[September 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1873.] 
READ SOME OF THE NOTICES BY THE PRESS 
OF THE BEST BOOK ON 
MARKET AND FAMILY GARDENING 
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EVER PUBLISHED IN THIS COUNTRY { 
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Gardening for Profit. 
BY PETER HENDERSON. FINELY 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
Here is a book that will interest not only those who 
foliow 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 hoy, be¬ 
cause from it he can icarn 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 he 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 he 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 onr readers a favor if we can 
induce them to purchase and consult this hook. 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. 
[TheNorth-western (Belvidere, Ills.). 
He (Mr. Henderson) began life as a poor hoy, and hv 
industry and aptitude has made a large fortune; and, un¬ 
like his prototype, Grant Thorburn, lie 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 hook ; and the hook 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 lauds 
for gardening; soils, drainage and preparation ; manures 
and implements ; formation, management, and uses of 
hot-beds and coid-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 arc described, and the culture proper 
to each is given in detail .—New Hampshire Sentinel. 
There is a common-sense directness and simplicity 
about the instructions they (Mr. Henderson’s hooks) 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 lie 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 p'ersons 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 
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 gardeners 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, hut 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 ont the way to the surest and 
largest profit . — Christian Press (New York). 
Mr. H. is a practical authoa. Wc 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 us 
the result of his working experience .—Providence Press. 
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 lie 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 wo 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 largo, hut 
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 
hooks 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 he glad t© obtain. We can 
recommend it to every owner of a garden. 
[Cincinnati Weeldy Gazette. 
Although this w r ork, 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 (Hamilton, Bermuda). 
ILLUSTRATED. 
It is not a collection of stale ideas, gotten up by sowp 
ex-professional man, hut i^ 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. 
[New Hampshire Sentinel. 
All ttie 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 
the 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 he 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 pn kindred topics. Though 
designed for a special class, it cannot fail to be valuable 
to the amateur and private gardener, aud unlucky experi¬ 
ence has taught us that the information contained in a 
single chapter would have been worth to us the price of 
the hook.— 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, Mo.). 
Mr. Ilenderson writes from knowledge, and is not one 
of those amateur cultivators whose potatoes cost them 
ten dollars a bushel, and whose 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 
hut priceless. No; he is a practical man, and he has the 
art of imparting the knowledge he 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 lias 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 Giieelet in the N. Y. Tribune. 
We have devoted more space to this little work than 
wc usually do to tomes much more pretentious. We have 
done so because of the rare merits of the hook 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 yot 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 j»ost-pald, Price, $1.50. 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., 845 Broadway, Now York. 
