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=WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON= =3 and 5 West 18th St., NEW YORK.= FLOWERS. PLANTS. FREE, For the Postage =Vicks Illustrated Monthly Magazine= The Famous Gardening Authority Is a veritable mine of information about Flowers, Vegetables, and Fruits, and how to grow and care for them successfully, whether in a limited city lot or larger village garden. A farm home may be brightened at a slight expense, and the grounds made attractive instead of bare and forbidding. The price of =Vicks Illustrated Monthly Magazine= is Fifty Cents per year, but if you will =RETURN THIS COUPON WITH SIX TWO-CENT STAMPS= the magazine will be mailed to you regularly for six months, for trial. Here is a chance to get a first-class, bright monthly magazine for simply the postage. Write at once to VICK PUBLISHING CO., Rochester, N. Y. VEGETABLES. FRUITS. * * * * * =Stearns Bicycles= [Illustration] LIKE COINS OF ANCIENT GREECE are works of art and represent the highest possible value. The 23-inch frame "Yellow Fellow" and 21-inch drop frame are just the proper sizes for growing boys and girls. If you write E. C. Stearns & Company, asking them to send you their new illustrated catalogue, and will enclose two 2-cent stamps, they will send you an exact reproduction of the famous ten-drachm piece of Dionysius, the Tyrant of Syracuse. Dionysius went over to Syracuse with his four-horse chariot, called the quadriga, and, much to the surprise of the Greeks, won the coveted laurel wreath at the Olympian games. The Greeks refused Dionysius his trophy, however, and, in his rage, he caused to be struck off in commemoration of his victory the most magnificent coin the world has ever known. The coin was made by the greatest sculptor of Athens, Simon. The coin is about as large as the American silver dollar, and is carved in high relief, on one side showing Dionysius in the quadriga being crowned by winged Victory and on the reverse, Arethusa, the tutelary goddess of the sea, surrounded by her dolphins. Send two 2-cent stamps for this bea
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