he author's well-known originality and independence of
thought. Incidentally, there is stated much that will be valuable and
suggestive to the working horticulturist, as well as to the man or woman
impelled by a love of nature to horticultural pursuits. It may well be
called, indeed, a philosophy of horticulture, in which all interested may
find inspiration and instruction.

THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNLIKE comprises thirty essays touching upon The
General Fact and Philosophy of Evolution (The Plant Individual,
Experimental Evolution, Coxey's Army and the Russian Thistle, Recent
Progress, etc.); Expounding the Fact and Causes of Variation (The Supposed
Correlations of Quality in Fruits, Natural History of Synonyms, Reflective
Impressions, Relation of Seed-bearing to Cultivation, Variation after
Birth, Relation between American and Eastern Asian Fruits, Horticultural
Geography, Problems of Climate and Plants, American Fruits,
Acclimatization, Sex in Fruits, Novelties, Promising Varieties, etc.); and
Tracing the Evolution of Particular Types of Plants (the Cultivated
Strawberry, Battle of the Plums, Grapes, Progress of the Carnation,
Petunia, The Garden Tomato, etc.).

*CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN HORTICULTURE*

_COMPRISING DIRECTIONS FOR THE CULTIVATION OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS, AND
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE SPECIES OF FRUITS, VEGETABLES, FLOWERS
AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS KNOWN TO BE IN THE MARKET IN THE UNITED STATES AND
CANADA_

BY L. H. BAILEY

ASSISTED BY MANY EXPERT CULTIVATORS AND BOTANISTS

In Four Quarto Volumes,
Illustrated with over Two Thousand Original Engravings

This monumental work, the most comprehensive review of the vegetable world
yet made by an American, is now in the press. Though distinctly an
American work, not only plants indigenous to the North American continent
are mentioned, but also all the species known to be in the horticultural
trade in North America, of whatever origin. It is really a survey of the
cultivated plants of the world.

The Editor, Professor L. H. Bailey, has been gathering material for this
Cyclopedia for many years. He has enlisted the cooeperation of men of
attainments, either in science or practice everywhere, and the Cyclopedia
has the unique distinction of presenting for the first time, in a
carefully arranged and perfectly accessible form, the best knowledge of
the best specialists in America upon gardening, fruit-growing, vegetable
culture, forestry, and the like, as we