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GARDENING BOOKS.

THE STANDARD GARDENING BOOKS.

Gardening, properly managed, is a source of income to thousands, and of healthful recreation to other thousands. Besides the gratification it affords, the inexhaustible field it opens up for observation and experiment commends its i teresting practice to everyone possessed of a real English home.

BEETON'S BOOK OF GARDEN MANAGEMENT.

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bracing all kinds of information connected with Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Garden Cultivation, Orchid Houses, Bees, &c., &c. Illustrated with Coloured Plates of surpassing beauty, and numerous Engravings. Post 8vo, cloth gilt, price 7s. 6d.; or in half-calf, ros. 6d.

The directions in BEETON'S GARDEN MANAGEMENT are conceived in a prac tical manner, and are, throughout the work, so simply given that none can fail to understand them. The Coloured Plates show more than a hundred different kinds of Plants and Flowers, and assist in the identification of any doubtful specimen.

BEETON'S DICTIONARY OF EVERY-DAY GARDEN

ING. Constituting a Popular Cyclopædia of the Theory and Practice of Horticulture. Illustrated with Coloured Plates, made after Original Water Colour Drawings copied from Nature, and Woodcuts in the Text. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, price 35. 6d.

ALL ABOUT GARDENING.

Being a Popular Dictionary of Gardening, containing full and practical Instructions in the different Branches of Horticultural Science. Specially adapted to the capabilities and requirements of the Kitchen and Flower Garden at the Present Day. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, price 2s. 6d.

BEETON'S GARDENING BOOK.

Containing full and prac

tical Instructions concerning General Gardening Operations, the Flower Garden, the Fruit Garden, the Kitchen Garden, Pests of the Garden, with a Monthly Calendar of Work to be done in the Garden throughout the Year. With Illustrations. Post 8vo, cloth, price 1s.; or with Coloured Plates, price is. 6d.

KITCHEN AND FLOWER GARDENING FOR PLEA. SURE AND PROFIT. An Entirely New and Practical Guide to the Cultivation of Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers. With upwards of 100 Engravings. Crown 8vo, boards, is.

BEETON'S PENNY GARDENING BOOK. Being a Calendar of Work to be done in the Flower, Fruit, and Kitchen Garden, together with Plain Directions for Growing all Useful Vegetables and most Flowers suited to adorn the Gardens and Homes of Cottagers. Price id.; post free, 11⁄2d.

GLENNY'S

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ILLUSTRATED GARDEN AND FLORIST'S DIRECTORY. Being an Every-day Handbook for Gardeners, both Amateur and Professional. Containing Notices of the Floral Novelties of the Current Year, Articles by Eminent Horticultural Authorities, Directions for Amateurs, Lists of London, Provincial, and Continental Nurserymen, Seedsmen, and Florists, &c. With numerous Illustrations. Published Yearly, in coloured wrapper, price is.

London: WARD, LOCK & CO., Salisbury Square, E. C.

NEEDLEWORK BOOKS.

THE STANDARD NEEDLEWORK BOOKS.

The Art of Needlework has from time immemorial been the support, comfort, or employment of women of every rank and age, so that any addition and assist ance in teaching or learning Needlework will be welcomed by the Daughters of England. In this belief, the Publishers offer to the public the "STANDARD NEEDLEWORK BOOKS."

New and Revised Edition.

BEETON'S BOOK OF NEEDLEWORK.

Consisting of 670

Needlework Patterns, with full Descriptions and Instructions as to working them. Every Stitch Described and Engraved with the utmost accuracy, and the Quantity of Material requisite for each Pattern stated.

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New and Revised Edition. Just as THE BOOK OF HOUSEHold ManagemENT takes due precedence of every other Cookery Book, so this extraordinary collection of Needlework Designs has become the book, par excellence, for Ladies to consult, both for Instruction in Stitches and all kinds of Work, and Patterns of elegant style and irreproachable good taste.

Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt edges, price 7s. 6d.

SHILLING

MADAME GOUBAUD'S

NEEDLEWORK BOOKS.

Imperial 16mo, ornamental wrapper, price is. each.

1. Tatting Patterns. With 66 Illustrations.
2. Embroidery Patterns. With 85 Illustrations.
3. Crochet Patterns. With 48 Illustrations.
4. Knitting and Netting Patterns.

With 64 Illustrations.

5. Patterns of Monograms, Initials, &c. 151 Illustrations. 6. Guipure Patterns. With 71 Illustrations.

7. Point Lace Book, With 78 Illustrations.

MADAME GOUBAUD'S

NEEDLEWORK INSTRUCTION BOOKS.
Imperial 16mo, ornamental wrapper, price 6d. each.

1. Berlin Wool Instructions. With 18 Illustrations.
2. Embroidery Instructions. With 65 Illustrations.
3. Crochet Instructions. With 24 Illustrations.

Home Needlework. With So Diagrams. Price Is.
Art Needlework. Illustrated. Price Is.
The Fancy Needlework Instruction Book.

Price Is.

(See also "The Ladies' Bazaar and Fancy-Fair Books.")

London: WAKD, LOCK & CO., Salisbury Square, E.C.

BEETON'S EVERY-DAY HANDBOOKS.

These books supply the information which is likely to be needed at times when more elaborate treatises are not available; the right things to do are here ready to the hand.

Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, price 3s. 6d. each.

1. Beeton's Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book. Comprising Instructions for Mistresses and Servants, and a Collection of over 1,650 Practical Recipes. With Hundreds of Engravings and 142 Coloured Figures, showing the modern mode of sending Dishes to Table. 2. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Gardening. A Popular Encyclopædia of the Theory and Practice of Horticulture. With many Engravings and Coloured Plates, made after original Water-Colour Drawings. 3. The Manners of Polite Society; or, Etiquette for Ladies, Gentlemen, and Families. Illustrated.

BEETON'S "ALL ABOUT IT" BOOKS.

These books are really what the title of the Series indicates-compendiums of all that is necessary to be known about the subjects treated of.

Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, price 2s. 6d. each.

1. All About Cookery. A Collection of Practical Recipes, arranged in Alphabetical Order, and fully Illustrated.

2. All About Everything. A Domestic Encyclopædia, consisting of Practical Recipes and Every-Day Information, fully Illustrated.

3. All About Gardening. A Popular Dictionary of Practical Gardening, containing full and practical Instructions in the different branches of Horticultural Science. Illustrated,

5. The Dictionary of Every-day Difficulties; or, All about

Hard Words.

6. All About Book-keeping. A Comprehensive Treatise, exemplified in Complete Sets of Account Books, arranged to form a course of practice in Single and Double Entry.

7. All About Etiquette. A Manual of Politeness and Good Manners, for Ladies, Gentlemen, and Families. Illustrated.

8. The Mother's Home Book. Containing Practical Instructions for the Preservation of her Own and her Infant's Health. Fully Illustrated.

BEETON'S SHILLING LEGAL HANDBOOKS.

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London: WARD, LOCK & CO., Salisbury Square, E.C.

ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOKS.

THE GOOD WORTH LIBRARY.

In the GOOD WORTH LIBRARY no works have been admitted in which the three requisites for good worth in a book,-namely, the promotion of knowledge, the furtherance of wisdom, and the charm of amusement-are not combined, and whose perusal will not satisfy the mind, as with good, wholesome and strengthening food.

is to Come.

Fully Illustrated and handsomely bound, cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. each. 1. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which With Memoir of the Author by H. W. DULCKEN, PH.D., and 100 Illustrations by THOMAS DALZIEL, Engraved by DALZIEL Brothers. 2. The Swiss Family Robinson; or, The Adventures of a Swiss Pastor and his Family on an Uninhabited Island. Translated by HENRY FRITH. With Coloured Plates and upwards of 200 Engravings.

3. Andersen's Stories for the Young. By HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. With many full-page and other Engravings.

4. Andersen's Popular Tales for Children. By HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. With many full-page and other Engravings,

5. Anne and Jane Taylor's Poetry for Children.

Containing

the Original Poems, Hymns for Infant Minds, and Rhymes for the Nursery. With many Engravings.

7. Fifty Celebrated Women: Their Virtues and Failings, and the Lessons of their Lives. With many Engravings.

8. Fifty Celebrated Men: Their Lives and Trials, and the Deeds that made them Famous. With many Engravings.

9. Robinson Crusoe. By DANIEL DEFOE. With Memoir of the Author and many Engravings.

10. The Wonders of the World, in Earth, Sea, and Sky. By UNCLE JOHN. With 123 Engravings.

II. Evenings at Home; or, The Juvenile Budget Opened. By With many Engravings.

Mrs. BARBAULD and Dr. AIKEN.

12. The Gentlemen Adventurers; or, Antony Waymouth. By W. H. G. KINGSTON. With full-page Engravings.

13. Sandford and Merton (The History of). By THOMAS DAY. With ico Engravings by DALZIEL Brothers.

14. The Boy's Own Sea Stories. Being the Adventures of a Sailor in the Navy, the Merchant Service, and on a Whaling Cruise. Told by Himself. With full-page Engravings.

16. Great Inventors: The Sources of their Usefulness, and the Results of their Efforts. With 109 Engravings.

17. The Marvels of Nature; or, Outlines of Creation. With 400 Engravings by DALZIEL Brothers.

18. The Boy's Own Book of Manufactures and Industries of the World. With 365 Engravings by DALZIEL Brothers.

London: WARD, LOCK & CO., Salisbury Square, E.C.

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