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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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FINE WOOL 
SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
"Will be ready to deliver to those who order, on the first of 
AUGUST. Price 75 cts. 
Sent free of postage. 
Address C. M. SAXTON, Publisher, New- York. 
CONTENTS: 
Varieties and Sub-V;\rieties in Spain. 
The French Merino. 
The Saxon Merino. 
The Silesian Merino. 
Introduction of Merinos into the U. S. Their Success. 
Prices of Wool since 1824, The American Merino. Intro- 
duction of the French Merino. Comparative Profitableness 
of Varieties. Housing Sheep to preserve Yolk on the Wool. 
Early Shearing. Breeding. Present course of Breeding in 
the U. S. The Future of fine Wool in our Country, &c., &c. 
books for farmers 
and others. 
[Any of the following books can be obtained at the of- 
fice of the Agriculturist at the prices named, or they will be 
forwarded by mnU, post putrf, on receipt of the price. Other 
books not named in the list will be procured and sent to sub- 
scribers vsfien desired, if the price be forwarded. All of these 
books may be procured by any one making up a libra- 
ry. Those we esteem specially valuable, are marked with a V| 
American Bird Pander $0 25 
American Farmer's Encyclopedia 5 00 
American Florist's Guide 75 
American Weeds and Useful Plants 1 50 
Allen on the Culture ot the Grape 1 oi) 
Allen's (It I*) American Farm Book* l oo 
Alien's Diseases of Domestic Animals 75 
Allen's (I,. F.l Ltnral Architecture 1 25 
Bridgeman's Fruit Cultivator's Manual 60 
Bridge man's Voting Gardener's Assistant . 1 50 
Bridgemnn'a Kitchen Garden Instructor. GO 
Bridgeman's Florist's Guide 60 
Brandt's Aire of Horses* (English and German) 50 
Breek's Bonk of Flowers 1 25 
Browne's American Poultry Yard 1 25 
liiiist's American Flower Garden Directory 1 25 
Buist's Family Kitchen Gardener* 75 
Central Park Guide 25 
Ciiorlt oil's Grape-Grower's Guide* 60 
Cole's tS. W.) American Fruit Book 60 
Cole's Veterinarian , . . 60 
Dadd'e (Geo. 11.) Modern Horse Doctor 1 25 
Dadd's (Geo. II.) American Cattle Doctor . 1 25 
Dana's Muck Manual for Farmers 1 00 
Downing'^ cottage Residences* 2 fiO 
Downing's Ki nils and Fruit Trees of America**. , 2 00 
Downing'S Ladies' Flower Garden .. .1 50 
Kasiwood on the Cranberry* 50 
Employment of Women— By Virginia Penny* 1 50 
Every Lady her own Flower Gardener 25 
Fesscndens American Kitchen Gardener 25 
French's Farm Drainage * 1 25 
Field's (Thomas W,> Pear Culture 1 00 
Fish Culture 1 00 
Flint (Charles L.) on Grasses* I 50 
Flint's Milch Cows and Dairv Farming* 1 50 
Fuller's Strawberry Cnlturist 10 
Goodale's Principles of Breeding 100 
Gray's Manual of Botany 2 50 
Guenon on Milch Cows . 60 
Hall's (Miss) American Cookery. 1 00 
Harris' Insects Injurious to Vegetation plain 3 00 
do. do. do. do, colored plates. 4 00 
Herbert's Hints to Horsekcepers'* 1 25 
Hooper's Dog and Gun 25 
.Johnson on Manures 75 
Kemps Landscape Gardening 2.00 
Kidder's Bee Culture 50 
Lancatroth on the Honey Bee* 125 
Leslie's Recipes for Cooking 1 25 
Leuchars' Hothouses l 25 
Liebig's Lectures on Chemistry 50 
Llnsley's (D. C.) Morcan Horses 125 
Manual of Agriculture by G. Emerson and C. L. Fliut. 1 00 
M:u!ie\v's 111 usi rated Horse Doctor 3 00 
McMahon's American Gardener* 2 50 
Mcelian'B Ornamental Trees 75 
Milburn on the Cow and Dairy.. 25 
Miles on the Horse's Foot 50 
Mistakes of Educated Men 50 
National Almanac and Annual liecord** 1 25 
Norton's Sclent Hie Agriculture 75 
Olcott's Sorgho and Imphee 100* 
Our Farm ot Four Acres..* (paper) 25 
onion Culture** 20 
Pardee 011 strawberry Culture , 60 
Parlor Gardener 75 
Parsons on the Hose , . ..1 25 
Pedder's Farmer's Land Measurer 50 
Phantom Bouquet, or Skeleton Leaves 100 
Phin'a Grape Culture 1 25 
Outnbv's Mysteries ol Bee keeping* 1 25 
KandalPa Sheep Husbandry 1 25 
Richardson on the Dog 50 
Kichardson on the HOC 25 
Robins' Produce and Ready Reckoner 60 
Rose Cut turtst 25 
Shepherd's Own Book 2 00 
Skillful Housewife 25 
Smith's Landscape Gardening. 1 25 
Spencer's Education ol Children** 1 25 
Stewart's (John) Stable Book .... 1 25 
Tobacco Culture** 25 
Todd's (S. E.) Young Farmers Manual 1 25 
Tucker's Register Rural Affairs 25 
Turner's Cotton Planter's Manual 1 25 
Watson's American Home Garden 1 50 
Wood's Class Book of Botany 2 50 
Yale College Agricultural Lectures 25 
Youatt and Spooiier on the Horse 1 25 
Youatt and Martin on Cattle 1 25 
Youatt on the Hog 75 
Youstt on Sheep 75 
Youraans' Household Science* 125 
BONE MANURE. 
Order early. The supply is limited. We sell a pure article, 
GRIPPING, BROTHER & »'(>„ 
GO Courtlandt-st., New-York. 
KW STRAWBERRY PLANTS .JgJ 
By IMail. 
Will be ready In August and September— Choice plants 
for mailing— being stout and strong;. 
Triompbe de Gand, Great Austin or Shaker, and Wilson's 
Seedling. The very best for family use and marketing. 
For a remittance of $ 1.30c. 100 plants of either kind, or a 
100 assortment will be sent to the Post Otflce address of those 
ordering. 
100 plants grown as I direct, will produce over 3 bushels of 
fruit. Good Plants $6 per 1000. 
J. C. THOMPSON, Tompkinsville, 
Statcn Island, N. Y. 
Strawberry Plants. 
Triomplic de Gaud, Wilson's Albany, nooker, Fill- 
more, Bartlett, Ward's Favorite, and forty oilier varieties in 
large quantities, at low rates, at wholesale and retail. Cat- 
alogues gratis. FRANCIS BRILL. 
Newark, New-Jersey. 
FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
RARE CHANCES OFFERED. 
200.000 Choice Fruit Trees, Vines, etc., for 
sale, of varied size to suit customers. 
The subscriber calls attention to his unusually large stoek 
of well grown trees now on hand, and especially to the pre- 
sent stock of the standard fkuit, Apple, which is the 
largest and finest ever offered at these Nurseries. 
With twenty years of experience, by careful observation 
and judicious selections, he believes be is able to judge and 
furnish what will suit his customers, as well as cite varied 
soils and localities, in which trees may be wanted. There is 
also special attention paid to local varieties, adapted to 
Southern and Central Pennsylvania, many of which have 
proven themselves more valuable, than sorts originating in 
a climate differing so widely from these sections. 
He is also preparing a list of club pkioks tor those who 
purchase direct from the proprietor, offering rare induce- 
ments for neighbors to join together and get trees consider- 
ably under the regular retail prices. 
This mode is adopted for those who may not have an op- 
portunity to purchase from his regularly authorized agents, 
and hold a mistrust towards the too numerous tree venders 
spread over the land. 
B3T" The frequent use made of his name and establishment 
by strangers, to effect sales where the reputation of the 
nursery is known, compels him to warn all not to purchase 
— as coming from these Nurseries— stuck ottered by pise- 
tendehs, who do not hold an authority from the proprietor. 
Local or stationed agents will be accepted, but neither 
traveling nor Stationary agency inquiries will receive notice, 
unless the parties produce satisfactory reference as to their 
honesty in dealing with customers and employer. Send for 
Catalogues and priced List, which contain inducements not 
before offered by him. Abundant and trustworthy re- 
ference WILL BE FURNISHED TO ALL WHO ARE STRANG- 
ERS TO THE ESTABLISHMENT, 
Address DAVID MILLER, JR., 
Cumberland Nurseries, Carlisle, Pa. 
GRAPE VINES. 
Our Stock of all the new and leading kinds is unsurpassed 
anywhere. Our New Price List will be issued September 1st, 
and sent to all applicants free of charge. 
J. KNOX, 
Box 155, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
GRAPE VINES. 
Planters and Dealers will please send to WM. PEBRY & 
SON. BRIDGEPORT, CONN., for their price list for 1S63. 
CONCORD ami DELAWARE Vines of superior 
quality, at low rates. 
Turnip Seed by Mail. 
In consennencc of the increased reduction of postage on 
Seeds, I will mail the following varieties of Turnip Seed to 
any address in the Union upon receipt of the prices annexed. 
1 ounce, 10 cts.: 4 ounces, 30 cts.; 8 ounces, 50 cts.; 1 pound, 
75cts. Early Dutch, Snowball. Red Top Strap Leaf, White 
Top Strap Leaf, White Globe, White Norfolk, Yellow Aber- 
deen, Yellow Finland, Robertsons Golden Ball, Orange Jel- 
ly, Teltau or small Berlin, Long White French, White Tan- 
kard, Long White or Cow's Horn, Waite'fa Eclipse, Dale's Hy- 
brid, Lamg's Improved Rutabaga, Skirving s do.. Stubble 
Swede. Also Chinese Winter Radish, 25 cents per ounce. 
Winter Spinach, same price as turnip seed. Please Address 
B. K, BLISS, Springlield, Mass. 
SEEDS. 
"White Flat, Reel Top Flat, White French. 
Yellow Swedish, Yellow Stone, Yellow 
Aberbeen, and other Turnip Seed. 
Buckwheat and Seed Grain of best varieties. 
Garden and Agricultural Seed, fresh and pure. 
Wholesale and Retail by 
E. H. ALLEN & CO., 1S9 & 191 Water-st., New-York. 
TOBACCO. 
Just How to Grow it . 
Every particular, from the selection of the Seed, and 
preparation of the ground, to the Gathering, Curing, and 
Marketing the Crop, is given in a work issued by the 
Publisher of the American Agriculturist, and sent post- 
paid for 25 cents. This work consists of a selection of 
the best fourteen out of eighty-five Essays, prepared by 
eighty-five different cultivators, residing in various parts 
of the Northern and Middle States. In each of the Essays 
contained in this work, the writer tells, in a plain, practi- 
cal, straight-forward manner, just what to do, and how to 
do it. Any item omitted by one is given by another, so 
that the information is full and complete. Several en- 
gravings illustrating the method of drying, packing, etc. 
The work is worth its weight in silver to every one grow- 
ing even u small plot of tobacco. 
STRAWBERRIES ! ! 
The Subscriber will send any of the following choice 
Strawberry Plants, post paid, to .iny part of the United 
States (where there is postal communication), east of the 
Rocky Mountains, on receipt of price, and will also insure 
their safe arrival at destination. 
Per Dm,\ Per Doss* 
.% SOlC.reen Alpine 35 
40 
50 
40 
Austin or Shaker, 
Albion White "1 50; Hooker ... 
Autumnal Ualande 75 Honnenrdn In Beleiaue 
Alpine Red .... 40 Jenny Lind 
Belle de Vibcrt 1 00 Jocund* 75 
Belle Arteisenne 1 OOlLa Constante . . 75 
Bicolor 
Belle Bordelaise, ... 
Burr's New Pine . . . 
Black Prince. 
Bonte de St. Julien 
Bartlett , 
Cutter 
Crimson Favorite.. 
Crimson Queen... . 
Downer 
Deptford White 
Due fie Muiakmr. . 
Eliza (River's) 
Fillmore 
Filbert Pine . . 
Georgia Mammoth. 
General Scott 
Garibaldi 
1 not La Perle 1 00 
50 Ladles' Ring 40 
35 Li'imig's White 1 00 
35, Mav Queen 40 
50 Oscar 50 
40 Prince Imperial ......... 75 
40 Princess Fred. William., l 00 
50 
1 50 
40 
40 
40 
40 
75 
50 
40 
\ lOlReinc Kortensc 
50 Russell's Prolific 
4ii Scott's Seedling. . .. 
50iTriomphe de Gand.... 
50 Vlcomntesse Ben cart 
50 Victoria (Tro. lop's). .. 
50 Victory 
501 Wonderful 
40 Wilson 
1 00 White Pine Apple.. 1 00 
1 00 1 
For price of plants in larger quantities, and description of 
the above and many other varieties, see our new Strawber- 
ry ( latalogue, which will be ready the first of August, sent 
free to all applicants who inclose two one-cent stamps. Ad- 
dress ANDREW S. FULLER, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Strawberry Plants by Mail, 
FOR ONE DOLLAR, 
"We will send to any Post Office address in the United States 
or Territories, safely packed and post-paid, 
One I>ozon Plants 
of each of the following kinds. Triomplic de Gaud, 
Wilson's Albany, and Burr's New Pine (the 
best early). 
FOR THREE DOLLARS, 
of each) 100 Plants 
We will send in equal quantities (3; 
of the above kinds: or for 
FIVE DOLLARS, 
300 Plans (100 of each). 
The above embrace the different seasons of ripening, and 
are all favorites with us. For further particulars send for 
our Strawberry Circular, which will be furnished free. 
J. KNOX, 
Box 155, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
New and Splendid Strawberries. 
The. prize berries of Europe, Empress Eugenic, Margarite, 
and Princess Frederick William, plants $1 per dozen. 
Russell's Great Prolific. One of the most promising of the 
American seedlings, berries produced this season, i!'< inches 
in circumference; it is more prolific than the Wilson, supe- 
rior in flavor, and a splendid market berry, $1.50 per dozen, 
or $9 per hundred. 
Lenning's White, Albion "White, "White Pine Apple, and 
Deptford White. 1 hese are great acquisitions, berries very 
large, fine flavored and very productive, at $1 per dozen. 
La Constante. We would call attention to this variety, ns 
one of (tie most promising sorts in cultivation, at 50c." per 
dozen, $1 per hundred. 
Oscar. Victory, Wizard of the North, River's Eliza, Bonte 
de St. Julian, Crimson Queen, Wonderful, Filbert Piue, 
Prince Imperial, Due de Brabant. Boyden's Mammoth, and 
Due de Malakofl, at 50 cents per dozen. 
Triompbe de Gand, Great Austin, Jenny Lind, Bartlett, 
Felton, or Chilian, at $1 per hundred. $ti per thousand. Ber- 
ries of the great Austin were produced this season, weighing 
\% ounces. We think the Austin better than the Wilson, and 
more productive. Plants delivered in rotation as ordered 
All orders addressed to WM. S. CARPENTEB, 
329 Greeuwich-st., New-York, 
Green Prolific Strawberry. 
Produced from "Kitley's Goliath " and "Hovey's Seedling," 
bv Setli Bovden Esq., and is one of the parents of his famous 
seedling "Agriculturist" which astonished the natives art 
the late exhibition In New-York. In many points equal to 
this wonderful new variety. Decidedly one of the best in 
cultivation. Strong Plants $1 per dozen. For a descriptive 
circular or plants, Address FKANCIS BKILL. 
Newark, New-Jersey. 
Or any of the following Agents. 
Andrew Brldceman, 873 Broadway, New-York. 
C. B. Miller. 631 Broadway, New-York. 
Jas. M. Tlioi'lmrn & Co., 15 John-street, New-York. 
Wm. Elliott,^ John-street, New-York. 
Fleming <fc Davidson, 07 Nassau-street, New- York. 
Jas. Hairgertv. Poughkeepsic, N.Y. H. A. Dreer, Plula., Pa. 
Jno. Stair & son, Cleveland, O. Wm.Thorburn, Albany, N. Y. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
"We will issne on the 1st of August a circular, giving var- 
ieties of strawberries that have proved the most valuable 
this season, with prices of plants, and other information, 
which will be sent to all applicants free of charge. 
J. KNOX, Box 1135, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Strawberry Plants. 
All the standard old varieties, aswell as the best new ones, 
for sale at low rates, and warranted true to name. 
Send for a Catalogue gratis to 
FRANCIS BlllLL, Newark, New-Jersey. 
