[October, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1870 .] 
A SUPERB VOLUME. 
BEAUTIFYING 
COUNTRY HOMES 
A HANDBOOK 
OF 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
BY 
J. WEIDENMANN. 
A. Splendid Quarto "Volume. 
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED 
With numerous fine Wood Engravings , and with 
17 PULL PACKS and 7 DOUBLE PAGE 
COLORED LITHOGRAPHS 
OP PLACES ALREADY IMPROVED. 
Within the last ten years, the popular taste has wonder¬ 
fully advanced, and the want of a work of instruction in 
Beautifying Homes has been greatly felt. In the present 
work the author states the methods by which every land 
owner may improve and beautify his suburban home 
effectively, and with economy—keeping in view the 
maxim that “Whatever is worth doing, is worth doing 
well.” He does not give the arguments in favor of the 
methods recommended here, but confines himself to such 
instructions as his own personal practice, as well as the 
experience of the most eminent landscape architects in 
both this country and Europe, have taught him to be the 
best. Neither does he give rules that arc applicable to 
only one particular style of grounds and residences, but 
lays down such general rules and principles as may be 
applicable to any situation. 
It is believed that the hints given in this work upon 
the extended and varying subjects treated will be appre¬ 
ciated, and that its introduction may do much towards 
beautifying our suburban homes, farms, and villas. 
All cannot enjoy the privilege of a stroll in the King of 
Parks—the Central Park of New York. Comparatively 
few can view its extended lawns, or its hold cliffs and 
caves, admire its triumphs of architectural taste, or note 
how the skillful artist, has converted a vast plain into 
hills and dales, and varied it with lakes and cascades, 
shady founts, and open lawns. But all can make their 
country homes attractive and lovely, and enjoy the beau¬ 
ties of nature about their own house and fireside. 
CONTENTS. 
PART I. 
General Suggestions.—Lawns.—Seeding Down Lawns 
and Pastures.—Top-Dressing Lawns.—Drainage.—Roads 
and Drives.—Walks.—Laying Out Curved Lines for Walks 
or Roads.—Practical Hints on Grading.—Fences, Walls, 
and Hedges.—Trees and Shrubs—Grouping.—Trans¬ 
planting Trees and Shrubs.—Flower Garden.—Water.— 
Ornaments.—Rock-work.—Tools Used in Laying Out 
Grounds.—Improving New Places Economically.—Arbi¬ 
trary Calculation of Cost.—Care and Keeping of Orna¬ 
mental Grounds.—Front Yards of City Lots.—Hints on 
Burial Lots. 
PART II. 
Plans of Improved Places, accompanied by descrip¬ 
tions, giving the names and position of the various trees 
and shrubs employed in planting, whether singly or in 
groups, thus making each plan a complete planting map. 
Price, Prepaid, $15.00. 
ORANGE JUDD AND COMPANY, 
345 Broadway, New York. 
HARVEY FISK. 
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Office of FISK Sc HATCH, 
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As we originally sold so many millions of Five-twenty Bonds, and as the Government will soon he able to pay them 
off and to issue in their place the new bonds, hearing 4 y 2 per cent interest, we are constantly asked: “ What had we better 
do with our Five-Twenties ?” 
We answer: “ Keep them until you find a Security which you are satisfied is just as good ; that is, just as sure to be paid 
principal and interest—since it would be better to lose the present premium of 10 per cent than to risk the loss of the prin¬ 
cipal, or failure to get your interest promptly.” 
We are advising our most intimate friends to change into the Bonds of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, and 
for the following reasons: “ The main line of the Road is finished, and is no longer an experiment; it has now in its in¬ 
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88 and 90) they pay seven per cent interest in gold- and because the present difference of 20 to 22 per cent between them and 
the Five-Twenties Is a sure profit and so much addition to your capital.” 
We originally placed these Bonds on the market; the Road has proved a triumphant success; Its revenues are large and 
certain ; its Bonds are as good as the Bonds of the Government, and we feel confident the time will come when they cannot 
be had except at a premium. 
The Bonds are all of $1,000. Interest, six per cent, payable January and July, which, together with the principal is pay¬ 
able in U. S. gold coin, dollar fox’ dollar, in New York City. 
FISK & HATCH. 
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BACK VOLUMES 
OF THE 
The publishers of the American Agriculturist can supply 
any of the back volumes of that paper from the Sixteenth to 
the Twenty-eighth. These volumes contain more varied 
and interesting information on all matters pertaining to 
tlie Farm, Garden, and Household, than can be obtained 
in books costing three times as much money. Price of 
each hound volume, at the Office. $2.00; sent post-paid, 
$2.50. Orange Judd & Co., 245 Broadway, New York. 
AMERICAN CATTLE. 
Their History, Breeding, and Management. Illustrated. 
By Lewis F. Allen. Price $2.50. 
This book will be considered indispensable by every 
breeder of live-stock. The large experience of the author 
in improving the character of American herds adds to the 
weight of his observations, and has enabled him to produce 
a work which will at once make good its claims as a stand¬ 
ard authority on the subject. An excellent feature of the 
volume is its orderly, methodical arrangement, condensing 
a great variety of information into a comparatively small 
compass, and enabling the reader to find the point on which 
he is seeking light, without wasting his time in turning over 
the leaves. 
DOWNING’S FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES OF 
AMERICA. 
By A. J. Downing. Newly Revised and Greatly En¬ 
larged by Chits. Downing. 8vo„ 1122 pages. Price $7.50. 
The original work of the late A. J. Downing appeared in 
1845. Some years after it was revised and much enlarged by 
his brother, Charles Downing, who 1ms again completed the 
work of a second revision. Charles Downing is upon all 
hands acknowledged as one of our highest pomological 
authorities. He writes but seldom, but whatever bears his 
name is accepted as the judgment of one who is entirely dis¬ 
interested, as far as the commercial aspects of pomology are 
concerned. The present edition contains the results of many 
years' labor and experience which have been devoted to 
testing the value of fruits and acquiring a knowledge of 
them that should benefit others. When we compare this 
edition with the modest one which first appeared, we can see 
to what extent the subject has grown. If only a small pro¬ 
portion of the new’ varieties that have been added prove 
valuable, we shall have reason to be proud of our progress. 
This elegant and valuable work will be an indispensable 
requisite to every library, and to all interested in Fruits or 
Fruit Culture. » 
HOW CROPS GROW. 
A Treatise on the Chemical Composition, structure, and 
Life of the Plant. With numerous illustrations and tables 
of analyses. By Prof. Samuel W . Johnson, of 
Yale College. Price $2.00, 
This hook is a guide to the knowledge of agricultural 
plants, their composition, their structure, and modes of de¬ 
velopment and growth; of the complex organization of 
plants, and the uses of the parts ; the germination of seeds, 
and the food of plants obtained both from the air and the 
soil. Very full and accurate tables of analyses are given, 
and tables of the proportions existing between different 
principles, oily, starchy, or nitrogenous, in the same and 
different plants. The hook is an invaluable one to all real 
students of agriculture. 
Either of the above hooks sent post-paid on receipt of 
price by 
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Waltham Watches 
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gives weight and quality of the cases, with prices of each, 
and much information which will be found useful whether 
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TREES, SHRUBS, ROSES, &c. 
For Catalogues, address at 
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PATENTS should 
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Drain Pipe, Drain Tile, Tile Machines, Fire Clays. 
NEW AMERICAN FARM BOOK. 
Originally by Richard JL. Allen. Revised and greatly 
enlarged by Lewis F. Allen. Price $2.50. 
Allen’s American Farm Book has been one of the standard 
farmers’ hand-books for twenty years; it is still a valuable 
book,but not up to the times; and as ite author, Mr.li.L. Allen, 
could not give time to its revision, this was undertaken by 
his brother, Hon. Lewis F. Allen, the distinguished farmer 
of Erie county, editor of the American Shorthorn Herd- 
Book. The work is greatly enlarged, and full of suggestions 
from the ricli experience of its editor and reviser, and is 
called the New American Farm Book. 
INVENTORS 
PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 
A guide to the successful propagation and cultivation of 
Florists’ Plants. By Peter Henderson, author ot “ Gar¬ 
dening for Profit.” Beautifully illustrated. Price $1.50. 
Certainly the most practical and desirable work that has 
ever been published on this subject. We are selling them 
rapidly. Some no doubt will say that it exposes the “ se¬ 
crets ” of the Trade too freely, and that it will make Garden¬ 
ers and Propagators so plenty that our occupation, like 
Othello’s, will he gone.— H. A. Drkkk, Seedsman, Phila., Pa. 
Full to overflowing with valuable information. 
Francis Richardson, Toronto, Canada. 
Thoroughly practical, yet readable as a novel.—N. Y. Sun. 
Just the work for the young Florist or Amateur, as It tells 
him clearly there is no such thing as failure, if its simple 
teachings are followed. 
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price by 
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