Practical Floriculture; A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florists' Plants, for the Amateur and Professional Florist

325, 12 pp. Illustrated. CONTENTS: How to Become a Florist; The Prices of Nursery and Greenhouse Products Abroad and at Home; The Profits of Floriculture; Aspect and Soil; The Preparation for New, and the Renovation of Old, Lawns; Laying out the Flower Garden; Designs for Ornamental Grounds and Flower Gardens; Planting of Flower Beds; Soils for Plotting; Temperature and Moisture; The Potting of Plants; Drainage in Pots; Expert Garden Workmen; Cold Frames--Winter Protection; The Construction of Hot-Beds; Greenhouse Structures; Wide Greenhouses for Bedding Plants and Rose Growing; Glass, Glazing and Shading; Modes of Heating; Heating by Steam; Base-Burning Water-Heater; Propagation of Plants by Seeds; Propagation by Seeds--What Varieties Come True from Seeds; Propagation of Plants by Cuttings; "Saucer System" of Propagation; Propagating Soft-Wooded Plants in Summer; Propagation of Roses by Cuttings; Propagating Roses by Grafting and Budding; Greenhouse Plants Most in Demand in Market in Spring; The Cultivation of Verbena; Cold-Frame Plants Most Sold in Market in Spring; Plants Most in Demand for Window Decoration in Winter; Culture of Winter-Flowering Plants for Cut Flowers; Rose-Growing in Winter; Bulbs for Winter Flowers; Violets, Chrysanthemums, Carnations, and Mignoette; Bouvardias, Stevias, Eupatoriums, Heliotropes, Poinsetta, and other Winter-Flowering Plants; Orchids; Chinese Primrose, Geranium, Camellia and Eucharis; Plants Used for Foliage--Smilax, Asparagus, Ferns, etc.; Plants Used for Decoration of Rooms; General Collection of Plants Grown Under Glass; Construction of Bouquets, Baskets, etc.; Hanging Baskets; Parlor or Window Gardening; Formation of Rock-Work, and Plants for Rocks; Are Plants Injurious to Health?; The Injuring to Plants by Forcing; Nature's Law of Colors; What Flowers will Grow in the Shade?; Succession Crops in the Greenhouse; Packing Plants; Plants by Mail; Insects and Diseases affecting Plants; Mildew; Diary of Operations for the Year; The Culture of Grape Vines under Glass.