ction of tile
drains will enable the farmer to avoid the errors of imperfect
construction, and the disappointment that must necessarily follow. This
manual for practical farmers will also be found convenient for references
in regard to many questions that may arise in crop growing, aside from the
special subjects of drainage of which it treats. Cloth, 12mo. $1.00

Henderson's Practical Floriculture.

By Peter Henderson. A guide to the successful propagation and cultivation
of florists' plants. The work is not one for florists and gardeners only,
but the amateur's wants are constantly kept in mind, and we have a very
complete treatise on the cultivation of flowers under glass, or in the
open air, suited to those who grow flowers for pleasure as well as those
who make them a matter of trade. Beautifully illustrated. New and enlarged
edition. Cloth, 12mo. $1.50

Tobacco Leaf.

By J. B. Killebrew and Herbert Myrick. Its Culture and Cure, Marketing and
Manufacture. A practical handbook on the most approved methods in growing,
harvesting, curing, packing, and selling tobacco, with an account of the
operations in every department of tobacco manufacture. The contents of
this book are based on actual experiments in field, curing barn, packing
house, factory and laboratory. It is the only work of the kind in
existence, and is destined to be the standard practical and scientific
authority on the whole subject of tobacco for many years. Upwards of 500
pages and 150 original engravings. $2.00

Play and Profit in My Garden.

By E. P. Roe. The author takes us to his garden on the rocky hillsides in
the vicinity of West Point, and shows us how out of it, after four years'
experience, he evoked a profit of $1,000, and this while carrying on
pastoral and literary labor. It is very rarely that so much literary taste
and skill are mated to so much agricultural experience and good sense.
Cloth, 12mo. $1.00

Forest Planting.

By H. Nicholas Jarchow, LL. D. A treatise on the care of woodlands and the
restoration of the denuded timberlands on plains and mountains. The author
has fully described those European methods which have proved to be most
useful in maintaining the superb forests of the old world. This experience
has been adapted to the different climates and trees of America, full
instructions being given for forest planting of our various kinds of soil
and subsoil, whether on mountain or valley. Illustrated, 12mo. $1.5