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PURE, FINE-GROUND BONE FOR FERTILIZING. 



Recommended for vine borders and fruit trees ; if sown thickly, forms an excellent restoring 

 and quickening power on grass-plots in gardens, pleasure-grounds, etc., but should be rolled in 

 after sown ; also fine for mixing with the soil for potting plants. It is applicable to aLnost all 

 kinds of plants, also acting as an agent in making the soil more porous by its slow decomposi- 

 tion. The quantity used per acre is from three to four hundred pounds. Per sack of 200 lbs., 

 $5 ; per ton, $40 ; for less quantities than a sack, o cts. per lb. By mail, 25 cts. per lb. 



LAWN FERTILIZER. 



The Philadelphia Lawn Fertilizer is specially adapted to Grass and Flowers. After years of 

 trial, sown broadcast, proves that it stimulates'the rapid growth of grass and flowers at less cost 

 than stable manure. It is composed of soluble chemicals, highly concentrated, free from odor 

 or lumps; 600 lbs. sufficient for an acre; 10 lbs. for 25 feet "square. In sacks of 100 lbs., $5 ; 

 50 lbs., $3 ; and 10 lbs., 75 cts. By mail, 25 cts. per lb. 



SUNDRY ARTICLES. 



Jeesey Peat, for potting plants, etc., 'to be mixed with the soil) Per barrel, $2 00 



Sphagncm Moss, used by Florists for packing plants for shipment; also for growing 



Orchids, etc Per barrel, 2 00 



Tobacco Stem.s, for fumigating plants to destroy insects, and if used every week or two, 



it not only destroys the insects, but promotes a healthy growth of the plants. Per 



lb., 25 cts. ; per sack of 5 bushels 2 00 



"We recommend the ErEEKA FuMiGATOE. See our list for sizes and prices. 



PwOFFEA, the best and strongest material known for tying plants, vines, etc Per lb. 75 



Bass (Cuba:, for tying up plants and vines, budding, etc Per lb. 60 



Mats (Russian Bassj, for tying, budding, and covering hot-beds, second-hand. 1st quality, 



25 cts. each Per doz, 2 50 



Mats (Russian Bass), second-hand, 2d quality. Used for the same purpose as the above, 



20 cts. each Per doz. 2 00 



THE FARMER'S AND GARDENER'S LIBRARY. 



We keep in stock the following val'iable and leading works on Agriculture, Horticulture, 

 and Rural affairs, which we will mail on receipt of price : 



Allen's fR. L. <fc F. L.) New American | Downing's Selected Fruits $2 50 



Farm Book, revised and enlarged $2 50 ] Downing^s Landscape Gardening (New 



Allen's Diseases of Domestic Animals 1 00 j Edition; 6 50 



Allen's (L. F.i Rural Architecture 1 50 I Downing's Ladies' Companion to the 



Alpine Plants Illustrated (David Wooster) | Flower Garden 2 00 



English work. 2 vols., each 9 00 ' Durand's Strawberry Culture (paper cov.) 50 



American Bird Fancier ''jjaper cover) 30 Eastwood's Cultivation of the Cranberry^ 75 



American "Weeds and Useful Plants 1 75 Elliott's Lawn and Shade Trees 1 00 



Baltet's Grafting and Budding 1 75 ; Emerson's Farmer's and Planter's Ency- 



Bamard's Gardening for Money 1 50 I clopsedia 6 00 



Barry's Fruit Garden CNew Edition) 2 50 ; Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Sketches 



Bement's (C. N.j American Poulterer's | of its Scenery, etc. /paper, 75 cts.) cloth, 1 25 



Companion 2 00 i Farm Gardening and Seed Growing (Brill) 1 00 



Breck's Book of Flowers fNew Edition)... 1 75 ; Field's Pear Culture 1 25 



Bridgeman's American Gardener's Assis^ 



ant CNew Edition) 2 00 



Broom Com and Brooms fpaper cover).... 50 



Flint fC. L.j on Grasses CNew Edition) 2 50 



Flint's Milch Cows, and Dairy Husbandry. 2 50 

 Forest Trees ''Bn.-ant) 1 50 



Buist's Flower Garden Directorv 1 50 French's Farm Drainage 1 50 



Buist's Family Kitchen Gardener 1 00 i Fuller's Grape Culturist 1 50 



Burr's Vegetables of America, Splendidly j Fuller's StrawberrvCulturisti' paper cover) 20 



Illustrated 3 00 j Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist 1 5iti 



Canary Birds ''paper cover .50 cts. ) cloth. 75 i Fuller's Forest Tree Culturist 1 00 



Chorltou's (William) Grape Growers' i Fulton's Peach Culture 150 



Guide : 75 j Gardener's Dictionary (G. W. Johnson). 



Copeland's Countrv Life (New Edition), Engrlish work 3 50 



revised and enlarged 5 00 | Gardening for the South (Wra. N. White). 2 00 



C-orbett's Poultry Yard and Market ("paper Gray's How Plants Grow 1 25 



cover, .50 cts.^ in cloth. 75 Gregory on Squashes (paper cover) 30 



Dadd's American Cattle Doctor 1 50 Hand-Book of the Grasses of Great Britain 



Dadd's Modern Horse Doctor 1 50 I and America I 50 



Dana's Muck Manual 1 25 I Harris' Insects Injurious to Vegetation, 



Darwin's Variations ofAniraals and Plants ! Illustrated 4 00 



under Domestication. 2 vols., each. ... 2 50 Harris' Talks on Manures 1 50 



Downing's Fruit and Fruit Trees of Amer- Herbert's Hints to Horsekeepers 1 75 



ica (B^vised New Edition) 5 00 I Henderson's (P.) Gardening for Profit 1 50 



