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THE

PARLOR GARDENER.

A TREATISE ON THE HOUSE CULTURE

OF ORNAMENTAL PLANTS.

Translated from the French, and adapted to American use.

BY CORNELIA J. RANDOLPH,

OF VIRGINIA.

WITH ELEVEN ILLUSTRATIVE CUTS.

Price 75 cents.

THE ART

OF

SKETCHING FROM NATURE.

TWENTY-SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS.

Said to be the best elementary work on Drawing extant.

Price 40 cents.

A COMPLETE, ILLUSTRATED, AND EASY GUIDE

-TO

Pencil Drawing, Crayon Drawing and Painting, WaterColor Painting, Oil Painting, Painters' Photographs in Water and Oil, Grecian Painting, Oriental Painting, Antique Painting, and in fact all known varieties of Drawing and Painting.

Also, Leather Work, Moss Work, Feather Work, Wax Work, Cone Work, Shell Work, &c. How to Preserve Birds, how to make Aquariums, Magic Lanterns, Papier Mache Work, Paper Flowers, Vases, &c. ; in fact, a perfect Encyclopædia of all that is ornamental and useful.

To be used without a teacher; with rules for making all materials used.

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FOR THE

PARLOR AND GARDEN.

BY EDWARD SPRAGUE RAND, JR.

A splendid illustrated volume on the culture of Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Parlor, and Garden Flowers, Ferns, Bulbs, &c.; Instructions and Plans on the Building, Stocking, and Keeping Conservatories, Greenhouses, &c.; Waltonian Cases, Ferneries, &c.; Soil for the Flower Garden; List of Best Plants and Seeds; How to Propagate; Time of Planting and Flowering; in short, every information needed by the amateur or the most experienced gardener. It is a volume long needed, and the author's high reputation in these matters will insure a work that will supply every want.

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SCANDINAVIAN AND MEDIEVAL

MYTHOLOGY.

BY THOMAS BULFINCH.

In Three Volumes.

THE AGE OF FABLE,

THE AGE OF CHIVALRY,

LEGENDS OF CHARLEMAGNE.

These volumes, furnished in a neat box, are elegantly

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