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THE CULTIVATOR, 
Contents of this Number. 
Close of the Volume,. 
Agriculture of Iowa and Illinois, by W. G. Edmundson,. ... 
State Cattle Show at Baltimore, by G. B. Smith,. .... 
Farming in Delaware County, N. Y., by R.,. 
Characteristics of the Season of 1851,.. 
The Mineral Manure Theory, by Prof. Norton,. 
Close of the Great Exhibition—Produce of Twelve Acres, by 
W. H. SOTHAM,. 
Laying in Trees for Winter—Large and Small Potatoes, by T. 
F.—Protecting tender Roses, . 
Answers to Inquiries,.. 
Notices of New Publications,. 
D. D. T. More’s Premium Farm,. 
Farming in Pennsylvania,.. 
The Chmch-bug, by Prof. T. W. Harris,... 
Heating Apparatus for Dwellings'—Exotic Vegetables—The 
Tea Plant, by S.,. 
Notes for the Month—To Correspondents, &c.,. 
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ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Mr. More’s Farm Buildings,. 396 
Franklin Coal Burner,. 403 
THE HORTICULTURIST, 
AND 
JOURNAL OF RURAL ART AND RURAL TASTE, 
Edited by A. J. DOWNING, Newburgh, 
Author of Landscape Gardening , Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, 
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