Image from page 93 of “Make your game, or, The adventures of the stout gentleman, the slim gentleman, and the man with the iron chest : a narrative of the Rhine and thereabouts” (1860)

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Image from page 93 of “Make your game, or, The adventures of the stout gentleman, the slim gentleman, and the man with the iron chest : a narrative of the Rhine and thereabouts” (1860)
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Title: Make your game, or, The adventures of the stout gentleman, the slim gentleman, and the man with the iron chest : a narrative of the Rhine and thereabouts
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
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Publisher: London : Ward and Lock
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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t. If a terrible murder has been committed 76 MAKE TOTJK GAME. there in the middle ages, so much the better. Imbuedwith this picturesque creed, it was with deep mortifi-cation that the travellers eyes were seared, betweenBonn and the Seven Mountains, by the view of a longrange of white buildings, too evidently brick, stuccoed,pierced with level ranges of distressingly mathemati-cally exact windows, and in whose rear two huge andlofty chimneys, of the received Manchester or Wolver-hampton pattern, emitted volumes of dense and sootysmoke. A mosque of commerce with minarets of smoke,murmured the stout gentleman, discontentedly. Its a soap-boiling establishment/ said the slimgentleman, conclusively. Its New-castle upon Shine, the man with theiron chest exclaimed, thinking he had said somethingwitty, and looking round for approval. But nobodylaughed; and when he tried to explain by a referenceto Newcastle-upon-Tyne, looks as much in sorrow asof anger were directed towards him. That unhappy

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YIL-.Y OF >-i.Y-CASTLi: ON EHINE. MAKE YOUR GAME. 77 man with the iron chest! he was always putting hisfoot in it. Now my dear friends and readers it is fast ap-proaching mid-day, and I put it to your kindness ofheart, and your common sense, whether it be neces-sary for me to describe, step for step, or knot forknot in water measurement, the progress of our threetravellers up the Rhine. Goodness gracious! howmany hundreds of times that days journey, fromCologne to Mayence, has been described. HasntTom Hood described it, facetiously! Hasnt LeitchRitchie topographed it in the most picturesque land-scape-annual sort of fashion! Havent Mr. HenryMayhews facile pen and Mr. Birket Posters fairypencil, brought the Rhine and its beauties, its drol-leries, and its legends, home to every recipient of ahandsomely-bound gift-book! Have we not TheRhine, by Victor Hugo ! solemn, fantastic, mystical,graphic, and grandiose. We have even had Rhinetours ex manibus parvulorum ; and Mr. Mark Lemcnhas

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Title: Harrisons’ nurseries
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Harrison’s Nurseries (Berlin, Md.) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Harrison’s Nurseries (Berlin, Md.) Seeds Nurseries (Horticulture)
Publisher: Berlin, Md. : Harrison’s
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and blue-black berries. 2 ft., .50 each, .50 for 10. Mahonia, Japanese (Mabonia Japonica). Haslarge, glossy, spiny leaves, yellow flowers andbluish black berries. 2 ft., .50 each, .50 for 10. Rhododendron Catawbiense Hybrids. Assortedvarieties. Magnificent evergreen shrubs, withlarge, deep green foliage and immense clusters ofgorgeous flowers. each, for 10, per 100. —»■»—ok—mi—m m m im m—«—ni—im—m—t—i—-m»—w|» Spruce, Douglas. Branches droop in a slightcurve from the trunk; foliage grows downwardfrom the side of each branch, the tips of whichbear 3- and 4-inch cones. Each 12 to 18 in 50 18 to 24 in 75 2 to 3 ft 1 00 Spruce, Rosters Blue. Foliage intense, silveryblue and very dense on the branch-ends; rapidgrower and has regular, slim branches. We havethe finest stock of this to be found in the UnitedStates. (See illustration, page 35.) Each 10 12 to 18 in 00 50 18 to 24 in 3 00 25 00 2 to 3 ft 4 00 35 00 3 to 4 ft 6 00 50 00

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Norway Spruce Spruce, Norway. During the past twenty-fiveyears the most widely planted Spruce. It is fast-growing, tall, graceful and handsome. At homein any place you put it, and is suitable for bothwindbreaks and ornament. (See page 40.) Each 10 100 1,000 6 to 12 in 15 5 00 0 00 12 to 18 in 20 175 15 00 125 00 18 to 24 in 25 2 00 17 50 150 00 24 to 30 in 30 2 25 20 00 175 00 30 to 36 in 35 2 50 22 00 200 00 3 to 4 ft 40 2 75 25 00 225 00 4 to 5 ft 50 4 50 35 00 300 00 Spruce, White. Has light foliage, with an agree-able odor. The cones are short and slim, less than2 inches long, and a glossy brown. Native in thenorthern United States and Canada. Hardy any-where, and one of the best evergreens for wind-breaks, shelter-groups and belts in the North andWest. Each 10 12 to 18 in 50 00 18 to 24 in 75 6 00 2 to 3 ft 1 00 8 00 HARRISONS TREES CAN BE DEPENDED UPON—THEY HAVE VIGOR AND VITALITY FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL NURSERY STOCK 45