This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
Mr. J. C. Sloan, of Janesville, Wis, sends us a club of 20 subscribers for 1862, which he says he obtained by very little effort, and expects to add hereafter many additional names. One hardly knows what he can do until he tries, and the success Mr. Sloan has met with should stimulate each and all of our subscribers to do as well. Our lowest club price makes it the cheapest magazine of its kind and size in the country, and as we intend the volume for 1862 shall rival all others in its excellence, we commend it as a valuable investment. Janesville is situated on Rock River, seventy miles west of Milwaukee, and on the borders of one of the most fertile and beautiful of prairies. It is surrounded by a fine country, and settled by an enterprising and intelligent class of people. It has a fine water power well improved, is a railroad centre, and ranks high among the leading inland cities of the West. It is now a city of upwards of 10,000 inhabitants, and in society, educational advantages, commercial intercourse, and business spirit and activity, will compare favorably with any similar sized eastern town.
 
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