THE HOR TICUL TURAL AD VER TISER. 



A. D. COWAN & CO., 



GROWERS AND IMPORTERS OF 



CHOICE VECETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS, 



P. 0. Box 2541. 114 CHAMBERS ST., NEW YORK. 



We are the only seedsmen in the United States who make a specialty of private gardeners' trade, and furnishing 

 pedigree seeds for market vegetables. Two thousand growers of vegetables for the New York market plant our seeds; 

 and we are patronized by the principal private gardeners throughout the country. 



SAYNOR & COOK'S KNIVES, SHEARS, PUSH HOES, TROWELS, LAWN SCYTHES. &c. 



PEAT, FLORISTS' BONE, FOR ROSE CULTURE, GISHURST'S COMPOUND, REED CANES, &c. 

 CATALOGUE AND COLORED PLATE OF CLEMATIS COCCINEA FREE. 



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\n English Veterinary Surgeon anc-L'tiemist. 

 now traveling in this country, says that most 

 of the Horse and Cattle Powders sold here 

 are worthless trash. He sajs that Sheridan's 

 Condition Powders are absolutely pure and 

 immensely valuable. Nothing on earth will make hpns lav like Sheridan's Condition Powders. Dose. 1 teasp'n- 

 ftil to 1 pint food. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail for 8 letter-stamps. I. S. Johnson & Co , liosTON, Mass. 



CHEAP TREES AND SHRUBS. 



It is now well known that there is as much difference in the quality of trees as in the quality of dry goods. A yard 

 may be worth ten cents, or it may be worth a dollar. So the ten-cent tree may be a deai- tree, while the dollar one be 

 cheap. A tree which dies is a dear tree at any price— and not much less dear is one which lives, but is stunted for years 

 afterwards. Even under the most favorable condition trees will sometimes die, but the chances are reduced by getting 

 the best trees. 



We have trees so low in price that they barely pay the cost of digging, for those who prefer to take the risk— others, 

 frequently transplanted, at somewhat higher prices, but still cheap in proportion to quality. 



Our priced Catalogue, wholesale and retail, is now ready. Our collection, embracing over one thousand items, has 

 been too large to give it in the form of a descriptive list ; but a new feature of the present one is an attempt to make it 

 somewhat more of a descriptive catalogue than has been hitherto thought possible. 



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THOMAS MEEHAN, Nurseryman, 



GERMANTOWN. PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



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MOSS ROSES'BOSTON TEA ROSES 



Good strong iilants for F.all plantiiifr now ready, aI.«o a 

 fine lot of White Fringed Pinks, and Lily of the Valley 

 in large clumps. 



H. W. HALES, 



^•ti- Ridgewood Floral Nursery, RIdge wood, N. J. 



Carefully packed and shipped to all points in AVestem and 

 Middle States, at lowest Boston market prices. Price list 

 of Flowers and Florists' supplies sent on application. 



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WHOLESALE FLORISTS. 

 16.> Tremont Street, Boston. Ma^s. 



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A. WEEK. $12 a day at home easily made. Costly Out- 

 fit free. Address True & Co., Augusta. Maine. ja.l2 



MARYLAND FARMS. 

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