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 Ihe <jlarid jiJpa. Cit.j The Spring-Time Cometh I New Publications. I quarterly. Fifty cents per year. Ad-

 The sweetly-fragrant Yellow Jessa- Fertilizers. Where the Materials dress Florida Chautauqua, Cincinnati,

;j JACKSONVILLE, FLA., FjfI.22, 1886.D. :I mine, the white blossomed Wild Plum, Come From-Where to get Them in Ohio.

 REDMOND, Editor. the snowy Dogwood, the Blue Violet, the Cheapest Form-How to Compound The New Guide to Rose Culture.

 I CHAS. W. DaCOSTA, Proprietor. I and many other of our native wild- Formulas, etc., etc. By J. J. 1886. A complete and very satisfac-

P Subscription. $2.00 per annum,in advance. wood beauties are blooming in the H. Gregory, A. M., author of workson tory catalogue and treatise on the

 RATES OF ADVERTISING. fields and forests ; while, in our gar- Cabbage Raising,Onion and Squash Queen of Flowers, from the great

 tracted.Payable in advance, unless otherwise con- dens, orchards and shrubberies, the Raising, etc., etc., Boston, Mass. Pressof American Rose Growers, Dingee &

 8PACE. WEEK{j, 1 MO. I 3 HO. 6 HO. ,1 YEAR eye is delighted with the varied efflorescence Rand, Avery & Co., 1885. A most Conard Company, West Grove, Chester -

 lsqr_ $2O0 $600 *12001 816001 s 22 00 of the Peach, the Spirea, the excellent and valuable treatise, here- county, Pa. Colored illustrationsand
 2 35O i 10 50 1100'' 18 00, 38 00
 cot. 6001 Ib 00 36 00 4S 001 6t 00 Japan Quiuce, the Rose, the Hyacinth, tofore noticed with high commenda- many wood cuts. Desirable.

 1.8 "" 1200 8 001 3600 2400 72 4800 00 00 6400 00 1800 85 00 be; Pansy and other of the "sweetsis- tion. Every cultivator of'even a garden .

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 I I FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION.
 terbood of flowers.
 1" 18 00 54 00 IOS 00 144 00 19'1 00 ought to have it. The publlishers -

 AUTHORIZED AGENTS The frost-smitten Orange trees, in will send it per mail for 50 Advantages of Such an Organization -

 To receive Subscriptions to this Paper: too many places, still look stark and cents. Shown at the Recent
 TBUBNEK& Co.,57 and 59 Ludgate Hil1!, London -
 England. bare ; but there is yet life, lusty and Valentine's Day, and Other Essays. Meeting.The .

 AMERICAN WESTERN NEWS NEWS Co.Co.,,Chicago New York., 111. vigorous, in the sturdy trunk and all- By Charles Lamb. One of the cheap
 Ocala Item
 L. Interlachen, Fla. Daily says : "The
 W. SIMS.
 1'. O. UPDEGRAFF & Co., Irvington, Ind. pervading roots ; and, ere long, they, and neat little "Book-Worm" issues of annual
 of the State Press As-
 WILL. E. SIMPSON,Nassau, N. P. meeting
 : too will don their
 shining: garniture of the Elzevir Library. Price, 3 cents.
 sociation has just adjourned. It was
 SPECIAL CLUB RA1ES. green, and bourgeon, bloom,and carry John B. Alden, Publisher, 393 Pearl
 held Gaines-
 We have and made will club arrangements THE DISPATCH with the with publishers their golden globes in the sunny air street, New York City. Send for his at our neighborng town
 ville and the
 greatly through good
 any of the tollowlng publications, which will of "fair Florida" as bravely as ever ,
 be mailed promptly upon receipt of price, for catalogues.The: offices of the citizens of Gainesville, it
 ONE YEAR. Truly, "Nature feels not any loss"- Tourist's Guide of Florida, and ,
 THE FLORIDA DISPATCH Regular Club I was a grand success. The central ideain
 AND Price. Rate. only man, in the great plan of this the Winter Resorts of the South. Illustrated
 American Agriculturist.............81.50 $2.00 S2.50 this Association of the editors of the
 Am. Bee Journal...... ....._........... 1.0J 2.00 2.3o progressive world, "looks before and with Maps and Wood Cuts.
 Atlantic Constitution................ 1.50 2-00 3.00 State is a commendable one. It is to
 Atlantic Monthly Magazine...... 4.00 2.00 4.75 after, and pines for what is not ;" 1886. A neat volume of 254 ,
 Country Gentleman......... ........- 2.50 2.00 3.50 pages meet for a friendly discussion of all
 Century Magazine..................... 4.00 2.00 5.00 heedless of the lessons of hope, courage forming an admirable guide for the
 Detroit Free Press....................._. 1.00 2.00 2.75 the current issues of the day, and a
 Electric Magazine...................... 5.00 2.00 5.2j and fortitude ever sounding throughthe tourist and traveler. Price, 25 cents.
 Florida Weekly Times............... 1.00 2.00 2.50 mutual and beneficial interchange of
 Family Story Paper..................- 3.00 2.00 3.75 great Hymn of Creation For sale, in Jacksonville, by Horace
 Fireside Companion.................... 3.00 2.00 3.75 4 ideas on all matters of State interest.
 ......_ Drew and all booksellers.Viek's .
 Frank Leslie s III. Weekly 4.00 2.00 4.75
 A of Fruit and Flowersto Besides this these annual
 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly... 3.00 2.00 4.00 Display meetings
 Frank Leslie's Sund'y Mag'zine 2.50 2.00 4.00 be Month Hence. Illustrated Monthly Magazine -
 Golden Days............................... 3.00 2.00 3.75 a afford an opportunity to come into
 Harper's Illustrated Weekly.... 4.00 2.00 1.75 Arrangements have been perfectedby for February, has, as frontis- closer social relations and thus avoid
 Harper's Illustrated Bazar......... 4.00 2.00 4.75
 Harper's 111. Young reople......_ 2.UO 2.00 3.00 which a unique and handsome display piece, a beautiful group of the new the most unpleasant and pernicious of
 Harpers Monthly Magazine...... 4.00 2.00 4.50
 Hotel news -,............................... 2.U 2.00 2.75 of Florida fruits, flowers, vegeta- Rosa Rugosa, with a number of pretty all the incidents to editing a
 Household..............._................. 1.10 2.00 2.2J newspaper,
 Lippincott's Monthly Magazine 3.00 2.00 3.7o bles and home products will be held wood cuts, and the usual variety of and that in those little personalitiesthat
 Nebraska Farmer........................ 1.00 2.00 275NorthAmerfcanlteview..5.00 and floral
 2.00' 5.75 in this city horticultural miscellany.One bad do
 commencing on Monday, create feeling-but no good.
 New York Weekly Bun.............. 1.00 2.00 2.50
 of the best of
 New York, Weekly Herald......... 1.00 2.00 2.50 March\ 22d, and continuing throughthe very publications All the arrangements for the enter-
 New York Weekly Tribune....... 1.25 2.00 2.75
 New York Weekly Times........... 1.00New 2.00 2.50 week. The directors are James its class. $1.25 per year. Jas. Vick, ment or the delegates were perfect,
 York Weekly World........ i.uO 2.00 2.50 Rochester New York.Sibley's .
 Popular Science Monthly........... 5.00 2.00 5.75 H. Paine, John Anderson and C. W. and the Item wishes to express its appreciation -
 Philadelphia Weekly Times...... 1.00 2.00 2.50 Tested Seeds. Annual. 1886.
 People's Journal...................._. 1.50 2.00 2.25 Barker. of these attentions.Mr. .
 Puck.............._..................._........ 5.00 2.00 5.50 Hiram Sibley & Co., Rochester New
 Rural Callfornlan......__..........._ 1.50 2.00 2.50 Communications should be addressedto C. H. Jones made a model presiding -
 (Southern Cultivator.................._ 1.50 2.00 2.75 York. A well-arranged and full cat-
 Scientific American..................- 3.20::: 2.00 4.25' Judge A. O. Wright, Secretary. officer, and the proof of the satis-
 Saturday Night..3.W 2.00 3.75 ... alogue, from a large and leading estab-
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 faction his services is that he
 Savannah Weekly News..... .... 1.25 2.00 2.50 gave was
 .............-......
 Southern Bivouac... 2.00 2.00 3.00 NOT FROZEN lishment.All .
 Southern Live Stock Journal. 2.00 2.00 2.75 !Major F. C. Saw- re-elected President for the epsuing

 St.the Nicholas Monthly................Magazine................ 3.00 2.UO 4.00 yer, of Beauclerc, Duval county, sendsus Garden Supplies. Illustrated year. Mr. Jones made a host friends

 (Scribner Centu9:s)................................ 4.00 2.00 5.00 nice fresh and sound Catalogue of Plants, Flower, Vegetable the members of the Associationwho
 Waverly Magazine..................... 4.00 2.00 5.00 a very orange among
 Western World.........._............... 1.00 2.00 2.00 and some green twigs, which he char- and Field Seeds, Trees, Small had not met him before, by his

 The,above although are we among are able the very to club best with publications others -- acterizes, (somewhat ironically,) as Fruits, Tools, etc. 1886. Robert J. courteous and able discharge of the
 write us for terms with any other paperor
 periodical, not in this list, and we shall "one of those frozen oranges from a Halliday, Baltimore, Md. A large, duties of his position. It was decided

 beerfully Remittances quote should club rates.be sent by Check killed grove, and some twigs, puttingout handsome, profusely illustrated cata- by the association to meet next yearat

 Money Order, Postal Note or Registered Let- We logue of 128 pages, containing descrip-
 nr addressed to a new growth. have plentyof Key West.

 C. W. DaCOSTA, trees which show like this," etc. tions (with price list) of everything in The editors of the State have begunto
 ACKMONVTLJ.1I:. FLA.
 All which is good and cheering news. the way of'plants, flowers, vegetables, appreciate the advantages of organ-
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 4 small fruits, etc., etc., and giving, in ization. Since the annual meeting a \

 Special to New Subscribers.From "ROYAL POINSIANA."-Mr. S. L. addition, an excellent Calendar or year ago the Association has grown

 Tibbetts well known Jacksonville "Guide to Seasonable Operations in
 and after this date, every new Our two-fold, and has now assumed the

 Seedsman and Florist, of 27 East Bay the Flower and Vegetable Garden, the dignity of an institution. As a me-
 subscriber to the DISPATCH, will receive "
 street, has kindly sent us a monster Conservatory, etc., being practicalhints dium through which to establish a

 a colored Map of Florida free. seed of the to the amateur cultivator. All
 pod, containing ripe "Royal harmony of ideas on all State matters,

 Scale 18 miles to the .inch. Poinsiana," a beautiful shrub or small florists and plant-growers should haveit. and to do away with a noxious sectional -

 4 tree heretofore successfully grown in Address as above. jealousy throughout the State,

 FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION.The South Florida. Fruit and Vegetable Culture. Issued the Press Association deserves the

 -. .- the Formula and :Peruvian
 next meeting of the Florida Press As- KAFFIR CORN.-The. demand for by Mapes encouragement and support of all.

 sociation will be held at Key West, on this new grain has been far greater Guano Company, 158 Front street, editors and the public. generally.
 .
 I New York. Address : Tysen&Smith, o -
 the second Wednesday in May, 1887. that have
 than we expected, so we
 .. .. Jacksonville, Fla. Arbor Day was pretty generally
 found it necessary to order a fresh sup- served the State
 HORTICULTURIST American Bookmaker. Monthly. $2 throughout judgingfrom
 THE MICHIGAN
 ply and hope to be able to fill all orders .
 ,
 Howard Lockwood Publisher the accounts in
 Detroit Mich. per annum. our exchanges ;
 published monthly, at ,
 in a few days. and 128 Duane New and shall be to hear favorable
 Com- 126 street, we glad
 by the "W. H. Burr Publishing -

 pany," at $1 per year, is an excellentand One man's word is no man's word ; York. accounts of the growth and progressofthe :

 valuable journal. we should quietly hear both sides. Florida Chautauqua. Published trees and plants.
















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