[August, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
1879 .] 
New and Greatly Enlarged Edition of 
PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE, 
A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of 
FLORISTS’ PLANTS, 
For the Amateur and Professional Florist. 
B} PETER HENDERSON. 
Author of “ Gardening for Profitand “ Gardening 
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well as those who make them a matter of trade. The work 
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of lovers of floriculture. The important additions of new 
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been written mainly as general answers to hundreds of 
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The Shepherd’s Manual, 
A Practical Treatise on the Sheep. 
Designed Especially for American Shepherds. 
By HENRY STEWART. 
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plain that a farmer, or a farmer's son, who has never kept a 
sheep, may learn from its pages how to manage a flock suc¬ 
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