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HENDERSON’S GARDEN GUIDE AND RECORD 
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REVISED and MANY NEW GARDENING POINTS ADDED for 1912 including CANNING and PRESERVING VEGETABLES for WINTER USE by MRS. RORER 
T HIS booklet is in convenient pocket form, with a waterproof cover, so that it may be taken right out in the garden where 
it will often come in handy in giving cultural directions and answering concisely, in simple language, the perplexing hundred and 
one gardening questions. The information given on the various subjects, while not exhaustive, is strictly up-to-<late, and may 
be^quickly found by glancing at the ready reference index. Another valuable feature is the blank pages for making notes, such as the 
kind of vegetable, fruit or flower, date of sowing or planting, first product, continuity, quality, etc. In fact many little records should 
be kept in it to refresh one’s mind regarding another season’s gardening operations. 
Among the “GARDEN BEAUTIFUL” and “GARDEN BOUNTIFUL” Topics discussed are: 
Flowers from Seed: 
Selections for Different Purposes. 
Brief Instructions How to Grow An¬ 
nuals, Biennials, Perennials. 
Special on Asters,Pansies andSweetPeas. 
How the English Grow Their Big 
Sweet Peas. 
Garden Culture of the Rose: 
Combating Insects and Diseases. 
Chrysanthemums: 
How to Grow Exhibition Flowers. 
Dahlia Culture. 
Bulb Culture: 
In Gardens, Pots and Naturalized. 
Peony Culture. 
Pruning Shrubs: 
Which Flower on New and Which 
on Old Wood. 
Lawns and Grass Plots: 
Making and Maintaining. 
How to Eradicate Worms and Moles 
in the Soil and Weeds in Walks. 
Preparing Garden Ground: 
Fertilizing, Draining, Cultivating. 
Vegetable Culture: 
Brief Directions and How to Grow the 
Big Prizetakers. 
Planting Table: 
Days from Sowing until ready to Use, etc. 
The Fall Vegetable Garden: 
What and How to Grow for Suc¬ 
cession. Etc., Etc. 
Vegetables for Winter Use: 
What and How to Store. 
Coidframe Vegetables: 
For Winter Use, What and How to 
Grow. 
How to Prevent Potato Scab. 
Garden Culture of 
Strawberries and Other Small 
Fruits. 
Insects and Plant Diseases: 
Latest Methods of Treatment. 
How to Make 
Coldframes and Hot Beds. 
The Essential Fertilizing Ingre¬ 
dients: Nitrogen. Phosphoric Acid 
and Potash—consumed by good average 
crops of vegetables and fruits on one 
acre as a guide to what fertilizer the 
land requires. 
The quantities of fertilizers re¬ 
quired for different areas. 
Our Garden Friends that should 
not be destroyed. 
Seedlings Illustrated of the leading 
vegetables so they may be distinguished 
from weeds. 
An Interesting and Valuable 
Table of 
The Time Required to Digest 
Vegetables, Fruits and Nuts. 
Etc., Etc. 
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