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THE HORTICULTURAL ADVERTISER. 



APPLETON'S 



American Cycloplia. 



New Revised Edition 16 vols. Large Octavo Volumes, each 



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thousand wood engravings, and with numerous colored Litho- 

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Farm Implements and Machinery 



AND THE PRINCIPLES OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND USE, 



with explanations of the laws of motion and force as applied on the 

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FractblkiisiyaiiiloEisSecoraiioii, 



Together with General Information for Sportsmen. 



By JOSEPH H. BATTY, 



Taxidermist for the Hayden Expedition and other Government 

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WHEAT CULTURE; 



How to Double the Yield and Increase the Profits. 



By D S. CURTISS. 



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THE SCHOOL GARDEN 



BY DR. SCHWAB, DIRBCTOR OF THB VIENNA GYMNASIUM, ETC. 

 FROM THE GERMAN BY MRS. HORACE MANN. 



Advocating education by labor as well as by study, not as a task 

 but as a delight. Adapting the kindergarten principle to older 

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A MANUAL OF VEGETABLE PLANTS, 



BY ISAAC F. TILLINOHA8T. 



Conuining the experiences of the author in starting all those 

 kinds of vegetab es which are most difficult for a novice to produce 

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Orchid Grower's Manual 



BY BENJ. F. WILLIAMS, F. R. H. S. 



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FRUIT AND BREAD. 



A Natural and Scientific Diet. 



BY GUSTAV SCHLICKEYSEN. 



Translated from the German by M. L. Holbrook, M. D. Intended 

 to show what is the natural food df man ; to lead him to become a 

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PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



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FLORISTS' PLANTS, 



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GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF INSECTS. 



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AMERICAN FRUIT CULTURIST. 



BY JOHN J. THOMAS. 



Practical directiona for the Cultivation of Fruit Trees in the 



NURSERY. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 



Descriptions of the principal American ati'l Foreign varicfi''?. 

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GARDENING BY MYSELF. 



By Anna Warner. 

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