THE RURAL SCIENCE SERIES
Reading edition
Includes books which state the underlying principles of agriculture in plain language. They are suitable for consultation alike by the amateur or professional tiller of the soil, the scientist or the student, and are freely illustrated and finely made.
The following volumes are now ready:
THE SOIL. By F.H. KING, of the University of Wisconsin. 303 pp. 45 illustrations. 75 cents.
THE FERTILITY OF THE LAND. By I.P. ROBERTS, of Cornell University. Second edition. 421 pp. 45 illustrations. $1.25.
THE SPRAYING OF PLANTS. By E.G. LODEMAN, late of Cornell University. 399 pp. 92 illustrations. $1.00.
MILK AND ITS PRODUCTS. By H.H. WING, of Cornell University. Third edition. 311 pp. 43 illustrations. $1.00.
THE PRINCIPLES OF FRUIT-GROWING. By L.H. BAILEY. Third edition. 516 pp. 120 illustrations. $1.25.
BUSH-FRUITS. By F.W. CARD, of Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Second edition. 537 pp. 113 illustrations. $1.50.
FERTILIZERS. By E.B. VOORHEES, of New Jersey Experiment Station. Second edition. 332 pp. $1.00.
THE PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURE. By L.H. BAILEY. Third edition. 300 pp. 92 illustrations. $1.25.
IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE. By F.H. KING, University of Wisconsin. 502 pp. 163 illustrations. $1.50.
THE FARMSTEAD. By I.P. ROBERTS. 350 pp. 138 illustrations. $1.25.
RURAL WEALTH AND WELFARE. By GEORGE T. FAIRCHILD, ex-President of the Agricultural College of Kansas. 381 pp. 14 charts. $1.25.
THE PRINCIPLES OF VEGETABLE-GARDENING. By L.H. BAILEY. 468 pp. 144 illustrations. $1.25.
THE FEEDING OF ANIMALS. By W.H. JORDAN, of New York State Experiment Station. $1.25 net.
FARM POULTRY. By GEORGE C. WATSON, of Pennsylvania State College. $1.25 net.
CARE OF ANIMALS. By N.S. MAYO, of Connecticut Agricultural College. $1.25 net.
New volumes will be added from time to time to the RURAL SCIENCE SERIES. The following are in preparation:
PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS. By J.C. ARTHUR, Purdue University.
BREEDING OF ANIMALS. By W.H. BREWER, of Yale University.
PLANT PATHOLOGY. By B.T. GALLOWAY and associates of U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Comprises practical hand-books for the horticulturist, explaining and illustrating in detail the various important methods which experience has demonstrated to be the most satisfactory. They may be called manuals of practice, and though all are prepared by Professor Bailey, of Cornell University, they include the opinions and methods of successful specialists in many lines, thus combining the results of the observations and experiences of numerous students in this and other lands. They are written in the clear, strong, concise English and in the entertaining style which characterize the author. The volumes are compact, uniform in style, clearly printed, and illustrated as the subject demands. They are of convenient shape for the pocket, and are substantially bound in flexible green cloth.
THE HORTICULTURIST'S RULE-BOOK. By L.H. Bailey. Fourth edition. 312 pp. 75 cts.
THE NURSERY-BOOK. By L.H. Bailey. Fourth edition. 365 pp. 152 illustrations. $1.00.
PLANT-BREEDING. By L H. Bailey. 293 pp. 20 illustrations. $1.00.
THE FORCING-BOOK. By L.H. Bailey. 266 pp. 88 illustrations. $1.00.
GARDEN MAKING. By L.H. Bailey. Third edition. 417 pp. 256 illustrations. $1.00.
THE PRUNING-BOOK. By L.H. Bailey. Second edition. 545 pp. 331 illustrations. $1.50.
THE PRACTICAL GARDEN-BOOK. By C.E. Hunn and L.H. Bailey. 250 pp. Many marginal cuts. $1.00.
The Garden of a Commuter's Wife
Recorded by the Gardener
WITH EIGHT PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS
Cloth 12mo $1.50
"In brief, the book is delightfully sketchy and chatty, thoroughly feminine and entrancing. The writer represents herself as a doctor's daughter in a country town, who has married an Englishman, and after two years abroad has come home to live. Both husband and wife prefer the country to the city, and they make of their modest estate a mundane paradise of which it is a privilege to have a glimpse. Surely it is no exaggeration to characterize this as one of the very best books of the holiday season, thus far."—Providence Journal.
"It is written with charm, and is more than a mere treatise on what may be raised in the small lot of the suburban resident.
"The author has not only learned to appreciate nature from intimate association, but has achieved unusual power of communicating these facts to others. There is something unusually attractive about the book."—The Philadelphia Inquirer.
A Woman's Hardy Garden
By HELENA RUTHERFORD ELY
With many Illustrations from Photographs taken in the Author's Garden by Professor C.F. CHANDLER
Cloth 12MO $1.75 net
"It Is never for a moment vague or general, and Mrs. Ely is certainly inspiring and helpful to the prospective gardener."—Boston Herald.
"Mrs. Ely gives copious details of the cost of plants, the exact dates of planting, the number of plants required in a given space for beauty of effect and advantage to free growth, the protection needed from sun and frost, the precautions to take against injury from insects, the satisfaction to be expected from the different varieties of plants in the matter of luxuriant bloom and length of time for blossoming, and much information to be appreciated only by those who have raised a healthy garden by the slow teachings of personal experience."—New York Times Saturday Review.
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