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such a journal. The regular issue of the periodical began with 

 October, 1894. This was the only attempt in North America, 

 so far as the author is aware, to publish a journal devoted solely 

 to vegetable -gardening interests], 



MARSHALL, CHARLES. 



AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF GAR- 

 DENING; first American from the second London edition, con- 

 siderably enlarged and improved. To which is added an 

 essay on quick-lime, by James Anderson. Vol. I. Boston, 

 1799. [n. c.] Samuel Etheridge. pp. ii + 276. 7x4^. 



MCNEIL, j. w. 



FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Hazlehurst, Miss. 1888. [if. c.] 

 Copiah Signal print, pp.21. 9x5%. 



M'MAHON, BERNARD. 



THE AMERICAN GARDENER'S CALENDAR; adapted to the climates 

 and seasons of the United States. Containing a complete ac- 

 count of all the work necessary to be done in the kitchen-gar- 

 den, fruit -garden, orchard, vineyard, nursery, pleasure-grounds, 

 flower-garden, greenhouse, hothouse, and forcing-frames, for 

 every month in the year ; with ample practical directions for 

 performing the same. Also, general as well as minute instruc- 

 tions for laying out, or erecting, each and every of the above 

 departments, according to modern taste and the most approved 

 plans ; the ornamental planting of pleasure-grounds, in the 

 ancient arid modern style; the cultivation of thorn -quicks and 

 other plants suitable for live hedges, with the best meth- 

 ods of making them, etc. To which are annexed extensive 

 catalogues of the different kinds of plants which may be cul- 

 tivated either for use or ornament in the several departments, 

 or in rural economy; divided into eighteen separate alphabeti- 

 cal classes, according to their habits, duration, and modes of 

 culture; with explanatory introductions, marginal marks, and 

 their true Linnsean or botanical, as well as English names; 

 together with a copious index to the body of the work. Phila- 

 delphia. 1806. [c. 30th year of the independence of the U. 

 S.] B. Graves, pp. v + 666. 8%x5%. 



