• • GARDENING. 



Dec. 



Publisher's Department. 



The publication is worth all yoti ask, 

 and more, to anj-one who likes to profit 

 by the experience of a thorough and 

 practical gardener, such as Mr. Wm. 

 Falconer. Yours respectfully, 



Wm. T. Egerton. 



Supt. of Parks, Albany, N. Y. 



I SEE SEVEHAL English and American 

 horticultural publications, and have for 

 years, but none of them come up to Gar- 

 dening in the practical common sense 

 shown in the cultural hit ts given — all so 

 plain and explicit. I wish you may soon 

 get your 100,000 readers, for you deserve 

 it if you keep on in the same line. 



Yours truly, A. Alexa.nder. 



Canada. 



Gardening Co: Enclosed find $2 to 

 renew my subscription. It is the best 

 paper published on that subject, and its 

 illustrations are so good and its reading 

 matter so practical one can't help under- 

 standing and profiting by them. 



California. Arthur Staley. 



Yes, I THINK the paper is just the thing, 

 and fills a place occupied by no other 

 paper of its kind in this country. The 

 greatest thing in its lavor is, being edited 

 by a practical gardener; this ensures its 

 advice- to be absolutely reliable, and 

 trustworthy, to all its patrons needing 

 advice on all matters relating to the 

 proper management of the home grounds 

 and that means success in gardening. 



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HORTICULTURAL BOOKS. 



We can supply any of the following books, postpaid, 

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How TO Grow Cut Flowers (Hunt). 

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Greenhousc Construction (Taft).— It 

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Bulbs and Tuberous Rooted Plants 

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Mushrooms: How to Grow Them 

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The Rose (EUwanger).— The standard 

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Volume 1 of Gardening.— Bound in half 

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 $2.25. 



The Propagation of Plants (Fuller). 

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Manures (Senipers).— Over 200 pages; 

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Dictionary of Gardening (Nicholson). 

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Fruits and Fruit Trees of America 

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Fruit Garden (Barry). $2.00. 



American Fruit Culturist (Thomas). 

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Small Fruit Culturist (Fuller). $1.50. 



Gardening for Profit (Henderson). 



2.00. 



Practica Floriculture (Henderson). 

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On the Rose (Parsons I $1.00. 



Truck Farming at the South (Oemler). 

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Window Flower Garden ( Heinrich ). 75c. 



Ornamental Gardening (Long). $2.00- 



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