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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4292, 23 February 1884, Page 12 (Supplement)

HORTICULTURE, by W. Go section, which covers 10Gpage'«withnur-\c bus illustrations, special attention is paid to the management of Fruit Trees, with such simple directions and diagrams' for Pruning. Grafting, Budding, etc., that any settler, without previous knowledge or skill, can manage his orchard profitably. POULTRY.-'by'Thomas Allexs This;section, comprising 11 pages, gives specimens of tho best varieties of Poultry, with directions for their Management, Designs of Fowl-houses, Treatment of Diseases, etc. USEFUL MECHANICAL CONTRIVANCES. 31 Pages: Under this heading have been classed a, variety of contrivances, which ■will be found useful to the settler; hints and helps for the bush; cheese presses, carts, fences, gates, measuring and splitting timber, measuring garments, erecting walls and banks', windmills, &c, &c." PRESERVING AND STORING, 30 Pages: Includes the best methods of storing,drying, bottling, canning, and preserving fruit; the most approved modes of curing bacon and ' hams, with'design for smoke-house; Instructions for pickling, sauces, vinegar-making &.c.\ &c. '....' INSECTS AND AGRICULTURAL ENEMIES, by Capt. Bkoun : In this section, V Captain Bronn,. the well-known New Zealand entomologist, supplies the results of years of observation upon native and imported insects, useful and injurious, with illustrations of the same, and directions for destroying garden and ©rehard pests. SCIENTIFIC BEE CULTURE, by J. Hopkins This interesting department has been fully and skilfully treated by Mr Hopkins, of Matamata, whose works on tho subject are well known throughout New Zealand. WINE-GROWING AND MANUFACTURE, Practical Arboriculture, Tobacco Culture, Hop Growing and Silkworm Rearing, with Cultivation of Olives, Tea, &c, are each exhaustively treated. THE FAMILY DOCTOR, by Dr. Knight akd Mr. J. A. Pond, of Auckland, comprises Treatises on both Allopathic and Homoeopathic systems, compiled with special regard to Country Settlers. To it is appended a MAORI PHARMACOPffiLV giving the medicinal properties of New Zealand Bush Trees and Plants. COTTAGE COOKERY AND FOODS, covering 120 pages, is a complete Treatise on Cookery, according to the best methods, and comprises some thousands of easy receipts for tasty dishes, without the flummery of ordinary Cookery Books. HOUSEHOLD HINTS extend the information in the Cookery Books with many usefu. directions on Household Management, COTTAGES FOR SETTLERS.: Four designs of Useful Cottages, with plans and detailed Estimates, are given,«o ths.t fie settler can simply copy the specification ar 1 send to the mill and procure the complete material for the erection of his house. ALES, WINES AND SYRUPS, PAINTING, TANNING. SOAP-MAKING, ami HINTS FOR PROSPECTORS, form separate sections, containing a large amount of Valuable Information. LEGAL MEMORANDA, prepared by Mr Thomas Cotter, Auckland City Solicitor, giving a digest of all the laws which it is imperative for a settler to know, including Fencing Act, Scab in Sheep Act, Timber Floatage, Roads, etc., etc. The above recapitulation only enumerates the General Heads indicating the scope of the work. It is the largest Book ever published in Australasia, is Handsomely Bound in Cloth, and published at an exceedingly (Low Price, for a Cyclopaedia of this description — namely, TWENTY SHILLINGS (20s). JJeNRY BRETTW V N D H A M - S T R E E T, publisher. W • C« DENN ES, THE GREAT SEWING MACHINE IMPORTER, Has just received a Large Shipment of Challenge Machine of the World— XHE WHITE CO.'S SEWIN MACHINE, The Most Silent The Cheapest The Most Rapid The Highest Arm The Most Simple The Largest Table The Mast Easy to Work The Best Cover The Most Durable The Simplest Shuttle The Most Elegant The Neatest Stitch Tbeadlb Machines, from £5 10a. DENNES'S CHALLENGE BICYCLES AND TRICYCLES. BICYCLE. !Bin„ from £10. f~S2MOW CASH Oft DEFERRED PAYMENTS. -,-''. - ' ■ . ..- Hi TREMENDOUS REDUCTION. . I ■ LITTLE WERTHEIM..:...: £3 15s. FRISTER AND ROSSMANN. from £4 Is FRISTER & ROSSMANN TREADLE MACHINE, from £8. STANDARD TREADLE ""-"• ' '' MACHINE, " :<■■- fI . £6 108. Mr Dennis does not intend leaving Auckland, put is going-more extensively than ever into the Sewing Machine and Bicycle Trade, having purchased for cash a large quantity of that King of Machines, the White; also, Wertheim, Jisterand Rossman, Standard, and Domestic, direct from the factories; the latter 10s below any one in town. Defies competition. TH E Q- REAT T\ EPO T, QUEHN-STREET. T IME • B T L^ OF BEVONPORT tlf AND LAKE COACHES. . ALTERATION FOR FEBRUARY. Leave Victoria Wharf. Devonport, at 10.20 a-m., 2 p.m.. and 1.20 p.m. Leave Takafuna School-house at lLlsa.Ri • 3 p.m.. and 5.16 p.m. , »."•*""-"■•» SuNDA-sra-Leavo Devonpprt at 10.15 Cm. and' 3 p.m. Leave Lake School-house IL3O a.m ; andSpjn. . ' " ■ FARE EACH WAY, ONE SHDJLING. • "jr.-3. QUICK. Proprietor '