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dailies’ Karol llsifiiiiet 
PICTORIAL HOME COMPANION, 
THE HANDSOMEST ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF HOUSE¬ 
HOLD ART, FLOWERS AND HOME LITERATURE 
IN AMERICA. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 
Devoted to Housekeeping, Household Elegancies, 
Fashions, Music. Ladies' Fancy Work, Social Amuse¬ 
ments, Home Pets, Flowers, Window Gardening, 
Cottages, Garden Decorations, and Illustrated Home 
Literature, 
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Yearly. 
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with extra copy of paper and 
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N. B.—The above terms include 15 cents charges 
for mounting and mailing chromo, also 12 cents 
postage prepaid by publisher on all copies to sub¬ 
scribers after Jail 1,1875. 
Terms, 1874. 
$1 25 per year, from Jan. or July, 1874. including 
chromo, 4 * Gems of the Flower Garden.” 
G5 six months, July or Dec. 1874. including 
chromo, “Gems of the Flower Garden.” 
35 three months. Sept, to Nov. 1874, including 
chromo, 44 Gems of the Flower Garden.” 
10 trial trip, three months, without chromo. 
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50 for numbers of 1S72, July to Dec. 
No numbers for sale previous to July, 1872. 
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for canvassing. 
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Window Garden " 
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Address, 
HENRY T. WIIiTjIAMS, 
Office, Proprietor, 
46 Beckman St. P. O. Box 2445, New York. 
Windew_ Gardening. 
B y 
HETOZ T. WILLIAMS, 
EDITOR OF THE LADIES 1 FLORAL CABINET, NEW YORK. 
A New Book, with 250 Fine Engravings, and 300 
Pages, containing a Descriptive List of all Plants 
suitable for Window Culture, Directions for their 
Treatment, 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. 
It is a valuable Book on a Popular subject, long 
needed, and comes at a time when it will be highly 
appreciated by every one. Supplies good practical 
information that can be found in no other volume. 
Price, £$1.50, by mail, postpaid. 
EVERY WOMAN HER OWN 
Flower Gardener. 
By “Daisy Etebkigiit,” (Mrs. S. O. Johnson.) 
A delightful little treatise on Out Door Garden¬ 
ing for Ladies—Practical, Timely, Charmingly 
Written. 
CANNOT FAIL TO BE UNIVERSALLY LIKED. 
Valuable Information about Pansies. Roses, Geran¬ 
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HENRY T. WILLIAMS, Publisher, 
46 Beekman Street, New York. 
Tlie Morticta.ltii.rist, 
Devoted to Gardening, Flowers, Ornamental Plants, 
Greenhouse and Conservatory Culture, Ornamental 
Trees, Shrubs, &c. 
On trial three months, 30 cents. Specimen copies, 
10 cents. Every lover of gardening should have it. 
Address, HENRY T. WILLIAMS. Publisher, 
P. O. Box 2445. 46 Beekman St., N. Y. 
TJ | > TJX? t0 applicants, mv Nursery and Bulb Cata- 
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BUSINESS! 
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your name and address at once for circulars, terms, 
etc. Agents, nomattev whatyouaredoiug, send to 
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FLOWERS AND PLANTS, 
By Mail, Prepaid. 
Hardy yard flowers; Variegated Wigelies, 25 
cents; Chinese Honeysuckle, 20 cents; Spirea, 20 
cents; Forsythia,20 cents, Dialytra, 10 cents; Iris, 
10 cents; 1 Roses, winter blooming, 20 cents; 
Primeda, 25 cents; Cj r clemen, 20 cents: Double 
White Pink, 15 cents; Double Petunia, 10 cents; 
Pansy, 10 cents; Heliotrope, 10 cents; Irasine, 
10 cents. 
For Basket. English Ivy, 10 cents; Kennel- 
worth Ivy, 10 cents; Golden Myrtle, 10 cents; 
Tradscantia, 10 cents. Small Fruits, Concord Grape, 
25cents; Currants, large fruited, 15 cents; Goose¬ 
berry, 10 cents; Giant Rhubarb, 10 cents. 
j Price Lists free to any address. 
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year. Add 10 cents, and we will prepay postage 
after January 1. 
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Inventors and Manufacturers, 
434 & 436 Walnut Street, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
Make Your Homes Attractive. A Flower-Garden in Every House, 
VH1TTKM0R8*8 P01TMLI WINDOW GUBIN. 
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 
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any lady to put up or take down. It is not 
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The standard length Is three feet, which is 
about the average width of window s, 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 tdsh can be painted to correspond with 
the color of the house. 
The cut represents the. use of flower-pots, hut 
a Zinc "Pan filled with dirt can be used in¬ 
stead. if desired. These are furnished to parties 
ordering at $2.50 each. 
1 he Window Garden can be taken to pieces 
and 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. 
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Seventy-two pages full of descriptions of over 500 Books, Games and Amusements for Ladies and 
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nVEOXJT^T UNTTXIRiSEIRIIES, 
5774 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 
♦ 
Over 500 New and Choice Varieties. We are prepared to receive orders for ROSES from our 
Large Stock of well grown plants, composed of New and Choice Varieties. Our Roses are grown on 
their own Roots, in 4, 5, and 6 inch pots, and, therefore, ready for planting at any time. Brices per dozen 
and hundred on application. We have also, grown in pots, a select lot of' Tea R oses for Win¬ 
ter Flowering, suitable for Greenhouses, Conservatories, and Windows, comprising all varieties 
best adapted to that purpose, ready for delivery or shipment at any time. We can supply from our own 
stock NEW ROSES of all the most approved varieties known in Europe, well grown and on their own 
roots. Our Descriptive Catalogue of Roses, will be ready for distribution about October 1st. Plain 
copies sent on receipt of Postage Stamp. Copies with Colored Plates, 10 cents. 
JIILLEB & HATES, 5771 Germantown Aye., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Are You Going to Paint? 
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have been painted with the 
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in the country furnished free by dealers generally 
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32 Burling Slip, N. Y., or 
Cleveland, Ohio. 
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THE NURSERY. 
A Magazine for Youngest Readers. 
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36 Bromfield Street, Boston. 
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OF 
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Including all the novelties for 1875, will be ready in 
October, and will be sent to any address on receipt 
of 25 Cents, which amount will be refunded in 
Flower Seed from our list -with first order for plants 
amounting to $1,00 or more. 
Retail and wholesale Price Lists both ready for 
free distribution. 
V & 
0HESTERT0WN, Kent Co„ Md. 
PLANTS P0R WINTER FLOWERING. 
BY MAIL, PREPAID. 
3 distinct sorts Begonias for 25 cents; 3 distinct 
sorts Stevias for 25 cents ; 3 distinct sorts Fuchsias 
for 25 cents; 4 distinct sort3 Chrysanthemums for 
25 cents; 4 distinct sorts Basket Plants for25cents; 
4 assorted Winter Blooming Plants for 25 cents ; 1 
each Abutilon, Eupatorium and Pilea ft r 25 cents; 
leach Violet, Pink and Mahernia for 25 cents; 1 
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and Pansy seeds gratis with Catalogue. Address, 
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por day at home. Terms Free. Address 
Geo. Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine. 
