Gardening for Profit 
Practical Pioriculture 
Hand Book of Plants 
HENDERSON S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS AND GENERAL HORTICULTURE. 
By PF-THR HUNDI-RSON. 536 Panes. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $3.00. 
T HK staTidanl.ynerican dictionary of plants, flowenng.ornarnental, economic etc., indudmg vegetables and fruits; in fact, a complete work on cultivated nknf 
hfe. Lvtrythmg IS arranged alphabetically from Aarons Beard to very complete descriptions are given, with full cultural instn.rt^^ 
1 f of imjiortance. A full list of iiopular names and all botanical terms arc given; also a glossary of the technic*:’ terms used^ n des!5h^ 
plants. A monthly calendar of operations for the greenhouse and window garden, flower fruit and kitchen garden, rend \ it valuable as 
n short, there is sufficient matter given on all gardening subjects to allow this book to be termed The American Gardener's Dictionary 
reference: in : 
CONTENT^:. 
Al^ut genera of plants with their descriptions histories, usefulness, 
hardiness, requirements, etc., and cultural instructions are given — Popular or 
'^^nimon 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—Calen<iar of Garden 
Operations. 
Annuals, Bedding and Borders, Bouquets. Budding, Cold Frames and Pits, 
^n^rvatory. Designs. Draining, Fertilizers. Fountains. Frozen Plants, Glazing. 
Grasses, Greenhouse, Hanging Baskets. Heating, Hedges, Herbaceous 
Plants, Herbarium. Hybridization. Insects and Insecticides. Law-n. Manures. 
Mulching. Moles. Orchard. Orchid Culture. Ornamental Plant ng. Parlor Gar 
demng Plant Protection. Plants for Shady Places. Plants for Seaside. PoisonoiL' 
or Unhealthy Plants. Pottmg. Propagation by Cuttings. Lay-o, Seeds et^ 
I rumng. Rock Garden. Rotation of Crops. Screens. Seeds, Shading. Soil ’SuL 
soiling. Sub-trojncal Garden. Temperature. Transplanting, Trenching. Vases. 
Ventilating. Walks. Wardian Cases. Waterfalls. Watering. Water Lilies^ 
Water Plants. Weeds. Wintering Plants. 
Useful Tables and Memoranda on Temperature Rain, Soil, Manures. Num- 
liers of Plants and Trees to an Acre Quantity of Seeds required per Acre- for 
a certain numlxir of Plants; to a given length of drill, etc. 
GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 
By PETKR HENDERSON. 375 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid SI.50. 
|F you wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 
■ The jiersonal success of its author during his long career as a market 
garilener. and the success of thousands from the time he first made his 
•cultural methods known up to the present day show the poimlar estimation 
•of the value set upon this great work. While written particularly for the 
Market Gardener and Trucker, yet it is of eijual value for large private gar¬ 
dens. It tells the whole story', from selection and treatment of soils to mar¬ 
keting the T’roduce; also covers the forcing of vegetables strawlierries. etc. 
PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 325 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid $1.50 
|F you "'sh to Income a Commercial Florist, then of all books you should 
1 procure PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE, We have any numl>er of com* 
phmentary lettem from people who actually knew nVithing of the florists' 
businep, but who followed the instructions in this work and are now “ full- 
fledged florists And although written esiiecially for the Commercial Florist 
it is equally valuable to the amateur and all naving conservatories, greenhouses* 
s'ubjec't Admitted to lie the leading American authority on this 
js^ GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. ^ ^ 
By PETER HENDERSON. 404 pages, fully illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
written to meet the wants of those desiring information on gardening for private use Us scoiic therefore ombrar^c u j 
W of Flowers Vegetables and Fruits^ It lues had a large sale, and goi5e through sever^feSr th? p"senrha“^^^^^^ 
-nlarged. it exhaustively treats on the Vegetable Garden. Flower Garden. Fruit Garden. Greenhouse. Grapery. Window Garden Lawn the wlter GardS e^^^^ 
HENDERSON’S GARDEN 
ORACLE. 
PRICH, 25 CUNTS. 
. A BOOKLET giving in a concise form the latest and best methods of 
growing vegetables for home, market and exhibition; condensed cultural 
*• instructions for flower seeds; how to make and renovate law'ns. cold 
frames and hot l>eds: combating bugs, worms and insects, including apparatus 
for applying insecticides and fungicides: spraying calendar; culture and storing 
root crops for farm stock: fertilizing constituents consumed bv various garden, 
neld and fruit crops, etc., etc. 
HOW THE FARM PAYS. 
By PETIiR HENDERSON and W M. CR02IER, 400 pages. Profusely illustrated. 
Price, post-paid, $2.00. 
A N acknowledged authority for Farmers. Gives all the Latest Methods of 
Growing Grass, Gram. Root Crops, Fruits, etc.; and all about Stocks 
harm Machinery etc. It is written in a plain and easy-to-be-under- 
stood^ language Lyerjahing pertaining to scientific or abstruse subjects has 
been ignored the information given being the most direct to make the work ai 
the farm f>ay. 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 FARM TOPICS. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 244 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1.00. 
A compilation ot various essays on Bulbs, Window Gardening. Plant Prooaeation ermuino- \V5r,+«.. t' , • . t» . 
Renovating Lawns and various Vegetables and Farm Crops. i ropagauon. Kose growing m Winter. C.reenhouse Construction and Heating. 
HENDERSON’S BULB CULTURE. 
Revised and enlarged edition. 68 pages. Profusely illustrated. Price, post¬ 
paid, 50c. 
This newly revised and enlarged edition gives the uji-to-clatc methods of 
treatment for all kinds of Hardy and Tender Winter. Sjiring. 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—BuUis for 
tiie House and Greenhouse—Forcing—Flowering Bulbs in Glasses of Water, etc. 
-- Keev»ing Dormant Bulbs— Hints on Buying and Selecting for Diflerent Pur¬ 
poses. etc. 
THE CULTURE OF WATER LILIES and AQUATICS 
By PETER HENDliRSON & CO. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Profusely 
illustrated. Price, post-paid, 50c. 
This new edition gives the latest methods of growing and flowering Nym- 
pnaeas. Nelumbiums, Victorias and all other Ornamental Aquatics, both in 
natural and artificial ponds pools, tanks, etc.; including suitably situated 
natural watere—Making Artificial Ponds, etc.—How' and When to Plant— 
— Wintering Tender Species—Propagation from Seeds 
and Olhe^^v^se—Bogs Marginal Plants and Planting — Descrititions of Varie 
ties — Acpiana Plants, etc. 
SPECIAL OFFER: ’se!^?ateu they carriage prepaid, lor ^lO AA 
separately, tney would cost $14.25.) This set of books forms a complete library of the garden, greenhouse & fim. 
