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GARDENING. 



Publisher's Department. 



You ARE making a splendid paper of" 

 Gardening and all of your thousands of 

 readers wish vou great success. 



Andrew S. Flller. 



Ridgewood, N. J , December21, 1894. 



I LIKE Gardening verj' much. It has 

 been quite an aid and incentive to me in 

 flower culture. Z. B. E. 



Tower Hill, 111., December 19, 1894. 



The paper Gardening suits me very 

 well, and as long as I am living here, 

 having plenty of room for flowers and 

 vegetables, l" can not dispense with it. 

 as everv issue has something new and 

 interesting. Rev. B. Griefenkamp. 



Kentucky. 



I cannot tell you have much I enjoy 

 Gardening, I know when I read articles 

 in it that I can depend on what is said. 

 .\s I have experimented with many plants 

 and been tolerably successful I can almost 

 tell when I read an article on plants 

 whether it is written from practice or 

 print, I mean copied in substance from 

 some catalogue as many are. I read and 

 reread every word in Gardening, and am 

 alwavs interested in it. 



Mrs. J. Deweks. 



Morgan Co., 111., Nov. 24, 1894. 



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