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MEEHAN'S NURSERIES

Though with the usual assortment of Fruits and Flowers
found in all leading Nurseries, we pay especial
attention to Ornamental Trees. We have nearly
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to a thousand varieties.
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ORCHIDS
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We have the most complete collection of
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Descriptions of specimens and a general
catalogue of stock can be had on application
either at
409 5th Avenue, New York City,
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SIEBRECHT & WADLEY.

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[Illustration: LAWSON 1838 POMONA NURSERIES 1888]

[Illustration: FARQUHARS' BOSTON SEEDS]

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PRACTICAL people are well pleased with the recent development in
horticultural journalism by which the young AMERICAN GARDEN absorbed
the old _Gardener's Monthly_, which included the _Horticulturist_,
started by Andrew Jackson Downing, over forty-two years ago.

I told our local society just what I really think the other day, that
you come the nearest my ideal of a Horticultural Monthly for popular
circulation of any of the makers of such literature.--CHAS. W.