MANURES: HOW TO MAKE AND HOW TO USE THEM.
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CHEMISTRY OF MANURES AND
MANURE MAKING.
We want to place a copy of this excellent new book in the hands of every farmer in America. It is a book for which farmers have waited for years, telling them what they want to know about manures and the management of land in a way that can be clearly understood. It is in every sense a farmer’s book, written for the men who plow and sow and reap. The farmer’s business is to grow profitable crops without impairment to his soil. This book tells in a plain way how to do it. 218 pages. illustrated.
Bound in thick paper. Reduced Price, 40 Cents.
INJURIOUS INSECTS AND THE USE OF INSECTICIDES.
A complete and convenient treatise on insects destructive to Fruit, Field, and Garden crops. Contains the latest and best methods for preventing insect injuries and gives reliable formulas for making insecticides, Plainly written for the million, and filled with life-like illustrations which will greatly aid the farmer in identifying his insect focs. 216 pages.
Fully Illustrated. Reduced Price, 40 Cents.
THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN.
BY F. SCHUYLER MATHEWS.
A book on artistic gardening, by a trained artist and enthusiastic amateur gardener. The pages overflow with pen-and-ink skelebes from nature, while the subject matter is drawn from the best in the artistic world of gardening, showing the influence of the formal English style, the Italian renaissance, and the art of the Japanese upon gardening.
An important part of this valuable book is devoted to descriptions of flowers easily procured and grown from seeds, bulbs, and cuttings, with bright sketches showing their form of growth. The closing chapters comprise careful cultural directions. The prevailing idea in the book is to teach harmony in the arrangement of flowers and plants.
Reduced Price, 40 Cents, Postpaid.
CELERY FOR PROFIT.
Celery offers greater chances for making money than any other garden crop. The difficulties encountered by the old methods of growing made success uncertain, and sure only with comparatively few expert growers. All this uncertainty is now a thing of the past, as modern methods make profitable Celery growing possible to all intelligent gardeners. Specially written for us by T. Greiner, author of Onions For Profit.
Fully Illustrated. Price 20 Cents.
published by
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA.
