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Our Illustrated Catalogues of Dutch Bulbs , and 
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ready and mailed free to all applicants. 
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Or, Game of Birds. 
THE GEM OF CARD GAMES. 
Of all the games in market, none are so happily 
adapted to amuse and instruct children at one and 
the same time as Avilude. In it are thirty-two 
beautiful pictures, and thirty-two scientific descrip¬ 
tions. It is the best possible incentive to the study 
of natural history, and the only game ever pub¬ 
lished in the interest of science. Thousands of 
Children have been made happy and had 
stored np for them a whole winter of enjoyment 
and instruction by the present of a game of 
At ilude. 
“Avilude is an admirable conception, thoroughly 
in sympathy with the most advanced ideas of ju¬ 
venile instruction. * * * These Birds go on a 
good mission and will find their way to the hearts 
of a host of children.' 1 — Prof. A. //. Paris. 
“ An excellent addition to our home amusements.” 
—Christian Union. 
“Must have a large sale and deserves it too.”—■ 
Harper's Weekly. 
SENT POSTPAID, on receipt of seventy-five 
cents, bv 
HENRY T. WILLIAMS, 
46 Beekman Street, N. Y. 
LADIES’ CABINET 
lattial 
A CHARMING NOVELTY; 
Paper Rose-tinted and Perfumed; your own Initial 
on each Sheet and each Envelope; handsomely 
Illuminated Cover on each Box; makes a very 
pretty and fashionable Present among friends; a 
Packet of choice Flower Seeds in each box, a Gift 
from the publisher. 
Price 50 cents per Box, postpaid by mail. For a 
Club of Ten at 50 cents, an Extra Box is given free. 
Address, 
HENRY T. WILLIAMS, 
Publisher ') nn Ladies' Floral Cabinet, 
46 Beekman St., N. Y. 
Make Your Homes Attractive. A Flower-Garden in Every House. 
This cut represents the Window Garden 
attached underneath the window, either inside 
or outside the house. Its artistic beauty must be 
apparent to all. Its extreme simplicity of 
arrangement renders it an easy matter for 
any lady to put up or take down. It is not 
screwed to the wall, and yet is so firmly 
attached that it is capable of sustaining over 100 
pounds weight. Full directions for put¬ 
ting tip sent with each order. 
The standard length is three feet, which is 
about the average width of windows, but parties 
can send the measurement of their windows and 
have them made any desired length, not exceed¬ 
ing four feet, without additional cost Those 
made in Ash can be painted to correspond with 
the color of the house. 
The cut represents the use of flower-pots, hut 
a Zinc 7 ) an filled with dirt can be used in¬ 
stead. if desired. These are furnished to parties 
ordering at $2.50 each. 
r i he Window Garden can be taken to pieces 
arid packed for shipment. Sen to any part of 
the country, on receipt of price. 
Oiled and polished Walnut, $5.00 to $5.50 each, according to design and finish. In Ash, for outside. 
$4.75 and $5.00. 
Agents Wanted. A liberal discount to the trade. 
R 0 ©OSS & S@N)S* <i@H)©p@!] &§©mts» 
Wo. SI Hoi It CLAY SXRWWX, WWW YORK. 
fillllll BOOE 
For Household Reading and Amusement. 
BOOKS OP GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS. 
What Shall We Do To-Hight; or, Social Amusements for Evening Parties.— This 
elegant book affords an almost inexhaustible fund of amusement for evening parties, social gatherings, and 
all festive occasions, for young gentlemen and ladies ; including complete directions and text for performing 
Charades, Tableaux, Parlor Pantomimes, &c. It contains over ioo engravings, and 366 pages. Price, 
$2.00 (Premium for club of 15 , or 20 with extra copy of paper free). 
The American Home Book of In-Door Games and Recreations. — Containing Amuse¬ 
ments for Girls, Boys and Little Children, Musical Games, Forfeits, Games of Memory, Natural Magic, 
Solitaire Games, Holiday Games, House and Home Amusements, &c. 380 pages. Illustrated. Price, 
$1.50 (Premium for club of 10 , at $ 1 . 30 , or 15 , with paper and chromo free). 
Social Charades and Parlor Operas. — A book really needed, containing the favorite operettas of 
“College Ned,” “ Diamonds and Toads,” and a List of Charades, Allegories, and Musical Pieces, never 
before published. Price, 75 Cents, postpaid (Premium for club of 6 , at $ 1 . 30 ). 
Home Arts for Young and Old. — This little work is a Compendium of all the best known methods 
of making time pass profitably as well as pleasantly at home, and includes Flower Work, Wax Work, 
Needle Work, and general home ornamentation. Price, 75 Cents, postpaid. (Premium for club of 6). 
Home Games for Young and Old.— This work is an epitome of all the known amusements for 
homes, from “ Puss in the Corner” to “Acting Charades,” and will be found an excellent assistant on all 
occasions of festivities. Price, 75 Cents, by mail, postpaid (Premium for club ol o). 
The Sociable; or. One Thousand and One Home Amusements.— Containing Acting 
Proverbs, Dramatic Charades, Acting Charades, or Drawing Room Pantomimes, Musical Burlesques, 
Tableaux Vivants, Parlor Games, Games of Action, Forfeits, Science in Sport and Parlor Magic, and a 
choice collection of curious Mental and Mechanical Puzzles. &c. Illustrated with numerous engravings 
and diagrams. The whole being a fund of never-ending entertainment. Nearly 400 pages. “The Socia¬ 
ble” is a repository of games, and other entertainments, calculated for the use of family parties, the fireside 
circle, or those social gatherings among friends and neighbors, which pass away the winter evenings with so 
much animation and delight. It is impossible for any company to exhaust all the sources of irreproachable 
mirth and mutual enjoyment produced in this volume. Price, $1,50 (Premium for club of 10 ). 
Book of Riddles and Five Hundred Home Amusements. — Containing all kinds of Curious 
Riddles, Amusing Puzzles, Queer Sleights, and Entertaining Recreations in Science, for Family and Social 
Pastime. Illustrated with 60 engravings. Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
The Art of Dressing Well. By Miss S. A. Frost.— This book is designed to offer such suggestions 
as will be valuable to those just entering society; to brides, for \vhose guidance a complete trousseau is 
pescribed ; to persons in mourning ; indeed, to every individual who pays attention to the important objects 
of economy, stvle, and propriety of costume. Price, 50 Cents ('Premium for club of 5 ). 
Book 6 f Household Pets. —Containing valuable instructions about the Diseases, Breeding, Training, 
and Management of the Canary, Mocking Bird, Parrot, Fancy Pigeons, Poultry, and Domestic Pets 
Illustrated with 123 fine woodcuts. Bound in boaids, cloth back. Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
The Book of Fireside Games. — Containing a description of the most Entertaining games suited to 
the Family Circle as a Recreation. Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
Howard’s Book of Conundrums and Riddles.— Containing over 1.200 of the best Conundrums. 
Riddles, Enigmas, Ingenious Catches, and Amusing Sells ever invented. Bound in boards, cloth back. 
Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
How to Amuse an Evening Party. —A complete collection of Home Recreations, including 
Round Games, Forfeits, Parlor Magic, Puzzles, and Comic Diversions, together with a great variety of 
Scientific Recreations and Evening Amusements. Profusely illustrated with nearly 200 fine woodcuts 
Bound in boards, with cloth back. Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
How to Shine in Society; or, the Science of Conversation. —Containing the principles, 
laws, and general usages of polite society, including easily applied hints and directions for commencing and 
sustaining an agreeable conversation, and for choosing topics appropriate to the time, place, and company ; 
thus affording immense assistance to the bashful and diffident. 161110 . Paper cover. Price, 25 Cents 
(Premium for 2 subscriptions at $ 1 . 30 ). 
The Parlor Stage. —A collection of Drawing-Room Proverbs, Charades, and Tableaux Vivants, by 
Miss S. A. Frost, These plays are intended solely for performance by a small party of friends, in private 
parlors, and require but little trouble or expense to render them effective. The plays are all new and 
original. 368 pages Price $1.50. (Premium for club of 10 at $ 1 . 30 ). 
The Play-Ground; or, Out-Door Games for Boys —A Book of Healthy Recreations for 
Youth, containing over a hundred Amusements, including Games of Activity and Speed, Games with Toys, 
Marbles, Tops, Hoops, Kites, Archery, Balls ; with Cricket, Croquet, and Baseball. Splendidly illustrated 
with 124 fine woodcuts. Bound in cloth, gilt side. Price 75 Cents. (Premium for club of 6 ). 
BOOKS OH HOUSEKEEPING. 
The Young Housekeeper’s Friend. —By Mrs. Cornelius. A very popular and reliable Household 
Guide and Cook Book. Price, $1.50 (Premium for club of 10 ). 
Common Sense in the Household. —A Manual of Practical Housewifery. By Marion Harland 
author of “Alone,” “Hidden Path,” “Nemesis,” &c. One of the finest volumes and aids to ladies’ 
household management ever issued. Price, $1-75 (Premium for club of 15 ). 
The Yankee Cook Book. — A New System of Cookery. Containing hundreds of excellent receipts 
from actual experience in Cooking; also, full explanations in the art of carving. Price, 50 Cents 
(Premium for club of 4 ). 
How to Cook Potatoes, Apples, Eggs, and Fish, Pour Hundred Different Ways — 
This work especially recommends itself to those who are often embarassed for want of variety in dishes 
suitable for the breakfast-table, or on occasions where the necessity arises for preparing a meal at short 
notice Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 4 ). 
The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory. — Contains 378 recipes for cooking all sorts 
of American dishes in the most economical manner ; also contains a great variety ol important secrets for 
washing, cleaning, scouring, and extracting grease, paint, stains, and ii on-mould from cloth, muslin, and 
linen. Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 4 ). 
How to Cook and How to Carve — Giving plain and easily understood directions for preparing and 
cooking, with the greatest economy, every kind of dish, with complete instructions for serving the same. 
Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 4 ). 
Mrs. Crowen’s American Ladies’ Cookery Book. — Containing over 1,200 original receipts for 
preparing and cooking Soups and Broths, Fish and Oysters, Clams, Muscles, and Scollops, Lobsteis, 
Crabs, and Terrapins, Meats of all kinds, Poultry and Game, Eggs and Cheese, Vegetables and Salads, 
Sauces of all kinds, Fancy Desserts, Puddings, and Custards, Pies and Tarts, Bread and Biscuit, Rolls and 
Cakes, Preserves and Jellies, Pickles and Catsups, Potted Meats, &c., &c. Together with valuable and 
important hints on choosing and purchasing all kinds of Provisions, and preparing Ripe Fruits for Table, 
Bills of Fare for the relief of young housekeepers, Arrangement of the Table for every variety of dinner 
Parties, Etiquette of the Dinner Table, Cookery for Invalids, Carving Made Easy, &c., &c. The whole 
being a complete system of American Cookery. By Mrs. T. J. Crowen. Illustrated with several diagrams. 
Mrs. Crowen gives directions for making all sorts of economical dishes, baking all kinds of cakes and pies, 
manufacturing every variety of confectionery, preserving, pickling, &c., so plainly that the housekeeper of a 
week’s standing can easily act upon her directions. All the receipts in this book have been carefully tried, 
and may be relied upon as the result of actual experience. 474 pages. Price, $2 00 (Premium for club of 1 5 ). 
The American Home Cook Book. —Containing several hundred excellent recipes. The whole 
based on many years’ experience of an American housewife. Illustrated with engravings. All the recipes in 
this book are written from actual experiment in cooking. Price, 50 Cents (Premium for club of 5 ). 
FLOWERS, GARDENING, AND RURAL LIFE. 
Window Gardening. —A new book, with 250 fine engravings and 300 pages, containing a Descriptive 
List of all Plants, suitable tor Window Culture, Directions for their Tiealment, and Practical Information 
about Plants and Flowers for the Parlor, Conservatory, Wardian Case, Fernery, or Window Garden. Tells 
all about Bulbs for House Culture, Geraniums, Hanging Baskets, Insects, Plant Decoration of Apartments. 
The Illustrations are unusually beautiful, and many of them perfect Gems of exquisite beauty. Supplies 
good practical information that can be found in no other volume. Price, 1 50, by mail postpaid (Pre¬ 
mium for club of'io, at $ 1 . 30 , or 15 , with extra copy of paper and chromo free). 
Every Woman Her Own Flower Gardener —By “ Daisy Eyebright ” (Mrs. S. O. Johnson). 
A delightful little Treatise on Out Door Gardening for Ladies —Practical, Timely, Chaimingly Written, 
Cannot fail to be universally liked. Valuable Information about Pansies, Roses, Geraniums, Climbing 
Plants, Annuals, Perennials, Fuchsias, Ribbon Beds, &c. Send for it Printed in Excellent Taste. Price, 
50 Cents, postpaid. Bound in cloth, $ 1.00 (Premium for dub of 5 ). 
Practical Floriculture. —By Peter Henderson. Devoted to the propagation and culture of Plants 
raised by Florists and successful amateurs ; is a standard authority on Green House Plants ; gives practical 
suggestions for Planting Flower Beds in the Lawn; Designs for Flower Gardens; How to Grow Bulbs, 
Verbenas, Lilies, &c. Price, $1.50 (Premium for club of 10 ). 
Popular Architectural Books. —Woodward’s Country Homes. Price, $1.50. Woodward’s Cot¬ 
tages and Farm Houses. Price, $1.50. Woodward’s Suburban and Country Homes. Price, $1.50. 
Woodward’s Graperies and Horticultural Buildings. Price, $1.50 (Premium for club of 10 ). 
