1874 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
J 95 
Newly Revised and En¬ 
larged Edition. 
Practical 
Floriculture. 
A Guide to the Successful Propagation and 
Cultivation of Florists’ Plants. 
By BETER HENDERSON, 
Author ot “ Gardening for Profit.” 
Beautifully Illustrated. Price , Post-paid , $1.50. 
In this 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 the plants after they have been propagated. The 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¬ 
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in the open a>r, 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 Iiose and Tuberose; Growing of 
Winter-flowering Plants; Construction of Bouquets, Baskets, 
etc.; Parlor and Window-Gandening: Wardian-Cases and 
Ferneries; Insects; What Flowers Grow in the Shade; 
Culture of Grape-Vines under Glass ; The Profits of Flori¬ 
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THE ILLUSTRATED 
Book of Poultry, 
With Practical Schedules for Judg¬ 
ing, Constructed from Actual 
Analysis of the Best Mod¬ 
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By LEWIS WRIGHT, 
Author of “ The Practical Poultry Keeper“ The 
Brahma Fowl etc. 
ILLUSTRATED WITH 
Fifty Colored Portraits of Prize Birds, 
Painted from Life by J. W. Ludlow. 
CONTENTS 
Chap. 
1. —Houses and Accommo¬ 
dation. 
2. —The Selection of Stock. 
3. —Feeding and General 
Treatment of Fowls. 
4. —Eggs and Incubation. 
5. —Artificial Hatching. 
6. —The Management of 
Chickens. 
7. —Fattenin'.' and Killing. 
8. —Poultry as National 
Food. 
9. —The Utility of “ Fancy 
Points.” 
10. —Commencing a Strain. 
11. —Mating Stock for Breed¬ 
ing Prize Birds. 
12. —Hearing, Care, and Exhi¬ 
bition of Prize Poultry. 
13. —Shows and Judging. 
14. —Buying, Selling, and 
Exporting. 
15. —Enemies in the Yard. 
16. —Diseases of Poultry. 
17. —Technical Terms. 
18. —Cochins. 
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19. —Brahmas. 
20. —Malays. 
21. —Game. 
22. —Dorkings. 
23. —Spanish. 
24. —Hamburghs. 
25. —Polisli Fowls. 
20.—French Breeds of Poul¬ 
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27. —American Breeds of 
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28. —Unclassed Varieties of 
Poultry. 
29. —Bantams (Except Game). 
30. —Game Bantams. 
31. —Wild Breeds of Poultry, 
Origin of the Domestic 
Fowl. 
32. —Tlie Guinea Fowl. 
E3.—The Turkey. 
34. —Tlie Pea Fowl. 
35. —Ducks. 
36. —Geese. 
37. —Swans. 
38. —Possible Additions to 
the Poultry Yard. 
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A COMPLETE AND STANDARD GUIDE TO THE 
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FOR DOMESTIC USE, THE MARKETS, OR 
EXHIBITION. 
Beautifully Illustrated. 
By L. WRIGHT. 
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poulterer who must make the business pay, and the chick¬ 
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minute, and practical, that any one could, by using it as a 
guide, with no previous experience with poultry, become 
at once successful in producing eggs, young chickens, and 
fat fowls for market. The author has not missed his aim. 
The middle parts of Mr. Wright’s Manual are taken up 
with minute directions for making show fowls for Fairs, 
a nice discussion of the good and bad points of the dif¬ 
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peafowl, pheasants, and water-fowl. Then follows a 
section on artificial hatching, and another, wortli special 
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from them, not tape, and knitting needles, and buttons, 
and nutmegs merely, but the family supplies of sugar, 
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New York Observer. 
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