BOOKS 
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BOOKS 
(All prices quoted are postpaid.) 
SOILS: HOW TO HANDLE AND IMPROVE THEM. 
By S. W. lletcher. More than 100 photographs. 
$ 2 . 20 . 
FARM ANIMALS: COW. HORSE. SHEEP, SWINE. 
By E. V. Wilcox. A most valuable manual of how 
to breed, care for. use and doctor all the animals 
on the farm. $2.20. 
FERTILIZERS: The Source, Character and Composi¬ 
tion of Natural, Home-made and Manufactured Fer¬ 
tilizers; and Suggestions as to Their Use for Dif¬ 
ferent Crops and Conditions. By Edward B. Voorhees. 
2d ed., small 12mo., cloth, 335 pp., $1 00. This book 
discusses the difficult questions of fertilizers in plain 
and untechnical language. It instructs the farmer 
upon the fundamental principles of the use of fer¬ 
tilizers, so that he is able to determine for himself 
what his practice shall be. It is not an advocate 
for commercial fertilizers, but tells siinplv and 
directly the truth respecting their value. 
INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES. By Clarence S. Weed, 
D.Sc. A practical manual concerning noxious in¬ 
sects and methods of preventing their injuries. 334 
pages. $1.50. 
THE PRACTICAL GARDEN BOOK. By C. E. Hunn 
and L. H. Bailey. Small 12mo., cloth, 250 pp., illus., 
$1.00. A book of advice. It contains the simplest 
directions for the growing of the most common 
things ana for the simple operations of the home 
garden. 
FRUIT RECIPES. By Riley M. Fletcher Berry. A 
unique book on the uses of fruits as food. The 
author not onl.. shows the unappreciated value of 
fruit, but gives 900 different recipes for fruit dishes 
and drinks. No former voiuttu* has ever given such 
a complete and suggestive collection. Illustrated 
from photographs. $1.65. 
THE PRINCIPLES OF VEGETABLE GARDENING. 
By L. H. Bailey. Small 12 mo., cloth. 458 pp., illus., 
$1.2.-> net. Treats of equipment and capital, the 
making of hot-beds, cold frames and their manage¬ 
ment: file soil and its treatment; all about seeds; 
the layout of the vegetable garden and the market¬ 
ing and storing of the produce. After these general 
matters are fully discussed, the treatment of each 
vegetable is taken up. 
PARSONS ON THE ROSE. Illustrated. 211 pages. $ 1 . 
SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. By P. A. Waugh, professor 
. of horticulture and landscape gardening in the Mas- 
j sachusetts Agricultural College*. It presents clearly 
I and in detail the whole method by which fruits are 
f studied. Illustrated. 288 pages. $1.00. 
CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. Edited 
I by L. H. Bailey, author of “The Principles of Vege¬ 
table Gardening,etc. To be complete in four vol¬ 
umes, each about*,600 pages. Sold only by subscrip¬ 
tion and in complete sets. Vol. 1., ready. 8vo., 
doth. $20 net; half marocco, $32 net. This un- 
| questionably is far the most important agricultural 
i cyclopedia work yet undertaken in this country. 
The leading experts in the United States and Canada, 
both investigators and practical farmers, contribute 
to its chapters, which are arranged, not ttlphabeti- 
i cully, but topically, each subject being treated in its 
; various aspects by men especially familiar with it. 
1 It contains advice for the city man who is seeking a 
home in the country, as. well as the professional 
farmer. Nearly every agricultural writer of approved 
reputation in North America* will be found on the 
lists. The book is strictly * new and up to date in 
its method and advice, and it is designed that it shall 
be thoroughly readable, as well as a standard book 
of reference. It is profusely illustrated, about one- 
third of the total space in the four volumes being 
assigned to illustrations—all original. The division 
according to volumes is as follows: 
Vol. 1. General Consideration of Farms, Climates 
and Soils. 
\ ol II. Farm Crops—General Facts relating to 
Plant Production; Individual Farm Crops; Timber 
Crops (the woodlot). 
Vol. III. Farm Animals — Characteristics. Care and 
l tili/.ation. 
Vol. IV. The Farm as a part of the Community: 
Social Consi d erations. 
THE CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN HORTICULTURE 
By L. H. Bailey, assisted by Willielm Miller and 
many expert Cultivators and Botanists. Complete in 
Four Volumes. Large 8vo.« gilt top and cover design. 
Sold only by subscription; the set 4 vols.. cloth 
$20: half morocco, $32; both net. Four octave or¬ 
namentally bound volumes, coninrisimr 2,000 large 
pages, profusely and beautifully illustrated with 
2,800 original engravings, giving a complete descrip¬ 
tion of all species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and 
ornamental plants in America, directions for the nil 
tivation of all kinds of horticultural crops, laying 
out of ornamental gardens, observations on market¬ 
ing, etc. 
W e do not hesitate to commend this work to 
our readers, whether fruit-growers, gardeners, gentle¬ 
men of leisure, or of whatever profession, for it con¬ 
tains such information as it will take scores of books 
to give, and cannot fail to both interest and in¬ 
struct every reader.’ —Canadian Iiorticulturalist. 
SOUTHERN GARDENER'S PRACTICAL MANUAL. 
By J. S. Newman. Ibis is a reliable, practical guide 
for growing kitchen vegetables in the South. $1.10. 
A BOOK OF VEGETABLES AND GARDEN HERBS: 
A Practical Handbook and Planting Table for the 
Home Garden. By Allen French. 12mo., cloth, $1.75 
net. Besides a description of each plant, its habit, 
value ami use. the book contains detailed cultural 
directions for growing all vegetables cultivable in 
the northern I'nited States, covering tin* soil, plant 
tng distances, times for sowing, thinning and trans¬ 
planting. fertilizing, pieking, winter protection, re¬ 
newal. storage, and the management of diseases' and 
pests. 
PLUMS AND PLUM CULTURE. By Prof. N F. A. 
Waugh. A complete manual on all known varieties 
ot plums and their successful management. flus- 
trated. 391 pages. $1.50. 
PLANT-BREEDING. By L. H. Bailey. New edition. 
$1.25 net. 1’rents of the fact and philosophy of 
variation ot the plant-breeder and the results of 
current practice. It-describes the structure of the 
flower, explains its fertilization, and tells how to 
manipulate the* blossom to secure artificial fertiliza¬ 
tion. 
GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. By Peter Houderson. It 
meets the wants of all classes in country, city "and 
village who keep a garden for their own enjoyment 
lather than for the sale of products. Finely illus¬ 
trated. 404 pages. $1.50. 
GARDENING FOR PROFIT. By Poter Henderson. The 
standard work on market and family-gardenin'' 376 
pages. $1.50. 
AMERICAN GRAPE-GROWING WINE-MAKING 
By George Hussmann, of California. New and en- 
Iurged edition. The author of this book is a recog- 
mzed authority on the subject. 269 pages. $1.50. 
PRIZE GARDENING. By G. Burnap Fiske. This unique 
book shows how to derive profit, pleasure and health 
i mm the garden, by giving tin* actual experiences of 
the successful prize-winners in the American Agricul 
turist garden contest. Kverv line is from actual ex 
penence based on real work. Illustrated. 320 pages 
GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION. By L. R. Taft. A 
complete treatise on greenhouse struct ores and ar¬ 
rangements of the various forms and styles of 
plant houses, for professional florists as well as 
amateurs. 'I he construction of hot beds and frames 
receives appropriate attention. 210 pages $1 >0 
^AumnNt} COUNTRY HOMES. By Wcidenmann. 
Ibis is t he most elegant and useful work on the 
subject ever issued in this country. A superb 
quarto volume. It is beautifully illustrated with 
numeioiiK fine wood engravings and with 17 full 
page and seven donble-page colored lithographs. It 
n S K fl ner, \ 1 d,n ' ct,ons fov lawns, roads and 
drms. walks, hedges, trees and shrubs, gardens 
ornamental grounds, hints mi burial lots etc iivii 
inches. Cloth. $10.00 * 
