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19. The housekeeper's encyclopedia of useful information for the housekeeper in all branches of cooking and domestic economy: containing the first scientific and reliable rules for putting up all kinds of hermetically-sealed fruits, with or without sugar, in tin cans or common bottles; also rules for preserving fruits in American and French styles; with tried receipts for making domestic wines, catsups, syrups, cordials, etc. ; and practical directions for the cultivation of vegetables, fruits, and flowers, destruction of insects, etc., etc.

20. A dictionary of diet: being a practical treatise on all pabulary and nutritive substances, solid and fluid with their compounds, used as food; including the observations of eminent philosophers, physicians, gastronomers, and other industrious inquirers into the true science of eating, drinking and preserving health, through the medium of well regulated and easily digestible food, founded on the known specific properties of all kinds of human ailment : with the means of prevention and cure of the diseases resulting from a deranged condition of the organs of digestion, etc., etc.