Books will solve any garden problem 

Books on Horticulture, Agriculture, and Kindred Subjects 
Here is a selection of books that is thoroughly up to date, practical, and comprehensive. Written by authors of 
national reputation—outstanding men who figure prominently in the various phases of garden and farm work. 
These books will show you how to raise bigger and better crops, how to have attractive, colorful gardens. 
Flowers and Ornamental Plants 
Annuals, The Book of (Hottes). 180 pages. 
$1.50. 
Annual Flowers, How to Grow (Ries). 
Profusely illustrated. 96 pages. $1.00. 
Aquarium, The Modern (Innes). Packed 
with practical information. $1.00. 
Book of Bulbs (Rockwell). A complete 
treatise on the growing of bulbs, for both 
fall and spring planting. 264 pages. $3.00. 
Bulbs, Spring Flowering (Thayer). 128 
pages. $1.25. 
Cactus Culture (Schulz). 186 pages. $2.00. 
Carnation Culture, Practical (Weston). 
224 pages. $2.00. 
Chrysanthemum and Its Culture, The 
(White). $2.00. 
Commercial Floriculture (Bahr). 616 
pages. $5.50. 
Commercial Flower Forcing—4th Edition 
(Laurie and Kiplinger). The fundamentals 
and their practical application to the cul- 
ture of greenhouse crops. 49 illustrations, 
565 pages. Published 1941. $4.50. 
Four Seasons in Your Garden (Wister). 
very comprehensive work. $2.50. 
Garden Bulbs in Color (McFarland, Hat- 
ton, and Foley). 275 color pictures; half- 
tones; 292 pages. Practical, brief cultural 
notes. $1.98. 
Garden Clinic, The (Laurence Blair). Care 
and cultivation of garden favorites. $2.00. 
Garden Flowers in Color (Stevens). A 
picture cyclopedia of flowers. 400 photo- 
graphs in color; 320 pages. $1.98. 
Garden Lilies (Preston). Preparation of the 
soil, planting the bulbs, and general care. 
128 pages. $1.25. 
Gladiolus (Rockwell). 81 pages. $1.25. 
Iris, The (Wister). A treatise on its history, 
development, and culture. 128 pages. $1.25. 
Perennial Flowers, How to Grow (Ries). 
96 pages. $1.00. 
Perennial Gardens (Ortloff). $1.25. 
Pronouncing Dictionary, The Home Gar- 
dener’s (Hottes). 96 pages. 50c. 
Rock Gardens, American (Hamblin). 128 
pages. $1.25. 
Rock Gardens (Rockwell). 86 pages. $1.25. 
le Growth of Plants (Ellis & Swaney). 
Violet Culture, Practical (Coon). 75c. 

Water Gardens and Gold Fish (Sawyer, 
Perkins). 272 pages. $2.00. 
Window Garden, The (Buxton). A prac- 
tical manual on soils, propagation, water- 
ing, and general care of house plants. 
Illustrated; 160 pages. $1.50. 
Plant Breeding, Propagating, 
Pruning, Etc. 
Plant Propagation (Hottes). 999 questions 
answered. 228 pages. $2.00. 
Pruning Trees and Shrubs (E. P. Felt). 
An invaluable reference book on pruning. 
Easy for the amateur to understand, for it 
is written In non-technical language. $2.00. 
Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 
(Bailey). The authority on every horti- 
cultural subject. Three volumes. 3637 
pages. $20.00. 
Farm and Garden 
America’s Garden Book (Louise and James 
Bush-Brown). The most complete garden 
book ever published. Over 1200 pages, 
covering every bit of needful flower, lawn, 
tree, shrub, fruit and vegetable knowledge 
from subsoil up. Invaluable for the expert, 
essential for the amateur. $3.50. 
Around the Year in the Garden (Rock- 
well). Gives a complete outline of the 
year’s workin the garden. 350 pages. $3.00. 
Asparagus Production (Thompson). 125 
pages. $1.25. 
Cauliflower and Broccoli Culture (Bou- 
quet). 128 pages. $1.25. 
Clovers and How to Grow Them (Shaw). 
337 pages. $2.00. 
Food Garden, The (Laurence and Edna 
Blair). 147 pages. $2.00. 
Garden Book (Vernon Hayes Davis). 
241 pages. $1.25. 
Hand Book of Fertilizer (Gustafson). 
172 pages. $1.75. 
Manual of Gardening (Bailey). A practi- 
cal guide to the making of home grounds 
and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vege- 
tables. 539 pages. $3.00. 
Pocket Book of Vegetable Gardening 
(Charles H. Nissley). Tells when and how 
to plant. 244 pages. 25c. 
Practical Vegetable Culture (A. E. Wil- 
kinson). Just what you need to guide you 
i planting a Victory Garden. $2.00. 
Roadside Marketing (Watts). $1.25. 
Spraying Crops (Weed). 140 pages. $1.10. 


Sweet Potato Production and Handling 
(Thompson). $1.25. 
1001 Garden Questions Answered (Hottes). 
Covers flowers, fruits and vegetables. 328 
pages. $2.50. 
The Home Vegetable Garden (Freeman). 
An ideal guide to help you in growing vege- 
tables in your back yard. $1.75. 
Tomato Culture (Tracy). 150 pages. $1.10. 
Weeds of the Farm and Garden (Pammel). 
300 pages. $2.00. 
Poultry, Bees, Birds, Etc. 
Beekeeping, First Lessons on (Dadant). 
167 pages. $1.00. 
Birds of Pennsylvania (G. M. Sutton). The 
whole story of Pennsylvania’s familiar 
birds. More than 150 illustrations. $1.00. 
Birds of the Wild (Pellet). A book of ab- 
sorbing interest to the bird-lover. $1.00. 
Ducks and Geese (Lamon and Slocum). 262 
pages. $2.00. 
Poultry Breeding and Management 
(Dryden). 416 pages. $2.00. 
Rabbits for Food and Fur (Ashbrook). 212 
pages. $2.00. 
Turkey Production (Cline). 454 pages. 
$3.50. 
STANDARDIZED PLANT 
NAMES 
Prepared by Harlan P. Kelsey and William 
A. Dayton. The most complete book of plant 
names every published, including scientific 
and approved common names and pronuncia- 
tion of all plants in American commerce. 
Special lists of Drug, Lumber, Fruit and Nut, 
Fiber, Poisonous Plants, etc. concisely ar- 
ranged in one alphabetical list. Invaluable to 
plantsmen, writers, editors, research workers. 
692 pages. $10.50. 
FOR YOUR VICTORY 
GARDEN 
“The Food Garden.’’ By Laurence and 
Edna Blair. (147 pages.) Price, $2.00. It 
is ideal for the average gardener, and for 
the hundreds of thousands of small home 
owners who are novices in the growing of a 
food garden. This book will be especially 
welcomed because it tells you how to do it 
in its twenty double-page line drawings 
with the proper explanations for the va- 
rious problems that beset the gardener. 
“Vegetable Gardening.”’ (Pocket Book 
Edition.) By Charles H. Nissley. (244 
ages.) Price, 25c. This book tells you 
hee when and what to plant. One of the 
latest; practical, scientific advice on grow- 
ing food for home use. Authoritative, easy 
to understand, complete. Includes charts 
showing vitamin contents and nutritional 
values as well as specific instructions for 
raising each vegetable. 
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