BowKER's Odorless Fertilizers 
FOR THE 
LAWN, G?\ROEN RND e©NSERV?\T©RY 
FOR AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL USE. 
Bowker^s Lawn and Garden Dressing* 
The original; introduced in 1873. Odorless, concen= 
trated, cheapest, easiest and cleanest to use. 
Chemistry has solved many problems, one of which is the manufacture, 
from clean chemicals, of an efficient substitute for stable manure as a dressing 
for lawns and gardens. 
The Bowker Fertilizer Company twenty years ago began the manufacture 
of such a preparation, calling it Bowker's Lawn and Garden Dressing. It is 
an odorless, dry chemical powder, containing all the enriching qualities of 
stable dressing in a form easy to apply, and in no way disagreeable to the most 
fastidious. It contains the same chemicals that are -used in the preparation of 
baking-powders and medicine. 
It is applied broadcast in a dry state, and will produce a strong, compact 
turf, covered with a luxuriant, healthy growth of rich green grass. Used in the 
garden, it produces beautiful flowering plants and delicious early vegetables. 
As It is made wholly from chemicals and by a chemical process, it is entirely 
free from disease germs and weed seeds; therefore it is a sanitary as well as 
productive dressing. 
It has been used successfully for twenty years on private lawns and public 
grounds by amateur and professional gardeners, who could not now be tempted 
to go back to the old way of using on the surface unhealthy and unsightly stable 
manure. 
Bowker's Lawn and Garden Dressing is not a stimulant, but a perfect food 
for grass and other plants. What would cost ten dollars in stable dressing can 
be furnished for at least three dollars in these concentrated chemicals, and will 
be fully as permanent and effective, and more cleanly and healthful. 
PRICES. 
Sample bag for 500 sq. ft. of garden or 1,000 sq. ft. of lawn, $0.50 
" " " 1,000 " " " " 2,500 " " " i.oo 
50-lb. " " 2,500 " " " " 5,000 " " " 1.75 
loo-lb, " " -J- acre of garden or J acre of lawn . . . 3.00 
All the above packages delivered free to any station in New England, New 
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, on receipt of price, we prepay- 
ing freight or express except on the 50-cent sample package, which is delivered 
to express or freight offices only in New York City or Boston. Money may be 
remitted by registered letter, postal note or money order. 
Canada Wood Ashes for Lawns^ 
Collected by our own Agents. 
Everyone knows the value of ashes. While they do not form a complete 
fertilizer, in that they lack ammonia and phosphoric acid, yet they furnish 
potash and lime, which are valuable not only as plant-food, but as solvents of 
other food ingredients which are already present in the soil. Ashes are 
"Nature's plant-food," because they return to the soil in some measure the 
elements which the trees have taken from it. They are especially recom- 
mended as a top-dressing for lawns. ^1.25 per 100 lbs. In bags containing 
100 lbs. 
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