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author of the discovery a sum equal to five cents from each individual in the 

 United States — or about a million of dollars. Mr. Bridgeman has clearly 

 proved this discovery from his long observation of the course of nature and 

 treatment of Trees and Plants, and which only occupies some four or five 

 pages of the work." — N. Y. Commercial, by G. C. Thorburn. 



•'The Florist's Guide. — A delightfuUittlebook, which weadvi.se every 

 body to purchase — at least every body that has the least liking for the 

 pleasing occupation on which it treats." — Courier 4* Enquirer. 



•'The Florist's Guide," Uke its companion, " The Young Gardener's As- 

 sistant," is a useful work, which every Gardener and Florist may consult 

 to advantage. It gives minute directions concerning plants of various spe- 

 cies; the names and characters of each being alphabetically arranged, makes 

 it an invaluable manual for those who may wish to superintend the 

 management of their own gardens." — Newark Daily Advertiser. 



«' This is one of the best works on the subject ever published in any 

 country : it contains Practical Directions for the Cultivation of Annual, 

 Biennial, and Perennial Flowering Plants, of different classes, Herbaceous 

 and Shrubby, Bulbous. Fibrous, and Tuberous-rooted, including the Double 

 Dahlia, Greenhouse Plants in Piooms, &c. &c. 



*'A work of the above kind has been long wanted ; hitherto, it required 

 an expenditure of some three or four dollars to get any kind of readable 

 directions for small gardens, window gardening, plants in rooms, &c., 

 which, when procured, were so full of botanical foppery, that plain, honest 

 people, after wading through some three or four hundred pages, were as 

 wise as to knowing how to set about their gardening, as when they com- 

 menced their boolc. The present little work obviates all these difficulties. 

 The author is well known as one of our practical gardeners, and it may be 

 truly said he has rendered the ladies in particular (for whom the work was 

 projected) an essential service ; the directions for the care of the Camellia 

 Japonica, the Double Dahlia, the sowing and treatment of Annual 

 Flower Seed, &c., are alone worth double the price of the book ; so is the 

 Calendarial Index, which, by the untiring industry of Mr. Bridgeman, is 

 made to include in some half dozen pages, more valuable information than 

 is to be found in some ponderous octavos on the same subject." — G. C* 

 Thorburn, from the N. Y. Commercial. 



" The style is free, and the language appropriate ; the plan is judicious, 

 and the contents embrace much well arranged practical information, unen- 

 cumbered with disquisitions foreign to the object of tlie work. We very 

 cheerfully rcconimend it to our readers as a cheap and useful book." 

 Gardener^s Magazine. 



The Florist's Guide has also been very favourably noticed by the editors 

 of many other very respectable periodicals, as a work eminently calculated 

 to promote a love for the cultivation and correct management of flowers — 

 the study of which, remarks one of these writers, " refines the taste, and 

 imparts just and ennobling views of the wise provisions of nature." 



