THE HORTICULTURAL ADVERTISER. 



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Architects'and Builders' Pocket Companion 



AND PRICE BOOK, 



By FRANK W. VODGES, Architect. 



Conslstinc of a short but comprehensive epitome of Decimals, Duo- 

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



SWEET POTATO CULTURE. 



Gn^NG FULL INSTRUCTIONS FROM 



STARTING THE PLANTS TO HARVESTING 



AND STORING THE CROP. 



WITH A CHAPTER ON THE CHINESE YAM. 



BY JAMES FITZ, 



Keswick, Va., author of "Southern Apple and Peach 

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 Address, CHAS. H. MAROT, 814 Chestnut Street, PhUa. ' 



WINDOW FLOWER GARDEN 



By Junus J. Heintich. ! 



Handsomely illustrated. This work endeavors by a few simple 1 

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It is intended for all, including children, exc udirg technical terms i 



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ASPARAGUS CULTURE. 



Tit BEST METHODS EMPLOYED in ENGLSHD ail FRANCE, 



BY .TAMES BARNES AND WM. ROBINSON. 



With translations of Mr. Leboeuf s Essay on Asparagus, 

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



HTnTS for PArNTERS, 



Decorators and Paper-Hangers. 



being a selection of useful rules, data, memoranda, methods 

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BY AN OLD HAND. 

 60 pages paper, mailed post paid for 25c. on receipt of price. 

 Address, CHAS. H. MAROT, 814 Chestnut Street, Phila. 



PRACTICAL LESSONS IN 



Architectural Drawing ; 



Or, HOW TO MAKE THE WORKING DRAWINGS AND WRITE 



SPECIFICATIONS FOR BUILDINGS. 



BY WH^LIAJM B, TUTHILL, A.M., Architect. 



Illustrated by 3.3 full page plates (one in colors) and SJ 

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Allen's Domestic Animals 



" American Farm Book 



' ' Rural Architecture 



American Naturalist, vols. 1, 2 and 3, bound, cloth 



Beet Root Sugar. Grant 



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Brackett's Farm Talk 



Breck's New Book of Flowers 



Bridgeman's American Kitchen Gardener 



Butler's Family Aquarium 



Chavner's Diseases of the Horse 



Coultas' Principles of Botany 



Dogs, in their Relation to the Public 



Downing's Cottage Residences 



" Fruits & Fruit Trees of Am., 2vols.,8 vo. III. 

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Gray's Lessons in Botany 



" School and Field Botanv , 



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Half -hours in the Green Lanes, Taylor, Illustrated 



Harris on Injurious Insects 



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New American Gardener 



Painter, Gilder and Varnisher .' 



Paxton's Hort. Register, 2 vols, in one (1831-1833) .' 



Popular Treatise on Agricultural Chemistry 



Prince on the Vine 



Prince's Pomological Manual \\ 



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Stephen's Book of the Farm, 2 vols., oct 



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Talpa, or Chronicles of a Clay Farm '. 



The Plant, a Biography, 5 col. plates and 13 wood eng's 



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Waring's Elements of Agriculture 



Williams' Window Gardening 



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