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Miscellaneous Horticultural Requisites 
Atomiiiers. (Wooda-son's Bellow.s). Convenient for the application of liquid insecticides, each, $2. 
Bellows. Woodason's Powder for Hellebore, Tobacco Dust, etc., each, $1, $2 and $3. 
Forks. Digging or spading, each, $1 and $1 50. 
Garden Lines. Finest braided, 100 feet in length, each, 75 cts. 
Garden Pencils. Indelible black, each, 15 cts. 
Grafting Wax. In I, \ and 1 lb. packages, per lb., 50 cts. 
Hoes. Draw or corn, each, 60 cts. and 75 cts. 
Hose Menders. For repairing rubber hose, |-inch, per doz., 60 cts. 
Knives, Budding. Best English makes; ivory handles, each, $1 and $2. ^ 
Knives, Pruning. Best English makes, each, 75 cts and %1 50. 
Labels. Plant and tree; wooden, painted, 4j-inch, per hundred, 30 cts., per thousand, $1 25; 5-inch, per 
hundred, 35 cts; per thousand, $1 40; 6-inch, per hundred, 40 cts., per thousand, §1 50; 8-inch, per 
hundred, 60 cts., per thousand, $5; 3J-inch tree per hundred 25 cts., per thousand, $1 15. 
Lawn Rakes. Steel wire, each 75 cts. 
Mole Traps. Olmsted's improved, each, 52. 
Moss. Sphagnum for florists' use, packing, etc., in 100 lb. bales, ?6; per lb., 10 cts. 
Peat. For Orchids and other plants, per 100 lbs., $8; per lb., 10 cts. 
Plant Sticks. Painted green, 3 feet, per doz., 75 cts., per hundred, $6; 4 feet, per doz. $1, per hundred, 
§7; 5 feet, per doz., $1 25, per hundred, $9; 6 feet, per doz,, $1 50, per hundred, $10. 
Pruner. "The Levin." The strongest hand shear extant. It is made of the finest steel, and though only 
7 ounces in weight, it is so strong that it can cut through half an inch of dry oak, each, $1 25. 
Baffia. For tying plants; superior to twine, lb., 25 cts, 5 lbs., $1. 
Bakes. Steel garden, handled, 40 cts. and 80 cts. 
Shears. Hand jnuniug. Wiss. Three sizes, $1 £0 to $2. 
" Hedge, 8 to 10-inch blades, 5-1 75 and $3. 
" Grass. For trimming grass, $1. 
Shovels. Ames' best ca-st steel; square and diamond pointed, $1 25 and $1 50. 
Spades. Best quality, long or short handle, $1 25 and $1 50. 
Sprinklers. Rubber. For sprinkling cut-flowers, seedlings, clothes, etc., $1 25. 
Syringes. Brsiss, of superior manufacture, highly finished, $2 to %Q. 
Thermometers. Self-Registering, Register both heat and cold, indicating exactly how hot or how cold 
it has been since last notation. It is easily reset by a horse-shoe magnet, which accompanies each in- 
strument, 5>2 50. 
Porcelain Scale. 8 inches long; numbers and letters hand-painted, $1. 
Ordinary Japanned Tin Case, 30 cts. 
Hot- Bed and Mushroom- Bed. Boxwood with heavy brass tip; specially made for plunging. Plain red 
spirit columns, $2 50. 
Trowels. Solid shank, cast-steel, very strong, 50 cts. 
Watering Pots. French Model. Galvanized iron, 6 qts., $1 50; 8 qts., $2. 
Weeders. E.xcelsior, 15 cts. 
Fertilizers 
We supply only high grade, reliable fertilizers, goods that we know to be as represented, and, quality 
considered, prices are unusually low. 
Ground Bone. 100 lbs., |2 50; ton, |35. 
Pure Guano Flonr. Guaranteed to contain 48 to 50 per cent, bone phosphate (the same as pure bone meal) 
and li per cent, ammonia, 100 lbs., $2 25; ton, §30. 
Brand A. Guaranteed to contain 10 to 11 per cent, phosphoric acid, 9 to 10 per cent, potash, 3 to 4 per 
cent, ammonia; specially adapted for sugar cane, 100 lbs., $3; ton, $50. 
Brand B. Guaranteed to contain 14 to 15 per cent, phosphoric acid, 2 per cent, ammonia; adapted for 
grain crops and general use, 100 lbs., $2 75; ton, $45. 
Brand C. Guaranteed to contain 12 per cent, phosphoric acid, 5 to 6 per cent, potash, 3 to 4 per cent, am- 
monia; suitable for grass, 100 lbs., $3; ton, 50. 
Brand 1). Or nitrated superphosphate, a very high grade, intended for irrigated fruit orchards where the 
soil and irrigating water are found rich in potash. Contains 15 per cent, phosphoric a('id (nearly all 
available) and 3^ per cent ammonia, 100 lbs., $2 75; ton, $43. 
Lawn Fertilizer. Unless thoroughly decomposed, stable-manure is not desirable, because of the num- 
ber of weed seeds contained in it. Our Lawn Fertilizer possesses the requisite properties to induce a rapid 
luxuriant growth, and should be sown broadcast at the rate of 1,500 pounds per acre. A 10-pound package 
is sufficient for 300 square feet. Price per ton, $45; per lO-pound package, 75 cts. 
Fertilizer, "Brand C," Is a great grass invigorator. 
