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All About Flowering Bulbs. T. A. Weston. 
186 pages. $2. 
American Orchid Culture. Prof. E. A. 
White. 258 pages, 14 color plates, 72 illus- 
trations. Cloth, $5. 
America’s Garden Book. L. and J. Bush- 
Brown. Covers all needful flower, lawn, 
tree, shrub, fruit, and vegetable knowl- 
edge from subsoil up. 1191 pages. 150 
illustrations. $3.50. 
Barbecue Book. Sanderson. Full informa- 
tion on barbecuing. Suggests furniture an 
accessories, provides full fire-making and 
cooking instructions. Contains scores of 
appetite-whetting recipes and menus. 
Illustrated; 74 pages. $1. 
a Annuals. A.C. Hottes. 180 pages. 
Book of Perennials. A. C. Hottes. 280 
pages. $2. 
Book of Shrubs. A. C. Hottes. 446 pages. 
Book of Trees. A. C. Hottes. 448 pages. 
$3.50. 
Cabin Plan Book. Dillon. Illustrated 
chapters on heat, light, water, bunks and 
beds, cabin furnishings, barbecues, gadgets, 
many of which you can build yourself. 
Fully illustrated, 64 pages. $1. 
Chrysanthemum and Its Culture. E. A. 
White. 218 pages. Illustrated. $2. 
Come and Get It. G. Martin. Outdoor 
cooking and eating ideas that will fit all 
kinds of gatherings. Hundreds of recipes. 
Ideal for sportsmen cooking fish and game. 
Also has very valuable information on 
fireplaces. 183 pages. $2. 
Commercial Floriculture. Fritz Bahr. 
A general review of the florist business. 
648 pages. 327 illustrations. $5.50. 
Complete Garden. A. D. Taylor. 440 
pages. $1.98. 
Edible Wild Plants. O. P. Medsger. The 
first complete handbook of America’s wild 
menu. 324 pages. $3.50. 
Evergreens Fou the Small Place. F. F. 
Rockwell. 84 pages. $1.25. , 
Fertilizers and Crop Production. Van 
Slyke. 508 pages. $4. 
Fertilizers for Greenhouse and Garden 
Crops. A. Laurie and J. B. Edmond. 156 
pages. $2. 
Five Acres and_ Independence. M. G. 
Kains. A practical guide to the selection 
and ‘management of the small farm. 390 
ages. $2.50. 
ie den Bulbs in Color. McFarland, 
me color 
Hatton, and Foley. 296 pages. 
plates, 100 beautiful halftones. $1 ; 
Garden Guide. By 28 Specialists. This 
can be easily classed as the most opular 
general garden handbook ever pu lished. 
It solves every problem that confronts the 
amateur gardener from the laying out of 
his home grounds to the planting and up- 
keep of his flower, vegetable, and fruit 
garden, his lawns, trees, shrubs, etc. 576 
pages; 300 illustrations. $2. 
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By reading, 
Garden Flowers in Color. G. A. Stevens. 
In brilliant, actual colors, offers pictures 
with descriptions of more than 400 culti- 
vated plants. $1.98. 
L. H. Bailey. 131 
Garden of Gourds. 
pages. $2.50. 
Gardening in the Shade. H. K. Morse. 
Chapters on flowers for cutting; for 
fragrance; for color harmony. 285 pages; 
52 illustrations. $3. 
Gardening with Herbs for Flavor and 
Fragrance. Helen M. Fox. Herbs in the 
garden, over the stove, and in the ice-box 
described. 334 pages. $2.50. 
Grow Your Own Fruit. M. G. Kains. 
For the owner of a small place. Suggests 
varieties of fruits in the confmed area. 
Illustrated. 434 pages. $3.50. 
Herbs and Herb Gardening. Eleanour S. 
Rohde. A book on making of an herb 
garden; also on herbs in the kitchen and 
their ancient uses. 198 pages. $3. 
How to Landscape Your Grounds. L. R. 
Johnson. An ideal book for the small- 
home owner. A complete guide to plan- 
ning, constructing, and planting of the 
garden and grounds. 232 pages. $2.75. 
How to Grow Roses. McFarland and Pyle. 
192 pages. $1. 
1001 Garden Questions Answered. A. C. 
Hottes. Revised edition. 386 pages. $2.50. 
Just Weeds. E. R. Spencer. Popular book 
on weeds. Gives their names, their habits, 
and how to eradicate them. $2.75. 
Lilies for American Gardens. George L. 
Slate. A book on lilies which we can thor- 
oughly depend on, we amateurs or 
specialists. 68 illustrations. $3.50. 
Little Book of Climbing Plants. A. C. 
Hottes. 250 pages. $2. 
Magic Gardens. Rosetta E._ Clarkson. 
Gives detailed information about more 
than 200 herbs; practical suggestions with 
charts for herb culture, planting and 
recipes. 375 pages. $3.50. , 
Modern Dahlia Culture. W. H. Waite. 
132 pages. $1.50. 
Modern Mushroom Culture. J. F. Styer. 
100 pages. $1.25. 
Our Shade Trees. Ephraim Porter Felt. A 
simply written textbook and guide for 
tree-owners. 223 pages. Cloth, 
Our Trees, How to Know Them. A. I. 
Emerson and C. M. Weed. A guide to 
their recognition at any season of the year 
and notes on their characteristics, distribu- 
tion and culture. 149 pp eid a $2.75. 
Peonies. F. F. Rockwell. 70 pages. $1.25. 
Plant Propagation. A. C. Hottes. $2. 
Plants in the Home. F. K. Balthis. Hun- 
dreds of suggestions for growing plants in 
the home. The most complete book of 
house plants. 172 pages. $2.50. i 
Practical Encyclopedia of Gardening. 
Norman Taylor. The most complete one- 
volume encyclopedia in easy-to-refer-to 
dictionary form—indexed. 888 pages. 
502 black and white illustrations, 20 full 
color plates, 52 charts. $3.95. 
we learn the experience of fellow gardeners, avoid 
pitfalls and obtain better results with less effort 
Practical Vegetable Culture. Albert iE. 
Wilkinson. 308 pages; 135 illustrations. $2. 
Principles of Flower Arrangement. 
White. 200 pages; well illustrated. $3. 
Propagation of Plants. M. G. Kains and 
L. M. McQuesten. A complete guide for 
growers of plants by seeds, layers, grafting, 
and budding; nursery and greenhouse 
management. 572 pages. $3.50. 
Pruning Manual. L. H. Bailey. 400 pages; 
381 illustrations. $3.50. 
Pruning Trees and Shrubs. Felt. Presents 
in concise form and non-technical Ianguage 
the more important matters in relation to 
pruning of woody plants. Intended for the 
individual with a few trees. 229 pages. $2. 
Rock-Garden Primer. A. Thornton. $2. 
Rock-Gardens. Louise Beebe Wilder. 294 
pages. $1.98. 
Roses. F. F. Rockwell. 88 pages. $1.25. 
Spraying, Dusting and Fumigating of 
Plants. Freeman Mason. 522 pages. $3.50. 
Standard tg ot of Horticulture. 
L. H. Bailey. Authority on every horti- 
cultural question. In volumes, 
illustrations. 3637 pages. $15. 
Standardized Plant Names. The most 
complete book of plant names including 
scientific and approved common names 
and pronunciation. 692 pages. $10.50. 
Starting Early Vegetables and Flowers 
Under Glass. C. H. Nissley. 302 pages. 
$3.25. 
Success with House Plants. Kift and 
Bert V. Thorn- 
Hedenberg. 80 pages. 75 cts. 
The Farm Bookkeeper. 
borgh. It makes farm bookkeeping simple, 
interesting and practical. It helps you in 
your Income Tax return. It gives instruc- 
tions, rate tables and ready-made schedules 
for depreciation computation. It contains 
a normal one-year supply of account sheets 
and schedules. 128 pages. $2. 
The Lawn. L. S. Dickinson. $1.25. 
Tuberous-rooted Begonias. George Otten. 
84 pages; illustrated. $1.25. 
Vegetable Gardening in Color. Did. 
Foley. picture encyclopedia of vege- 
tables with 150 full color plates listed in 
alphabetical order with complete cultural 
directions. 256 pages. $2.50. 
Vegetable Growing Business. R. L. and 
J. S. Watts. 501 pages. $3.50. 
Visual Garden Manual. Elsa Uppman. 
The book of close-up visual instruction 
for almost every fundamental garden 
technique, in step-by-step fashion. $1. 
Water Gardens and Goldfish. Sawyer & 
Perkins. 272 pages. $2. 
What Bird is That? Chapman. Identifica- 
tion of bird is easy even for the beginner. 
Every land bird East of the Rockies (301 
species in all) is pictured. 134 pages. $1.50. 
Winter Flowers in the Sun-heated Pit. 
Taylor and Gregg. Takes up the con- 
struction of the prt and other details as a 
winter garden. Also includes very helpful 
information on the lean-to greenhouse. 
Profusely illustrated. $3.50. 
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