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THE HOR TICUL TURAL AD VER TISER. 



THE ORCHID jALr.BU]M[. 



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THE SCHOOL GARDEN 



BY DR. SCHWAB, DIRECTOR OF THE VIENNA GYMNASIl'M, BTC. 

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

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A MANUAL OF VEGETABLE PLANTS, 



BY ISAAC F. TILLINGHAST. 



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MANUAL of the APIARY, 



By A. J. COOK, 



Prof, of Entomology in the Michigan State Agricultural College. 



286 pp. large 12 mo.; 112 Illustrations. 



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PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



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FLORISTS' PLANTS, 



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