™'S's™| J. BOLGIANO &, SON'S reliable 



- SEEDS- 



FOR 



BALTIMORE, MD. 



WE DEAL 

 ONLY IN 



SEEDS 



WE WANT 

 YOUR 



TRADE 



WE WILL 

 TREAT YOU 



RIGHT 



Something 



New. 



Cost of remittance 

 may, on all orders over 

 $1.00, be deducted from 

 the amount sent. 



Guarantee 



WE GUARANTEE 

 ALL SHIPMENTS of 



Seeds, when Remit- 

 tance accompany or- 

 der, to reach the 

 purchaser safely and 

 in good condition. 



OUR MODERN NEW HOME LIGHT AND PRATT STREETS YOU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME HERE. 



SEND ALL ORDERS TO 



BOLGIANO of Baltimore, Md 



OUR INTERESTS ARE NOT DIVIDED. 



SEEDS ALONE occupy our time and attention. Your orders are 

 handled by experienced men. We do not handle machinery, tools. 

 hardware, dairy and poultry supplies, dogs, chickens, birds, wagons, 

 harness, etc. Therefore, having no other interests at stake, we are 

 much better able to supply you at very low prices with fresh, care- 

 fully grown, reliable tested Seeds, than any farm implement or 

 agricultural supply house who only sell Seeds as a side issue. Your 

 orders, large or small, are given the same careful attention. No 

 orders too large for us to handle and none too small for our best 

 care. Mail us your orders.. 



By writing out your Order on the Order Sheets which accom- 

 pany this Catalogue, you will greatly facilitate our -work. 



Send by mail if you cannot get to see us. We will send you 

 Seeds that have been saved with great care. You will be 

 pleased with the crops, and satisfied with our prices. 



IF YOU ARE SATISFIED WITH US, with the goods you receive, 



the treatment we give you and your general business relations with 

 us, will you do us the favor of mentioning the fact to some of your 

 neighbors? If we can please you, we can please others, and we 

 assure you that we will be careful to make your friends more than 

 satisfied with the experiment. 



When Best to Order. — We are fully equipped for filling orders, 

 and supplied with New Crop Seeds. Order at once, so that you can 

 have your seed on hand ready to start planting your crops at the 

 proper time without any delay. 



Be Sure to Sign Your Name and Address.— If by boat or rail- 

 road say distinctly which boat or railroad to ship by and if freight 

 has to be prepaid add this amount to your order to prevent delay. 



If you have Rural Mail Delivery be sure to give the Name 

 and Number of your route, if necessary, when ordering. 



CHANGE OF ADDRESS.— If you have changed, or intend to 

 change your address, please let us know, and we will change it on 

 our books, so that you will receive our Catalogues at your new 

 Post-Office 



REDUCED EXPRESS RATES.— By our guaranteeing the Express- 

 age all the express lines in the United States and Canada, in the 

 traffic agreement, are now carrying seeds at a reduced rate of 20 per 

 cent, less than merchandise rates. 



CASH SHOULD ALWAYS ACCOMPANY THE ORDER.— We will 



be responsible for money sent by Post-Office Order, Express Money 

 Order, Bank Draft, Express or by Registered fetter. 



POST-OFFICE ORDERS cost, for any amount up to $2.50, 3 cents; 

 over $2.50 and not exceeding $5, 5 cents; over $5 to $10, 8 cents; over 

 $10 to $20, 10 cents; over $20 to $30, 12 cents; over $30 to $40, 15 cents; 

 over $40 to $50, 18 cents; over $50 to $60, 20 cents. 



EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS are issued by express companies at 

 their agencies, and cost, for amounts not over $5, 5 cents; $10, 8cents; 

 $20, 10 cents; $30, 12 cents; $40, 15 cents. 



BILLS, COIN OR STAMPS (we accept postage stamps the same 

 as cash) can be sent safely by registered letter, Every postmaster 

 is required to register any letter on payment of 8 cents extra postage. 



FREE DELIVERY BY MAIL.— We deliver free to any post-office 

 in the United States all vegetable and flower seeds offered in this 

 catalogue by the packet, ounce, quarter-pound. For half-pounds 

 and upwards add 8 cents per pound. 



BAGS CHARGED AT COST. 



SULPHO-TOBACCO SOAP. 



Free with each Order a BooHlet, "The Window Garden. 

 What to Grow and How to Care for it." 



A wonderful Insecticide and Bug Exter- 

 minator. Gives best results in quickly 

 exterminating all insect life on plants and 

 flowers in and out of doors. Effectively 

 destroys Squash and Potato Bugs, Currant 

 Worms, Lice, Green Fly, Red Spider and 

 all plant Insects. Unexcelled for spray- 

 ing Shrubs, Fruit Trees, Small Fruits and 

 Vines. For Domestic purposes it is inval- 

 uable as an exterminator of Moths, Cock- 

 roaches, Carpet Bugs, and is a superior 

 wash for Dogs and all animals. Prevents 

 Poultry Lice. Every insect will succumb 

 to this Insecticide. 



It is cheap, clean, harmless and non- 

 injurious to the tenderest growth. 



You cannot afford to be without Sulpho- 

 Tobacco Soap, if you desire to be suc- 

 cessful in plant culture. A trial will give 

 highly gratifying results. 



3-0z. CaKe makes 1 1/2 gallons solu- 

 tion, 10 cents, mailed postpaid 12 

 cents. 



8-0z. CaKe mattes 4 gallons solution, 20 cents, mailed post- 

 paid 25 cents. 



KILLS 



Sulpho- 



Tobacco 

 Soap 



INSECTS 



Customers can also Shop by Express, as all express com- 

 panies have purchasing departments in all their offices. If you 

 wish to order goods from us to be sent by express, ask for a Pur- 

 chasing Order Blank at any express office, and it will be supplied 

 and forwarded without charge, other than usual rates for return- 

 ing goods. 



Market Gardeners, Farmers' Clubs and Institutions want- 

 ing to purchase Seeds in unusually large quantities should "write 

 for special prices. We have made prices very low in this Cata- 

 logue, yet when a number of bushels or pounds are wanted we 

 can frequently supply at lower price than by the single pound 

 or bushel. In writing give us a list of quantities and varieties 

 required, and we will return list promptly with our lowest price 

 for the lot. 



Always remember that we can save you money, no mat- 

 ter where you live. Write us about any Seed you would like 

 to know of, and your letter will be answered the same day it is 

 received. If you wish to know exactly what the freight or ex- 

 press would be on any article to your station, write us and we 

 will tell you. 



Prices in this Catalogue subject to Variations. 



Special Quotations for Large Quantities. 



SPECIAL FOR SMALL GARDENS.— $2.00 Worth of Bolgiano's 

 Reliable Garden Seed will produce from $100 to $200 worth of 

 vegetables in any good Kitchen Garden. When vegetables come 

 fresh, each meal from your own garden they are very delicious. 



GUARANTEE. — There are hundreds of contingencies continu- 

 ally arising to prevent the best seeds giving satisfaction, such as 

 sowing too deep, too shallow, in too wet or dry soil ; insects of 

 all descriptions destroying the plants as soon as, or before they 

 appear; wet weather, cold weather, frosts, chemical changes in 

 the Seed induced by temperature, etc. For the above reasons it 

 is impractical to guarantee Seeds under all circumstances. We 

 give no warranty expressed or implied, as to description, purity, 

 productiveness, or any other matter of any seeds, bulbs or plants 

 we send out, and we will not be in any way responsible for the 

 crops grown therefrom. If the purchaser does not accept the 

 goods on these terms they are at once to be returned and the 

 money that has been paid for same will be refunded. We test 

 our Seeds before sending out. We cannot afford to send seeds 

 doubtful as to their vitality or purity. 



J. BOLGIANO & SON. 



LOOK FOR THIS SEAL IN BLUE ON EVERY PACKAGE AND SEE 

 THAT IT IS UNBROKEN. 



COPYRIGHTED 1904. 



J. BOLGIANO 4. SON. 



I TH 



AS TO OUR RELIABILITY. 



THE NATIONAL MECHANICS BANK OF BALTIMORE. I 



; Messrs. J. Bolgiano & Son, Baltimore, Md. t 



t Gentlemen — Replying to your favor of November 23rd, I I 



♦ beg to say that it gives me great pleasure to testify to the f 



| reliability of your old established firm, and also to the high t 



!i standing which it has held in the business community of J 



this city for so many years. Yours very truly, t 



James Scott, Cashier, f 



Whale Oil Soap CaKe, 10 cents, by Mail 15 cents. 

 Grafting Wax, 1/4 lb. 10c, 1/2 lb. 15c, lb. 30c, by mail 

 add 8c lb. 



SLUG-SHOT KILLS BUGS on rose bushes, currants, cabbage, 

 potatoes, etc. I lb, 10c, 5 lbs. 25c. 100 lbs, $4,00 



A LETTER TO YOU. 



Dear Friends :— 

 We take this opportunity to publicly thank you for your loyalty 

 to us during the past year. Never in the long history of our old estab- 

 lished firm were we better prepared with a full supply of the Truest 

 and Choicest Seeds than we were on New Year's Day. 1904. The 

 Great Baltimore Fire of February 7th, 1904, destroy ed our large store 

 and warehouse, corner Light and Lombard Streets ; also our ware- 

 house at 235 South Street. However, through the quick and gener- 

 ous assistance rendered us by the Seed Growers, we were soon filling 

 all our orders. Our customers proved the maxim, "A Friend in 

 Need is a Friend Indeed." They not only refused to take their 

 orders away from us, but in a large number of instances, largely 

 increased them. This loyalty gave vis new heart and we soon began 

 to see our misfortune was but a "Blessing in Disguise." 



Today with our handsome new home with every modern conven- 

 ience and equipment, we are better prepared than ever to supply 

 you with a complete line of Reliable Seeds at Low Prices. 



Come to see us, bring or send your orders early, so we can fill them 

 before the heavy rush of busy season. 



Wishing you a Prosperous Year, and thanking you again for your 

 past favors, we remain, 



Yours truly, 

 J. BOLGIANO & SON, BALTIMORE, MD. 



THREE THINGS WORTH KNOWING. 



We don't make our prices from 100 to 300% higher than they 

 should be and then g'et liberal and allow 25c worth of Seeds 

 extra on each dollar sent us, but we do three important thing's : 



First. — We charge every cent each item is worth, and not one 

 cent more. Compare our prices with any other Seed Catalogue and 

 when others say our prices are too low, remember our business stands 

 on nothing else but the fact we have made it pay farmers and 

 truckers, like yourself, to use our Reliable Seeds at these low prices 

 for 87 years. 



Second.— We will, in order that you might know many varieties 

 of our Reliable Seeds from your own tests, allow you to select two 

 pacHets of Vegetable Seed Free for each dollar sent us (except 

 New 1905 Varieties.) 



Third. — Money runs short sometimes before the wife has a chance 

 at the Flower Seeds, so if you do not take the two packages of Vege- 

 table Seeds you may select in their place for each dollar sent us 

 five pachets of Flower Seeds Free. 



CYCLONE UP-TO-DATE BUG 

 EXTERMINATORS. 



Who does not hate the job of killing the bugs by any of the old 

 methods? And just think of the loads of water required ! Contrast 

 these old methods with the new. These Bug' Exterminators weigh 

 only one pound, and one pound more when ready for use. You put 

 your Paris Green up in papers, as doctors do their powders, one-half 

 teaspoonful in each, and take a dozen powders and a bucket of water 

 to the field, and you have ammunition enough to kill the bugs on a 

 couple of acres of potatoes. You do the work at a moderate walk. 

 Only one shot at each hill and the whole plant, stalk, stems and the 

 upper and lower sides of the leaves are treated in such a perfect man- 

 ner as to kill every bug. while it is impossible to injure the 

 foliage. The people who have used these Exterminators in the 



J. BOLGIANO*. SON'SCYCLONE 

 UP-TO-DATE 



BUG EXTERMINATOR. 



50c. each. Five for $2.00. 



A dd 33c. if to go by wail. 



IN A STRONG PASTEBOARD BOX. 



past, saved their crops, because the work was so light and done so 

 quickly that there was no excuse for neglecting the job. Killing 

 the bugs is not one of the easiest jobs on the farm. Don't put off 

 getting a machine until your crop is half ruined. Begin early 

 With these Bug' Exterminators you can kill the hard-shell potato 

 bugs as readily as the soft ones. By beginning early you save the 

 trouble of killing millions later, and all the vitality of your crop is 

 saved. These machines combine some features not possessed by 

 other similar machines that have been put upon the market, and 

 which makes them superior to all others, 



