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Downing says that in Europe it is considered the most beautiful of all 
American shade trees. Coniferous trees, as the spruce, larch, and pine, 
require more care and skill, and it is cheaper for a novice to buy the 
seedlings from professional growers than to try to raise them from seed. 
They can be purchased at cheap rates when twelve to eighteen inches 
high. He adds: 
The sides of ravines, river bluffs, and hills too steep for cultivation may be planted 
with nuts, acorns, or young trees, with a garden-trowel or spade. The European 
larch is well suited to such situations. Thousands of farms include more or less land 
of this description, of little value for any other purpose than growing wood. Vegetation 
in such localities is usually thin, and young trees will thrive better without cultivation 
than on level lands. Bushes and rank weeds likely to interfere with their growth 
should be kept down. Farm stock must be carefully excluded from timber plantations. 
Not only so, but they should not be permitted to range in any woodland intended to 
be permanent. Under a persistent course of pasturage a forest will die out, while with 
proper care it will reproduce itself in all time. ; 
AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL PERIOD- 
ICALS. 
AGRICULTURIST AND HoME CIRCLE, Mexico, Missouri. Monthly, $1 
per annum. W.G. Church & Co., publishers; W. G. Church, editor. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, New York City. Monthly, $1 50 per 
annum. Issued in English and German. Orange Judd & Co., pub- 
lishers; George Thurber, managing editor. 
AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Washington, D.C. Monthly, $1 per annum. 
Samuel Wagner, publisher and editor. 
AMERICAN FARMER, Baltimore, Maryland. Monthly, $1 50 per annum. 
Frank Lewis, publisher; N. B. Worthington, agricultural editor. © 
AMERICAN FARM JOURNAL, Toledo, Ohio. Monthly, 75 cents per 
annum. Miller, Locke & Co., publishers; William H. Busbey, editor. 
AMERICAN RURAL Home, Rochester, New York. Weekly, $2 per 
annum. <A. A. Hopkins and G. F'. Wilcox, publishers and editors. 
AMERICAN STOCK JOURNAL, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania. Monthly, 
$1 perapnum. N. P. Boyer & Co., publishers and editors; A. Marshall, 
associate editor. ¢ 
ARKANSAS AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL JOURNAL, Little Rock, 
Arkansas. J.S. Duffie & Co., publishers; John 8. Duffie, editor. 
BANNER OF THE SOUTH AND PLANTERS’ JOURNAL, Augusta, Georgia. 
Weekly, $3 per annum. Chronicle Publishing Company, publishers; 
Henry Moore, A. R. Wright, and Patrick Walsh, editors. 
BEE KEEPERS’ JOURNAL AND NATIONAL AGRICULTURIST, New 
York City. Monthly, $1 per annum. H. A. King & Co., publishers; 
Homer A. King, Ellen 8. Tupper, and I. V. Mapes, editors. 
BonHAWS RURAL MESSENGER, Chicago, Illinois. Monthly, $1 50 
per annum. Jeriah Bonham, publisher and editor. 
Boston CuLTIVATOR, Boston, Massachusetts. Weekly, $2 50 per 
annum. Otis Brewer, publisher and editor. 
CALIFORNIA FARMER, San Francisco, California. Weekly, $5 per 
annum. Warren and Co., publishers; Col. Warren, editor. 
CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURIST AND FLORAL MAGAZINE, San Fran- 
cisco, California. Monthly, $4 per annum. F. A. Miller & Co., pub- 
lishers. 
CAROLINA FARMER, Wilmington, North Carolina. Weekly, $3 per 
annum. William H. Bernard, publisher and editor; Robert K. Bryan, 
associate editor. 
