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Selected Garden Books -- continued 
HORTUS SECOND: A CONCISE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING 
By L. H. and Ethel Z. Bailey 
Completely revised and rewritten. Easy to use, 
accurate, and non-technical, this great book comes 
closer than any other single volume to answering 
every question about gardening. It includes every 
kind of ornamental, fruit, and vegetable plant 
grown today with brief but complete information 
on their uses, clultivation, hardiness, propagation, 
preferred soil, color, identification, etc. Common 
names are used, all botanical terms are defined, 
and the book is so conveniently arranged and 
compressed that is marvelously easy to handle. 
Illustrated with line drawings. 832 pages. $12.00 
THE GARDEN IN COLOR 
By Louise Beebe Wilder 
This, the last book by America’s favorite gard- 
en writer, combines one of her most readable 
texts with 320 reproductions of natural color 
photographs—gardens, flowers, flower beds, and 
arrangements at every season of the year, and 
Mrs. Wilder’s text gives hints on culture, ar- 
rangement, ete. GARDEN DIGEST says, “a 
priceless companion to every catalogue and gar- 
den book.” 7%x10%4 inches. Formerly $7.50, NOW 
$2.95. 
1001 GARDEN QUESTIONS ANSWERED 
By Alfred Carl Hottes 
A complete manual for the amateur gardener, 
but presented in question and answer form. The 
well arranged index guides the seeker without 
delay to the direct answer to his question, wheth- 
er it be “How deen shall I plant my Lilies ?”— 
“Why do Peonies often fail to bloom?”— or 
Ilow are cut worms controlled?”—and so on and 
so forth. The clever drawings in this book save 
hundreds. 330 pages. $2.00. 
LANDSCAPING THE SMALL HOME 
By Edward W. Olver 
For the owner of the averags city or suburban 
lot, ranging from 40x120 ft. to 75x150 ft., teach- 
ing him how to plan and execute a planting 
economically and correctly. 160 pages 90 illus- 
trations. $1.00. 
THE BOOK OF PERENNIALS 
By Alfred Carl Hottes 
Among amateur gardeners there is a decided 
preference for perennial plants, largely because 
they require but little care and so generously re- 
ward that little. For those desiring a continuous 
show of color from early Spring to early frost in 
their gardens, this book will be extremely valu- 
able, discussing over 125 separate species indi- 
vidually, with their culture and requirements. 
103 illustrations. $2.00, 
ROCK GARDENS 
By F. F. Rockwell 
How to build a rock garden yourself, on a large 
or small scale and at small cost. It describes the 
types of rock gardens, tells what soils, climates, 
and locations are best, how to construct and what 
to plant. 31 illustrations. 86 pages. $1.25 
MODERN ROSES, II 
By J. Horace McFarland 
Revised Edition. For growers, nurserymen, 
and seedsmen, the book constitutes an accurate 
check-list of rose names and descriptions; for hy- 
bridozers, it is an incomparable source book of 
rose pedigrees; for garden growers of roses, it 
is a reliable guide to real facts. $5.00. 
THE BOOK OF SHRUBS 
By Alfred Carl Hottes 
In this third and thoroughly revised edition, 
The Book of Shrubs reaches its peak in its ap- 
peal to every home owner, plantsman, student 
and landscape architect, and is a mine of infor- 
mation on everything relating to these woody 
perennials as grown in all sections of the country. 
Over 190 illustrations. 448 pages. $3.00 
THE BOOK OF TREES 
By Alfred Carl Hottes 
An all-around handbook for the tree lover and 
tree planter. There are chapters on trees im- 
portant in American history, on favorite tree 
poem, on street trees, on roadside trees, on nut 
trees etc. Transplanting, pruning and propaga- 
tion are covered and a variety of helpful lists for 
various purposes are given. Much space is devot- 
ed to descriptions of species of important decid- 
uous and coniferous trees. 488 pages. 200 haftones 
and line cuts. $3.50. 
PRACTICAL VEGETABLE CULTURE 
By Albert E. Wilkinson 
In its 308 pages all phases of vegetable culture 
are covered from sowing the seed to reaping the 
harvest; there are innumerable garden plans of 
all kinds and of all sizes, greenhouses, hotbeds, 
coldframes, home vegetable storage, control of 
pests and diseases, etc., are discussed in detail. 
135 illustrations. $2.00. 
WILD FLOWERS 
By Homer D. House 
This famous book identifies, by means of natur- 
al color photographs and descriptions, hundreds 
of American wildlings. It is possible to identify 
the flowers by consulting the 22-page index which 
lists both botanical and common names, or by 
leafing through the pages of beautiful pictures. 
364 full-color illustrations, 340 pages of text; 
9%2x11% inches. Formerly $7.50, NOW $3.95. 
