STANDARD BOOKS, 
Play and Profit in My Garden. 
By E. P. Roe. The author takes us to his garden on 
the rocky hillsides in the vicinity of West Point, and 
shows us how out of it, after four years’ experience, he 
evoked a profit of $1,000, and this while carrying on pas¬ 
toral and literary labor. It is very rarely that so much 
literary taste and skill are mated to so much agricultural 
experience and good sense. Cloth, 12mo. . . $1.00 
Forest Planting. 
By H. Nicholas Jarchow, LL. D. A treatise on the care 
of woodlands and the restoration of the denuded timber- 
lands on plains and mountains. The author has fully 
described those European methods which have proved 
to be most useful in maintaining the superb forests of the 
old world. This experience has been adapted to the dif¬ 
ferent climates and trees of America, full instructions 
being given for forest planting of our various kinds of 
soil and subsoil, whether on mountain or valley. 
Illustrated, 12mo.$1.50 
Soils and Crops of the Farm. 
By George E. Morrow, M. A., and Thomas F. Hunt. The 
methods of making available the plant food in the soil 
are described in popular language. A short history of 
each of the farm crops is accompanied by a discussion 
of its culture. The useful discoveries of science are 
explained as applied in the most approved methods of 
culture. Illustrated. Cloth, 12mo. . $1.00 
American Fruit Culturist. 
By John J. Thomas. Containing practical directions for 
the propagation and culture of all the fruits adapted to 
the United States. Twentieth thoroughly revised and 
greatly enlarged edition by Wm. H. S. Wood. This new 
edition makes the work practically almost a new book, 
containing everything pertaining to large and small 
fruits as well as sub-tropical and tropical fruits. Richly 
illustrated by nearly 800 engravings. 758 pp., 12mo. $2.50 
Fertilizers. 
By Edward B. Voorhees, director of the New Jersey Agri¬ 
cultural Experiment Station. It has been the aim of 
the author to point out the underlying principles and to 
discuss the important subjects connected with the use 
of fertilizer materials. The natural fertility of the soil, 
the functions of manures and fertilizers, and the need 
of artificial fertilizers are exhaustively discussed. Sepa¬ 
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using fertilizers, and the best fertilizers for each of the 
most important field, garden and orchard crops. 
235 PP. 
,$ 1.00 
