THE HOR TICUL 1 hRAL AD VER TISER. 



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SITUATIONS WANTED. 



Advertisements under this head must be paid for in advance, with 

 the order, at rate of %\.<x> for each 36 words per insertion. 



AS head gardener or foreman in flrst-class florist business. 

 Twentj-one years' experience in all branches. Has kept 

 first-class places in Europe and United States. Responsible 

 position with good salary required. Theodore Bock, Box 

 m, Hamilton, O. jl.2 



BY an English gardener ; understands care of Greenhouses, 

 Fernery, Grapery and Vegetable Garden. Eight years 

 in this countrj', goodVeferences both .\inerican and English. 

 A. £■. Gilbert, -100 Broadway, Cambridgeport, Mass. 



BY a practical florist, German ; commercial or private es- 

 tablishment ; ten years experience in growing plants 

 and cut flowers for market ; good reference. Address Wm. 

 Sabransky, Newark, N. J. 



By a sm^le man, temperate and good charac- 

 ter. A situation to take charge of and buUd 

 up a Rose Business in some good place in this 

 vicinity. Nine years experience in the largest 

 Rose growing establishment in the United States. Also 

 understands the growing of hardy shrubs and beddingplants. 

 Address, ROSE MAN, care J. L , 307 N. 9th St.. Phila., Pa. 



A steady, reliable single man, 

 well up to the art of raising 

 and arranging cut flowers, and 



fully able to take charge, if 



Good references required. Wages moderate at 



WANTED 



necessary, 



first. Address, stating wages expected, 



r. FOUNTAINE, Racine 



Wisconsin. 



Floral aii Plait BhsIdbss for Sale. 



Established thirteen years ago. Offered at a bargain on 

 account of long continued poor health of the owner. An 

 excellent opportunity to buy a good business in one of the 

 most pleasant and promising towns in the United States. 



Address, 

 jl3 J. M. ASHEB, San Diego, California. 



One of the best Florists' places in Camden, N. J. Four 

 Greenhouses, Dwelling seven Rooms, hot and cold water. 

 Nice lot of ground, in market for buUding lots. The whole 

 property will be sold for JSIO.OOO, if sold in July. One-half 

 ran remain on the place. 



Federal Street, and the C. A. K. R., 



CAMDEN, N. J. 



FOR SALE. 3 Greenhouses and paying Florist's Business, 

 in small town near Cincinnati. Good stock Roses, Bedding 

 Plants and everything in best condition. Further information 

 on application. H. S., Florist, Cumminsville. Cin., Ohio, il.2 



FOR S.A.I.E:. 



Four acres of land well improved, with house IJ^ story, 5 

 rooms and Summer kitchen, two Greenhouses 12x50 ft. 

 each, all new, with plentj' of hard and soft water. No other 

 Greenhouse in the county. Small Fruits and Grape Vines 

 and a good business of 12 years standing. 6000 Apple trees 

 from 1 to 3 years old. Tlie owner is going to Oregon, Splen- 

 did chance for a voung man with small capital. 



JOSEPH GAIVIBX-S, 



BOX 229. BROOKFIELD, LINN CO., MO. 



PRACTICAL 



CAMELLIA CULTURE. 



A treatise on the Propagation and Culture of the Camellia Ja- 

 ponica, by Robert J. Halliday. Illustrated with Five Colored 

 Plates and 50 Wood Engravings. 12mo, pp. 141, cloth. Price, 82.00. 

 Sent by mail post-paid, on recipt of price. Address, 



CHAS. H. M AROT.afl4 Chestnut St.. P hiladelphia. 



HOW TO RAISE FRUIT 



By THOMAS GREGG. 



A Hand-book of Fruit Culture, being a Guide to the proper Cul- 

 tivation and Management ot Fruit Trees, and of Grapes and small 

 Fruits. 184 pages, i2mo, cloth, fully illustrated. Price, |i. 00. Sent 

 by mail post-paid, on receipt of price. Address, 



CHAS. H. MAROT, 814 Chestnut St , Pbila. 



Some File Emlisti Boots, 



Twining's Natural Order of Plants. 2 vols JIS.OO 



Low's Ferns of Great Britain. 8 vols., V^ tky 80.00 



Shirley Hibberd's New, Rare Beautiful Lved Plants. 1 voL. .9.00 



" " Amateur's Flower Garden 3.00 



" " " Greenhouse 8.00 



" " " Rose Book 3.00 



Wooster's Alpine Plants. 2 vols 17.50 



Wild Flowers, 2 vols, colored plates, 3.00 



" of the Holy Land (quarto) colored plates 8.50 



Fern Paradise, lUustrated, plain edition 3.00 



" " Photographs, 5.0O 



" colored plates 1.75 



" Garden 1 .60 



Field Flowers, " 1.60 



British Fungi, " 2.60 



Microscopic Fungi, " 2.60 



Country Walks, by a Naturalist, Illustrated 1 76 



Half Hours in the Green Lanes 2.00 



Half Hours with some English Antiquities 2.00 



Marvels of Pond Life, Illustrated 1.76 



Sea-Weed Collector (Shirley Hibberd) colored illustrations.. . .2.00 



Sylvan Spring, colored plates 5 00 



Book About Roses. S.Reynolds Hole. Illustrated 3.75 



Greenhouse Fancies, splendid colored Illustrations 12 .50 



Newton's Landscape Gardening, fob, 24 dble pp, plates 6 00 



British Sea Weeds, Mosses, Ferns and Entomology, square, 



16mo, gilt, 89 plates, 4 vols 12.00 



Newton's Landscape Gardener 5 . 00 



Sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of prices. Address, 



CHAS. H. MAROT, 



814 Chestnut Street, Phila. 



BACK VOLUMES 



OF THE 



Can still be had in numbers, per year - - - - |2 10 



Bound in neat cloth cases, including numbers, - - - 2 85 



••J^Roan. " " - - - 310 



Cloth cases alone, mailed for-. 50 



Delivered postage free . 

 3r mail us your own numbers, and have them bound in cloth cases 

 for 90 cents. Returned to you bound, postage free. 

 Address, 



CHAS. H. MAROT, 

 814 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 



FRUiT AND BREAD. 



A Natural and Scientific Diet. 



BY GUSTAV SCHLICKEVSEN. 



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

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

 living child of nature; to simplify and beautify his manner of living; 

 to emancipate woman from the drudgery of the kitchen; to lead to 

 increased use of fruit; to diminish the use of fle.-.h, and where 

 possible, to do away with its use altogether; to improve the health 

 and add to the enjoyments and value of life. Cloth, 250 pages ; 12 

 mo, illustrated. Price, %\. Sent by mail post-paid on receipt of 

 price. Address, 



CHAS. H. MAROT, 814 Chestnut St., Phila. 



FRinT frROWER'S ERIElfD. 



AN EASY GUIDE FOR THE 



Raising of Fruitsfor Pleasure or Profit 



BY R. H. HAINES. 



Paper, 34 pp., 8vo, price 30 cents mailed post-paid on receipt 

 of price. Address, 



CHAS. H. MAROT, 



814 CHEsi-Nin- Strvbt, Pbila. 



