OR, HOW TO CULTIVATE Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers, Ornamental Trees and Shrubs.

12mo, muslin, price 50 cents.

Contents

Structure and Growth or Plants - Conditions Essential to Germination - Time Required - the Process - Roots - How they grow, the kinds and their functions - The Stem, its structure and usee - Leaves - their structure and functions - Conditions Essential to Growth.

Formation or a Garden. Situation - Exposure - Size and Shape - Laying Out - Fencing - Hedges - Preparation of the Soil - Draining - Trenching - Sub-Soil Plowing.

Implements and Fixtures, The various Implements required and their care - Fixtures - The Walled Pit, Hot Beds - Trellises - Rustic Structures. Horticultural Process, Stirring the Soil - Applying Manures - Forcing - Sowing Seeds - Transplanting - Waterings - Hoeing - Protection from Frost - Mulching - Destroying insects - Saving Seeds - Rotation of Crops - Propagation - Suckers - Layers - Cuttings - Slips - Budding - Grafting - Pruning - Training.

The Kitchen Garden. Esculent Roots - The Legums - The Cabbage Family - Spinaceous Plants - Asparaginous Plants - Esculent Bulbs - Salad Plants - The Cucumber and Pumpkin Families - Miscellaneous.

The Fruit Garden. The Apple - its origin - Varieties - List of Summer Apples - Autumn Applee - Winter apples - Crap Apples - Culture - Gatberiug and Preserving - The Pear - List of Pears - The Quince - Varieties - The Peach, with a list of varieties - Neetarines - Apricots - Cherries - Grapes - Currants - Gooseberries - Raspberries - Blackberries - Straw-berries - Mulberries - Tropical Fruits.

The Flower Garden. Uses of Flowers - A Word to Ladies - How to be Strong and Healthy - Laying Out a Flower Garden - Arrangements of Plants - Climbers, Creepers, Shrubs and Trees - General Directions - Valuable List of Flowering Plants and Shrubs, Annuals, Biennials and Perennials - Tuberous and Bulrous Rooted Plants, Flowering Shrubs.

. Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. General Hints - Picturesqueness - Pruning - American Trees - Transplanting - List of Trees - Large Trees - Deciduous and Evergreens - Small Trees and Shrubs - Hedge plants.

Appendix. The bearing Year - Cause of Diminished Fertility - Removing large Tress - Luxuries of a Fruit Garden - Hyacinths in Glasses - Best Roses for Pot Culture.

The Garden has received a very hearty recommendation from all rovers of Horticulture who have examined it. It is frequently quoted at the Farmer's Club of the American Institute, and its List of Flowers for common culture is acknowledged to be the best ever published.

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Address.

FOWLER & WELLS,

808 Broadway, New York.

F. & W. publish the Illlustrated Rural Manuals, containing in one large Volume, The House, The Garden, The Farm, and Domestic Animals. Price $1 50, Feb. Mar. & Apr.

ROGERS's HYBRID, No. 4.