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Your family will be delighted with the Rural New-Yorker. It is Pure in Tone. Sparkling, Conscientious, Original. 31st Year of its Age, 4th of its 

 present management. The Rural New- Yorker has distributed F R E E among its subscribers, some of the most valuable Harden and Farm Plants, 

 and Seeds, in cultivation. Among them may be mentioned the Beauty of Hebron Potato, the Cuthbert Raspberry, Blount's White Prolific Corn, 

 Mold's Ennobler Oats, Salix Pentandra, Hybrid Pentstemons, Iris f.ievigata, Vilmorin's Ovoid Golden Mangel, and many others. In its present 



The Rural offers, among others : 



1st— The White Elephant Potato, 



Which is of the largest size— best quality— and gives the greatest yields. 



2d.— The Rural Branching Sorghum, 



That produces an average of eight stalks from a single seed, and may be easily cut twice in this climate. Cattle and horses prefer it to corn. 



3d.— Argenteuil Asparagus. 



4th.— G-iant Dutch Purple Asparagus. 



Imported direct from France and Holland by the Rurat, New-Yorker. 



5th.— Washington Oats. 



A new variety that promises to be a hardier, taller, and a greater yielder than any other in cultivation. 



C^THESE IFT^IEIE IDISTI^IBTJTIO^TS 



Are made to subscribers from time to time, as new and desirable Plants or Seeds can be obtained in sufficient quantity for the purpose. 



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Praises and Congratulations from all Quarters. 



Mr. A. B. Allen, the founder of the American Agriculturist says: " I think you are publishing the smai test paper in the country, and also the 

 most suitable, useful and interesting to the rural population." 



Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant, says : "The Rural New-Yorker has the best list of contributors of any ) ape r of its class in the country and is doing 

 a noble work." 



Professor W. J. Beal, of the Michigan Agricultural College: "The Rural New-Yorker is now the best paper." 



Professor E. M. Shelton, of the Kansas Agricultural College: "The Rural New-Yorker has n ore influence and is more quoted than all 

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Pres. T. T. Lyons: "The Rural is the best paper I see." 



"I cannot afford to do without it," is the comment of hundreds of our subscribers. 



B. Pickman Mann, "For years I have taken the leading agricultural journals ai d they all seem tame when compared with the Rural New- 

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Peter B. Mead, Ed. Horticulturist, says: "The Rural New-Yorker is not afraid to tell the Truth in the interests of Agricultuie and Hor- 

 ticulture no matter whose individual toes'it treads upon." 



James M. Thorburn & Co.. says: "The crop specials of the Rural New-Yorker are invaluable to the country." 



fSF The Rural New- Yorker is the only journal that owns Experimental Grounds. Novelties, of all kinds are there tested, and their 

 merits or demerits impartially reported upon in its columns. 



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