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In the success of the planter is the germ of our success. First, the best, and ; next, the plainly told practice of accepted experts in gardening. This is why we publish books on, and from a modest beginning this feature of our business has grown to very considerable proportions. The past year we distributed many volumes, which shows how fortunate we are in publishing books the people want.

This is really a 30-cent book, but it is so obviously nooded by every one that we offer it to our customers at the merely nominal charge of ten cents.

It is a brief, clear, and reliable book of 125 pages, illustrated with more than 75 engravings, including a map of the Life Zones of the United States.

treats of the Location and Management of the Home Garden, Soils, Drainage, Manuring, Composting, Concentrated Manures, Hotbeds and Cold Frames, Selection of Seod, Preparation and Planting, Climate, etc.

gives accurate and complete Cultural Directions for all Culinary Vegetables described in, with Notes on Varieties and Time Required from Planting until Vegetables are Ready for Use.

In the Appendix are revised Planting Tables for Vegetables, Grass and Forage Crops, Weights of Agricultural Commodities, Formulas for Insecticides, and Tables of Annual Rainfall for all the States of the Union.

The book has been compiled from our own publications, the trial records of, and a comprehensive manuscript on general gardening, which has not been published, for which we paid five hundred dollars.

This new book tells how to grow successfully flowers from seed, both indoors and out. It has been written by, who for many years has been the general superintendent of our Trial Grounds. Few writers have had such opportunities to learn flowers, and what he knows the author tells in language that can be easily understood.