The farmstead: The making of the rural home and the lay-out of the farm / (5th edition)

By L. H. BAILEY

Of Cornell University, assisted by WILHELM MILLER, and many Expert Cultivators and Botanists

This great work comprises directions for the cultivation of horticultural crops and original descriptions of all the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants known to be in the market in the United States and Canada. “It has the unique distinction of presenting for the first time, in a carefully arranged and perfectly accessible form, the best knowledge of the best specialists in America upon gardening, fruit-growing, vegetable culture, forestry, and the like, as well as exact botanical information.... The contributors are eminent cultivators or specialists, and the arrangement is very systematic, clear and convenient for ready reference.”

“We have here a work which every ambitious gardener will wish to place on his shelf beside his Nicholson and his Loudon, and for such users of it a too advanced nomenclature would have been confusing to the last degree. With the safe names here given there is little liability to serious perplexity. There is a growing impatience with much of the controversy concerning revision of names of organisms, whether of plants or animals. Those investigators who are busied with the ecological aspects of organisms, and also those who are chiefly concerned with the application of plants to the arts of agriculture, horticulture, and so on, care for the names of organisms under examination only so far as these aid in recognition and identification. To introduce unnecessary confusion is a serious blunder. Professor Bailey has avoided the risk of confusion. In short, in range, treatment and editing, the Cyclopedia appears to be emphatically useful:... a work worthy of ranking by the side of the Century Dictionary.”—The Nation.

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LESSONS WITH PLANTS
Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the Common Forms of Vegetation

By L. H. BAILEY

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CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE

Edited by L. H. BAILEY

Of Cornell University, Editor of “Cyclopedia of American Horticulture,” Author of “Plant Breeding,” “Principles of Agriculture,” etc.

Volume I—Farms

The Agricultural Regions—The Projecting of a Farm—The Soil Environment—The Atmosphere Environment.

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The Plant and Its Relations—The Manufacture of Crop Products—North American Field Crops.

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The Animal and Its Relations—The Manufacture of Animal Products—North American Farm Animals.

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Economics—Social Questions—Organizations—History—Literature, etc.

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