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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[December, 
mw AM) BEAUTIFUL WORK. 
THE BOOK OF EVERGREENS. 
JOSIAH HOOPES, Westchester, Pa. 
including Propagation, Cultivation, 
Description of Varieties and their 
Adaptability to Different Situations. 
DARWIN’S NEW WORK. 
THE VARIATION 
ANIMALS AND PLANTS 
UNDER DOMESTICATION. 
BY 
CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.9., &c. 
WITH A PREFACE 
TO THE 
AMERICAN EDITION 
BY THE AUTHOR, 
ANl) ALSO ONE BY 
.A. NEW WORK. 
THE 
PERCHERON HORSE. 
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF 
CHARLES DU HAYS, 
Author of the " Dictionary of the Pure Race“ Trotters 
“ The Horse Breeder’s Guide etc. 
FINELY ILLUSTRATED. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PRODUCTION,- REARING, AND IMPROVEMENT 
OF THE PEROHERON HORSE. 
PART FIRST. 
GREATNESS AND DECLINE OF THE PER- 
CHERONS. 
GLANCE AT PERCHE. 
SKETCH OF THE PERCHERON RACE. 
ORIGIN OF THE PEROHERON. 
MODIFICATIONS OF THE PEROHERON RACE. 
HIS FIRST MODIFICATION DUE TO CONTACT 
WITH THE BRITTANY RACE. 
Notices by the tress: 
A very complete and every way admirable treatise on 
the Conifer®, or cone-bearing plants, is The Book of 
Evergreens. Mr. Hoopes has devoted many years of labor 
and attention to the beautiful class of trees treated of, 
and his work, which is copiously illustrated, must at 
once.become an authority. We shall be glad also, if it 
induces any to a closer study of trees, and to a further 
ornamentation of their houses with them. 
[Springfield Republican. 
The value of this volume consists in its being both a 
labor of love and of duty. The author, having devoted 
a life to the study of trees and plants as a practical horti¬ 
culturist, records here his views and experiences. Mr. 
Hoopes has studied all the treatises which hear on his 
subject, and availed himself of the assistance of many 
scientific friends, as well as recorded his own experience. 
The illustrations are numerous and excellent, and alto¬ 
gether the work has all the characteristics of an authori¬ 
ty on the subject it so minutely and comprehensively 
treats. —- [Boston Transcript,, 
It. is a practical treatise on the Conifer®, or cone-bear¬ 
ing plants, describing them in all their families, and 
their best culture, management, and so forth, and is well 
illustrated. It fills a vacant niche, and every intelligent 
cultiifist of trees should have and use it. 
[Congregationalist c6 Recorder, {Boston). 
The work was evidently prepared with great care and 
pains, and embodies the results of years of close obser¬ 
vation and study. It is one of great value to the agri¬ 
culturist and landscape gardener, and of special interest 
to all who care to know anything of the flora of the globe. 
To those who wish to raise trees, it is an indispensable 
hand-book .—[Liberal Christian. 
It is undoubtedly the most comp.ele American work of 
the kind in print. It is well illustrated and handsomely 
printed .—[Boston Journal. 
We have examined this handsome book with a great 
deal of pleasure and satisfaction. The author has pur¬ 
sued a very desirable plan in his work, giving sufficient 
scientific information to moot, the wants of the botanical 
student, and yet the work is sufficiently elementary in 
explaining terms and points about plant structure, and 
systems of classification,—in short, plain enough to meet 
the wants of every reader. It is printed in neat style, 
with thick covers and beveled edges, and a large number 
of very superior illustrations .—[Journal of Agriculture. 
PROFESSOR ASA GRAY. 
IN TWO VOLUMES. 
This work treats of the variations in our domestic ani¬ 
mals and cultivated plants, discussing the circumstances 
that influence these variations, inheritance of peculiar¬ 
ities, results of in-and-in breeding, crossing, etc. 
It is one of the most remarkable books of the present 
day, presenting an array of facts that show the most 
extraordinary amount, of observation and research. All 
the domestic animals, from horses and cattle to canary- 
birds and honey-bees, are discussed, as well as our lead¬ 
ing culinary and other plants, making it a work of the 
greatest interest. 
Its importance to agriculturists, breeders, scientific 
men, and the general render, will be seen by its scope as 
indicated in the following partial enumeration of its 
contents: Pigs, Cattle, Sheep, Goats : Dogs and 
Cats, Horses and Asses ; Domestic Rabbits ; Do¬ 
mestic Pigeons ; Fowls, Ducks, Geese, Peacock, 
Turkey, Guinea Fowl, Canary-bird, Gold-fish ; 
Hive-bees ; Silk-moths. Cultivated Plants ; Cereal 
and Culinary Plants ; Fruits, Ornamental Trees, 
Flowers, Bud Variation. Inheritance, Reversion 
or Atavism, Crossing. On the Good Effects of 
Crossing, and on TnE Evil Effects of Close Inter- 
BREEDING. SELECTION. CAUSES OF VARIABILITY, LAWS 
of Variation, etc., etc. 
Published in two Volumes of nearly 
1100 pages. 
FINELY ILLUSTRATED. 
SENT POST-PAID.PRICE $0.00. 
CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY ARE BRED. 
CAUSES OF THE DEGENERACY OF THE PER¬ 
CIIERON HORSE. 
STARTING POINT OF THIS DEGENERATION. 
PAET SECOND. 
OF THE MEANS OF REGENERATING THE 
PERCHERON HORSE. 
REGENERATION OF THE PERCHERON BREED. 
REGENERATION OF THE BREED THROUGH 
ITSELF OR BY SELECTION. 
CONSANGUINITY. 
OUGHT THE GRAY COAT OF TnE PERCHERON 
TO BE INFLEXIBLY MAINTAINED? 
PRESERVE PURE, AND WITHOUT INTERMIX¬ 
TURE THE THREE TYPES OF THE PER 
CHERON RACE— 1 THE LIGHT HORSE, THE 
DRAFT-HORSE, THE INTERMEDIATE HORSE. 
IMPROVEMENT OF THE BREED BY MEANS 
OF FOREIGN CROSSINGS. 
THE ARAB CROSS. 
THE ENGLISH CROSS. 
IMPROVEMENT BY MEANS OF THE STUD¬ 
BOOK. 
RECAPITULATION. 
PART THIRD. 
INFORMATION TO STRANGERS WISHING TO 
BUY PERCHERON HORSES. 
FOOD AND BREEDING. 
TRADE. GLANCE AT THE MOST CELEBRATED 
BREEDING DISTRICTS. 
SPEED AND BOTTOM OF THE PERCHERON 
HORSE. 
TESTS OF SPEED OF THE PERCHERON HORSE. 
TESTS OF ENDURANCE OF THE PERCHERON 
HORSE. 
The work is now ready. 435 pp., 12mo, on fine paper. 
SENT POST-PAID, - PRICE $3.00. 
ORANGE JUDO & CO., 
245 Broadway, New York. 
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245 Broadway, New York City. 
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