Cross-breeding and hybridizing Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ANNALS OF HORTICULTURE FOR i89i.-"Bright, new, clean and fresh" may be said of this series, by L.H. Bailey. Each year's experience makes the succeeding volume... more » a better one. The list of introductions for each year is unique. It puts on record every novelty of fruit, flower, vegetable and tree of the year. All the tools of the year are described and illustrated, whether for use in orchard, garden or greenhouse. Everyadvance in American horticulture is chronicled. The volumes are a storehouse of information to every one who grows flowers, fruits, vegetables or trees. It describes the new insects and fungous depredations. The obituaries of the year are included. The volume for 1891 contains a census of native cultivated plants, being a carefully annotated and dated list of all the plants in cultivation of American origin, including hundreds of entries. This is one of the boldest pieces of work yet attempted in American horticulture. The volume for 1891 also contains a history and statistical record of the Farmers1 institute movement in the United States and Canada. The work of the Experiment Stations is exhaustively discussed and indexed. Price, cloth, $i; paper, 60 cents. Annals for 1889 and 1890 at the same price. I NSECTS AND INSECTICIDES.—A practical Manual concerning Noxious Insects and the Methods of Preventing their Injuries. By Clarence M. Weed, Professor of Entomology and Zoology, New Hampshire State College. I think that you have gotten together a very useful and valuable little book.—Dr. C. V. Riley, U. S. Entomologist. It is excellent. I must congratulate you on the skill you have displayed in putting in the most important insects, and the complete manner in which you have done the work.— James Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist. I am well pleased with it. T...« less