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THE HORTICULTURAL ADVERIISER. 



Nurserymen and Dealers can find a large stoek and good 

 assortment of Peach Trees, at the lowest Wholesale price, at 



CALL'S NURSERIES, 



PKRRI, LAKE COUNTY, OHIO. 



Wholesale Price List FREE. ts3 



Fruits anfl Friit TreFs 



OF AMERICA. 



BY A. J. DOWNING. 



The culture, pmoagation and management in the Garden and 

 Orchard of Fruit Trees generally, with descriptions of all the 

 finest yarieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this 

 country, hecond revision and corrections by Charles Down- 

 ing, with large additions, including appendices of 1872 and 

 1876, and containing many new varieties. Nearly 400 outline 

 llluBtrations of Fruit, pp. 1218 Royal 8 vo. Price, ifo.OO; mailed, 

 postpaid on receipt of price. 



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



Hand-book of Useful Tables 



For the Lumberman, Farmer and Mechanic, containing ac- 

 curate tables of logs reduced to inch board measure, plank, 

 scantling and timber measure ; wages and rent by week or 

 month ; capjacity of granaries, bins and cisterns ; land 

 measures ; interest tables, with direction for finding the 

 interest on any sum at 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 per cent, and many 

 Other useful tables. Revised and enlarged edition, 182 pp., 

 25 cents. Mailed, postage free on receipt of price. Address 

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



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



BY JAMKS HOGG. 

 A complete guide to the cultivation of Vegetables, containing 

 thorough instructions for Sowing, Planting and Cultivating all kinds 

 of Vegetables ; with plain directions for preparing, manuring and 

 tilling the soil to suit each plant; including also a summary of the 

 work to be done in a vegetable garden during each month of the 

 year. 137 pages, i6mo, cloth. Illustrated. Price 50 cents; sent 

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



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



EOSE GARDEiN. 



BY WM. PAUL. 



ARRANGED IN TWO DIVISIONS. 



Division 1. — Embracing the History of the Rose, the formation 

 of the Rosarium, and a detailed account of the various practices 

 adopted in a successful cultivation of this popular flower. 



IhvisiON 2. — Containing an arrangement m Natural Groups of 

 the most esteemed varieties of R^ses recognized and cultivated in 

 the various Rose Gardens, English and Foreign, with full descript- 

 ions and remarks on their origin and mode of culture. 



Illustrated with Thirteen magnificent Colored Plates of various 

 Roses drawn to life, acd with numerous engravings on wood. 



Royal 8vo. Cloth. 328 pp. cloth, heavy paper and handsome 

 type. Price, S7 00, mailed post-paid on receipt of price. 



Address, CHAS. H. MAROT, 814 Chestnut St , Philad'a 



PEAR CULTURE FOR PROFIT. 



BY P. T. QUINN. 



A practical Horticulturist, and author of " Money in the 

 Garden." 



Containing practical method of raising Pears intelligently 

 and with best results: character of soil, best mode of preparing 

 it; best varieties to select under existing conditions; best mode 

 of planting, pruning, furlilizing, grafting and utilizing the 

 ground before the trees comft intobearing. and finally gathering 

 and packing for market Illustrated with practical cuts on 

 pruning and grafting, dis aiice table and orchard record. 136 

 pages, ]2mo, cloth. Price, Si. Sent by mail, post-paid, on re- 

 ceipt of price. Address. 



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



HANBBOOK OF PLANTl 



BY PETER HENDERSON. 



A concise, yet comprehensive Dictionary of Plants. 

 As a book of reference it will take the place for all practical 

 purposes, of the expensive and voluminous European 

 werks of this k'Ud Ha* been written with special view to 

 the wants of the climate of the United States, both in 

 matters of propagation and culture. Instructions for cul- 

 ture of many imponunt plants, such as the Kose, have been 

 ttivpn at length. Scope of work embraces botanical name, 

 derivation, Liiiuiean and natural orders ot all leading 

 cenera of oruanaeiital or useful plants up to present 

 time. All imponant species and varieties with brief in- 

 structions for propagation and culture A valuable 

 feature 10 amateurs is all known local or common 

 names. Arranirement ol book is alphabetical, and any 

 p'anl can be quickly referred to uuder scientific or com- 

 mon name. Index is added wbcre important plants or 

 mode^ of culture can ^e referred to at once. Also conapre- 

 hensive ({lossary of botanical and teclinical terms, with 

 general horticultural terms and practices, of great value 

 to the experienced horticulturist. Octave 409 pages, fine 

 paper, handsomely iio md in cloth. >Sent by mail, postage paid, 

 on receipt of price, 83.(10. Address 



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



BACK VOLUMES 



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



Sound in neat cloth coses, including numbers, - - - 2 85 



" y^ Roan, " " ... 3 19 



Cloth eases alone, mailed for - -- - . . - 50 



Delivered postage Jree. 

 Dr mail us your own numbers, and have them bound in cloth oases 

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

 Address, 



CHAS. H. MAROT, 

 814 Che stnut Street, Philadelphia. 



guidetoThe study of insects. 



By A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D. 



Also a Treatise on those Injurious and Beneficiax to 

 Crops. For the use of Colleo;es. Farms, Schools and Agri- 

 culturists. Illustrated with 11 plates, and 650 wood-cuts. 

 702 pages, Svo, cloth. Price, $6,00. Sent by maU post-paid 

 on receipt of price. Address, 



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



Fruit Growers' Hand-Book, 



By F. K. Elliott author of " Western Fruit Growers' Guide" 

 (one of the best posted men on the subject in the United States). 

 Contains the prac'ice on all subjects connected with fruit growing. 

 The book is made for those who .. row fruit for their own use Also 

 an Appendix, containing matter relating to the selection and culture 

 of Ornamental Trees, Roses, Plants, &c. Illustrated with 45 wood- 

 cuts, 130 pages, i6mo, cloth, $1 ; p-per, 60 cts. Sent by mail 

 postpaid on receipt of price. Address, 



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



Farm Implements and Machinery 



AND THE PRINCIPLES OF THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND USE. 



with explanations of the laws of motion and orce as applied on the 

 farm, with over 300 illustrations by John J. Thomas; new and 

 revised edition, 312 pages, 12 mo, cloth, price Ji. 50; mailed postage- 

 free on r.c^ipt of price. Address, 



CHAS. H. MAROT, S14 Chestnut Street, Phila. 



FAR^~HOMES, ' 



IN-DOORS AND OUT-DOORS 



By E. H. Lkland. 

 Illustrated. 204 pages, cloth, price $1.50; mailed , post-paid oa re- 

 ceipt of pricr Address. 



CHAS. H. AIAROT, 814 Chestnut St., FbU». 



