NEW 
ISSUED 
1890. 
H 
ANDBOOK OF PLANTS 
AND GENERAL HORTICULTURE. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 
The original Handbook op Plants was issued in 1881; in this new edition all the new genera of impor¬ 
tance are added. All botanical terms are given, and also a very full list of popular names, and all the 
generic names are accentuated. The natural system of arrangement is adopted in the descriptions instead of the Linnsoan or 
artificial system; and a carefully compiled glossary of the technical terms used in describing plants. A monthly calendar of 
operations for the greenhouse and window garden, (lower, fruit and kitchen garden, will undoubtedly render this edition valuable 
as a book of reference. Very full instructions are given for the culture and forcing of all Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables of 
importance; in short, there is sufficient matter given on all gardening subjects to allow this book to bo termed The American 
Gardener's Dictionary. And it will be better adapted to the wants of American horticulturists than any of the more costly 
foreign works on gardening; for, though from a foreign standpoint these are all they claim to be, yet for our American climate 
much of the information, and especially the gardening instructions, are not only useless, but actually misleading. 
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-) CONTENTS 
About 6,000 genera of plants, alphabetically arranged, with their descriptions, 
individual histories, usefulness, hardiness, requirements, etc., and, where their 
importance j nstities it, cultural instructions are given—Local, Popular or Common 
Names—Correct Pronunciation — Cultivation of Principal Vegetables, Fruits and 
Flowers—Winter Forcing of Roses. Bulbs and other Plants used for Cut Flowers — 
Winter Forcing of Vegetables and Fruits—Monthly Calendar of Garden Operations. 
Annuals, Bedding and Borders, Bouquets, Budding, Cold Frames and Pits, Color 
in Flowers, Conservatory, Designs, Drainage, Fertilizers, Fountains, Frozen Plants, 
Glass and Glazing, Grafting. Grasses, Greenhouse, Hanging Baskets, Heating, 
Hedges, Herbaceous Plants, Herbarium, Hybridization, Insects and Insecticides, 
Lawn, Manures, Mulching, Moles, Orchard, Orchid Culture, Ornamental Planting, 
Parlor Gardening. Plant Protection, Plants in Rooms, Plants for Shady Places, Plants- 
for Seaside, Poisonous or Unhealthy Plants, Potting, Propagation by Cuttings, 
Layers, Seeds, etc , Pruning, Rock Garden and Rock Work, Rotation of Crops, 
Screens, Seeds, Shading, Soil, Sub-soiling, Sub tropical Garden, Temperature, 
Transplanting. Trenching. Vases. Ventilating, Walks, Wardian Cases, Waterfalls, 
Watering, Water Lilies and Water Plants, Weeds. Wintering Plants. 
Useful Tables and Memoranda on Temperature, Rain, Soil, Manures, Numbers 
of Plants and Trees to an Acre, Quantity of Seeds required to an Acre; for a. 
certain number of Plants; to a given length of Drill, etc. 
526 Pages. Profusely illustrated. Price, postpaid, $4.00. Also offered as a premium on orders fron this Catalogue. See page 7. 
H 
OW THE FARM PAYS. By Peter Henderson and William Crozier. 
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An acknowledged authority for Farmers. Gives all the Latest Methods of Growing Grass, Grain, Boot Crops, Fruits, etc.; 
and all about Stock, Farm Machinery, etc., etc. It is written in a plain and easy-to-be-understood language. Everything 
pertaining to scientific or abstruse subjects has been ignored, the information given being the most direct to make the work 
of the farm pay. which the so-called scientific farmer rarely does. This is perhaps the first book of Iho kind ever written by 
two men while actually engaged in the work which, to both, has been, such a continued success—lienco, their advice is practical and 
doubly valuable. 3-) contents. (-© 
Training for the Business of Farming — Agricultural College Education—Selection 
of Soils—Farm Roads—Draining — Manures and the Modes of Application — Special 
Fertilizers—Green Manuring—Fertilizing by Feeding—Plowing, Harrowing. Culti¬ 
vating and Rolling Land—Use of the Feet in Sowing and Planting — Rotation of 
Crops—Crops for Soiling and Fodder—Soiling Crops—Abortion in Cows and its 
Causes — Grass and its Management—Varieties of Grasses—Mixed Grasses for 
Pasture and Hay—Cutting and Curing of Hay—Clover Hay—Ensilage—Ensilage 
400 Tages. Profusely illustrated. Price, postpaid, $2.50. Also offered as apremium on orders from this Catalogue. Seepage 7 . 
CONTENTS.—Popular Bulbs—Window Gardening — Plants in Rooms — 
Propagation of Plants by Cuttings, Layers, Divisions and Seed — Roso 
Growing in Winter—Greenhouse Structures and Heating — Formation and 
Renovation of Lawns—Onion Growing lor Market—How to Grow Cauli¬ 
flower for Market—Growing and Preserving Celery—Strawberry Culture — 
Root Crops for Farm Stock — Culture of Alfalfa and Lucerne—Manures and their Application—Market Gardening around New York — The Use of the Feet in Seed Sowing 
and Planting—Draining. 244 Pages, Illustrated. Price, postpaid, $1.00. Also offered as a premium on orders from this Catalogue. See page 7. 
Compared with Roots—Live Stock of the Farm—Cows for the Dairy—Feed and 
Care for Milk and Butter—Young Cattle and their Care—Management of the Dairy 
—Farm Horses — Sheep—Swine—Farm Buildings — Fences—Rearing and Keeping 
Poultry—Pests of the Farm and their Remedies—Farm Machinery—Plows—Har¬ 
rows—Cultivators—Mowers and Reapers—Haying Machinery—Fodder Cutters— 
Carts-Farm Culture of Vegetables and Fruits—Cr bbage—Celery—Sweet Corn— 
Cucumbers for Pickles—Melons as a Market Crop—Ononis — Culture of Small Fruits. 
harden and farm topics. 
^_ I? «r DCTPD HPMHPDCAY -— 
By PETER HENDERSON.- 
B I If t> n\ Tf TI TOP CONTENTS.—Descriptions of Bulbs, 
wLJLwI UlyL## alphabetically arranged, with Special Cul- 
- By PETER HENDERSON.- tural Instructions for each—Designs for Beds 
of Tulips and Hyacinths—Naturalizing Bulbs in Lawns, etc.—The Window 
Garden of Bulbs—Haycinth Glasses, Crocus Pots, etc—Bulbs in Cold Frames and 
Pits — When Bulbs should be Taken Up—Preparation and Outside Planting—Spring 
Flowering Bulbs—Winter Flowering Bulbs — Summer Flowering Bulbs—Forcing 
Bulbs. 24 Pages. Price, postpaid, 25 Cents. 
Also offered as a premium on orders from this Catalogue. See page 7. 
r E CULTURE OF WATER LILIES AND AQUATICS. 
CONTENTS.—How to Make a Water Lily Tank and Protect in Winter — When 
Tender Species may be Started — Keeping Water Lilies over Winter — To Extend 
the Season of Blooming—Soil for Growing Aquatics—Water Lilies in Tubs and 
Cement Basins—The Possibilities of Aquatic Gardening—Hardy Aquatics—Enemies 
of Aquatics and Remedies—Suitable Animals for the Aquatic Garden—How to Grow 
Water Lilies from Seed—An Amateur’s Success—Species and Varieties of Water 
Lilies and Aquatics. 42 Pages. Illustrated. Price, postpaid, 25 Cents. 
Also offered as a premium on orders from this Catalogue. See page 7. 
NSECTS AND PLANT DISEASES, WITH REMEDIES. 
CONTENTS. — Insecticides and Fungicides: How to Mix and Apply Them— 
Injurious Insects, with Remedies, and the Plants and Trees they Usually Attack — 
Plant Diseases (such as Mildew, Rust, Rot. etc., etc.), with Remedies, and the Plants 
Usually Affected— Insecticide and Fungicide Ingredients and their Average Cost— 
Implements and Appliances for Spraying and Dusting Insecticides and Fungicides 
on Plants, Trees. 36 Pages. Illustrated. Price, postpaid, 25 Cents. 
Also offered as a premium on orders from this Catalogue. Seepage 7. 
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C ONDENSED VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEED 
CULTURE. - By PETER HENDERSON.- 
An eight-page pamphlet, containing, in a condensed form, in¬ 
structions for Iho cultivation of Garden Vegetables and Flowers 
from seeds. Also, full directions for making Hot-Beds and Cold 
Frames. Price, iOc. Also offered as a premium on orders from, 
this Catalogue. See page 7. 
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