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•PETER HENDERSON ft. CO.. NEW YORK 
Garden and Farm 
BOOKS. 
Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, Farm Crops, 
Dairying, Animals, Drainage, Fertilizers, 
Spraying, Etc. 
HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS and general horticulture. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 526 Page*. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $3.00. 
T HE standard American dictionary of plants, flowering, ornamental, economic, etc., including vegetables and fruits; in fact, a complete work on cultivated 
plant life. Everything is arranged alphabetically, from Aaron's Beard to Zygophyllum ; very complete descriptions are given, with full cultural instructions 
for everything of importance. A full list of popular names and all botanical terms are given; also a glossary of the technical terms used in describing plants. 
A monthly calendar of operations for the greenhouse and window garden, flower, fruit and kitchen garden, renders it valuable as a book of reference; in short, 
there is sufficient matter given on all gardening subjects to allow this book to be termed The American Gardener’s Dictionary. 
CONTENTS. 
About 5000 genera of plants, with their descriptions, histories, usefulness, 
hardiness, requirements, etc., and cultural instructions arc given—Popular or 
Common Names — Correct Pronunciation — Cultivation of Principal Vegetables, 
Fruits and Flowers—Winter Forcing of lloses, Bulbs and other Plants used for 
Cut Flowers—Winter Forcing of Vegetables and Fruits—Calendar of Garden 
Operations. 
Annuals, Bedding and Borders, Bouquets, Budding, Cold Frames and Pits, 
Conservatory. Designs, Draining. Fertilizers, Fountains, Frozen Plants, 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 Gar¬ 
dening, Plant Protection, Plants for Shady Places, Plants for Seaside, Poisonous 
or Unhealthy Plants, Potting, Propagation by Cuttings, Layers, Seeds, etc., 
Pruning, Rock Garden, 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, Num¬ 
bers of Plants and Trees to an Acre, Quantity of Seeds required per Acre; f (f 
a certain number of Plants; to a given length of drill, etc. 
GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 375 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
F you wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read GARDENING FOR 
PROFIT. The personal success of its author during his long career as a 
market gardener, and the success of thousands from the time he first made 
his cultural methods known up to the present day, show the popular estimation 
of the value set upon this great work. While written particularly for the 
Market Gardener and Trucker, yet it is of equal value for large private gar¬ 
dens. It tells the whole story, from selection and treatment of soils to mar¬ 
keting the produce; also covers the forcing of vegetables, strawberries, etc. 
PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 325 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid# $1.50, 
F you wish to become a Commercial Florist, then of all books you should 
procure PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. We have any number of com¬ 
plimentary letters from people who actually knew nothing of the florists 
business, but who followed the instructions in this work and are now “full- 
fledged florists.” And although written especially for the Commercial Florist 
it is equally valuable to the amateur and all having conservatories, greenhouses, 
window gardens, etc. Admitted to be the leading American authority on this 
subject. 
GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. 
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By PETER HENDERSON. 404 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
AS written to meet the wants of those desiring information on gardening for private use. Its scope therefore embraces directions for the culture and prop¬ 
agation of Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits. It has had a large sale, and gone through several editions, the present having been revised and greatly en¬ 
larged; it exhaustively treats on the Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden, Fruit Garden, Greenhouse, Grapery, Window Garden, Lawn, the Water Garden, etc. 
CONTENTS, 
Preparation of the Ground—Walks—The Lawn—Designs for Gardens— 
Planting of Lawn and Flower Beds—Fall or Holland Bulbs, etc.—Propagation 
of Plants by Seeds—Propagation of Plants by Cuttings—How Grafting and 
Budding are done—The Potting of Plants—Winter-Flowering Plants—Plants 
suited for Summer Decoration—Window Gardening—Culture of Water Lilies 
and other Aquatic Plants—The Chrysanthemum—Parlor Gardening or the 
Cultivation of Plants in Rooms—Greenhouses attached to Dwellings—De¬ 
tached Greenhouses, Modes of Heating, etc.—Greenhouses and Pits without 
Artificial Heating — Flowers that will grow in the Shade—Insects and other 
Parasites injurious to Plants—Humbugs in Horticulture—Hardy Grapes—The 
Cold Grapery—The Hot House or Forcing Grapery—The Strawberry—The 
Vegetable Garden—Monthly Calendar of Operations. 
BEST METHODS OF GROWING VEGETABLES* 
PRICE, 25 CENTS. 
PAMPHLET giving in a concise form the latest methods of growing gar¬ 
den vegetables, including special treatment for growing exhibition vege¬ 
tables, a useful table, giving temperatures in which seeds best germi¬ 
nate, the time required to “come up” and days to mature; the use of the feet 
in seed sowing; how to prevent scab in potatoes; combating insects and plant 
diseases; apparatus for applying insecticides, fungicides; the proportions of fer¬ 
tilizing constituents in various vegetable crops; the fertilizers best supplying 
the needful; stimulating plants into quick growth and early maturity; the making 
and management of cold lrames and hot beds, etc. 
HOW THE FARM PAYS. 
By PETER HENDERSON and WM. CROZIER. 400 Pages. Profusely 
Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $2.00. 
A N acknowledged authority for Farmers. Gives all the Latest Methods of 
Growing Grass, Grain, Root Crops, Fruits, etc.; and all about Stock, 
Farm Machinery, etc. It is written in a plain and easy-to-be-under¬ 
stood 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. This is perhaps the first book of the kind ever written by two 
men while actually engaged in the work which, to both, has been such a con¬ 
tinued success — hence, their advice is practical and doubly valuable. 
GARDEN AND FAR.M TOPICS. By PETER HENDERSON. 244 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.00. 
A compilation of various essays on Bulbs, Window Gardening, Plant Propagation, Rose Growing in Winter, Greenhouse Construction and Heating, Renovating 
Lawns, and various Vegetable and Farm Crops. 
HENDERSON'S BULB CULTURE. 
Revised and Enlarged Edition. 68 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 50c. 
This newly revised and enlarged edition gives the up-to-date methods of 
treatment for all kinds of Hardy and Tender Winter, Spring, Summer and 
Autumn Flowering Bulbs, Tubers, Corms, etc.—Bulbs for Gardens and Lawns — 
Design Bedding—Mixed Borders—Naturalizing—Situations, Soils and Prep¬ 
aration—Time and Depth to Plant—Treatment after Flowering—Bulbs for 
the House and Greenhouse—Forcing—Flowering Bulbs in Glasses ofJW a t er * 
—Keeping Dormant Bulbs—Hints on Buying and Selecting for Different Pur¬ 
poses, etc. _ 
The culture of Water Lilies and aquatics. 
By PETER HENDERSON & CO. Revised and Enlarged Edition, 
Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 50c. 
This new edition gives the latest methods of growing and flowering Nym- 
phaeas, Nelumbiums, Victorias and all other Ornamental Aquatics, both in 
natural and artificial ponds, pools, tanks, etc.; including suitably situated 
natural waters — Making Artificial Ponds, etc.— How and When to Plant- 
Proper Depths—Soil — Wintering Tender Species— Propagation from Seeds 
and Otherwise — Bogs—Marginal Plants and Planting — Descriptions of Varie¬ 
ties—Aquaria Plants, etc. 
Special Offer: 
If ordered at one time, we will supply the full set of ten Books offered on pages 184 and 187, carriage prepaid, for C 1 2 00 
(Separately, they would cost $14.25.) This set of Books forms a Complete Library of the Garden, Greenhouse and Farm. ^ 
