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READ THE NEW BOOK 
ON 
Farm -Gardening 
AND 
SEED - GROWING. 
BY FRANCIS BRILL. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
Orange Judd & Co. have added to their splendid catalogue 
of agricultural bonks "Farm-Gardening and Seed-Grow- 
ing," by Francis Brill; it is practical, plain, complete, and 
satisfactory, so that for a small amount of money a great 
deal of desirable information can be obtained. If there is 
any firm anywhere which is to-day disseminating so much 
knowledge in regard to tilling of the soil as this same said 
firm of Orange Judd & Co., we will present a medal to our 
informer.— Watchman a?id Reflector (Boston). 
The want occasionally expressed to us of a work on the 
cognate subjects above named (Farm-Gardening and Seed- 
Growing), is now met in a book under this title from the 
pen of Mr. Francis Brill, formerly a market-gardener and 
peed-grower at Newark, N. J., and at present engaged in 
raising seeds at Mattituck. L. I. Its directions are concise 
and practical, covering those points on which a beginner is 
most likely to require information.— Country Gentleman, 
Mr. Brill has had large experience, and derived his knowl- 
edge wholly from the school of actual tests.— Chicago 
Evening Journal. 
"We have In this volume the results of a practical man's 
experience in raising root crops and other vegetables in the 
market-garden. Not only the professional seed-grower and 
trucker, but the amateur gardener who has a little patch in 
his suburban home, will find many a valuable hint and di- 
rection in this fall and comprehensive manual.— Sunday- 
School Times. 
It 6eems to be a very sensible, practical work by a practi- 
cal man. Mr. Brill's father was a gardener ; and he himself 
lias had an extensive experience, and he talks about what 
lie knows, which is more than can be said of many authors of 
industrial worka,— Moore? & Rural New Yorker. 
There can be no question that this farm-gardening can be 
, made in many districts of the Southern Atlantic States, es- 
pecially near the coast, far more profitable than growing the 
ordinary staple crops. In connection with producing the 
vegetables, the growing and saving their seeds receive 
minute attention .—American Farmer (Baltimore). 
A very useful hand-book, not merely for farmers and 
growers of seed on an extensive scale, but for all who, whe- 
ther for recreation or for the purpose of supplying their own 
families with garden products, desire to know something 
about tlie adaptation of seed to soil and the mode of culture. 
— Church Journal (New York). 
This industry is now occupying the attention of many per- 
sons who sell their products to the great seed-houBes, and 
novices who have the facilities, and wish to enter upon the 
business, will find in this book just the hints needed.— 
Springfield Rep ulliea n . 
Mr. Brill has been a successful farm-gardener and seed- 
grower for a number of years, and gives in a clear and con- 
cise form the knowledge he has gained It gives the 
best method of manuring, planting, and cultivating every 
vegetable sold in markets— in short, everything required to 
be known, plainly and fully— and should be in the hands of 
every one who cultivates so much as a rod of land, for 
family use, pleasure, or profit.— Suffolk (L. I.) Times. 
The seal of Orange Judd & Co. upon an agricultural pub- 
lication is sufficient guarantee of its worth. Francis Brill's 
book, published by them, is a very complete work, giving 
plain, minute instructions as to raising, taking care of, and 
bringing to market those vegetables which are most in de- 
mand in the large cities, and those seeds which are being 
called for throughout the country.— X. Y. Evening Mail. 
The work of showing how this can be accomplished has 
fallen in good hands, and it has been done well. The book 
will well repay perusal, and we hope soon to see its good 
effects in a more intelligent direction of farm industry, and 
accompanied by more satisfactory pecuniary results.— The 
Signal (L. I.) 
To the market-gardener, or even the owner of a small 
piece of tillable land, this book will be of great value. 
Qualities of soil required for the growth of different vegeta- 
bles, how to plant, how to cultivate, to harvest, and preserve 
during winter.— y. Y. Citizen and Round Table. 
Price, Post-paid, $1.00. 
ORANGE JUDD AND COMPANY, 
345 Broadway, Nf.w York. 
HARRIS ON THE PIG. 
Gardening for Profit 
In the Market and Family Garden. 
By Peter Henderson.! 
ILLUSTRATED. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
All the vegetables that thrive in the open air in our 
latitude are described, together with the best methods 
for growing them. The author also imparts practical 
instructions on the subjects of drainage, and the forma- 
tion and management of hot-beds. Numerous well-ex- 
ecuted wood-cuts tend to make clearer the instructions ot 
the author. — Philadelphia Inquirer, 
The author of this treatise is one of the best known 
and most successful of those gardeners who supply New 
York with green vegetable : ; and as he writes from long 
and dear-bought experience, the positive, dogmatic tone 
he often assumes is by no means unbecoming. The book 
itself is intended to be a guide for beginners embarking 
in the author's business, and gives full and explicit direc- 
tions about all the operations connected with market- 
gardening, lists of varieties of the most profitable vege- 
tables, and much sound advice on kindred topics. Though 
designed for a special class, it can not fail to be valuable 
to the amateur and private gardener, and unlucky experi- 
ence has taught us that the information contained in a 
single chapter would have been worth to us the price of 
the book.— Daily Mercury (New Bedford). 
It is unquestionably tin- most thorough and the best 
work of its kind we have yet had from the pen of an 
American author. It is written in a clear, concise style, 
and thus made more comprehensive than works which 
smack more of the office (ban the farm or garden. 
[Daily Evening Times (Bangor, Me.). 
Mr. Henderson writes from knowledge, and is not one 
of those amateur cultivators whose potatoes cost them 
ten dollars a bushel, and whose eggs ought to be as 
valuable as those of that other member of their family — 
the goose of golden-egg-laying memory— for they are all 
but priceless. No ; he is a practical man, and ho has the 
art of imparting the knowledge he possesses in a very 
agreeable manner ; and lie has brought together an ex- 
traordinary amount of useful matter in a small volume, 
which those who would ''garden for profit" ought to 
study carefully.— Even in g Traveller (Boston). 
There are marvels of transformation and rapid repro- 
duction recorded therein, which might well shame the 
dull fancy of the author of Aladdin or of Kaloolah, 
There is no theory about it; a man who has made him- 
self rich by market-gardening plainly tells our young 
men how they can get rich as easily as he did, and with- 
out wandering to California or Montana for it either. 
[Horace Greeley in the N, Y. Tribune. 
We have devoted more space to this little work than 
we usually do to tomes much more pretentious. We have 
done so because of the rare merits of the book in its 
fund of information, useful to the farmer and market- 
gardener, and because of the dearth of that kind of 
knowledge. We earnestly advise that fraternity, for 
whom this work was written, to buy it and study it. If 
any among them have never yet read a book, let this be 
their primer, and we will vouch for the excellence and 
endurance of the priming. The work is profusely illus- 
trated with wood-cuts.— Louisville Daily Journal. 
Price, post-paid, $1.50. 
ORANGE JUDD & COMPANY, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
Breeding, Rearing, Management, 
ANT* 
Improvement. 
With Numerous Illustrations. 
By JOSEPH HARRIS, 
OP MORETON FARM, ROCHESTER, N. T. 
NOTICES ET TnE TRESS. 
To say that this work on the pig is by Joseph Harris, 
that genial philosopher-farmer of Rochester, N. Y., who 
writes the " Walks and Talks upon the Farm " in the 
Agriculturist, is to insure for his book at once a large 
circle of delighted readers. He u just the man to lay 
down the gospel for the raising of pigs or any other do- 
mestic animal. If all breeders and farmers would follow 
Mr. Harris's directions, pork would be a very different 
article of food from what it is now, and could be eaten 
without any fears of the trichina. 
[Springfield Republican. 
The author discusses the pig — for ho takes exception 
to the word hog as applied to the domesticated animal — 
with a view of showing how the most pork and lard can 
be produced from the smallest amount of feed. He gives 
elaborate descriptions of the different breeds of swine, 
showing the peculiarities of each, and the relative ad- 
vantages to the producer. — {Prairie Farmer (Chicago). 
The pig is doubtless one of the most valuable animals 
that a farmer can raise, and it is the laudable purpose of 
Mr. Harris to tell farmers how to treat their pigs so as to 
get the most profit from them, aud what kind of pigs are 
best.— [Daily Evening Traveller (Boston). 
It treats of breeding, rearing, managing, and improv- 
ing swine ; and what Mr. Harris don't know on these 
topics, is hardly worth knowing at all. The book is fully 
illustrated, and is very valuable to all who are interested 
in this branch of stock-raising. 
[Lowell (Mass.) Daily Courier. 
The author is a practical farmer, and has gathered the 
results of many experiments besides his own. The book 
is amply illustrated. 
[Republican Statesman (Concord, N. H.). 
Almost everything a farmer wants to know about the 
breeding, keeping, and fattening of pigs, is here put 
down in plain, common sense, and is mainly the result 
of the writer's own management.— [Maine Farmer. 
This is an interesting, valuable, and a much-needed 
treatise on an important department of rural economy. 
It contains about 50 illustrations of pigs, piggeries, 
troughs, etc. "We are heartily glad our old friend Harris 
was persuaded to prepare this useful Manual on the Pig- 
breeds, breeding, feeding, etc., comprising what farmers 
need know respecting this department of husbandly. 
[Boston Cultivator. 
This little book is profusely illustrated, and contains 
information in abundance, which every farmer ought to 
possess.— [Weekly MaU (St. Louis). 
Here is a book written by a practical fanner, who has 
brought to the aid of bis own large experience and ob- 
servation the most extensive acquaintance with the 
science of breeding, and. as might reasonably be ex- 
pected, we have from his pen the best book on the Pig 
ever written.— [Western Stock Journal. 
Price, Post-paid, $1.50. 
ORANGE JUDD AND COMPANY, 
345 Broadway, New York. 
