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bee culture. 324 
A Living from Bees. Pellet. 
guide to successful 
pages. $2.50. 
All About House Plants. Montague Free. 
Largest list of plants for all conditions, 
their culture, care and propagation. Do 
you know the orchids that will grow in 
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’ Aquatics indoors? Wildflowers that will 
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plates, 100 illustrations from photographs 
and drawings. $3.50. 
American Orchid Culture. Prof. E. A. 
White. 258 pages, 14 color plates, 110 
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Artificial Manures. ‘Beaumont. Covers the 
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soil improvement, including cover-crops 
and green manures. 146 pages. $2. 
Book of Annuals. A. C. Hottes. Over 100 
separate species of annuals are described 
with full directions for their culture and 
uses. 180 pages. 122 illustrations. $1.50. 
Book of Bulbs. Rockwell. Most practical 
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Book of Perennials. A. C. Hottes. Dis- 
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cultural requirements. 280 pages. 103 
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Book of Shrubs. A. C. Hottes. A mine of 
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with full details of care and culture. 448 
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Book of Trees. A. C. Hottes. If you are 
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photos and drawings. 440 pages. $3.50. 
Commercial Floriculture. Fritz Bahr. 
A general review of the florist business. 
648 pages. 327 illustrations. $5.50. 
Edible Wild Plants. O. P. Medsger. The 
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Enjoy Your House Plants. Jenkins & Wil- 
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$2.75. 
Five Acres and Independence. M. G. 
Kains. A practical guide to the selection 
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Fruits for the Home Garden. Hedrick. 
Practical book for the gardener planting 
fruits for the first time. 162 pages. $3. 
Garden Bulbs in Color. McFarland, 
Hatton and Foley. One of the best books 
published on bulbs. 275 color plates, il- 
lustrating quite a number of varieties of 
flowering bulbs, corms and tubers. Over 
100 beautiful half-tones and cultural direc- 
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Garden Guide. By 28 Specialists. This 
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general garden handbook ever published. 
576 pages. 300 illustrations. $2. 
Gardener’s Bug Book. Dr. Cynthia West- 
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authentic life-history tlustrations in full 
color, and 100 line drawings. $4.95. 
Gardening with Herbs for Flavor and 
Fragrance. Helen M. Fox. Herbs in the 
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Garden and Greenhouse Chrysanthe- 
mums. Laurie & Kiplinger. Brings to- 
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33 illustrations. $2. 
Greenhouses—Their Construction and 
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266 pages. $2.50. 
Grow Your Own Fruit. M. G. Kains. 
-For the owner of a small place. Suggests 
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Illustrated. 434 pages. $3.50. 
Hardy Chrysanthemums. Alex Cumming. 
Covers selection and culture for best ef- 
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How to Grow Roses. McFarland and Pyle. 
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How to Landscape Your Grounds. L. R. 
Johnson. Planning and planting the gar- 
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1001 Garden Questions Answered. A. C. 
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$2.50. 
Just Weeds. E. R. Spencer. Popular book 
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Little Book of Climbing Plants. A. C. 
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roses. Well illustrated. 250 pages. $2. 
Magic Gardens. Rosetta E. Clarkson. 
All about more than 200 herbs; suggestions 
with charts for culture, planting and reci- 
pes. 375 pages. $3.50. 
Modern Mushroom Culture. J. F. Styer. 
100 pages. $1.75. 


Pay Dirt. Rodale. Farming and gardening 
with composts. Has your land lost its 
fertility? Are your crops poor? Get a copy 
of this book to help you with your garden- 
ing and farming problems. 242 pages. $3. 
Picture Primer of Indoor Gardening. 
Margaret O. Goldsmith; illustrate by 
Harrie Wood. Over 200 pictures of plants 
and processes, soils, pots, terrariums and 
dish gardens, all in color. 48 pages. $2. 
Plant Propagation. A. C. Hottes. The 

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Plants in the Home. Frank K. Balthis. 
The latest book on house plants, giving ex- 
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lend variety to your collection. Plants 
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arrangements. Illustrated. 172 pages. $3.50. 
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. 640 pages. $3.50. 
Pruning Trees and Shrubs. Felt. Presents 
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the more important matters in relation to 
pruning of woody plants. For the tndivid- 
ual with few trees or many. 238 pages. $2. 
Soils and Fertilizers for Greenhouse and 
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Deals with soils for specific crops, water 
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Spraying, Dusting and Fumigating of 
Plants. Freeman Mason. C omplete story 
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and fungous enemies. More than 230 
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. 
L. H. Bailey. Authority on every horti- 
cultural question. In 3 volumes, 5000 
illustrations. 3637 pages. $25. 
10,000 Garden Questions. Answered by 
fifteen experts. Editor, F. F. Rockwell; 
associate editors, Montague Free, T. H. 
Everett, and Esther C. Grayson. More 
than 1400 pages, 400 illustrations with 
temperature and planting maps. Deals 
with every phase of the horticultural 
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Tree Experts Manual. Richard Fenska. 
A tree manual for home owner, nursery- 
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foresters and teachers. 192 pages. $4.50. 
Vegetable Gardening in Color. D. J. 
Foley. A picture encyclopedia of vege- 
tables with 150 full color plates listed in 
alphabetical order and complete cultural 
directions. 256 pages. $2.50. 
Winter Flowers in the Sun-heated Pit. 
Taylor and Gregg. Takes up construction 
of pit as a winter garden. Also helpful in- 
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