[1870. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
December.] 
EXT RA. _ 
7 Weeks in a Year. 
THE 
EARTH &H0ME, 
Issued Weekly; 
A Large, Beautiful, Highly Illustrated 
and very "Valuable Journal, of 16 Pages 
—full of Reliable, Instructive, and In- 
V'. 
tteresting Reading Matter, News, and 
Miscellany: Just suited to the Wants 
HEARTH *<® HOME. 
Orange Judd & Company, 
Publishers and Proprietors, 245 Broadway, New York. 
GIVEN AWAY. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
HEARTH AND HOME. 
One of the oldest and best Magazines in the world, for 
the Farm, Garden, and Household. Bublisfved every 
month, with 13 large quarto pages in every No. 
A most Beautiful and Valuable Journal.—Published 
every week, with 1<! large, double-quarto pages in 
every number, and to be still further enlarged Jan. 1. 
These Two Splendid Journals (both finely illustrated), will fill up the Newspaper and Magazine re¬ 
quirements of every Family in America. Either of them will be worth its weight in gold. Determined 
to bring them within the reach of every family in the country, the Publishers have decided to reduce the 
and Wishes of Every Family — every 
Man, Woman, and Child in America— 
whether living in City or Country. 
- HEARTH AH© H©M1, 
which has just been purchased by 
Orange Judd & Company, 
price of the Weekly to $3 a year (less to Clubs), and to give all new subscribers for 1871 the benefit 
of all the rest of this year without extra charge; that is, to “give away” either paper for the next 
mouth. This reduces the Subscription Price, to all who subscribe now, 
for HEARTH AND HOME. 
One copy from December 1st, 1870, to December 31, 1871. (37 Weeks). $3.00 
Four copies from December 1st, 1870, to December 31, 1871_ (37 Weeks). $3.75 each. 
Ten or more copies from Dec. 1st, 1870, to Dec. 31, 1871. (57 Weeks). $3.50 each. 
Single Numbers.... .8 cents each. 
for AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
One copy from December 1870 to December 1871 (inclusive). $1.50 
Four copies from December 1870, to December 1871 (inclusive)... $1.35 each. 
Ten copies from December 1870, to December 1871 (inclusive). $1.30 each. 
Twenty or more copies from December 1870, to December 1871 (inclusive). $1.00 each. 
One copy each of Bleartli and Home and American Agriculturist., 
from December 1st, 1870, to December 31, 1871. $4.00 
will hereafter be issued from their Great 
Publishing House, 245 Broadway, IV. Y. 
The same energy, and enterprise, and 
carefulness to secure reliability in every 
department,that has so long characterized 
the American Agriculturist , and given 
it a name, and fame, and a circulation 
several times greater than that of any 
other Rural Journal in the World, will be 
extended to Hearth and Home. A New 
Volume, with great improvements , will 
, commence January 1,1871, with the Price 
1 reduced from $4 to $3 a year.— Terms : 
One Copy, One Year, - - $3.00 
Four Copies, One Year, - $2.75 each. 
Ten or more Copies, - - $2.50 each. 
5 Weeks Free. 
Every Subscriber for 1871, received 
after this date, will have Hearth and 
Home the rest of this year FREE, 
IV.B. —This applies to all subscribers, 
whether coming singly at 83, or in Clubs 
at club rates. Those subscribing is©w 
will thus get the paper for 13 months at 
the cost of a year’s subscription, (either 
single or club rates). This will really make 
57 Weeks in a Year. 
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 FULL PAGE and 7 DOUBLE PAGE 
COLORED LITHOGBAPHS 
OF PLACES ALREADY IMPROVED. 
Make Home Beautiful. 
Read what the Congregationalist and Recorder , of 
Boston, says about this superb new book: 
“ We have from Orange Judd & Co. a magnificent 
manual, entitled Beautifying Country Homes; a Hand- 
Book of Landscape Gardening. It is a brief treatise on 
landscape gardening and architecture, explaining the 
principles of beauty which apply to it, and making just 
those practical suggestions of which every builder and 
owner of a little land, who desires to make the most of 
it in the way of convenience and taste, stands in need; 
in regard to lawns, drainage, roads, drives, walks, grad¬ 
ing, fences, hedges, trees—their selection and their 
grouping, flowers, water, ornamentation, rock-work, 
tools, and general improvements. The chapter on ‘ im¬ 
proving new places economically ’ would be worth much 
more than the cost of the book ten times over to many 
persons. The whole is illustrated not only by little 
sketches, but by a series of full page lithographs of places 
which have been actually treated in accordance with the 
principles laid down, with lists of trees and shrubs, and 
other useful suggestions. We have never met with any 
thing—and we have given a good deal of attention to the 
subject, and bought a great many books upon it—which 
seemed to us so helpful and, in general, so trustworthy 
as this treatise, which we heartily commend. We omit¬ 
ted to say that it has been done by Mr. J. Weidenmann, 
Superintendent of the City Park, and of Cedar Hill Ceme¬ 
tery, Hartford, Conn.” 
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, 
245 Broadway, New York. 
