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FERTILIZERS AHD FLOWER FOOD, coutlnned. 
Rose Fertilizer. Especially suited for roses, shrubbery and the flower garden. Roses fed on this ferti- 
lizer will be strong, healthy and vigorous, and will be better enabled to withstand disease and 
attacks of all kinds of mildew, fungi, insects, etc. It is just the food to brighten up the leaves 
and make perfect buds and roses. Scatter over the surface of the ground after irrigation, at the 
rate of 5 lbs. for 100 square feet, and work in the soil as soon as possible thereafter. Per lo-lb. 
bags, 50 cts. ; lOO-lb. bags, $3. 
Bowker's Flower Food. This is not a stimulant, but a perfect food for plants, in a concentrated form. 
It produces healthy foliage, abundant, rich and bright-colored blossoms, and prolongs the period 
of blossoming. Full directions for using are in each package. Packages containing enough for 
30 plants for three months, 25 cts., by mail, postpaid; and for 30 plants a whole year, 50 cts., by 
mail, postpaid. 
Insecticides. 
"Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden" is one of the best 
books on the subject. We mail it, postpaid, for $2. 
Fir Tree Oil. The best insecticide for indoor use on all plants ; is also a val- 
uable remedy for animal parasites and insects. Per pt. 75 cts.; qt. fi.40. 
Fir Tree Oil Soap. A most useful article to have 
about the house. By its use you can keep your 
plants free from all insects, your dogs free from 
fleas, your poultry free from lice, and keep the 
skin of your horse healthy and make him shine. 
One ounce makes i gallon. ^-Ib. tins, 25 cts. each ; 
by mail, 35 cts. 
Gishurst's Compound. A certain remedy for green- 
fly, scale, mealy bug, etc. Per box, 50 cts., by mail. 
Grape Dust. (Haiiintond's.) A non-poisonous pow- 
der for the remedy of mildew and rot on grapes, 
gooseberries, roses, etc. Per 5-lb. package, 50 cts. 
Kill'm Right. (Non-poisonous.) Will not harm the 
tenderest plant, and will kill any kind of insect 
known to gardeners, florists and fruit-growers. 
2-lb. cans, 50 cts.; lo-lb. cans, $2.2$. 
Persian Insect Powder.. Similar to and equally as 
effective as the high-priced Buhach ; a most effec- 
tive non-poisonous remedy for worms, flies and 
other insect life ; easily applied with a bellows or 
powder gun. Per lb., 50 cts.; if by mail, 65 cts. 
(See pa,e^e Slue-Shot. A cheap, popular and effective insecticide, 
easily applied, and not injurious or dangerous to animals. 5-lb. package, 50 cts. 
Tobacco Dust. If dusted on while the foliage is moist, it destroys plant lice, cabbage and turnip fleas, 
etc. Spread upon the ground, it acts as a fertilizer, and keeps off all earth insect life. Per i-lb. 
package, 10 cts,; 5 lb. package, 30 cts.; 100 lbs., fo-so. 
Tobacco Stems. Indispensable for the fumigation of greenhouses, etc., and for the destruction of 
black aphis, greenfly and other insects. Per bale of about 250 lbs., $3.50. 
Whale Oil Soap. Excellent wash for trees and plants to prevent insects from lodging in the bark, and 
for smearing on the trunks of trees to prevent worms from crawling up. Per i-lb. tin, 20 cts.; 
in bulk, in quantities of 10 lbs. and over, 10 cts. per lb. 
INSECT POWDER DISTRIBUTOR, or DRY 
POWDER SPRflYER. 
(Weight of Macljloe, 6 Lbs.) 
The application of Paris green and other poisons, mixed either in water or 
plaster, is both laborious and expensive, and often unsatisfactory on account of uneven 
distribution, licing in many places put on so strong that injury to the plant follows. 
By the use of this Insect Powder Distributor this difficulty is overcome, as the in- 
secticide is distributed so evenly and so effectively that it is hardly perceptible on 
the plants. A man walking at an easy gait can, with this distributor, easily do an acre in 30 or 40 
minutes. Pull directions for use on each machine. Knowing that it is a good thing, to introduce it 
we will this season send it, prepaid, to any address for {5. 
TOBACCO PLANT. 
INSECT POWDER 
DISTRIBUTOR. 
All seeds can be had in 5<cent packets, except wliere noted. 
