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Terry (140 p.; ill.) Paper.40 
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Bailey (90 p. ; ill.).75 
Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 
Downing (1.500 p.; ill.). 5.00 
Fruit Garden. Barry (500 p.; ill.)_ 2.00 
Grape Culturist. Fuller (283 p.; ill.). 1.50 
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Pear Culture for Profit. Quiun 
(136 p.).... 1.00 
Propagation of Plants. Fuller 
(350 p.; ill). 1.50 
Propagation, Art of, Jenkins, (paper; 
30 p.; ill). .30 
Small Fruits, Success with. Roe. 
(380 p.). 1.50 
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Vegetables, Etc. 
Celery Manual. $0.25 
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Garden—How to make it Pay. 
Greiner (260 p.; ill.). 2.00 
How Crops Feed. Johnson (400 p.: ill.) 2.00 
How Crops Grow. Johnson (375 p ).. 2.00 
Mushroom Culture for Amateurs. 
May (Eng.; 50 p.; 111.) paper.50 
Money in the Garden. Quinn (150 p.).. 1.50 
Truck Farming at the South. Oemler 
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Floriculture. 
Azalea Culture. Halliday (110 p.; ill.) 
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Hand-Book of Plants. Henderson 
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Home Florist, The. Long. 1.50 
Practical Floriculture. Henderson 
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Rose, The. Ellwanger (290 p.). 1.25 
General Agriculture. 
Agriculture. Storer (2 vols.). $5.00 
Ensilage and Silos. Colcord. 1 00 
The Silo. A. J. Cook. [20 
Grasses and Forage Plants. Flint. 2.00 
How the Farm Pays. Henderson and 
Crozier. 2.50 
Irrigation for Farm, Garden and Or¬ 
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Manures, Book on. Harris (350 p.)... 1.75 
Culture of Farm Crops. Stewart_ 1.50 
Live Stock, Poultry, Etc. 
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Feeding Animals. Stewart. 2.00 
Milch Cows and Dairy Farming. Flint 
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Dairyman’s Manual. Stewart. 2.00 
Practical Poultry Keeper. Wrigtit 
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Poultry Culture. I. K. Felch. 1.50 
Harris on the Pig. Joseph Harris_ 1.50 
Veterinary Adviser. James Law_ 3.00 
Miscellaneous. 
Annals of Horticulture. Bailey. 
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Botany, Lessons in. Gray (226 p.; ill.). 
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California Views (in color). Nutting.. 
Forestry, Practical. Fuller (2S0 p.; ill.) 
Home Acre. Roe (252 p.). 
Horticulturists’ Rule Book. Bailey.. 
How Plants Grow. Gray (216 p.; ill.). 
Insects Injurious to Plants. Saunders 
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Insects, Injurious. Treat (270 p.; ill.). 
Nature’s Serial Story. Roe. 
Ornamental Gardening. Long. 
Rural Essays. Downing. 
Suburban Homes. Scott. 
Talks Afield. Bailey. 
The Garden’s Story. Ellwanger. 
Woods ot the United States. Sargent. 
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. . NEARLY I Ti JANUARY. 
The New Potato Culture.” 
CAldT' Wi n n a 11 t V. r. , n l n l J ... 1 I t . , . ■ . ... 
Bv ELBERT S. CARMAN. Editor of 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. This book 
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ANOTHER HAND-BOOK FOR THE RURAL-GARDEN FAMILY. 
NOVEL—CONCISE—PR ACTICAXj. 
THE NURSERY BOOK. 
A Complete Hand-Book of Propagation and Pollination. By L. H. Bailey. Uniform in Size and Style with 
Rule-Book of 1891 Edition Profusely Illustrated. 
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T HIS valuable Uttle manual has been compiled at great pains. The author has had 
unusual facilities for its preparation, having been aided by many experts In 
many directions. The book is absolutely devoid of theory and speculation. It 
has nothing to do with plant physiology, nor with any abstruse reasons of plant growth. 
It simply tells plainly and briefly wbat every one who sows a seed, makes a cutting, 
sets a graft, nr crosses a flower wants to know. It is entirely new and original in 
method and matter. The cuts number almost 100, and are made especially for it, direct 
from nature. The book treats of all kinds of cultivated plants, fruits, vegetables, 
greenhouse plams, hardy herbs, ornamental trees and shrubs and forest trees. 
CONTENTS. 
Chapter I.—Seedage. 
Chapter II.—Separation and Division. 
Chapter III.—Layerage. 
Chapter IV.—Cuttage. 
Chapter V.-Graftage. Including Grafting, BuddiDg, Inarching, etc. 
Chapter VI.—Nursery List 
Tnis is the great feature of the book. It is an alphabetical list of all kinds of 
plants, with a short s atement telling which of the operations described in the;iirst 
five chapters are employed in propagating them. Over 2,000 entries are made in 
the list. The following entries will give an idea of the method : 
be sown an inch or two deep; or some species, as a dasycarpum , come readily 
if seeds are simply sown as soon as ripe. Some cultural varieties are layered 
but better plants are obtained by grafting Varieties of native species are 
worked upon common or native stocks. The Japanese sorts are winter 
worked upon imported A polymorphum stocks, either bv whip or veneer- 
graftlng. Ylaples can also be budded in summer, and they grow readily from 
cuttings of both ripe and soft wood. 
PHVLI.OCACTCS. PHYLLOCEREIS. DISOCACTUS (Leaf-Cactus). Cactece. 
Fresh seeds grow readily. Sow in rather sandv soil, which is well drained 
and apply water as for common seeds. When the seedlings appear, remove 
to a light position. Cuttings from mature shoots, thrte to six inches iu length 
root readily in sharp sand. Give a temperature of about 60 degrees, and applv 
only sufficient water to keep from flagging. If the cuttings are very juiev 
they may be laid on dry sand for several days before plan ting. J J 
GOOSEBERRY. Seeds, for the raising of new varieties, should be sown as soon as 
well cured, in loamy or sandy soil, or the? may be stratified and sown 
together with the sand m the spring. Cuttings, 6 to 8 inches long, of the 
mature wood, inserted two thirds their length, usually grow rpa’ilv 
especially if taken in August or September and store! during winter 
Stronger plants are usually obtained by layers, and the English varieties are 
nearly always layered in this country. Mound layering Is usually employed 
the English varieties being allowed to remain In layerage two years but’the 
American varieties only one (Fig. 27). Layered plants are usually set in 
nurserv rows for a year after removal from the stools. Green-layering during 
summer is sometimes practiced for new or rare varieties. b 
Chapter YIL—Pollination. 
This book is now completed, and it will be on sale promptly by January 1st. 
A FLOWER OF “ NICOTIAN A AFF1NIS,” AND ONE PREPARED FOR POLLINATION 
A CLEFT GRAFTING KNIFE. 
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Price, in library style, cloth, wide margins, $1.00; Pocket style, 
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A BEGONIA UPRIGHT LEAF CUTTING. 
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