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ordinary seed catalogue; but it is the only one which can be fully 

 satisfactory from a scientific point of view, and I suppose no one at 

 this late day has such an ill-feeling toward scientific horticulture as 

 not to hope that we may have some scientific publications on such 

 subjects. Indeed every rational.man is glad to see scientific methods 

 applied to our agricultural and horticultural problems, for by such 

 means chiefly are we assured of steady and permanent progress. 



