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NEW BOOKS. 
QUIXBY'S BEE-KEElPING. By 
M. Qiiinby, Practical Bee-keeper. Fully lUus- 
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years of successful experience — with direc- 
tions about Breedinj^, Hives, Pasturac;e, Ap- 
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Pruning, Diseases, Anger, Enemies, Wax, 
Transferring, Sagacity, Wintering, Italian 
Bees, Purchasing,"&c. ' Price $1.50. 
NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
By Joseph Breck, Practical Horticulturist. 
Containing Cliapters on tlie Utility of Plow- 
prs. Lilies, Seeds, Flowering Plants, Budding, 
Double Flowers, Colors, Bouquets, Protec- 
tion, Training, Gardens, Lawns, Rockwork, 
Aquarium, Parlor Plants, Potting, Insects, 
Bulbous Roots, Perennials, Annuals, &c. 
Beautifidhj Illnstrated. Price $1.75. 
MINIATURE FRUIT GARDEN. 
By Thomas Rivers. Illustrated. Or, how to 
ruise many kinds of fruit on small treat, with 
full directions for Training and Culture. 
Pyramidal Pear Trees on Quince Stock. Sum- 
mer Pinching. Compact Pyramids. Root Prun- 
ing. Pear Trees as Bushes. Pears ada]ited to 
Biish Culture. Protectors for Bush Pear Trees. 
Cordon Pears on Trellises. Espalier Pears on 
Quince Stocks. Pear Tree Hedge. Planting 
and after JIanagement. Bush Pear Tree for a 
Market Garden. How to Store Winter Pears. 
Pyramidal Apple Trees. Apples as Bushes. 
Twenty Desert Apples good from July to 
June. T went}' Kitchen Apples fit for nse from 
July to June. Pyramidal Plum Trees. Cher- 
ries as Pyramids. Filberts and Nuts. Figs on 
Bushes. Double Grafting. Peach Tree Bord- 
ers, etc., etc. Illustrated. Price $1.00. 
SAUNDERS' DOMESTIC POULTRY 
Book. By S. M. Saunders. New Edition Re- 
vised and Enlarged. Coutainino; Articles on 
the Preferable Breeds of Farni-"iard PonUay. 
Their History and Leading Characteristics, 
with Complete Instructions for Breeding and 
Fattening, and Preparing for E.xhibitiou at 
Poullr}' Shows, etc., etc., derived from the 
Author's E.\perience and Observation. Very 
fully Illustrated. Oolditi Rules. — Never over 
feed. Never allow any food to lie about. Never 
feed from trough, pan, basin, or any vessel. 
Feed only while the birds will run after the 
feed, and not at all if they seem careless about 
it. Give adult fowls their liberty at daj'break. 
Never purchase eggs for hatching purposes 
until a hen is read}' to sit. For seven or eight 
days before liatching, sjiriukle the eggs with 
cold water while the hen is off. This will 
prevent the frequent complaint that the 
chicken was dead in the shell. Price, 
paper 40 cts., cloth Vii 
MY VINEYARD AT LAKEVTEW ; 
Or, Successful Grape Culture. The Sugges- 
tion, Making a Change, Going West, Getting 
Settled, Pir.st Experience, Varieties, Planting 
a Vineyard, Propagation of the Vine, Soil 
and Situation, Preparation of Soils, Manures, 
Pruning and Training;, More about Training, 
Autobiography of a vine, Brief Expositions. 
Price $i.3o. 
IN PRESS A NEW BOOK ON 
PEAT, AND ITS USES. 
By Prof. S. W. Johxsox, Yale College.— Part 
I. Origin, Varieties and Chemical Character 
of Peat. Part II. On the Agricultural Uses 
of Peat and Swamp Muck. Part III. On 
Peat as Fuel. 
Published by 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., 
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Sent post-paid on receipt of the price. For 
sale by Booksellers generally. 
GRAPE CULTURIST. 
BY 
ANDREW S. FULLER. 
CHAPTER I. — INTRODUCTORY. — BOTANICAL CHARACTER OF THE 
Vine, Propagation by Seed. — 4 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER II.— GROWING FROM SEED.— GATHER WHEN FULLY RIPE. 
CHAPTER III.— PROPAGATION BY SINGLE BUDS.— MODE OF OPERA- 
tion. Planting in Beds, Single Buds in Open Air, Starting in Hot-Beds, Form of Single' 
Bud Cutting. — 5 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER IV.— CUTTINGS OF UNRIPE WOOD.— THOUSANDS OF VINES 
are Annually Produced from Green Cuttings. — 4 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER v.— PROPAGATING HOUSE.— PERFECTION SHOULD BE OUS 
Aim, Span Roofed Propagating House, Lean-to Propagating House, Single Roofed House; 
To Make the Flues. — 3 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER VI.— CUTTINGS IN OPEN AIR.— TIME TO MAKE CUTTINGS, 
Selection of Cuttings, Form of Cuttings, Mallet Cuttings. — 5 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER VII. — LAYERING THE VINE.— THIS IS ONE OF Tllli MOST* 
Certain and Convenient Methods in L^se, How to Layer the Vine. — 1 Illustration. 
CHAPTER VIII.— GRAFTING THE GRAPE.— THIS IS AN OLD BUT VERY 
Uncertain Mode of Propagating the Grape, but Can be Used Successfully. — 4 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER IX.— HYBRIDIZING AND CROSSING. — THESE ARE OPERA- 
tions that Should Demand the Attention of Every One Who Undertakes to Produce 
New Varieties, Mode of Operation. — 3 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER X.— TRANSPLANTING.— VINES WILL OFTEN REQUIRE ONE 
Season of Nursery Culture before being Planted in the Vineyard, Heeling-in. — 3 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER XL— SOIL AND SITUATION.— MUCH DEPENDS UPON THEM. 
Preparing the Soil, Manures and their Operations, Special Manures. 
CHAPTER XII. — STEM APPENDAGES. — SPINES, HAIRS, LATERALS, 
Forms of Leaves, Tendrils, Buds. — 7 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER XIII.— PLANTING THE VINE.— A GREAT DIVERSITY OF 
Opinion, jNIy Own Rule, Root Pruning, How to Plant. — 1 lllvstration. 
CHAPTER XIV.— GRAPE TRELLISES.— 3 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER XV.— TIME TO PRUNE VINES.— PRUNING AND TRAINING, 
Opposite Arms, Oblique Arms, A Plan for Poor Soils, — 17 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER XVI.— GARDEN CULTURE.— POSITION OF BORDER, TRAIN- 
ing the Vines, Four Tiers of Arms, Double Stem, Trellises iu Gardens, Tiaining to 
Stakes, Girdling the Vine, Removing the Leaves.— 9 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER XVII.— GATHERING THE FRUIT.— PRESERVING THE FRUIT, 
AVine Making, Pruning Sliears.— 1 Illustration. 
CHAPTER XVIII.— INSECTS.— ROSE CHAFER, GRAPE VINE FLEA BEE 
tie, Spotted Pelidnota, Tree Beetle, Caterpillars, Yellow Bear, Hog Caterpillar, Grapf 
Vine Sphin.K, Blue Caterpillar, Procris Americana, Leaf Rollers, Thrips, Aphis, Re'i 
Spider, Vine Scale, Diseases, Mildew, Sun Scald.— 18 Illustrations. 
CHAPTER XIX.— DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES.— ADIRONDAC, ANNA, 
Allen's Hybrid, Alvey or Hagar, Concord, Clinton, Cassad}-, Creveling, Catawba, Cuya- 
hoga, Delaware, Diana, Elsinburgh, Golden Clinton or King, Hartford Prolific, Herbc- 
mont, lona. Israelii!, Isabella, Le Noir, Logan, Lydia, Jlarllia, Norton's Virginia, 
Rebecca, Rogers' Hybrids, Taylor's Bidlitt, Union Vill.age. Additional List — Alexander, 
Arkansas, Albino, AUair, Baxter, Blue Favorite, Chippewa, Cynthiana, Missouri, Cau- 
by's Augusta, Cloantha, Cowan, Emily, Early Hudson, Pancher, Franklin, Garrigues, 
Gravel Grape, Graham, Hyde's Eliza, Louisa, Manhattan, Maxatawney, Marion, Mary 
Ann, Meade's Seedling, Miles, North America, Nebraska, Ontario, Oporto, Perkins, 
Rnla'ud, To Kalon, Underbill's Seedling, AVilmington, York Madeira.— 6 /«i/*frafto«s. 
CHAPTER XX.— REVIEW OF VARIOUS SYSTEMS OF PRUNING AND 
Trainiusr, Reversing the Arms, Single Arm System, Bow System, Long Rod Spur 
System,^ Upright Canes, Thomery System.— Index. 
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