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THE GENESEE FAEMEE. 



THE HORTICULTURIST, 



FOR 1860. — Tliis valuable ami standard Magazine, established 

 by tlie lanie.iUed A. J. Downing in lSi6, begins a new vol- 

 ume with the January number. Its extended and valuable cor- 

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