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We offer the following testimonials from practical parties, gentlemen whose judgment in such 

 matters is fully reliable. 



From Andrew S. Fuller, Author of Small- Fruit Culturist. 



We have had an opportunity of testing this tomato the past season, and believe it will prove to 

 be one of the very best varieties in cultivation. 



From J. F. C. Hyde, President of Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 I have known the General Grant Tomato now for two years, and last season raised a few toma- 

 toes of this variety. I think it is the smoothest and every way the handsomest variety I have ever 

 seen : it is quite solid, equal in this respect to any other variety. I have regarded it as a great 

 acquisition to our list of tomatoes. 



From C. N. Brackett, Chairman of the Vegetable Committee, Mass. Horticultural Society. 

 Gents. I have given the new tomato, "General Grant," a fair trial of two seasons, in con- 

 nection with a dozen or more of the new varieties recently introduced, such as the Cook's Favorite, 

 Tilden, Valentia Cluster, Keyes, Eureka, Maupay, Foard, Cedar Hill, &c., and find it surpasses 

 them all in earliness, productiveness, and all the qualities which I consider requisite in a first- 

 class market variety ; and can heartily recommend it. No person, I think, who makes any of the 

 above-named varieties his standard of excellence, will, after giving this variety one season's trial, 

 grow any other. Its extraordinary beauty, and singular richness of color, command the attention 

 of the most careless observer. 



From C. Bates of Kingston, Originator of Bates 's Early Tomato. 



The General Grant Tomato I have tried with several other varieties ; viz., Cedar Hill Foard, 

 Tilden, Keyes, Bates's Early. The General Grant beat all in earliness except Bates's Early : 

 with that it was about '-neck and neck." But for beauty of form, color, and compact flesh, it 

 stands head and shoulders above all the rest. Planted the isth of May ; fruit ripe 6th of Au- 

 gust. 



From George Hill, Esq. , A rlington, Mass. 



Have grown the General Grant Tomato the past year, and consider it one of the very best in 

 every respect. It ripens with me earlier than the Cedar Hill, Keyes, and Boston Market ; of fair 

 size, very solid and heavy, uniform, and fine flavored. 



CAUTION. 



On account of the immense popularity of this variety, we find that parties are offering for sale a 

 spurious seed, desiring to obtain large prices for the common sorts. We would therefore recom- 

 mend parties purchasing only those sealed packets bearing our name, as none other can be gen- 

 uine. 

 Price per packet, 25 cts. ; 5 packets, $1.00. Prices to the trade on application. 



Alsike Olover. 



This variety is a native of Alsike, Sweden ; perfectly hardy ; does not heave in winter or 

 spring from frost ; stands drouth well ; and is in every respect superior to the 

 common red variety ; highly recommended for sheep .... Per Ib. .75 



H<n tri Icin To "baeeo. Per pkt, 



The Best Smoking Tobacco in the World. Introduced by Baynard Taylor, the well-known 

 traveller, from the East, where it is esteemed the most delicate-flavored tobacco 

 known. It is quite distinct from the American tobacco, having a soft glossy- 

 surfaced leaf, quite unlike the coarse foliage of the Virginia tobacco. Culti- 

 vated precisely like the American, in rich soil 25 



Rare Tree-Seeds. 



Among which are the Palma Regia, or Royal Palm ; Pitheeolobium Montanum ; Umbrella 

 Tree : Algerba {beautiful tree, delicate foliage) ; Kukui (Candlenut) ; Acacia ; 

 Braziliana (seed-pods three feet long) ; Carthartocarpus ; Fistula ; Seligua 

 Dulce (St. John's Bread) 50 



California Evergreens or Conifera. 



Pinus Coulteri, Pinus Insignis, Pinus Lambertiana, Pinus Ponderosa, Muricata, Fremonti- 

 ana, Picea Grandis, Cupressus Marcrocarpus, Sequoi Gigantea (Big Tree of 

 California) 50 



