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BOOKS, &o. RECEIVED. 

 Yick's Catalogue of Hardy Bulbs, 

 &c, for autumn of 1884. James Vick, 

 Rochester, N.Y. Mailed free to all 

 applicants. 



Ellwanger & Barry's supple- 

 mentary list of Novelties and Special- 

 ties, also their Catalogue of Bulbous 

 Flower Roots for fall planting, 1884, 

 and Descriptive Price Catalogue of 

 Small Fruits. 



Seven Hundred Album Verses is 

 the title of a little book of 1 28 pages, 

 filled with a variety of selections in 

 poetry and prose, for the convenience 

 of those who being requested to write 

 in an album are at a loss what to 

 write. It is sent by mail, post-paid, in 

 l^aper cover, for If) cents, in cloth 30 

 cents, by J. S. Ogilvie & (]o., 31 Rose 

 Street, New York. 



Cyclopedia of Practical Flori- 

 culture. — We have received from 

 Townsend MacCown, Publisher, 744 

 Broadway, New York, his prospectus 

 of a work of 420 pages quarto, with 

 the above title, which he promises for 

 completeness and popular value shall 

 surpass anything of the kind yet pub- 

 lished. The price, in cloth, $5 00. 

 Book sent to any address prepaid by 

 the publisher. 



Canadian Breeder and Agricultural 

 Review, is published weekly, corner 

 Church and Front streets, Toronto, at 

 $2 00 a year. The initial number 

 just received is very handsomely printed 

 on excellent paper, and filled with 

 valuable matter pertaining to the stock 

 and farming interests of Canada. We 

 are pleased to note that it is not in- 

 tended to fill this paper with trashy 

 stories and conundrums, in order to 

 make it attractive to children or to the 

 weak intellects of those of laro-er 

 growth, but to give its readers sub- 

 stantial value for their subscription in 

 the reading matter furnished. 



Transactions of the Mississippi 

 Yalley Horticultural Socii:TY for 

 the year 1884 have been received from 

 Mr. W. H. Ragan, secretary, to whom 

 our thanks are due for the opportunity 

 of examining so valuable a contribution 

 to our horticultui-al literature. The 

 book is adorned with an excellent like- 

 ness of Dr. John A. Warder, that lover 

 of nature and enthusiastic promoter of 

 every enterprise that aimed to advance 

 our knowledge in any department of 

 rural life. The paper on profitable 

 fruit-growing in Minnesota is worth, to 

 those of our readers who reside in the 

 parts of Ontario which has a similar 

 climate, all that the whole book costs. 

 We advise them to send two dollars to 

 Secretary W. H. Ragan, Greencastle, 

 Indiana, and secure a copy. 



The Orillia Packet says : — " We are 

 glad to learn that complaints of a failure 

 of the apple crop in this district are by no 

 means universal. Mr. A. T. Millichamp, 

 Lake Shore, will have a good yield, some 

 of his trees, indeed, being heavily laden, 

 and we hear of others equally fortunate." 



The Presidential campaign is begun in 

 earnest, and our neighbors in tlie United 

 States have plenty of excitement just 

 now. The Philadelphia WeekJij Press an- 

 nounces that the price is only 25 cents 

 until after the November elections, and 

 the Daily Press 50 cents per montli. 



Red Raspberries in Hills. — The 

 Fniit Recorder says : — " We have become 

 satisfied that red raspberries should be 

 grown so as to be worked both ways- 

 allowing three to five stalks in the hill 

 —owing to size and stockiness. Wu find 

 when grown in hedge rows the berries are 

 not so large and fine as those grown in 

 hnis, and are not so easily picked. Of 

 course they can be planted quite close to- 

 gether — say, for instance, 4| to 5 feet each 

 way, and if nipped back when growing, 

 they require no stakes. Grown thus in 

 hills, and each year a small forkful of 

 manure thrown against each hill, a planta- 

 tion • will last fifteen to twenty years, 

 especially if the old wood is cut out every 

 year." 



