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"We sincerely recommend " Gardening for Profit" to all 

 cultivators of the soil. 



Hyatt's Hand-Book of Grape Culture ; or, When, Where, 

 and How to Plant and Cultivate a Vineyard, etc., etc. 

 Especially adapted to the State of California. By T. Hart 

 Hyatt. San Francisco, California: H. H. Bancroft & Co. 

 12mo ; 279 pp. $2. 



Califoruians have become so accustomed to expansion, 

 that it really seems to have taken a chronic form. Their 

 great trees so far out-top all similar vegetation in other 

 portions of this habitable globe, that they measure all their 

 products, both present and prospective, by the same 

 standard. 



If a big beet or pear is produced, it is immediately 

 started on a tour to the Eastern States; and we poor 

 mortals who dwell in the land of small things are kindly 

 requested to fall down and worship these products of this 

 terrestrial Eden. 



There may be an occasional perverse sinner among us 

 who will have the audacity to ask questions, or even doubt 

 whether these are fair samples of the whole crop of this 

 kind. 



We have many reasons for believing that the soil and 

 climate of California are among the best in the world, but 

 that there are no unfavorable aspects in this newly dis- 

 covered Eden, as the author of the book before us en- 

 deavors to prove, we do not believe. 



We are told, on page 20, that " the grape crop never 

 fails in this State (California), either in drought or wet 

 seasons ; or has not for a period of eighty years." This, 



