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tHE CANADIAN HOKTICULTURISt. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



CATALOaUE OF OAKLAND vStuD of 

 Perch eron horses imported and bred by 

 M. W. Dunham, Wayne, DuPage Co., 

 Illinois. 



Catalogue, annual, descriptive of 

 field and garden seeds for 1884, for sale 

 by Wm. Rennie, Toronto, grower and 

 importer of vegetable, flower and agri- 

 cultural seeds, seed potatoes and bulbs. 



J. T. LovETT, of Monmouth Nur- 

 series, Little Silver, N. J., sends us 

 one of the prettiest fruit catalogues 

 I hat come to our table. The new and 

 i-are fruits are well illustrated and de- 

 scribed. Sent free. See advertisement. 



Report of the State Horticultural 

 Association of Pennsylvania, contain- 

 ing the discussions and proceedings for 

 186.}, handsomely illustrated, has been 

 received with the compliments of Sec- 

 I'etary Engle, to whom oui' thnnks are 

 due. 



Rural Register and almanac by 

 D. Landreth & Sons. Philadelphia, is a 

 very useful book of 100 pages, sent free 

 to purchasers of seeds. It contains a 

 fine calendar of oj)erations for every 

 month, with hints as to selection of 

 .seed, sowing, marketing, etc. 



Manual of Everything for the Gar- 

 den, by Peter Henderson & Co., New 

 York city. This is a lai-ge and very 

 valuable manual and catalogue com- 

 bined, the most complete of any pub- 

 lished. Its comprehensiveness is won- 

 derful and its illusti-ations are almost 

 innumerable. 



The Canadian Farmer has recently 

 passed into the han<ls of John Fergu- 

 .son, Esq., M. P., and no pains, we are 

 sure, will be spared to make it acc(;pt- 

 able to the reading farmisrs of Ontario. 

 It is a sixteen-page quarto, published 

 w(;ekly,at the Welland Printing Hous(!, 

 Welland, Out Suliscription $1 a year. 



The Oahdener's Monthly, edited 

 by Thomas Meehan, and published by 



Charles H. Marot, 814 Chestnut St., 

 Philadel})hia. is one of the' most valu- 

 able horticultural publications on this 

 continent. $'1 per annum. The num- 

 ber for February is full of matter in- 

 teresting to every cultivator of fruits 

 or flowers. 



Landreth's Companion for the Gar- 

 den and Farm, price 10 cents ; publish- 

 ed by D. Landreth and Sons, Phila- 

 delphia. This is one of the finest works 

 of art ever issued for the benefit of the 

 gardener. It is replete with costly il- 

 lustrations and contains a valuable 

 kitchen - garden calendar for each 

 month's work during the year, adapted 

 to both Northei-n and Southei-n climates. 



Vick's Floral Guide for 188-1 is an 

 elegant book of 150 pages, three color- 

 ed plates of flowers and vegetables, and 

 more than 1,000 illustrations of the 

 choicest flowers, plants and vegetables, 

 and directions for growing. Send on 

 your name and post office addresfe, with 

 10 cents, to James Vick, Rochester, 

 N. Y., and receive in return a copy of 

 the Guide, postage paid. This is not 

 a quarter of its cost. If you afterward 

 order seeds, deduct the 10 cents. 



The Impekial Dictionary of the 

 English language is being brought out 

 in a new edition by the Century Com- 

 pany, New York, who state that this 

 imi)ortant English work is ofFei-ed with- 

 out change in any res])ect. This edi 

 tion has been carefully revised and 

 greatly augmented by the English edi- 

 tors, so that it is now probably the 

 most com])rt'h('nsive dictionary of the 

 Euglish languagfi. It is a complete 

 (incyclopoedic Lexicon, literary, scien- 

 tific and technological, illustrated with 

 over .'5, 000 engravings. In four octavo 

 volumes Pi-ic(!, $20 in cloth ; IlT) in 

 half Russia. The dictionary was com- 

 piled V)y John Ogilvie, LL. D., and the 

 revision is edited by Charles An nan - 

 dale, M.A. 



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