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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
new a.\d BEAniFrL work, DARWIN'S NEW WORK. 
THE BOOK OF EVERGREENS. 
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J08LAH H00PE3, Wbstchesteb, Pa. 
Including Propagation, Cultivation, 
Description of Varieties and their 
Adaptability to Different Situations. 
- RV THE PRESS : 
A. very complete and every way admirable treatise on 
the * onifersBj or cone-bearing plants, is Tk& Book of 
Ki II ropes has devoted manyyeSrs of labor 
ami attention to the beautiful class of trees treated of, 
and hi* work, which i copiously illustrated, most at 
once become an anthprity. We shall be glad also, if it 
induces any too closer study of tree?, and to a further 
ornamentation of their house? with them. 
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The value of this volume consists in it* being both, a 
labor of love and of duty. The author, having devoted- 
a life to the study of trees and plants as a practical horti- 
culturist, records here his views and expediences. Mr. 
Hoopcs has studied all the treatises which bear mi bEb 
subject, and availed himself of the assistance of many 
scientific friends, aa well as recorded bis own experience. 
The illustrations are numerous and excellent, and alto- 
gether the work has all the chnrncttoristfcs of an authori- 
ty i>n the subject it so minutely and comprehensively 
treats.— [Bo 
It is a practical treatise on the Conifer*, or cone-bear 
ing plants, describing them in all (heir families, and 
their best culture, management, and so forth, and Es well 
illustrated. It fills a vacant niche, and every intelligent 
culturist of trees should have and nse it. 
[CongregatkmaHst -t- Recorder, < Boston). 
The work was evidently prepared with great care and 
pains, and embodies the results of years of close obser- 
vation and study. It is one of great value to the agri- 
culturist and landscape gardener, and of special interest 
to all who care to know anything of the flora of the 
To those who wis s, it is an indispensable 
hand-1 k. /,-'■. i I ( hrisdan. 
It is undoubtedly the most complete American work of 
the kind in print Ii is well illustrated and handsomely 
printed.— [Boston Journal. 
We have examined this handsome book with a great 
deal of pleasure and satisfaction. The author has pur- 
sued a very desirable plan in his work, giving sufficient 
scientific information to meet the wants of the botanical 
student, and yet the work is sufficiently elementary in 
explaining terms and points about plant structure, and 
systems of classification.— in short, plain enough to meet 
the wants of every reader. It |g printed in neat style, 
with thick covers and beveled edges, and a large number 
of very superior illustrations.— [Journal of Agriculture. 
The work is now ready. 435 pp.. l'2mo, on fine paper. 
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THE VARIATION 
ANIMALS AND PLANTS 
li.XDEK DOMESTICATION. 
CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., P.RS., &c. 
WITH A PREFA. E 
AMERICAN EDITION 
BY THE AUTHOR, 
AND ALM ONE BY 
PROFESSOR ASA GRAY. 
I \ T W O V <> I. I M E s . 
This work treats of the variations in our domestic ani- 
mals and cultivated plants, discussing the circui, - 
that infiacnee these varial ions, inheritance of peculiar- 
ities results of in-and-in breeding, crossing, etc. 
It is- one of the most remarkable books of the present 
day. presenting an array of fact? that show the most 
extraordinary amount of observation and research. All 
the dome«tic animals, from horses and cattle to canary- 
birds and honey-bee*, are discussed, aw well a* our lead- 
ing culinary and other plants, making it a work of the 
greatest interest. 
It^ importance to agriculturists, breeders, scientific 
men. and the general reader, will be seen by its scope as 
indicated in the following partial enumeration of its 
contents ; Pigs, Cattle, Sheep, Goats : Dogs axd 
Cats. Houses axd Asses ; Doaxsnc Rabbits ; Do- 
mestic Pigeons; Fowls. Dccks. Geese. Peacock. 
Turret, Guinea Fowl, Caxary-bird. Gold-fish ; 
HlVE-BEEs ; SELK-MOTHS. CrLTIVATED PLANTS ; CEREAL 
and crllnart plant*; fruits. ornamental trees. 
Flowers. Bct» Variation. Inheritance. Reversion 
or Atavism. Crossing. On the Good Effects op 
Crossing, and on the Evil Effects of Close Inter- 
breeding. Selection. Causes of Variability. Laws 
of Variation, etc.. etc. 
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A. NEW WORK. 
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF 
CHARLES DU HAYS. 
Author of the "Dictionary of the Pure Race;" "Trotters," 
" The Horse Breeder's Gnide ;" etc. 
PIXELT ILLUSTRATED. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PRODUCTION. REARING. AXD IMPROVEMENT 
OF THE PERCHEROX HORSE 
PART FIRST. 
GREATNESS AND DECLINE OF THE PER- 
CH EROXS. 
GLANCE AT PERCH E. 
SKETCH OF THE PERCHEROX RACE. 
ORIGIN OF THE PERCHEROX. 
MODIFICATIONS OF THE PERCHEROX RACE. 
His FIRST MODIFICATION DEE TO CONTACT 
WTTn THE BRITTAXY RA( E 
COXDITIOXS UNDER WHICH THEY ARE BRED 
I LI SES OF THE DEGENERACY OF THE PER 
CHEROX nORSE. 
STARTING POIXT OF TniS DEGENERATION. 
PART SECOND. 
OF THE MEANS OF REGENERATING TliE 
PER* HERON HOES] 
ERATION OF THE PERCHEROX BREED. 
REGENERATION OF THE BREED THROUGH 
ITSELF OR BY SELECTION. 
CONSANGUINITY. 
OUGHT THE GRAY COAT OF THE PERCHEROX 
TO BE INFLEXIBLY MAINTAINED? 
PRESERVE PURE. AXP WITHOUT INTERMIX- 
TURE THE THREE TYPES OF THE PER 
CHERON RACE— THE LIGHT HORSE, THE 
DRAFT HORSE. THE INTERMEDIATE HORSE. 
IMPROVEMENT OF THE P.REED BY MEAN'S 
OE FOREIGN CROSSINGS. 
THE ARAB CROSS 
THE EXGLISH CROSS. 
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SPEED AND BOTTOM OF THE PERCHERON 
HORSE. 
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TESTS OF ENDURANCE OF THE PERCHEROX 
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