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GARDENING. 



April 15, 



I HAVE BEEN a subscriberof your Valua- 

 ble publication Gardening for the past 

 four years and I have always considered 

 it the best and most useful paper for 

 amateur florists published, yourpractical 

 information from actual experience at 

 Dosoris and your intelligible answers to 

 correspondents are always read by me 

 with great pleasure and profit. J. M. B. 



Lawrence Junction, Pa., P>b. 15, '06. 



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How TO Grow Cut Flowers (Hunt). 

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Small Fruit Culturist (Fuller). $1.50. 



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Practical Floriculture (Henderson). 

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Art Out of Doors (Van Rensselaer) — 

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The Soil (Prof. King).— Its nature, 

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