208 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS March, 1906 
Seeds 
EW businesses have more than rounded a 
century. To recognize this lengthened es- 
tablishment of a continuous enterprise is 
DID YOU RECEHI \ ] EB to grasp at once a broad fact in its prominent 
position. “This period has been passed by a 
representative house of the first order in the 
seed industry, J. M. Thorburn & Company, 
Our 1906 a firm of wholesale growers and exporters of 
current and world wide repute in its heavy 
distribution of goods in all directions and 
one long experienced in the requirements of 
interior and foreign trade. It received the 
gold medal at the Paris Exposition, 1900, the 
same highest award at the Pan-American, 
1g01, and the “Grand Prize,” at St. Louis 
in 1904. Grant Thorburn was the founder 
in 1802, and perhaps there is no better index 
of the evolution of the seedmen’s interest than 
a comparison of the early catalogues with 
the one just published, in which are repro- 
duced several photographs of the old issues of 
this company. The present number, the one- 
hundred-and-fifth annual, is profusely illus- 
trated, contains 144 pages, covers about six 
C ALEND AR ? hundred items and may claim to be the most 
e beautiful seed annual ever issued by this firm. 
It contains expert cultural directions in refer- 
ence to all kinds of garden, vegetable, shrub, 
hedge and tree seeds, lawns and lawn grass, 
We have sent out hundreds of them—but it is very pos- bulbs, roots and plants, medicinal herbs and 
sible your name is not on our list. If this is the case, and you — ff | @ complete assortment of kitchen-garden seeds 
OMe eee ict | | for private families. It tells all about its stock 
wou MIE VEO ave one, write us On your usiness letterneac of horticultural implements and garden requi- 
and we will gladly forward one, and also see that future adver- sites, including all the latest scientific devices 
tising issued by us reaches vou. and mechanical apparatus; illustrates flowers, 
& - c cereals, vegetables, grasses, _ cultivators, 
We want the name of every person interested in any way in such products # | mowers, sprinklers, pumps, syringes, pots, 
as we make, and every person who has any need for these products should be tubs, sprayers and harrows. It gives a list of 
horticultural books for sale, expounds the uses 
and qualities of fertilizers, insecticides and 
plant remedies and devotes several pages to 
especially interested in those made by us. 
Our MF Roofing Tin, Apollo Galvanized Sheets and Formed Roofing 
materials cannot be excelled, and we want you to know about them. the potato, the improvement of which has 
Write to-day for the Calendar—our supply is rapidly diminishing. Address been a pet hobby of this firm, the introduction 
our Advertising Department. of new varieties costing a great deal of money, 
time, and patience. It is just thirty years 
since the appearance of Thorburn’s White 
AMERICAN s | Peach Blow, a variety which, in its way, rep- 
SHEET © TIN PLATE m | resented the highest achievement in the im- 
provement of this staple article of food. Since 
COMPANY then the furrow of progress is marked step by 
FRICK BUILDING PITTSBURGH, PA. step by new productions. Late Rose, Beauty 
of Hebron, White Elephant, Thorburn, and 
Rural New Yorker were developed, till in 
1894 came the world famous Carman No. 1 
and Carman No. 3, both unsurpassed as main 
crop potatoes in cultivation to-day. Last year 
ee 7 mS another distinct advance step was made with 
BALL-BEARING its Noroton Beauty, a lineal descendant of 
ms ; Z speiee : 
ALA S h Pp lI the famous Peach Blow, being a seedling from 
Grand Rapids STEEL as U eys a seedling of that variety, and it proved a 
great success, receiving high praise from ex- 
pcan ja i are sold direct to Builders, perts for its productiveness and early matur- 
NING NO : lities. Address No. 36 Cortland 
Contractors and Mills at prices Ings Qualities; Less Os ortianat 
under the common, ordinary Street, New York, N. Y. 
goods. : 
@ If you make ten or ten thou- CO I I AGE DESIGNS 
sand window frames, we can WITH CONSTRUCTIVE DETAILS 
save you money and give you a : 
) : aaa No. 1. Coftage Designs 
superior sash pulley. We are ‘Twenty-five designs, ranging in cost from 
the largest sash pulley makers tn N _ eG 
corde We, shipidirecmmon o. 2. Low Cost Houses. ; 
the world Rast. ee Upward of twenty-five selected designs, 
through dealers and jobbers originally costing from $750 to $2,500 
everywhere. No. 3. Modern Dwellings ’ 
= : Twenty designs, at costs ranging from 
@ Write for catalogue and free samples and prices on half-gross, gross, barrel or any $2,000 to $5,000 
quantity. Direct from the makers to you. Inquiries welcome. No. 4. Suburban Homes 
Twenty selected designs, ranging in cost 
GRAND RAPIDS HARDWARE CO. om sb 0 ap 
One Dollar Gach, Postpaid. Sold Separately 
Munn & Co.,361 Broadway, NewYork 
17 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan | 
