter ATII—Garden Implements. 
Chapter IX.— Propagation of Plants. 
Chapter X.—Budding and Grafting. 
Chapter XI.—Pruning and Training, 
■'hapter XII.—Transplanting,- .... . - 
Chaptei: XIII.—Mulching, Shading, and Watering. 
Chapter XT AC—Protection from Frost. 
Chapter XV.—Insects and Vermin. 
Chapter XAT.—Vegetables — Description and Culture. 
Chapter XATI.—Fruits—A r arieties and Culture. 
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