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“HOLD FAST THAT WHICH IS GOOD.” 
To School Committees , Superintendents , and Teachers. 
Town’s Revised Series of Text- 
Books. 
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SALEM TOWN, L. E. D. 
PUBLISHED BY 
Phinney, Blakeman & Mason, 
No. Cl Wallcer-stFeet, New-York. 
This popular series embraces; 
Town’s Spelling Book. 
Town's Speller and Definer, Revised Rnd Enlarged. 
Town’s First Reador, half bound. 
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CIRCULATION HAS INCREASED ABOUT THIRTY 
PER CENT. THIS FACT SPEAKS LOUDER THAN 
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to improve the moral faculties. 
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CAREFULLY REVISED ELECTROTYPE PLATES. 
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Town’s Analysis of Derivative 
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This original and eminently practical work teaches tin 
structure and derivation of the words of our Language, 
giving their roots, component parts, etc. 
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and to prepare the pupil fora thorough and intelligent 
study of the higher numbers of the Series. 
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Yale Agricultural Lectures. 
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Comprehensive Farm Record. 
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ROFITABLE Employment, may be had 
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New Water Melon Seeds!! 
We have great pleasure in offering to ;ho public a limited 
quantity of the Strawberry and Honey-dew Water Melon 
Seed. 
D. L. Adair, Esq., »f Kentucky, speaks of them in the fol¬ 
lowing terms: 
“ During the last seven years I have experimented with over 
“ forty varieties of the Water Melon, and out of i hat great num- 
" ber I have selected only three varieties that I now cultivate, 
“ two of which are S'rawberry and Honty-dew. The Strawberry 
'* I consider the sweetest of all the melons, but with its sweet- 
44 ness has no mawkishness, but is rich and racy, nnd being al- 
44 most devoid of pulp, melts in the mouth like a ripe strawber- 
“ry. It is a long narrow melon, generally about two feet long, 
“and from four to six inches in <>ia meter the rind is of a light 
“green color, marbled amt veined with a darker tinge, it is also 
“very thin and brittle. The flesh is of a iivelv pinkish red 
“color, almost scarlet at maturity, and received its name from 
“ a perceptible resemblance in flavor to a good strawberry. The 
“ Honey-dew is of about the same shape and size of the Straw- 
“berry Melon, and is equal to it in flavor, but is a little more 
“pulpy—very valuable for long keeping wit bout decay. The 
‘‘skin is of a very dark green color, with faint irregular stripes 
“of a lighter shade running lengthwise of the melon. The rind 
“is thin, but very hard and tough, this peculiarity is the cause 
“of its long keeping quali ics. 1 have kept them in an open 
“ room ihree weeks in the heat of Summer, without any percep- 
“ tible injury to their flavor.” 
Each of the above, 25 cents per packet, by mail, post paid, on 
receipt of the amount. 
J. M. THOR BURN & CO . 
Seed Warehouse, 15 John-st., New-York. 
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P ITTSBURGH WATER CURE. A fir-t 
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Fresh Fruits tali 
the Year. 
THE YEOMANS FRUIT 
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unequalled for preserving Fruits 
in a fresh state an indefinite 
time. Having used these Bot 
ties we find them exceedingly 
convenient, and just the thing 
wanle ?. 
JOHN J. THOMAS, 
In Register of Rural Affairs. 
1^“ For descriptive and price 
circulars address the proprietor, 
at Walworth, Wavne Co., New- 
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For destroying insects oil Trees, Vines. Shrubs and Plants. 
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USS1A OR BASS MATS. SELECTED 
expressly for budding and tying, GUNNY BAGS,TWINES, 
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lots to suit by D. W. MANWARING, Importer, 
248 Front Street, New York. 
OSEPH E. M ATOM BER, Wholesale 
Vegetable Seed raiser, Portsmouth. R. I. 
THE GREAT AUSTIN SHAKER 
Seedling Strawberry. 
THE LARGEST STKAWBERRY IN THE WORLD. 
Amateurs consider this Seedling the greatest acquisition to 
our small fruits ever introduced. A monster in size, wonder¬ 
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culturist for May. We are now prepared to take orders to 
commence delivering plants in August in rotation, as ordered. 
Address either 
CHAUNCEY MILLER Albany. N Y . Skuker Trustee; or, 
WM. S. CARPENTER, 468 Pearl st., New-York. 
Dong Orange Carrot. 
Acknowledged by all cultivators to be the most valuable root 
crop now in cultivation. 
We have a limited supplv of seed raised from the finest s*ock 
in the world. PRICE PER POUND, $1.00, or at reduced 
rates in large quantities 
ALSO 
Large White Sugar Bee* . per lb_ 50c. 
Yellow Globe Mangel Wurlzel. do . 50c. 
Long Blood Beet . do .... 75c. 
Long Smoot h Blood Beet-. do . 75c* 
Premium Flat Dutch Cabbage. dr ... 2 50c- 
Extra Fine Large Drumhead Cabbage . do.2 50o 
True White Seined Cucumber . do . 75o 
Improved Dwai f Okra . do . 75c, 
Large Red ami Yellow Onion each. . do.t (0 
Large White Onion... . do.1 50 
Turnips—Long White French, and 20 othersorts, each pr. lb.75c, 
Dioscorea Batatas (Tubers) or Chinese Po aloes, 25c. per doz. 
SI 50 per 100 ; $10 per 1000. 
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15 John-st , New-York 
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Ashcroft’s Swede. 
Rivers’ Stubble, 
Skirving’s Purple Top Rutabaga, 
Purp’cTop Rutabaga, 
Green Top Rutabaga, nnd all other varieties 
White Sugar and Mangold Wurlzel Beet, 
Long Smooth Parsnip 
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CORN—King Philiio, Early Dutton, and all other varieties 
SEED BUCKWHEAT, extra clean. 
Send for a Catalogue containing a lull list of seeds and prices 
R L ALLEN, 181 Water-s'reel, New-York 
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Flower Seeds by Mail. 
Our own selection of 
25 Varieties for. $ 1 00 
50 do. .. .. 2.00 
100 do. .. . 
Persons ordering either of the above assort¬ 
ments may rely upon a beautiful cElection. 
J.M. THORBURN & CO. 
15 John st.., 
New-York 
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tingarian Grass Seed— Burkvi Iieut Seed. 
I—\Ve are now prepared to furnish farmers and others in 
want of the above seeds on the most reasonable e ms. 
WILDER, ROBINSON & CO.. 230 Walnut st.,Cincinnati, O. 
N ANSEMOND swee t Potato PIhiUs, ol 
superior quality, sent safely long distances—100, $1 ; tOOI 
$ 2 : 5000, $9: 10 , 060 ,'$15—"Via v and June. Try them! 
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