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THt 
GARDENERS' 
MAGAZINE. 
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GARDENING FOR PROFIT 
“COMMERCIAL GARDENING,” the entirely new work just published, written 
by 20 PRACTICAL MEN, demonstrates how you can make more money by 
growing Flowers, Vegetables, Fruit, Plants, Shrubs, and Trees for Market. 
' -nds " hat to grow, and where to grow. 
the h -ct K ® u ^'^hural methods, the best marketing 
" methodsj and the ^st packing- 
■^f contributions, ideas, and thoughts, 
^cn whn named below, but of many other 
- their l Preferring the spade to the pen, have 
' di'{w,v;ii ' ^ knowledge and wide experience at the 
by JOHN WEATHERS, F.R.H.S., 
and Contributed to by 
E- H. J NKINS 
WILLIAM G. LOBJOIT, J.P. 
GEORGE MASSEE, F.L.S. 
JOHN MAY 
SIR FREDERICK W. MOORE, 
M.A., F.L.S. 
JAMES B. RIDING 
PROF. F. T. THEOBALD, M. A. 
WILLIAM TRUELOVE 
JAMES UDALE 
dealin"^ gardening books in plenty, this is the 
~ iai ” in Ai-* ^*Jnimercial gardening. It is 
"'■cnincr f__ ®^riseof the word, becaiuse it deals 
I'^ant.s for point of view of the man who 
-wause h f i" -he 
growers or 1 ^ methods of the best 
' ''Endpoint It considers gardening 
of -pounds, shillings, and pence.” 
, ' e. bear 
d\i.Es 
' ''‘h tN Tp^'^UERY 
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SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS. 
General Aspects of Commercial Gardening—The Science 
of Plant Growing—^Methods of Propagation—Science of the 
Soil—Manuring — Insect Pests — Garden Friends — Fungoid 
Diseases—Fungicides and Insecticides—Glasshouse Building 
_Heating Apparatus—Hardy and Half-hardy Herbaceous 
Plants, Bulbs, and Flowers—Stove and Greenhouse Plants— 
Ferns—Commercial Fruit Growing—Fruit Growing in Wor¬ 
cestershire, Scotland and Ireland—Fungi Diseases in Fruit— 
Grading and Packing—Pip Fruits—Stone F ruits—Small and 
Bush Fruits—Figs—Grapes—Nuts—Melons—Garden Survey¬ 
ing—Levelling and Mensuration—Market Garden Accounts— 
Trees, Shrubs, and Climbers—Conifers and Taxads—Vegetable 
Growing for ^larket—Sweet Herbs and Small Salads—Intensive 
Cultivation—Index 
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