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R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO.’S SEED CATALOGUE. 
21) HIGH! CRADE!/BERTILIVZERS. 
Prices subject to change. Net, except where noted, jf: 0. 6. cars Boston. 
FARQUHAR’S LAWN AND GARDEN DRESSING. 
The best fertilizer in the market for all garden and 
farm crops. It is as dry and fine as meal; made of dried, 
finely pulverized blood, bone, potash, and refuse meat. 
The mixture is in such good mechanical condition that it 
can be applied conveniently byany one. For gardens and 
lawns it is most excellent, being not a stimulant merely, 
but a plant food of lasting, enriching properties. Price, 
per ton, $50.00. 
10 lbs., for about 1,000 square feet, 50 cents. 
25 ‘ 66 66 2,500 6 66 $1.00. 
50 66 “ “6 5,000 ‘“ os Tose 
TOO Sie Ee One -fOurthy acre... 3,00: 
FARQUHAR’S VEGETABLE,AND POTATO 
FERTILIZER: 
A new brand of extraordinary strength, being a com- 
plete fertilizer for vegetables and potatoes. It is very rich 
in phosphoric acid, potash, and nitrogen. Can be safely 
used alone. Apply 400 to 600 lbs. per acre, depending 
upon the previous manuring, cropping, etc., and present 
condition of the land. Price, per ton, $40.00; 100 lbs., 
$2.50; 50 lbs., $1.50; 25 lbs., $1.00; 10 lbs., .50. 
PULVERIZED SHEEP MANURE. 
PURITY BRAND. 
A soluble plant food highly recommended for all pur- 
poses where a first-class fertilizer is required. It is a pure 
natural manure, and has long been recognized as one of 
the most beneficial. As a top-dressing for lawns it is 
unequalled, being free from weed-seeds, and extremely 
stimulating. For lawns, it should be used at the rate of 
§00 pounds per acre. As a fertilizing agent for plants, 
indoors and in the open garden, it is one of the very 
best. Price, ton, $35.00; half ton, $17.50; 500 lbs., 
$8.75; 100 lbs., $2.00; 50 lbs., $1.25; 25 lbs., .75; I0 
IDS35) AOS SelDS.5).25.5).0 Ibs. Os 
PURE CANADA UNLEACHED HARDWOOD 
ASHES. 
Ashes lack ammonia and phosphoric acid, but contain 
potash and lime, which are essential, not only as plant 
food, but also as sweeteners of the soil and solvents of 
other plant food ingredients. So far as they supply 
potash and lime, they are “nature’s plant food.” These 
things have been extracted from the soil by the trees, 
and now we return them in the shape of ashes. Pure 
wood ashes is one of the best fertilizers for top-dressing 
tawns, grass lands, and seeding down; also for fruit of all 
kinds, especially strawberries, peaches, and apples. They 
are exceedingly valuable for lawns, imparting a rich dark 
shade of green, destroying insects and bad weeds, par- 
‘ticularly moss, which is so common on lawns. _ 100-Ilb. 
bag, $1.25; 200 lbs., $2.00; ton, $16.00. Jz car load 
lots of from 15 to 25 tons, at $11.50 per ton in bulk or 
$13.50 per ton in 1co-lb. bags delivered at any freight 
station in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, 
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and to any station in Maine 
except points on the Maine Central R.R. 
PURE GROUND BONE 
Is made from the best quality of bone, finely pulverized 
by improved machinery. It is far superior to some 
ground bone in the market, which is often composed of 
refuse bones from which the plant-food has been largely 
removed in manufacturing glue and other products. 
Analysis: Nitrogen, equal to Ammonia, 3 to 4 per cent.; 
Phosphoric Acid, 22.80 to 25.23 per cent.; equal to 
Bone Phosphate, 50 to 55 per cent. Price per ton in 
200-lb. bags, $29.50; per ton in 100-lb. bags, $30.00; 
varrel, 250 lbs., $5.00; 100 lbs., $1.80; 50 lbs., $1.00; 
25 Ibs... .75510.1bS.;...35, 
INCH BONE FOR GRAPES, ETC. 
The very best fertilizer for grape vines, fruit trees, 
shrubs, and trees of all kinds. The pieces of bone vary 
from one-fourth inch to one inch in size. Should be 
used at setting out, mixed with the soil to the depth of a 
foot or more. Price, in bags or barrels, 214 cents per lb.; 
ton, $34.00. 
SCOTCH SOOF. 
A fertilizer and fungicide. One of the best remedies 
and preventatives for mildew, when mixed with sulphur, 
at the rate of two-thirds soot, one-third sulphur. Asa 
fertilizer it promotes growth, and heightens color of 
foliage and flower. Price, 100-lb. bag, $2.50. 
SALE. 
Valuable as a top-dressing for asparagus, etc. 
early in spring. Bag, 140 lbs., $1.25. 
Apply 
CLAY’S FERTILIZER. 
Imported. A safe, lasting, productive, economical fer- 
tilizer for all horticultural purposes. A reliable vitalizing 
medium for conservatory, greenhouse, and garden. Can 
also be used to prepare and preserve the lawn in splendid 
condition. Highly recommended by leading horticultur- 
ists in the cultivation of flowers, fruit, and vegetables for 
exhibition, pleasure, and profit in the highest perfection. 
Original bags, 112 lbs., $7.00; 56 lbs., $4.00; 28 lbs., 
$2.25; 14 lbs., $1.25; 7 lbs., .75. 
THOMSON’S. VINE, PLANT, AND VEGETABLE 
MANURE. 
Thomson’s Vine and Plant Manure is the result of long 
experience and experiment. It is so compounded as to 
combine immediate with lasting effects,and is a perfect 
food for the. Vine and other fruit-bearing plants; also for 
nearly all other Plants and Vegetables. PROPORTIONS 
IN WHICH: THE MANURE MAY BE USED.— 
VINE BORDER. — For making up a vine border, 14 cwt. to 
the ton of loam. For surface dressing vine borders, 2 
lbs. per yard super, applied early in the season and 1 |b. 
per yard super after grapes are thinned; mix with a little 
fine soil when roots are quite near the surface; if not 
very near the surface, sprinkle the manure on and fork it 
in. In both cases give a slight watering. See that the 
thorough watering of the borders is done some time 
previous to the top dressing. PEACHES, NECTARINES, 
Fics.— For borders for peaches, nectarines, figs, etc., 
Yj cwt. to the ton of loam. Original bags, 112 lbs., 
$7.00; 56 lbs., $4.00; 28 lbs., $2.25; 7-lb. tin, $1.00. 
BRADLEY’S COMPLETE; MANURES FOR ALL 
CROPS. 
Specially Adapted to Intensive Farming and Market 
Gardening. 
These manures are the richest and most effective fer- 
tilizers sold, as has been abundantly proved by results in 
the field. They are manufactured from the very best 
plant-food materials obtainable. In mechanical condition 
they are unequalled. They drill perfectly in any machine. 
They are divided intoclasses, based upon exhaustive field 
tests, and not upon theoretical experiments of the labora- 
tory, the fault of “special crop fertilizers,” in which 
| common sense and practical experience are sacrificed for 
| the sake of theoretical hobbies. 
Bradley’s Complete Manures are, in the fullest sense, 
| “complete” fertilizers, and the several grades furnish 
_ complete plant-food in the best forms for all crops grown. 
