Extra, missing, or misprinted punctuation has been corrected without note. Variation in hyphenation (e.g. house plants vs. house-plants), and capitalization in some botanical names has been left as in the original.

The following changes were made to the text:

• p. 9: couservatory to conservatory
• p. 12: Burridgianum to Burridgeanum (Cosmidium Burridgeanum)
• p. 13: autumnale to autumnalis (Adonis autumnalis.)
• p. 13: CallirrhÖe to CallirrhoË
• p. 23: herbacous to herbaceous
• p. 41: BeaumÉ to BaumÉ (26° BaumÉ)
• p. 55: batchelor’s to bachelor’s (bachelor’s buttons)
• p. 56: CallirhoË to CallirrhoË
• p. 89: rocommended to recommended (the treatment recommended for Crocus)
• p. 122: establishd to established (when well established)
• p. 132: 80,° to 80°, (begins to fall below 80°,)
• p. 133: witholding to withholding (gradually withholding water)
• p. 207: seed to seeds (six seeds in each hill)
• p. 233: ipomeas to ipomoeas and Ipomea to Ipomoea
• p. 233: Cobea to CobÆa
• Advertisements (end of book): science’ to science’s (science for science’s sake) and the repeated headings “WORKS BY PROFESSOR BAILEY” removed.