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Standard

Gardening

Books

For those who seek practical,
worthwhile advice. Attractive
covers, clear type, high class
teaching illustrations and the
best of presswork and binding
mark these books.

Holm & Olson, Inc.

Nurserymen and Landscape
Architects

ST. PAUL, MINN.

'jTHE sale of over 3Sfl00 copies of this Standard
* Guide is proof positive of the complete way in
which everything having to do with the exterior of
a country home is covered in its 384 close pages.

Garden Guide

A complete handbook for the amateur gardener

Fourth Edition

3S4 pages and over 275 teaching illustrations
with beautiful cover in four colors.

The gem of gardening literature. Over 35,000
copies sold throughout the United States and
Canada.

Garden Guide

has wonderful
chapters devoted
to the Vegetable,

Flower and Fruit
Gardens, with prac-
tical layouts and
planting plans.

It tells you in
full about how to
prepare and fer-
tilize your ground,
how to distinguish
and get rid of insect
pests.

All the flowers
and bulbs with
planting plans; the
lawn, ornamental
trees and shrubs,
vines, water plants.

How to prune your plants; how to propagate
plants; how to construct hotbeds and forcing frames;
how to spray; about tools, rustic furniture, birds of
the garden, canning, Winter storage of food and
plants, etc.

Covers every step from spading the ground to
preserving the harvest.

Price, paper cover, $1.00; postpaid, $1.10;
cloth cover, $1.50; postpaid, $1.65.

U/HEN one considers the low cost of seed,
coupled with the minimum of effort required
to mature y is it any wonder that annuals are among
our most popular favorites of today?

A Little Book of
Annuals

By PROF. ALFRED C. HOTTES

For the amateur and professional. Companion
book to the Little Book of Perennials.

A reliable guide
through the season
of annual bloom.

Among the choicest
flowers scattered
over the earth are
some whose lives
are short. They
sprout from seed,
grow, flower, pro-
duce seed in their
turn — and then die.

These are the an-
nuals, and Prof.

Hottes through his
book opens the
door to ^eater suc-
cess with these
charming flowers.

Over 100 separate
species are de-
scribed with full directions for their culture and
uses.

Chapters include. The Use of Annuals, Ordering
Seeds, Classes of Annuals, Seed Sowing, Transplant-
ing, Pinching, The Hoe vs. The Hose, Watering vs.
Sprinkling, Annuals and Shade, Fall Sowing and
Self-Sown Annuals, Hotbeds and Coldframes,
Annual Flowers and Their Uses, A Chain of Ten
Linfe, Annuals of Merit, Ornamental Grasses, Ever-
lastings, Decorative Seed Pods, Annual Vines, etc.

Price, paper cover, $1.00; postpaid, $1.10;
cloth cover, $1.50; postpaid, $1.65*

ABOUT 30 years ago a great nursery came to grief
“ because it had anticipated by 25 years the
public call for perennials. Today hardly a sufficient
number can be raised to supply the popular demand.
This LITTLE BOOK OF PERENNIALS by Hottes
will post admirers of perennials — the most durable
of all our border plants — on how to grow them and
how to enjoy them.

A Little Book of
Perennials

By PROF, ALFRED C, HOTTES

For the amateur and professional. Com-
panion book to the Little Book of Annuals

Devoted to the
general principles
of growing, using,
selecting and prop-
agating perennials,
followed by a num-
ber of comprehen-
sive lists of peren-
nials suited for dif-
ferent locations
and purposes. The
most important
and useful repre-
sentatives of this
popular class of
garden plants — to
the number of over
125 separate spe-
cies— are discussed
individually, to-
gether with their
culture and requirements.

A tabular cultural index, giving species or variety,
height, flowering period, color, etc., adds to the
value of the book.

The volume is marked by the liberal use of illus-
trations and by the simple, practical language that
make Prof. Hottes’ writings both interesting and
instructive for amateur as well as professional.

Price, paper cover, $1.00; postpaid, $1.10;
Cloth cover, $1.50; postpaid, $1.65.

A GREATER pleasure to the publisher than the i
^ mere question of money making lies in having i
produced a book of universal value. Such a work \
is PLANT CULT IJ RE for all gardeners^ whether
amateur or professional. PLANT CULTURE has
gone through four editions and has been enlarged
three times.

PLANT CULTURE

By GEORGE W, OLIVER and ALFRED C, HOTTES

For the commercial florist, gardener and nursery-
man as well as the amateur student

Covers practically all the known plants cultivated in
the garden and home grounds, together with those of
the greenhouse and
conservatory, and
with still . more
thoroughness those
grown for every-
day commercial
purposes. Many
lesser known plants
worthy of wider
acquaintance are
also included. The
treatment includes
a thorough elucida-
tion of all the main
points having to do
with plant culture,
such as budding,
grafting, potting,
soils, watering,
seeding, hybridiza-
tion and cultiva-
tion. Insect pests
and plant diseases
are taken care of in
a special chapter.

The contents is written in language easily understood
and to the point.

Among the chapters covered are Conservatory Plants,
Annuals and Bedding Plants, Vase and Basket Plants,
Hardy and Tender Vines, Bulbous Plants, Ornamental
Grasses, Water Plants, Hardy Perennials, Ferns and
Lycopods, Hardy Shrubs, etc.

Copiously illustrated and handily indexed and ar-
ranged so that it may be used as a ready reference.

The book will be found the most concise and authen-
tic one on plants for the lawn, garden or greenhouse,
and will serve as a pocket cyclopedia of plants.

444 pages, bound in cloth. Price, $3.50; postpaid,
$3.65.

COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE was written
^ primarily for the benefit of what is called the
retail florist; that iSy the man who grows a variety
of flowers and then sells them at retail. It has been
eminently successfuly the first edition — a large one
— closing out within nine months. It is a book
which will take the place of all other cultural guides^
particularly for those possessed of greenhousesy
no matter how small these may be.

Fritz Bahr’s
Commercial Floriculture

A practical manual for the retail grower

Based on
Covers a
general
review of
the florist
business,
its oppor-
tunities
and its re-
s p o n s i -
bilities,
together
with all
types of
plant,
shrub,
tree and
vine, the
reader is
likely to
handle.

The size
of the
book is

560 pages,
binding
e X c e p -
tionally
strong and

the author’s experience of half a century.

durable. More than 285 illustrations.

Postpaid, to any point in the U. S. or Canada,

$5.00.

of the greatest pleasures in life to the en-
^ thusiastic plant grower is an understanding of
how plants are produced and multiplied, PRAC-
TICAL PLANT PROPAGATION tells the *^How,^'

Practical

Plant Propagation

By PROF, ALFRED C, HOTTES

Appeals to everyone who has to do with seeds
and plants, whether amateur or
professional.

An exposition of the art and science of increasing
plants as practiced by the nurseryman, florist and
gardener.

The text is brief
and to the point.

No lengthy dis-
cussions, but facts
are tersely stated,
so that the busy
propagator may
get the point
quickly and re-
turn to the prop-
agation of his
plants.

All amateurs
have an intense
desire to propa-
gate those plants
which they ad-
mire. In this
book is told in
simple terms how
to graft fruit
trees, make cuttings and layers, and sow the seeds
which are often difficult to germinate.

A book of this sort has never been of more interest
to the florist and nurseryman than at present,
as they can no longer look to Europe for their stock
of plants.

Profusely illustrated with halftones and line
cuts. Cloth binding, $2.00; postpaid, $2.15.

'T' HAT fruit has the finest flavor which one picks
^ on his own home grounds. Embellish your ^
property with fruits^ both small and standard^ and ^
be guided in their planting by the HOME FRUIT ^
GROWER, Even if you have fruits on your place i
now^ this book will help you, through the authofs i
experience, to more satisfactory crops, i

HOME

FRUIT GROWER

By M, G, KAINS

For the amateur who seeks to grow high quality

fruits. I

The author was particularly well fitted to have ]
written this book, having been reared on a fruit ,
plantation in a vil-
lage where for more
than half a century
the leading hobby
has been high qual-
ity fruit growing
for family use.

With this standard
of excellence he has
united the best
modern methods of
securing choice
specimens — meth-
ods little practiced,
or even unknown,
in his boyhood
days — tillage,
spraying, thinning,
fertilizing, cover
cropping, prevent-
ing frost injuries,
low heading, ra-
tional pruning — each simple in itself and each con-
ducive to the productiouj^ of an abundance of the
best fruit.

Heavily illustrated with teaching pictures.
Beautiful cover in four colors. Paper, $1.00;
postpaid, $1.10; cloth, superior paper, $1.50;
postpaid, $1.65.

f

A WELL known Southern lady, herself a land-
scape architect and planter, with a fine garden
of her own, has written the BLOSSOM CIRCLE OF
THE YEAR IN SOUTHERN GARDENS with a
view to encouraging those in the South to have
; gardens of pleasure. This book is a worthy one and
will prove most helpful to all in the South,

The Blossom Circle of the Year
in Southern Gardens

By JULIA LESTER DILLON

For beautifying home grounds in the South.

First and only book dealing exclusively with methods,
materials and problems of southern ornamental garden-
ing. It has been
written by a woman
who knows at first
hand your problems
and your aims, and
who, from long,
practical experience,
knows how to help
you solve the former
1 and attain the latter.

I Scope and Contents
' Introduction:

I Broad Leaved Ever-
I greens — For Every
Garden. Ornamental
Hedge Plants — For
Every Gardener.

' Azaleas and Camel-
lias— For All Who
Love Them. Conif-
erous Evergreens —

For Beauty and Ac-
cent. Old Fashioned
Roses — How to
Grow Them. Making a Rose Garden— To^Live in and
Love. March Activities — The Beginning of the Sum-
mer Garden. April Leaves from My Garden Book.
May Work — For Fall Glory. Taking Stock of the Gar-
den— Under June’s Sunny Skies. July Planting — For
Permanent Effects. Fighting the Midsummer Pests.
Dependable Perennials — When to Plant Them. Oc-
tober Glories — And October Work. Sw^t Peas — For
Spring Blossoming. Deciduous Shrubs; Vines; Southern
Lawns; Flowering Trees, etc.

200 pages, cloth, illustrated. Price, $2.50; post-
paid, $2.65.

'T‘0 enjoy the reputation of being an adept in the
arrangement of flowers in your home means
quite a little to both yourself and visitors. Prof.
Whitens bookj so far as we know, is the first one to
furnish this desirable social information.

The Principles of
Flower Arrangement

By PROF. E. A. WHITE

For the amateur and the professional.

When one carefully studies the work of people suc-
cessful in flower arrangement, it is found that they
usually follow in
their compositions,
principles which are
as definite as are
those governing the
worker with oils
and water colors.

The author has for
years analyzed the
work of students
and others to de-
termine the domi-
nant principles that
make one person’s
work more effective
than another’s, and
this book is the re-
sult of his observa-
tions, defining as it
does the funda-
mental principles of
flower arrangement.

The chapters cover the Decorative Value of Flowers, '
Plant Material for Decorative Purposes, Receptacles I
for Cut Flowers and Potted Plants, Japanese Flower
Arrangement, Tones, Measures and Shapes, Notan
and Color, Color Harmonies, Church, Hall or Re-
ception Room Decorations, Table Decorations, |
Flowers for Personal Adornment, Baskets and I
Sprays, Wreaths and Other Designs, Practical Exer-
cises in Flower Arrangement.

200 pages, profusely illustrated, attractively
bound, $2.50; postpaid, $2.65,

'THOUSANDS of women are daily seeking for
* information on how to care for their pot
plants. MILADTS HOUSE PLANTS will give
them this information^ for the hook was written by
a florist who has had over forty years experience
in catering to women interested in just this phase
of floriculture.

MILADY’S
HOUSE PLANTS

By F. E. PALMER

For those seeking success with plants in the
home

Tells how to care for Palms, Ferns, Rubber
Plants, Fuchsias, Jerusalem Cherries and scores of
other popular
house plants, to-
gether with ad-
vice about the
best plants to
grow indoors.

What instruc-
tions to follow
for potting, drain-
age, watering,
temperature, sun-
light, air, andother
details.

What flowers
and plants are
adapted for hang-
ing baskets and
window boxes ;
how to arrange
effective table
centerpieces and
other indoor floral
d^xjrations. How
to grow bulbs in bowls; full directions on how
to propagate the various house plants.

Profusely illustrated with about 100 instructive
pictures, the majority of them taken exclusively for
this book.

Cover in four colors. Price, paper, 75c.; post-
paid, 80c.; cloth, $1.00; postpaid, $1.10.

X/i/E believe we are within the truth in our state-
ment that PRACTICAL LANDSCAPE GAR-
DENING has enjoyed larger sales than any other
hook on the same subject ever placed on the market
Its price^ preciseness^ simplicity and comprehensive-
ness account for its success.

Practical

Landscape Gardening

By ROBERT B. CRIDLAND
For the owner of a modest home.

It tells how to plan and plant from a 20ft. plot up.

It gives detailed sketches showing where to place
your flower, Rose, wild
or rock garden.

It has planting plans
telling exactly what
varieties to plant for
best effects.

It gives working
plans showing how to
construct walks, drives
pergolas, terraces,
pools, fountains, gar-
den seats and rustic
houses.

It illustrates home
ground surroundings,
showing correct and
incorrect methods.

It tells in detail all
about lawn making,
gutters, catch basins, roadways.

Its pictures place before you the explanation of
practically every problem confronting the home
builder and owner.

Contains 91 photographic illustrations, 67 sketches
and 33 plans, 19 of which are planting plans accom-
panied by planting keys. The type is large and
clear; the paper is enamel; the binding durable.
The color plate on front cover is irresistibly attrac-
tive; it portrays a wonderful landscape scene.

266 pages, size 6x8 in. Price, $2.50; postpaid,

$2.65.

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