Containing a Descriptive List of all Plants Suitable for Window Culture.

A ready and invaluable aid to all who wish to adorn their houses in the easiest and most successful manner with plants, or vines, or flowers. Instructions are given as to the best selection of plants for Baskets or Ferneries and Wardian Cases. Several chapters are devoted to Hanging Baskets, Climbing Vines, Smilax, and the Ivy, for decorative purposes. Bulbs for House Culture are fully described; also ornamental Plants for Dinner Table Decoration. Other topics are well considered, such as Balcony Gardens, House Top Gardening, Watering Plants, Home Conservatories, Fountains, Vases, Flower Stands, Soil, Air, Temperature, Propagation, Floral Boxes, the Aquarium, Rustic Conveniences for Household Ornament, and directions in detail for the general management of in-door plants for the entire year, throughout the winter, spring, summer, and fall. The volume is profusely illustrated with choice engravings, and pains have been taken to make it one of the most attractive books ever issued from the American Press. For sale, or supplied by bookstores everywhere, or sent post-paid by mail on receipt of price.

PRICE, $1.50.

Every Woman Her Own Flower Gardener.

By DAISY EYEBRIGHT (Mrs. S. O. JOHNSON).

A delightful little volume, written by a lady fond of flowers, as a special help and assistance to others interested in out-door flower gardening. Simple directions are given, how to lay out and plant Flower Borders, Ribbon Beds, and arrange ornamental plants. Among the topics treated are Geraniums, Fuchsias, Bulbs, Ornamental Flowering Shrubs, Everlasting Flowers, Ornamental Grasses, Coleus, Pæonies, Shade Trees, Garden Vegetables, Old Fashioned Flowers, Annual Flowers, Perennials, Ornamental Vines, Lawns, Insects, Manures, Watering Soils. When and How to Plant Dahlias, Lilies, Gladiolus, Verbenas, Cannas, Balsams, Portulaccas, and nearly all the popular varieties of flowers and shrubs. The book contains 148 pages, is charmingly written by one deeply in love with the subject, who appreciates the tastes of ladies, and aims to do good with agreeable, kindly advice on home gardening. For sale, or supplied by Bookstores everywhere.

Price, in handsome Pamphlet Covers, 50 cents; bound in Cloth, $1; post-paid by mail.

Address ADAMS & BISHOP, Publishers,
P. O. Box 2456.  46 Beekman Street, New York.

Transcriber’s Notes:

1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.

2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.