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THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



[October, 



VALUABLE PREMIUMS 



To Every Yearly Subscriber to the American Garden for 1883. 

 The remaining numbers for THIS YEAR FREE to those subscribing now. 



Encouraged by the great success of our premiums sent out in previous years, and desirous to introduce the 

 American Garden into every home, we offer special and most liberal inducements for the coming year. 



All articles offered are of actual merit and first-class in every respect. Several of them are now introduced 

 for the first time. Application for premiums should be made at the time of sending the subscription. 



All premiums will be sent by mail, prepaid, without additional charge to the subscriber. 



Every Subscriber for 1883, old or new, is entitled to One Premium, and may take his or her choice of either 

 ■of the following articles : 



SEEDS. 



(Practical directions for their culture are given 

 ■with eacli package.) 



Wild Garden Seeds. This novelty in the flower- 

 garden, extensively introduced by us, has proved 

 so successful, and has given such unanimous sat- 

 isfaction — enabling any one to have a profusion 

 of flowers all summer without expense— that we 

 continue it on our premium list. Each packet 

 contains a mixture of one hundred varieties of 

 flower-seeds, sufficient for sowing a square rod of 

 ground. No one who has not seen a Wild Gar- 

 den can form an idea of its brilliancy and unique 

 beauty. 



Miss's American Wonder Pea. (A sample 

 packet.) The superior merit of this unequaled 

 Pea is now so universally recognized, and its ad- 

 vantages over other varieties are so decided, that 

 no one can afford to cultivate a garden with- 

 out it. 



American Racer Pea. (A sample packet.) Now 

 first offered for sale, is considered the most desira- 

 ble round Pea. It is very early, productive, and 

 of best quality. Many of those who have received 

 it as a premium this year cannot say enough in 

 its praise. 



Subscribers who prefer making their own selec- 

 tion of seeds can select from B. K. Bliss & Sons' 

 Hand Book for the Farm and Garden (31 Barclay 

 Street, New- York. Mailed for six cents), as fol- 

 lows : 



For one subscriber, remitting $1.00, may be 

 selected seeds in packets to the amount of 20 

 cents. 



For two subscribers, remitting $2.00 in one 

 order, may be selected seeds in packets to the 

 amount of 50 cents. 



For five subscribers, remitting $5.00 in one 

 order, may bo selected seeds in packets, to the 

 amount of $1.50. 



For ten subscribers, remitting $10.00 in one 

 order, may be selected seeds in packets, to the 

 amount of $4.00. 



For twenty subscribers, remitting $20.00 in one 

 order, may be selected seeds in packets to the 

 amount of $10.00. 



The subscribers need not be all from the same 

 post-office, as the papers and premiums will bo 

 sent separately to each address ; but, to be entitled 

 to the clubbing premiums, all must come in one 

 order. 



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Clematis coccinea. Scarlet Clematis. A root of 

 this magnificent new climber. It is with much 

 pleasure that wo offer to our subscribers this 

 peerless novelty, a beautifully colored plate and 

 a description of which appeared in our Septem- 

 ber number. 



One bulb of Gladiolus Shakespeare, the best 

 white variety. 



One bull) of Gladiolus /scar Buchanan, the best 

 yellotv variety. 



TJircc bulbs of selected American Seedling Glad- 

 iolus, all different colors. 



One bulb of either Lilium speciosum rubrum, L. 

 sp. roseum, L. tenuifolium, or L. atrosanguiueum 

 grandiflormn. 



One bulb of Hi/acinthus candicans, a beautiful 

 hardy plant, of easy culture. 



Any one sending, in addition to his own, a new 

 subscription, may select for his own premium a 



bulb of Lilium Harrisii — the Lily — the most ex- I 

 quisite novelty iu this class. 



BOOKS. 



Any one subscribing for the Ainerican Garden, \ 

 and soliciting other subscriptions, may obtain a 

 Librarn free, under the following conditions: 



One subscriber, remitting $1.00, may select from 

 the. following books to the amount of 20 cents. 



Two subscribers, remitting $2.00, may select 

 books to the amount of 50 cents. 



Five subscribers, remitting $5.00, may select 

 books to the amount of $1.50. 



Ten subscribers, remitting $10.00, may select 

 books to the amount of $4.00. 



Farm and Garden. 



Allen's (R. L. & L. F.) New American Farm 



Book $2.50 



Barry's Fruit Garden 2.50 



Brackett's Farm Talk, paper, 50 cents; cloth, .75 

 Brill's Farm Gardening and Seed Growing . . 1.00 



Broom-Corn and Brooms, paper 50 



cloth 75 



Buist's Family Kitchen Gardener 1.00 



Flax Culture. By seven practical growers. . .30 



Gregory on Cabbages 30 



Gregory on Carrots, Mangold Wurtzols, etc. . .30 



Gregory on Onion Raising 30 



Gregory on Squashes 30 



Halsted (B. D.), The Vegetable Garden 10 



Hand-book of the Grasses of Great Britain 



and America 1 50 



Henderson's Gardening for Pleasure 1.50 



Henderson's Gardening for Profit 1.50 



Hop Culture. By nine experienced cultiva- 

 tors 30 



Johnson's How Crops Feed 2.00 



Johnson's How Crops Grow 2.00 



Nichol's Chemistry of the Farm and Sea 1.25 



Onions — How to Raise them Profitably 20 



Our Farm of Four Acres, paper 30 



cloth 60 



Potato Culture. (Prize Essay) 25 



Quinn's Money in the Garden 1.50 



Riley's Potato Pests, paper, 50 cents, cloth . . .75 



Roe's Play and Profit in my Garden 1.50 



Roe's Success with Small Fruits 5.00 



Silos and Ensilage 50 



Stewart's Irrigation for the Farm, etc 1.50 



Thomas's Farm Implements and Machinery, 1.50 

 Tobacco Culture. By fourteen experienced 



cultivators 25 



White's Gardening for the South 2.00 



Fruits and Flowers. 



American Rose. Culturist 30 



American Weeds and Useful Plants 1.75 



Breck's New Book of Flowers 1.75 



Buist's Flower Garden Directory 1.50 



Chorlton's Grape Grower's Guide 75 



Elliott's Hand-book for Fruit Growers, paper . . CO 



cloth 1.00 



Flowers for the Parlor and Garden (Rand) . . 2.00- 



Fuller's Grape Culturist 1 . 50 



Fuller's Illustrated Strawberry Culturist 20 



Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist. (New edition) 1.50 



Fulton's Peach Culture 1.50 



Galusha (O. B.), Luscious Fruits 10 



Garden Flowers : How to Cultivate (Rand) . . 2.00 



Hardy and Tender Bulbs (Rand) 2 00 



Heinrieh's Window Flower Garden 75 



Henderson's Practical Floriculture $1.50 



Husmaun's American Grape Growing and 



Wine Making 1 . 50 



Johnson's Winter Greeneries at Home 1.00 



Mohr on the Grape Vine 1 .00 



My Vineyard at Lake/view 1.25 



Orchids. Manual of Orchid Culture (Rand).. 2.50 



Pardee on Strawberry Culture 75 



Parsons on the Rose 1.50 



Popular Flowers ; How to Cultivate Them 



(Rand) 1.50 



Quinn's Pear Culture for Profit 1.00 



Rexford (E. E.), Flowers in Winter 10 



Rexford (E. E.), The Flower Garden, Annu- 

 als, etc 10 



Rexford (E. E.), The Flower Garden, Herba- 

 ceous Plants, etc 10 



Rivers's Miniature Fi'uit Garden 1.00 



Robinson's Ferns in their Homes and Ours. . 1.50 

 White's Cranberry Culture , 1.25 



Horses. 



Dadd's Modern Horse Doctor, 12mo 1.50 



Dadd's American Reformed Horse Book 2.50 



Herbert's Hints to Horse-keepers 1.75 



Miles on the Horse's Foot 75 



Youatt and Spooner on the Horse 1 . 50 



Cattle, Slieep, and Swine. 



Allen's (L. F.) American Cattle 2.50 



Coburn's Swine Husbandry 1.75 



Dadd's American Cattle Doctor, 12mo 1.50 



Dadd's American Cattle Doctor, 8vo, cloth. . 2.50 



Guenon on Milch Cows 75 



Harris on the Pig 1.50 



Quincy (Hon. Josiah) on Soiling Cattle 1.25 



Randall's Fine Wool Sheep Husbandry 1.00 



Randall's Practical Shepherd 2 .00 



Randall's Sheep Husbandry 1 50 



Stewart's Shepherd's Manual 1.50 



Youatt and Martin on Cattle 1.50 



Youatt and Martin on the Hog 1 .00 



Youatt on Sheep 1.00 



Poultry. 



Corbett's Poultry Yard and Market, paper. . .50 



cloth 75 



Geyelin's Poultry-Breeding 1.25 



Gray's The Game Fowl 1.50 



Lewis's Practical Poultry Book 1.50 



Saunders's Domestic Poultry, paper 40 . 



cloth 75 



Stoddard's An Egg Farm, paper 50 



cloth 75 



The Al Poultry Book 10 



Wright's Brahma Fowl 2 . 50 



Wright's Practical Poultry-Keeper 2.00 



Architecture and Landscape Gardening. 



Allen's (L. F.) Rural Architecture 1 50 



Atwood's Country and Suburban Houses — 1.50 



Barn Plans and Out-buildings 1.50 



Downing's Landscape Gardening 0.50 



Elliott's Practical Landscape Gardening 1.50 



Leuchar's How to Build Hot-houses 1.50 



Palliser's Model Homes 1.00 



Plumbers', Carpenters' and Builders' Guide . 1.00 



Reed's House Plans for Everybody 1.50 



Woodward's Cottages and Farm Houses 1.00 



Woodward's Country Homes 1 . 00 



Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural 

 Buildings 1.00 



Woodward's Suburban and Country Houses. 1.00 



