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THE END OF THE WORLD.
A LOVE STORY.
BY EDWARD EGGLESTON.
Author of "The Hoosier School-master," etc.
With 15 full page Engravings, and numerous other Fine Illustrations.
CONTENTS.
Chapter
I.--In Love with a Dutchman.
II.--An Explosion.
III.--A Farewell.
IV.--A Counter-Irritant.
V.--At the Castle.
VI.--The Backwoods Philosopher.
VII.--Within and Without.
VIII.--Figgers won't Lie.
IX.--The New Singing-Master.
X.--An Offer of Help.
XI.--The Coon-dog Argument.
XII.--Two Mistakes.
XIII.--The Spider Spins.
XIV.--The Spider's Web.
XV.--The Web Broken.
XVI.--Jonas Expounds the Subject.
XVII.--The Wrong Pew.
XVIII.--The Encounter.
XIX.--The Mother.
XX.--The Steam-Doctor.
XXI.--The Hawk in a New Part.
XXII.--Jonas Expresses his Opinion on Dutchmen.
XXIII.--Somethin' Ludikerous.
XXIV.--The Giant Great-heart.
XXV.--A Chapter of Betweens.
XXVI.--A Nice Little Game.
XXVII.--The Result of an Evening with Gentlemen.
XXVIII.--Waking up an Ugly Customer.
XXIX.--August and Norman.
XXX.--Aground.
XXXI.--Cynthy Ann's Sacrifice.
XXXII.--Julia's Enterprise.
XXXIII.--The Secret Stairway.
XXXIV.--The Interview.
XXXV.--Getting Ready for the End.
XXXVI.--The Sin of Sanctimony.
XXXVII.--The Deluge.
XXXVIII.--Scaring a Hawk.
XXXIX.--Jonas takes an Appeal.
XL.--Selling Out.
XLI.--The Last Day and What Happened in it.
XLII.--For Ever and Ever.
XLIII.--The Midnight Alarm.
XLIV.--Squaring Accounts.
XLV.--New Plans.
XLVI.--The Shiveree.
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THE MYSTERY OF METROPOLISVILLE.
By EDWARD EGGLESTON,
_Author of "The Hoosier School-Master," "The End of the World," etc._
With Thirteen Illustrations.
CONTENTS.
Preface.--Words Beforehand. Chapter 1. The Autocrat of the
Stage-Coach.--2. The Sod Tavern.--3. Land and Love.--4. Albert and
Katy.--5. Corner Lots.--6. Little Katy's Lover.--7. Catching and getting
Caught.--8. Isabel Marlay.--9. Lovers and Lovers.--10. Plausaby, Esq.,
takes a Fatherly Interest.--11, About Several Things.--12. An
Adventure.--13. A Shelter.--14. The Inhabitant.--15. An Episode.--16.
The Return.--17. Sawney and his Old Love.--18. A Collision.--19.
Standing Guard in Vain.--20. Sawney and Westcott.--21. Rowing.--22.
Sailing.--23. Sinking.--24. Dragging.--25. Afterwards.--26. The
Mystery.--27. The Arrest.--28. The Tempter.--29. The Trial.--30. The
Penitentiary.--31. Mr. Lurton.--32. A Confession.--33. Death.--34. Mr.
Lurton's Courtship.--35. Unbarred.--36. Isabel.--37. The Last.--Words
Afterwards.
ILLUSTRATIONS.--BY FRANK BEARD.
His Unselfish Love found a Melancholy Recompense.--The Superior
Being.--Mr. Minorkey and the Fat Gentleman.--Plausaby sells Lots.--"By
George! He! he! he!"--Mrs. Plausaby.--The Inhabitant.--A Pinch of
Snuff.--Mrs. Ferret--One Savage Blow full in the face.--"What on Airth's
the Matter?"--The Editor of "The Windmill."--"Get up and Foller!"
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PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE; A Guide to the Successful Propagation and
Cultivation OF FLORISTS' PLANTS.
By PETER HENDERSON, Bergen City, N. J.,
AUTHOR OF "GARDENING FOR PROFIT."
MR. HENDERSON is known as the largest Commercial Florist In the country.
In the present work he gives a full account of his modes of propagation
and cultivation. It is adapted to the wants of the amateur, as well as
the professional grower.
The scope of the work may be judged from the following
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Aspect and Soil.
Laying out Lawn and Flower Gardens.
Designs for Flower Gardens.
Planting of Flower Beds.
Soils for Potting.
Temperature and Moisture.
The Potting of Plants.
Cold Frames--Winter Protection.
Construction of Hot-Beds.
Greenhouse Structures.
Modes of Heating.
Propagation by Seeds.
Propagation by Cuttings.
Propagation of Lilies.
Culture of the Rose.
Culture of the Verbena.
Culture of the Tuberose.
Orchid Culture.
Holland Bulbs.
Cape Bulbs.
Winter-Flowering Plants.
Construction of Bouquets.
Hanging Baskets.
Window Gardening.
Rock-Work.
Insects.
Nature's Law of Colors.
Packing Plants.
Plants by Mail.
Profits of Floriculture.
Soft-Wooded Plants.
Annuals.
Hardy Herbaceous Plants.
Greenhouse Plants.
Diary of Operations for each Day of the Year.
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PARSONS ON THE ROSE.
A TREATISE ON THE Propagation, Culture, and History of the Rose.
By SAMUEL B. PARSONS.
NEW AND REVISED EDITION.
ILLUSTRATED.
The Rose is the only flower that can be said to have a history. It is
popular now, and was so centuries ago. In his work upon the Rose, Mr.
Parsons has gathered up the curious legends concerning the flower, and
gives us an idea of the esteem in which it was held in former times. A
simple garden classification has been adopted, and the leading varieties
under each class enumerated and briefly described. The chapters on
multiplication, cultivation, and training, are very full, and the work
is altogether the most complete of any before the public.
The following is from the author's Preface:
"In offering a new edition of this work, the preparation of which
gave us pleasure more than twenty years ago, we have not only
carefully revised the garden classification, but have stricken out
much of the poetry, which, to the cultivator, may have seemed
irrelevant, if not worthless. For the interest of the classical
scholar, we have retained much of the early history of the Rose,
and its connection with the manners and customs of the two great
nations of a former age.
"The amateur will, we think, find the labor of selection much
diminished by the increased simplicity of the mode we have adopted,
while the commercial gardener will in nowise be injured by the
change.
"In directions for culture, we give the results of our own
experience, and have not hesitated to avail ourselves of any
satisfactory results in the experience of others, which might
enhance the utility of the work."
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER I.--BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION.
CHAPTER II.--GARDEN CLASSIFICATION.
CHAPTER III.--GENERAL CULTURE OF THE ROSE.
CHAPTER IV.--SOIL, SITUATION, AND PLANTING.
CHAPTER V.--PRUNING, TRAINING, AND BEDDING.
CHAPTER VI.--POTTING AND FORCING.
CHAPTER VII.--PROPAGATION.
CHAPTER VIII.--MULTIPLICATION BY SEED AND HYBRIDIZING.
CHAPTER IX.--DISEASES AND INSECTS ATTACKING THE ROSE.
CHAPTER X.--EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROSE, AND FABLES RESPECTING ITS
ORIGIN.
CHAPTER XI.--LUXURIOUS USE OF THE ROSE.
CHAPTER XII.--THE ROSE IN CEREMONIES AND FESTIVALS, AND IN THE
ADORNMENT OF BURIAL-PLACES.
CHAPTER XIII.--THE ROSE IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
CHAPTER XIV.--PERFUMES OF THE ROSE.
CHAPTER XV.--MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF THE ROSE.
CHAPTER XVI.--GENERAL REMARKS.
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BEAUTIFYING COUNTRY HOMES.
_A Hand-Book of Landscape Gardening._
BY J. WEIDENMANN.
A SPLENDID QUARTO VOLUME.
Beautifully Illustrated with numerous fine food Engravings, and with 17
Full-Page and 7 Double-Page Colored Lithographs OF PLACES ALREADY
IMPROVED.
MAKE HOME BEAUTIFUL.
NOTICES BY THE PRESS.
A home! A home in the country! and a home made beautiful by taste! Here
are three ideas which invest with a triple charm the subject of this
exquisite volume. We know of nothing which indicates a more healthy
progress among our countrymen than the growing taste for such homes. The
American people are quick to follow a fashion, and it is getting to be
the fashion to have a place in the country, and to beautify it; and this
is at once fed and guided by such books as this, which lay down the just
principles of landscape gardening; and teach all how to use the means at
their disposal. This book is prepared with careful judgment. It includes
many plans, and furnishes minute instruction for the laying out of
grounds and the planting of trees. We have found very great pleasure in
a first inspection, and doubt not that when another summer returns, we
shall find the book as practically useful, as it is beautiful to the eye
and exciting to the imagination.--_N. Y. Evangelist._
We have from Orange Judd & Co. a magnificent manual, entitled
_Beautifying Country Homes; a Hand-Book of Landscape Gardening_. It is a
brief treatise on landscape gardening and architecture, explaining the
principles of beauty which apply to it, and making just those practical
suggestions of which every builder and owner of a little land, who
desires to make the most of it in the way of convenience and taste,
stands in need, in regard to lawns, drainage, roads, drives, walks,
grading, fences, hedges, trees--their selection and their
grouping--flowers, water, ornamentation, rock-work, tools, and general
improvements. The chapter on "improving new places economically" would
be worth much more than the cost of the book ten times over to many
persons. The whole is illustrated, not only by little sketches, but by a
series of full-page lithographs of places which have been actually
treated in accordance with the principles laid down, with lists of trees
and shrubs, and other useful suggestions. We have never met with any
thing--and we have given a good deal of attention to the subject, and
bought a great many books upon it--which seemed to us so helpful and, in
general, so trustworthy as this treatise, which we heartily commend. We
omitted to say that it has been done by Mr. J. Weidenmann,
Superintendent of the City Park, and of Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford,
Conn.--_Congregationalist_, (Boston.)