THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Innumerable chapters of historic interest may be 
found within the pasteboard covers of this remarkable 
library. Each tree and plant of note is thoroughly 
described and illustrated. For instance, ample informa¬ 
tion may be obtained of the famous Charter Oak, the 
thirteen trees planted by Alexander Hamilton in the 
upper part of New York, the original Seckel pear tree 
near Philadelphia, and all of the conspicuous “big 
trees ” of California and in the great Northwest. Prof. 
Lyon has taken pains to obtain all that has been printed 
about trees and plants in which public interest has at 
any time been aroused. He has secured full and in¬ 
structive descriptions of the great family of rubber trees, 
of the Welwitschia, or wonderful stump-tree, of the 
“knee-joint” swamp cypress, and of hundreds of other 
specimens of peculiar vegetable growth. This collection, 
taken in its entirety, possesses many advantages over a 
herbarium. It has the natural colors of the plants, 
which the herbarium has not. It can also show many 
things which the herbarium cannot, whole trees, for 
example, as well as dissections and microscopic sections, 
plants under various circumstances and conditions of 
growth. As a matter of fact, while the pictorial cyclo¬ 
pedia affords a general discussion of the whole vegetable 
kingdom in every light possible, it is supplemented in 
Prof. Lyon’s library both by a good herbarium and by a 
good botanical library. 
Youngers & Company, Geneva, Neb., will plant 
twenty-five acres to apple seed this spring. 
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florists and dealers; Harlan P. Kelsey, Linville, N. C., native 
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St. Paul, Minn., seeds; A. M. Smith, St. Catherines, Ont.; R. & 
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ule of prizes for 1894 ; Colorado Nursery Co., Loveland, Colorado, 
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seeds, Chicago and New York ; Central Nurseries, Waukee, Ill., 
general nursery stock; Lovett’s Guide to Fruit Culture, J. T. Lov. 
ett & Co., Little Silver, N. J.; L. W. Carr & Co., Lake Shore 
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Ill.; Jackson & Perkins, Newark, N. Y., specialties; Samuel C. 
Moon, Morrisville, Pa.; A. S. Bassett & Son, Springdale Nur¬ 
series, Gainesville, Tex. 
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