found convenient for
references in regard to many questions that may arise in crop
growing, aside from the special subjects of drainage of which
it treats. Cloth, 12mo. =$1.00=
=Henderson's Practical Floriculture.=
By Peter Henderson. A guide to the successful propagation and
cultivation of florists' plants. The work is not one for
florists and gardeners only; but the amateur's wants are
constantly kept in mind, and we have a very complete treatise
on the cultivation of flowers under glass, or in the open
air, suited to those who grow flowers for pleasure as well as
those who make them a matter of trade. Beautifully
illustrated. New and enlarged edition. Cloth, 12mo. =$1.50=
=Tobacco Leaf.=
By J. B. Killebrew and Herbert Myrick. Its Culture and Cure,
Marketing and Manufacture. A practical handbook on the most
approved methods in growing, harvesting, curing, packing, and
selling tobacco, with an account of the operations in every
department of tobacco manufacture. The contents of this book
are based on actual experiments in field, curing barn,
packing house, factory and laboratory. It is the only work of
the kind in existence, and is destined to be the standard
practical and scientific authority on the whole subject of
tobacco for many years. Upwards of 500 pages and 150 original
engravings. =$2.00=
=Play and Profit in My Garden.=
By E. P. Roe. The author takes us to his garden on the rocky
hillsides in the vicinity of West Point, and shows us how out
of it, after four years' experience, he evoked a profit of
$1,000, and this while carrying on pastoral and literary
labor. It is very rarely that so much literary taste and
skill are mated to so much agricultural experience and good
sense. Cloth, 12mo. =$1.00=
=Forest Planting.=
By H. Nicholas Jarchow, LL. D. A treatise on the care of
woodlands and the restoration of the denuded timberlands on
plains and mountains. The author has fully described those
European methods which have proved to be most useful in
maintaining the superb forests of the old world. This
experience has been adapted to the different climates and
trees of America, full instructions being given for forest
planting of our various kinds of soil and subsoil, whether on
mountain or valley. Illustrated,
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