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Every person interested in any way in the cultivation of the soil should own a copy of this work. To show the value of the work, the manner in which it has been executed, and the importance of the subject, it is sufficient to say, that the Legislature of Massachusetts expended ten thousand dollars in its preparation. The work surpasses in beauty and elegance anything of the kind ever before attempted in this country. The illustrations are very numerous and very superb, including nearly three hundred woodcuts in the highest style of the art, and nearly a hundred objects on steel colored from life by hand. It is issued in an octavo volume, beautifully printed at the University Press, Cambridge, on tinted paper, handsomely bound, and is one of the most important and valuable works of the kind ever issued from the press. Every farmer, every horticulturist, and every student of Natural History should have a copy. The New York Tribune says:-"Dr. Harris on Insects has become a standard work. 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