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article on Roses, Keeping Fruit, Onions, 

 Mushroom growing, the Young Garden- 

 ers, &c. Send ten cents to James Vick, 

 Rochester, N.Y., for a copy, and if you 

 order seeds this will be credited on your 

 order. 



The Gardeners' Monthly edited by 

 Thomas Meehan, and published by 

 Charles H. Marot, 814 Chestnut Street, 

 Philadelphia, at $2 a year, is a most 

 welcome visitor. It is always filled 

 with valuable information on horticul- 

 tural subjects, and the latest intelligence 

 of new and interesting plants, fruits, etc. 

 We advise our friends who want the 

 best horticultural publication in the 

 United States to send to the publisher 

 for a copy. 



Alderis Library Magazine is a most 

 valuable eclectic monthly published by 

 John B. Alden, New York, at the low 

 price of $1.50 a year. The January 

 number contains Premier Gladstone's 

 celebrated article on the Dawn of 

 Creation and Worship, and the Fe- 

 bruary number T. H. Huxley's reply, 

 entitled The Interpretei-s of Genesis 

 and the Interpreters of Nature. In the 

 March number is an article by S. 

 Laing, on Mr. Gladstone as a theologian. 

 Other articles on a variety of interest- 

 ing and live topics of the day fill the 

 nearly one hundred pages of each 

 monthly issue. Single numbers can be 

 had for fifteen cents. 



Portfolio of rare and beautiful flowers, 

 published by James Vick, seedsman, 

 Rochester, N. Y. is a most beautiful 

 and artistic production. The work con- 

 tains six large colored paintings of 

 natural size on fine heavy paper, twelve 

 by fourteen inches, executed with the 

 utmost fidelity to nature, and accom- 

 panied by descriptions and information 

 relative to the plants and the several 

 families to which they belong, corres- 

 ponding in elegance and interest with 

 Ie paintings themselves. The Port- 

 lio makes a rich ornament for the 



parlour table, and will be highly prized 

 by every lover of the beautiful It may 

 be had by sending . two dollars to the 

 publisher. 



A Literary curiosity is just issued by 

 John B. Alden, Publisher, New York, 

 at the low price of 50 cents. It is a 

 copy of a quaint poem which was pub- 

 lished nearly half a century before 

 Milton's Paradise Lost and it is thought 

 by some that Milton's immortal work 

 was inspired by this poem. Only two 

 copies of the original issue are known 

 to be in existence, one in the British 

 Museum, the other in the Bodleian 

 Library. It is entitled "The Glasse 

 of Time in the first and second Age, 

 Divinely handled by Thomas Peyton, 

 of Lincolnes Inne, Gent., 1620." The 

 present reprint preserves the quaint 

 spelling, capital letters and italics of 

 the original. 



Poultry for Pleasure and Profit is 

 the title of a very neat little book of 

 48 pages by G. M. T. Johnson, Bing- 

 hampton, N.Y., in which the writer 

 treats of fowls under three heads : — 1st, 

 those whose chief merit is their beauty ; 

 2nd, those whose specialty is for eggs ; 

 and 3rd, those best calculated for mar- 

 ket, Chapters are also devoted to the 

 requisites for making the keeping of 

 poultry both pleasant and profitable, 

 how to house and yard them, how to 

 manage, feed, &c. The price of the 

 book is only 25 cents. If any of our 

 readers would like to have a copy we 

 will send one on receipt of name of one 

 new subscriber and one dollar. When 

 sending the name please to state that 

 you want this book. 



British Orchards. — Last year there 

 were 194,723 acres of fruit orchards in 

 Great Britain. This year the area has in- 

 creased to 107,532 acres. Last year 52,975 

 acres were devoted to market gardens. 

 There are now 59,473 devoted to this pur- 

 I pose. 



