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THE HORTICULTURAL ADVERTISER. 



FORESTRY SEEDS - NURSERY SEEDS— FRUIT SEEDS, 

 SEEDS FOR BOTANIC GARDEN, &c. 



It is now thirty years since we added tlie collecting of Native Seeds to our Nursery Business. The knowledge 

 gained in that period is wholly at the service of our customers. We have collectoi-s in every part of the United States, 

 and there are few things which we cannot supply, if at all to he had. 



VV^e are now prepared to supply MAZZARD CHERRY, PLUM, Ac, and to take orders for PEAR and other FRUIT and 

 TREE SEEDS- Wholesale catalogue and rates on application. 



THOMAS MEEHAN, 



GERMANTOWN NURSERIES, 



traytf 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



-SECOND EDITION, REVISED BY THE AUTHOR.- 



The NeiAT 



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•tany. 



A liCctare on the Best Method of Teaching the Science. By W. J. BEAL, M.SC, PH.D., Professor of Botany in the 

 Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich. 8vo, paper. 25c. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price. 



"Dr. Beal does well to say that hooks are an aid in the study, and not the proper source of knowledge at all. One 

 examination of a plant will teach more than the perusal of fifty 'books. Every student of Botany may profit by taking 

 counsel of Dr. Beal."— iowdo/i Gardener' s Magazine. 



" This book well merits the attention of all engaged in teaching Botany, and also of those who are about to study it. 

 Some excellent directions are given as to what should be the objects in studying Natural Science, and the best modes of 

 cultivating habits of correct observation." — London Journal of Horticxdture. 



" The tendency of modern instruction seems to be in the direction of emancipation from text-books, with their 

 stereotyped formulas ; and we believe that in no department is there more need of it than in that of Botany." — Marble- 

 head {Mass.} Messenger. 



"Neither Botany nor Horticulture is what it was a half centwry ago. True Gardening in these days embraces a 

 knowledge of flowers to an extent that makes a gardener really a botanist ; while Botany is a great deal more than a 

 mere classification of a lot of dried sticks. In the new order of things Botany deals with plant life, just as Gardening 

 does. Few have done so much, probably no one more, to make Botany jjopvilar than Prof. Beal. No better service could 

 be rendered to botanists and gardeners than to have this lecture in the hands of every teacher." — Gardeners' Monthly, 

 January, ISSZ. " Prof. Beal is one of the best of our modern teachers of Botany." — Ibid, Sepienibei-, ISSS. 



"It should be in the hands of every teacher of Botany, so full is it of suggestions that can be acted upon, even by 

 those who have no laboratory appliances. The whole effort * * is to cultivate in the pupil * * » * the ability for 

 original research. Those who cannot originate, had better foUow those that have proved most successful. Looking at 

 results there are few better teachers of Botany than Prof. Beal.— 3/ie Botanical Gazette, p. 293, 18S1. 



" It would be difi&cult to overestimate the clifference between the delight which a class of bright young girls or boys 

 would take in such observations as these, and the dreariness of the hours their elders were forced to spend over the 

 analysis of flowers." — New York Evening Post. 



" The whole lecture indicates such an amount of research and is given in so condensed a form as to render it inter- 

 esting, as well as valuable, to all who are studying physiological Botany and how plants behave." * * * * "The mode 

 Prof. Beal so ably points out not only imparts useful knowledge, but serves a valuable purpose in training the mind. '— 

 Country Gentleman. 



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Address, 



AND OUT BUILDINGS. 



Aiming to furnish plans and designs to suit every taste andpocket. 

 257 illustrations, 235 pages, 12 mo. cloth, price, 81.50. Mailed, 

 post paid on receipt of price. Address, 



CHAS. H. MAROT, 814 Chestnut Si. 



AS AN AGRICULTURAL STATE. 



Its Farms, Fields and Garden Lands. 



BY WM. E. PABOR. 



Illustrated, 213 pages, 12mo, cloth, beveled boards. Price 

 $1.50, mailed, post-paid. Address, 



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



Success with Small Fruits. 



BY E. P. ROE. 

 Profusely and sumptuously illustrated in the highest style of art. 

 Fine heavy paper and splendid typography. Royal 8vo, pp. 313, 

 cloth. Price, J5.00, mailed, postage paid, on receipt of price. 

 Address, CHAS. H. MAROT, 



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BARRY'S 



Fruit Garden. 



NEW EDITION, 



REVISED AJTD BROUGHT DOWN TO DATE BY 



P. BARRY. 



Illustrated, pp. .516, fine cloth. Price, $2.50, mailed, post- 

 age free. Address, 



CHAS. H. MAROT, 



814 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 



THE WILD GARDEN; " 



Or, Our Groves and Shrubberies made Beautiful by the 

 Naturalization of Hardy £xotic Plants. 



By W. ROBINSON, F. L. S. 

 With Frontispiece. 236 pages, i2mo, cloth. Price, ^2.25. 

 Mailed postage free, on receipt of price. Address, 



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



