82 BOOKS 

State NuRSERY AND SEED Co. 
A Selected List of Outstanding Books on Gardening 

GARDENER’S HANDBOOK 
By L. H. Bailey 
This encyclopedic manual on 
almost four hundred subjects has 
special advice on such topics as 
annuals, borders, rock-gardens, 
lawns, glasshouses and control of 
insects and diseases. You will 
find. essential facts of botany 
which clarify methods and means 
of plant propagation; practical 
information on the preparation 
and feeding of soils; on grading, 
drainage, mulching and winter 
care. Fully illustrated with line 
drawings which give step-by-step 
directions for growing these 
plants. $1.49, postpaid $1.55. 

AROUND THE YEAR IN THE 
GARDEN, By F. F. Rockwell 
This book is arranged in 52 
chapters, each telling what to do 
in the garden every week of the 
year, It covers raising vegetables, 
flowers. shrubs and all garden 
operations. 88 illustrations. $3.00, 
postpaid $3.06. 
GARDENING FOR GOOD 
EATING, By Helen M. Fox 
In addition to the vegetable 
usually grown. by the gardener, 
you will find in this book many 
forgotten vegetables, easy to 
grow and full of high food value 
and delicious flavor. Illustrated. 
$2.50, postpaid $2.56. 

PERENNIAL GARDENS 
By H. Stuart Ortloff 
This book contains directions 
for preparing and fertilizing the 
soil for perennials, cultivating, 
watering, pest control, trans- 
planting, propagation, and win- 
ter protection. Illustrated. $1.25, 
postpaid $1.28. 
HERBS: Their Culture and Uses 
By Rosetta E,. Clarkson 
Practical and authoritative, this 
book gives specific information 
on all those herbs which are use- 
ful in cooking, medicine, house- 
hold preparations and in industry. 
Illustrated. $2.75, postpaid $2.78. | 

THE FOOD GARDEN 
By Laurence and Edna Blair 
For best results from your 
vegetable garden you need this 
how-to-do-it book. Attractive, yet 
practical, it contains twenty 
double-page spreads of line draw- 
ings with explanations which 
show in detail the various steps 
in the cultivation of each crop 
and the particular problems of 
each that beset the gardener. 
$2.00, postpaid $2.06, 

SOYBEANS: 
By 
Gold from the Soil 
Edward Jerome Dies 
Here in a single volume is the 
historical record—from breeding, 
planting and harvesting, down to 
conversion into edible and indus- 
trial products—the growing of 
soys in the home garden. $1.75, 
postpaid $1.78. 

THE VEGETABLE GARDENER’S 
HOW BOOK 
By Chesla C. Sherlock 
Varied and practical pointers 
and suggestions combine to make 
this not merely an honest-to- 
goodness HOW book, but also a 
WHAT and WHERE and WHEN 
book. A vast store of experience 
and information, spiced with 
many pages of illustrations and 
topped off with a selective bibli- 
ography makes the sum total of 
this information book. It is a 
book that you can take right out 
into the garden with you when 
you dig, sow, weed or prune. 
$3.00, postpaid $3.06. 

PEST CONTROL IN THE HOME 
GARDEN, By Louis Pyenson 
There’s an enormous amount of 
useful information for the war 
against plant pests in this thor- 
ough presentation of ways to 
identify and control them. Dr. 
Pyenson, a well-known entomol- 
ogist, includes the latest and most 
effective methods of controlling 
pests of tree fruits, small fruits 
and vegetables. There is a dis- 
cussion of equipment, its use and | 
care and an excellent chapter on > 
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will enable the gardener to select — 
sprays and powders. 
the proper insecticide and it will 
tell him how to mix it into the 
most effective formula. There is 
also a discussion of animal pests, — 
ang the _ 
general garden pests, 
beneficial animals and insects. 111 
illustrations; 190 pages; 5%x8% 
inches. $2.00, pestpaid $2.06. 
