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Canada on receipt of price. Catalogue sent on receipt of Ten Cents in postage stamps._ Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. GARDEN AND FOREST: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art and Forestry. GARDEN AND FOREST will be devoted to Horticulture in all its branches, Garden Botany, Dendrology and Landscape Gardening, and will discuss Plant Diseases and Insects injurious to vegetation. Professor C. S. SARGENT, of Harvard College, will have general editorial control of GARDEN AND FOREST. Professor WM. G. FARLOW, of Harvard College, will have editorial charge of the Department of Cryptogamic Botany and Plant Diseases. Professor A. S. PACKARD, of Brown University, will have editorial charge of the Department of Entomology. Mr. WM. A. STILES will be the Managing Editor. GARDEN AND FOREST will record all noteworthy discoveries and all progress in science and practice within its field at home and abroad. It will place scientific information clearly and simply before the public, and make available for the instruction of all persons interested in garden plants the conclusions reached by the most trustworthy investigators. Arrangements have been made to figure and describe new and little-known plants (especially North American) of horticultural promise. A department will be devoted to the history and description of ornamental trees and shrubs. New florists' flowers, fruits and vegetables will be made known, and experienced gardeners will describe practical methods of cultivation. GARDEN AND FOREST will report the proceedings of the principal Horticultural Societies of the United States and the condition of the horticultural trade in the chief commercial centres of the country. GARDEN AND FOREST, in view of the growing taste for rural life, and of the multiplication of country residences in all parts of the United States, especially in the vicinity of the cities and of the larger towns, will make a special feature of discussing the planning and planting of private gardens and grounds, small and large, and will endeavor to assist all who desire to make their home surroundings attractive and artistic. It will be a medium of instruction for all persons interested in preserving and developing the beauty of natural scenery. It will co-operate with Village Improvement Societies and every other organized effort to secure the proper ordering and maintenance of parks and squares,
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