By PETER HENDERSON. 526 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $3.00. 
r HE original Handbook of Plants was issued in 1881; in this new edition , rewritten and enlarged , 
all the new genera of importance 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 Linmean or artificial system ; and a caref ully compiled glossal y 
of the technical terms used in describing plants. A monthly calendar of operations for the greenhouse anu 
■window garden, flower, 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 Vege¬ 
tables of importance; in short, there is sufficient matter given on all gardening subjects to allow this book 
to be 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. 
CONTENTS. 
About 5,000 genera of plants, alphabetically arranged, with their descriptions, individual 
histories, usefulness,-hardiness, requirements, etc., and where their importance justifies it. 
cultural instructions arc given—Local, Popular or Common Names—Correct Pronunciation 
—Cultivation of principal Vegetables. Fruits and Flowers—Winter Forcing of Hoses. Bulbs 
and other Plants used for Cut Flowers—Winter Forcing of Vegetables and Fruits—Monthly 
Calendar of Garden Operations. „ . _ 
Annuals, Bedding ami Borders, Bouquets, Budding. Cold Frames and Pits, Color in Flow¬ 
ers. Conservatory, Designs, Draining, Fertilizers, Fountains. Frozen Plants. Glass and Glaz¬ 
ing. Grafting, Grasses, Greenhouse, Hanging Baskets. Heating, Hedges, Herbaceous Plants, 
Herbarium, Hybridization, Insects and Insecticides, Lawn, Manures, Mulching, Moles, 
and Trees to an Acre, Quantity of Seeds required per Acre ; for a certain number of Plants ; 
to a given length of Drill, etc. 
By PETER HENDERSON and WM. CROZIER. 400 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $2.00. 
A N acknowledged authority for Farmers. Gives all of the Latest Methods of Growing Grass, 
Grain, Root 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. 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 continued success—hence, their advice is practical 
and doubly valuable. 
- COJVTETTTS. - 
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, Cultivating and Rolling 
Land—Use of the Feet in Sowing and Planting — Rotation of Crops—Crops for Soiling and 
Fodder—Abortion in Cows—Grass and its Management—Varieties of Grasses—Mixed Grasses 
for Pasture and Hav—Cutting and Curing of Hay—Clover Hay—Ensilage—Ensilage Com¬ 
pared with Roots—Live Stock of the Farm—Cows for the Dairy—Feed and Care for Milk and 
Butter—Young Cattle and their Caro—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—Harrows—Cultivators—Mowers ami Reapers— 
Haying Machinery—Fodder Cutters—Carts—Farm Culture of Vegetables and Fruits—Cab- 
bagi—Celery— Sweet Corn—Cucumbers for Pickles—Melons as a Market Crop—Onions— 
Culture of Small Fruits. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 244 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, $1. 
Contents. 
Popular bulbs—Window Gardening—Plants in Rooms — Propaga- 
tion of Plants by Cuttings. Layers. Divisions and Seed — Rose Grow¬ 
ing in Winter—Greenhouse Structures and Heating—Formation 
and Renovation of Lawns—Onion Growing for Market—How to Grow Cauliflower for Mar¬ 
ket_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. 
Contents. 
Insecticides and Fungicides: How to Mix and Applv Them— 
Injurious Insects, with Remedies, and the Plants and Treesthey 
Usually Attack—Plant Diseases (such as Mildew, Rust, Rot, etc., etc.), with Remedies, and 
the Plants Usually A tree ted—Insecticide and Fungicide Ingredients and their Average Cost 
—Spraying Calendar, etc. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 24 Pages. 
Price, post-paid, 25 Cents. 
Contents. 
Descriptions of Bulbs, alphabetically arranged, with Special 
Cultural Instructions for each—Designs for Beds of Tulips and 
Hyacinths — Naturalizing Bulbs in Lawns, etc.—The Window Gar¬ 
den of Bulbs—Hyacinth Glasses, Crocus Pots, etc.—Bulbs in Cold 
Frames and Pits — When Bulbs should be Taken Up — Preparation 
and Outside Planting—Spring-llowering Bulbs—winter-flowering Bulbs — Summer-flowering 
Bulbs — Forcing Bulbs. 
mne 
42 Pages. Illustrated. Price, post-paid, 25 Cts. 
How to Make a Water Lily Tank and Protect in 
Winter—When Tender Cpedes may be Started — 
Keeping Water Lilies over Winter—To Extend the 
Season of Blooming — Soil for Growing Aqua tics— 
Water Lilies in Tubs and Cement Basins—The Possi¬ 
bilities of Aquatic Gardening—Hardy Aquatics—Ene¬ 
mies of Aquatics and Remedies' — Suitable Animals for the Aquatic- Ganh-n—How 
Water Lilies from Seed—An Amateur's Success—Species and Varieties of Water L 
Aquatics. 
to Grow 
lilies and 
Condensed 'Ve^etnble and Flower Seed Culture . 
By PETER HENDERSON. Price, post-paid, 10 Cents. 
An eight-page pamphlet, containing, in a condensed form instructions for the cultivation of Garden Vegetables and Flowers from 
seeds. Also, full directions for making Hot Beds and Cold Frames. 
Special Oiier: 
It ordered atone time, we will supply the full set of ten books, offered on pages 8 and 7, 
carriage prepaid, for $9.00. (Separately, they would cost $11.35.) This set of books forms 
A COMPLETE LIBRARY OF THE GARDEN, GREENHOUSE AND FARM. 
For $9.00 
