Garden and Farm 
BOOKS. 
Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, Farm Crops, 
Dairying, Animals, Drainage, Fertilizers, 
Spraying, Etc, 
HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS AND general horticulture. 
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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 are given—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—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- 
denrng Plant Protection, Plants for Shady Places, Plants for Seaside, Poisoned 
tL.L:TL € w t A 1 "^’__ Pl !? p ® gatlor ^ by Cuttings, Layers, Seeds, etc., 
Water Plants, Weeds, Wintering Plants. 
Useful Tables and Memoranda on 'Temperature, Rain, Soil, Manures, Num¬ 
bers of I lants and Trees to an Acre, Quantity of Seeds required per Acre; for 
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. 
IF you wish to grow Vegetables for Sale, read GARDENING FOR 
X 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. 
P T PETER HENDERSON. 325 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $ J.50. 
TF you wish to become a Commercial Florist, then of all books you should 
1 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 _ 
By PETER HENDERSON. 404 Pages. Fully Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $ 1.50. 
YV7AS written to meet the wants of those desiring information on gardening for private use. Its scope therefore embraces directions for the culture and prop¬ 
er 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. 
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Preparation of the Ground — Walks — The Lawn — Designs for Gardens — 
Planting of Lawn and Flower Beds—VFall or Holland Bulbs, etc. — Propagation 
of Plants by Seeds — Propagation of Plants by Cuttings — How Grafting and 
Budding are done — The PoKing 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 
Gold Grapery — The Hot House or Forcing Grapery — The Strawberry — The 
Vegetable Garden — Monthly Calendar o‘ Operations. 
HENDERSON’S GARDEN ORACLE. 
PRICE 25 CENTS. 
A BOOKLET giving in a consise form the latest and best methods of 
growing vegetables for home, market and exhibition; condensed cultural 
1 *■ instructions for flower seeds; how to make and renovate lawns, cold 
frames and hot beds: combating bugs, worms and insects, including apparatus 
for applying insecticides and fungicides; spraying calender; culture and storing 
root crops for farm stock; fertilizing constituents consumed by various 
garden, field and fruit crops, etc., 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 7 nake the work of 
the farm pay . Inis 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 valualjle 
GARDEN AND FARM TOPICS* By PETER HENDERSON. 244 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $J.00. 
La^ais ^m^vario^s've^^able^mfd^a^m ^Crops n ^° W Gardening ’ Plant Propagation, Rose Growing in Winter, Greenhouse Construction and Heating, Renovating 
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 — TYeatment, after Flowering — Bulbs for 
the House and Greenhouse — Forcing — Flowering Bulbs in Glasses of Water, etc. 
— Keeping Dormant Bulbs — Hints on Buying and Selecting for Different Pur¬ 
poses, etc. 
The culture of Water Lilies and Aquatics. 
Hy PETER HENDERSON & CO. Revised and Enlarged Edit ; on. 
Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 50c. 
This new editjon 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 — 
1 r opGr Depths — Soil — Wintering Tender Species — Propagation from Seeds 
and Otherwise — Bogs — Marginal Plants and Planting — Descriptions of Varie¬ 
ties — Aquaria Plants, etc. 
Special Offer: (Separatlfly^they would cost $14.25.) 
: ordered at one time, we will suppl 
ly the full set of ten Books offered on pages 186 and 189 
This set of Books forms a Complete Library of the Garde 
. carriage prepaid, for 
Garden, Greenhouse and Farm. 
$12.00 
