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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
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Practical 
Floriculture. 
A Guide to tile Successful Propagation and 
Cultivation of Florists’ Plants. 
By IM-n'l-IK HElVlDEBSOISr, 
Author ot “Gardening for Protit.” 
Beautifully Illustrated. Price, Post-paid , $1.50. 
In tliis work, which has everywhere become so deservedly 
popular, not only is the whole “ art and mystery ” of propa¬ 
gation explained, but the reader is taught how to plant and 
grow tlie plants after they have been propagated. Vue work 
is not one for florists and gardeners only, but the amateur’s 
wants are constantly kept in mind, and we have a very com¬ 
plete treatise on the cultivation of flowers under glass, or 
in the open air, suited to those who grow flowers for plea¬ 
sure as well as those who make them a matter of trade. 
The work is characterized by the same radical common 
sense that marked the author’s “Gardening for Profit,” and 
it holds a high place in the estimation of lovers of 
floriculture. The new edition has been thoroughly revised 
by the author, and much enlarged by the addition of valu¬ 
able matter, 
The following are a few of the subjects embraced in the 
latest edition: 
Laying out Flower Garden and Lawn • Designs for 
Grounds and for Greenhouses; Soils for-Potting; Cold 
Frames; Hot-Beds; Greenhouses Attached to Dwellings; 
Modes of Heating; Propagation of Plants by Seeds and by 
Cuttings; Culture of the Rose and Tuberose; Growing of 
Win ter-flo wcring TI ants; Construction of Bouquets, Baskets, 
etc.; Parlor and Window-Gardening: Wardian-Cases and 
Ferneries; Insects; What Flowers Grew in the Shade; 
Culture of Grape-Vines under Glass ; The Profits of Flori¬ 
culture; How to Become a Florist, etc., etc. 
Gardening for Profit. 
A Guide to file Successful Cultivation of 
flic Market and Family Garden. 
By PETER HENDERSON. 
Finely Illustrated. Price, Post-paid, SI.50. 
The following voluntary notices of Mr. Henderson’s books 
are specimens of similar testimony from very many quarters. 
“ February 8th, 1875. 
“Enclosed find draft for $3.00, the published price of re¬ 
vised editions of ‘Gardening for Profit’ and ‘Practical 
Floriculture.’ I have first editions, and they have saved the 
cost of each more than one hundred times. Many thanks for 
what you are doing for the gardeners of the United States.” 
“ December 9 th, 1874. 
“ Four Gardening for Profit is what the Family Bible is to 
a good old Methodfst—the only sure guide.” 
“March 23 d, 1874. 
“If this should go to Mr. Henderson, I would say that I 
believe the gardeners of this country would gladly hail an¬ 
other edition of‘Gardening for Profit;’ at least, I thank 
him for that little work. Through its influence Heft a pay¬ 
ing manufacturing business and began to follow its teach¬ 
ings. This was three years ago. Now I have a market 
garden of thirty acres and 400 four-feet sash, and enjoy my¬ 
self as I never did before. Again I thank him." 
AMERICAN CATTLE. 
Their History, Breeding, and Management. 
By LEWIS F. ALLEN. 
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This book will be considered indispensable by every 
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NEW AMERICAN FARM BOOK, 
Originally by RICHARD L. ALLEN. 
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By LEWIS F. ALLEN. 
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A GUIDE TO THE AMATEUR IN THE 
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Fruit, Vegetable, and Flower 
Garden, 
WITH FULL DIRECTIONS FOR THE 
Greenhouse, Conservatory, and 
WINDOW GARDEN. 
By PETER HENDERSON, 
AUTHOR OF “GARDENING FOR PROFIT v ” AND “ PRAC¬ 
TICAL FLORICULTURE.” 
ILLUSTRATED. 
It is one of the best guides to window-gardening we 
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those which maybe grown, if unusual pains lie taken, 
the general cultivator wishes only to undertake those 
which promise to be successful with a moderate expendi¬ 
ture of time and attention. The rules to he observed in 
order to succeed with window plants, are very few, and 
tlie whole story is plainly told.— Christian Advocate , 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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AN EGG~FARM. 
THE MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY IN 
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CONTENTS. 
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—Houses for Sitters. — Arrangements for Breeding Stock. 
— Fowls for Layers.—Fowls for Sitters.—Management 
of Breeding Stock. — Coops for Chickens. — Feeding 
Chickens.—Setting the Eggs.—Management of Sitting 
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House for Early Hatched Pullets.—Shelters for Fowls 
and Chickens.—Kind of Food.—Building for Storing and 
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The Poultry Yard aid Market; 
OR, 
A Practical Treatise on Galliuoculture. 
By Prof. A. Corbett, 
Inventor of the New Process for Hatching Eggs ancl Raising 
Poultry, by means of Horse Manure alone , for whieli Gold 
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the valuable information acquired by 20 years’experience 
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CONTENTS. 
Origin of Artificial Incubation.—Its Prolificness.—Particu¬ 
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present time.—The Discovery of how Eggs could be hatched 
in Manure.—The Researches of Prof. Corbett and his Dis¬ 
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Breeders can raise Chickens in Manure, with slight expense, 
all the year round.—The Raising of Poultry with Large 
Profits.—The kind of Manure to be used.—The best Breed of 
Protitalile Fowls.—Advice to the Ladies.—Important Hints 
how to keep Poultry and make Money.—Diseases and their 
(hire.—How to Fatten and Prepare lor Market.—Opinions of 
the Press and Rewards given for this process. 
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