THE WINDOW GARDEN— Buxton. This book is the re¬ 
sult of many happy years with house plants. It attempts to 
solve the problems of the average amateur as concerned with 
propagation, soils, fertilization, potting, watering and gen¬ 
eral care. A chapter is devoted to plants, both old and new, 
for hanging pots, and another to bulbs for the window gar¬ 
den. Suggestions are made for over-coming hot, dry air, 
possibly the greatest foe of house plants. Many unusual 
plants have been tested, photographed and described. Clear 
and simple instructions are given for hybridizing, a most 
interesting hobby for the amateur who wishes to produce 
new and lovely varieties. This book is not a compilation; 
it is written purely from experience, and the author has ac¬ 
tually grown all the plants described and illustrated in it. 
160 pages. $1.50. 
GARDENING IN THE GREENHOUSE—Dorrance. A 
book for the home gardener who has, or wants to have, a 
little greenhouse, just for his own pleasure. It starts with 
the planning of the greenhouse, usually, of course, a house 
lean-to, and goes on then to the planning of the winter gar¬ 
den, to make the horticultural year a complete cycle. Every 
phase of the care of a small greenhouse is covered in the ten 
chapters, including even a helpful garden calendar. The 
important problems of watering, ventilation, insects, care of 
cut flowers, fertilizing and temperatures, are handled in detail. 
Directions are also given for the early starting of plants to 
be put out later in the garden. There is always a feeling 
of comfort in looking out at snow and ice from behind a sum¬ 
mer-warm window, but there is a real fascination in being 
able to defy winter from a little flower-filled garden under 
glass. 11 full pages of varied and pointed line drawings. 
150 pages. $1.50. 
AMERICAN ALPINES IN THE GARDEN — McCully. 
Hundreds of rare flowers from mountains and lowlands of 
our own west, are here most interestingly described. Tells 
how to handle them in rock garden. $2.50. 
CYCLOPEDIA OF HORTICULTURE—Bailey. The uni¬ 
versally accepted authority on horticulture. Intensely inter¬ 
esting. Three volumes. 3.637 pages. Four thousand illustra¬ 
tions of which 96 are full page, and 24 are color plates. 
Gives full descriptions and cultural data on thousands of 
plants. Then there are general articles on many interesting 
horticultural subjects, including one of 20 pages on “Apples,” 
treating apple-growing in all of its phases, and discussing 
its problems. The article on “Arboriculture” covers over 30 
pages, and takes up pretty thoroughly the growing of trees, 
kinds suited for different places and different purposes, care 
diseases, moving of large trees, and the like. The subject of 
“Planting” is discussed in fifty pages, divided into such 
headings as “Bog Gardening,” “Planting on Walls,” “Succu¬ 
lent Plants,” “Shrubbery in the Landscape,” “Winter Pro¬ 
tection,” “Plants for the Seaside,” and many others. Then 
throughout the three volumes there are shorter articles on 
matters of varied gardening interest, Aquatics, Rock Gar¬ 
dens, Window Gardens, Vegetable Growing, Greenhouses, 
Bulbs, Hedges, to name a few out of many. All this, be it 
remembered, is in addition to thousands of descriptions of 
flowers, trees, etc., listed alphabetically. In my opinion, no 
greater value in horticultural literature has ever been 
offered than this. It is a gardening library in itself. The 
complete three-volume set. $15.00. 
HORTUS: A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF GARDEN¬ 
ING—L. H. and Ethel Z. Bailey. Easy to use, accurate, 
and non-technical, this great book comes closer than any 
other single volume to answering every question about gar¬ 
dening. It includes every kind of ornamental, fruit, and 
vegetable plant grown today with brief but complete infor¬ 
mation on their uses, cultivation, hardiness, propagation, 
preferred soil, color, identification, etc. Common names are 
used throughout, all botanical terms are defined, and the 
book is so conveniently arranged and compressed that it is 
marvelously easy to handle. 35 illustrations, 652 pages. $5.00. 
THE PLANT DOCTOR—Westcott. Years ago every farm 
house had its “Doctor Book,” not always, unfortunately, as 
authoritative as it was weighty. Here is a “Doctor Book” 
for your garden. It will help you to diagnose, prevent and 
cure the troubles of your plant friends. It is definite and 
exact, detailed in its instructions, and planned on a seasonal 
and climatic schedule, more or less calendar fashion. Bac¬ 
terial, fungous and virus diseases, attacks of varied insects, 
all the ills to which plants are heir, are here discussed, not 
in scare-head style, but with the comforting thought that 
by a bit of intelligent care and watchfulness along the sug¬ 
gested lines of endeavor, they may be largely put out, and 
kept out, of the garden. 224 pages. Illustrated. $2.00. 
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