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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
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Practical 
Floriculture. 
A Guide to tile Successful Propagation and 
Cultivation of Florists’ Plants. 
15y PETER 11 EN I )KUS<)X, 
Author of " 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 liow^to plant and 
grow the plants after they have been propagated. The work 
is not one for florists and gardeners only, hut 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 ttiose 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. 
Tlie 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 P.oso and Tuberose ; Growing of 
Winter-flowering Plants; Construction, of Bouquets, Baskets, 
etc.; Parlor and Window-Gardening; Wardian-Cases and 
Ferneries; Insects; What Flowers Grow in the Shade; 
Culture of Grape-Vines under Glass; The Profits of Flori¬ 
culture ; How to Become a Florist, etc., etc. 
Hussey’s National Cottage Archi¬ 
tecture ; or, Homes for Every One. 
—With Designs, Plans, Details, Specifica¬ 
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Atwood’s Country and Suburban 
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General Principles of House-building, Style, 
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Monckton’s National Stair-Builder. 
—Is a complete work on Stair-Building and 
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Monckton’s National Carpenter and 
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whole science of Carpentry, Joinery, Roof¬ 
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Royal Quarto. Postpaid, $6.00. 
"Woodward’s Cottages and Farm 
Houses. —188 Designs and Plans of low- 
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"Woodward’s Suburban and Country 
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Manner of Constructing Balloon Frames. 
Post-paid, $1.50. 
Woodward's Graperies and Horti¬ 
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of Hot-Beds, ColdrPits, Propagating Houses, 
Forcing Houses, Hot and Cold Graperies, 
Green Houses, Conservatories, Orchard 
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Ventilating and Heating. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Wheeler’s Rural Homes.—Houses suited 
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Wheeler’s Homes for the People.— 
100 Original Designs, with lull Descriptions, 
and Constructive and Miscellaneous Details. 
Post-paid, $3.00. 
Harney’s Barns, Out-Buildings, and 
Fences. — Containing Designs and Plans 
of Stables, Farm-Barns, Out-Buildings, Gates, 
Gateways, Fences, Stable Fittings and Furni¬ 
ture, with nearly 200 Illustrations. Royal 
quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Play and Profit 
IN MY GARDEN. 
By E. P. ROE, 
Author of “ Barriers Burned Away ,” etc. 
NOTICES BY THE TRESS. 
The author takes us to his garden on the rocky hill-sides in 
the vicinity of West Point and shows ns how out of it, after 
four years’ experience, lie evoked a profit of $1,000, and this 
while carrying on pastoral and literary labors.It 
is very rare that so much literary taste and skill are mated 
to so much agricultural experience and practical good sense. 
—Harper's Magazine. 
This hook is as poetical as it is practical. Still he is no 
dreamer. He goes into every essential detail with as much 
minuteness and precision as if he were writing a manual for 
the practical farmer. Indeed few works professedly de¬ 
voted to agriculture give more sound and valuable informa¬ 
tion on the secret of winning golden harvests from the soil 
than this brief idyllic sketch.— N. Y. Tribune. 
A very charming book, not only by reason of its pleasant 
style, but for its quiet refined humor and fund of really use¬ 
ful information on the subject of gardening .—Poston Gazette. 
It deserves to stand side by side with “My Summer in a 
Garden.”— Christian Register. 
A fresh, lively work.—V. Y. Observer. 
One reads without weariness and learns much of practical 
value.— Chicago Evening Journal. 
Full of information. Explains just what the reader wishes 
to know. We most heartily commend it ,—IYovidence Even¬ 
ing Press. 
A chatty, sensible, profitable hook .—Cleveland Herald. 
The book gives much valuable information, and gives it 
in the pleasantest manner imaginable .—Detroit Daily Union. 
Price, Post-paid - $1.50 
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Woodward’s National Architect.— 
1,000 Designs, Plans, and Details for Coun¬ 
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Eveleth’s School-house Architecture. 
—A new and original work, containing Seven¬ 
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