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AMERICAN AGRIC ULTUEIST. 
[FEBRUARY, 
Rare & Beautiful Flowers 
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CHOICE VEGETABLES. 
The Nineteenth Annua.! Edition of our celebrat- 
ed Seed Catalogue and Amateur's Guide to the 
Flower and Kitchen Garden, containing upwards 
of 200 pages, including several hundred finely executed en- 
gravings of favorite flowers and vegetables, and n. beau- 
tifully colored chiomo, wltlin supplement for 
1874, Is now In press, and will be mailed to all applicants 
upon receipt of 535 cents. An edition elegantly bound 
in cloth $1.00. 
BLISS'S GARDENERS' ALMANAC 
and Abridged Catalogue contains unwurds of 100 
pages, and embraces a monthly calendar uf operations 
and a price-list of all the leading Garden, Field, and 
Flower Seeds, with brief directions for their culture. 
A copy will be mailed to all applicants inclosing two three- 
cent stamps. 
Bliss's Illustrated Potato Catalogue free to 
nil applicants. Address 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
Nos. l A'A Park Place and 30 Murray St.j 
P. O. Box 57li. New York. 
The Five Best Tomatoes. 
ARLINGTON.— Early, solid, unusually smooth, fine 
flavored, large size, enormously productive, and excellent 
market variety. 23 cts. per packet; Ave packets for $1,00 ; 
$2.00 per ounce. 
CANADA VICTOR.— The earliest in cultivation. 
Seed grown from the original stock. 15 cts. per packet; 
$1."'0 per ounce. 
TROPHY.— Very large, smooth, solid, and of line qual- 
ity. Seed saved from selected fruit. 10 cts. per packet; 
50 els, per ounce. 
H ATHAWAY'S EXCEL.SIOR. - Very early, 
smooth, solid, and an excellent variety in every respect. 
10 els. per packet; 00 els. per ounce. 
GRAPE-SHOT.- Fruit orange-scarlet, averaging 1 to 
1^ inch in diameter, which is produced In long clusters. 
Very ornamental, as well as useful for the table or for pick- 
ling. 15 cts. per packet ; f 1.50 per ounce. 
Oue packet each of the live varieties will be mailed to any 
address upon receipt of 05 cts. Add-css 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
P. O. Box 5.71J, A'ew Tork. 
$1,500 IN PREMIUMS: 
Important to Potato Growers. 
COMPTON'S SURPRISE— Showing Habit of Growth. 
$750.00 
to be divided anions the six successful 
competitors wlio slmll produce the largest 
quantity of cither of tin- following varieties of 
Potatoes : EITBA EARLY VERMONT, 
BROWNXSliL'S BEAUTY, or fOMPTON'S 
SURPRISE, from one-quarter of mi acre of 
measured ground. S250 for each variety. 
<tr7Cfl rtrt to he divided among the six successful 
W I WW.UU competitors who shall produce the largest 
quantity from ONE POUND of the seed of either 
of the above named varieties. $25n for each 
■variety. Subject to conditions named In our Totato Cata- 
logue, a copy of whicii will be mailed to all applicants. 
VW The Seed In all cases to be purchased from ns. 
Address 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
23 Park Place and 30 Murray St., 
P. O. Box 5713. New York. 
B 4 U ORDER SEEDS, 
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BRIGGS & BRO'S 
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The finest Floral Work ever issued in this country. 
Published Quarterly— the four numbers sent to any addreSB 
for 25 cents— comprising an Illustrated and Descriptive 
Catalogue of the Seeds, Bulbs, and Hants 6old by Briggs 
& Brother, Seedsmen and Florists, Rochester, 
New York, together with elaborate treatises upon the care 
and culture of the same. Over 1,001) Premiums taken 
in the United States in 1813 upon the products of BUIGGS 
& BROTHER'S SEEDS. 
The January number alone will be worth more than a $2 
book. Parties purchasing |1 worth or upward of Seeds are 
credited with a subscription for the following year. 
We challenge comparison on prices and size of packets. 
AddresB BRIGGS & BROTHER, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Fottler's Early Drumhead, 
Farmers and Gardeners, you all need this Cabbage for two 
reasons: 1st, because it is the earliest of all the Drumhead 
varieties; ;Jd, because every plant on an acre will make a 
large and solid head. Seed of my own growing sent post- 
paid by me for 15 cts. per package, 75 cts. per ounce, $$ per 
pound. My Seed Catalogue free to all applicants. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
Seed Time Cometh! 
The twenty-first editions of our illustrated FLOWER and 
KITCHEN' GARDEN DIRECTORIES for 1874, with a Sup- 
plement of Novelties and Selections, embracing a list of 
Seed grown by the best lioston Market Ga»deneis and also 
by the most famous European growers ol' flowers and vege- 
tables, including many that can rarely be lound elsewhere, 
will be forwarded about the first of February to all custom- 
ers free of charge, and to other applicants inclosing a three- 
cent stamp. £>. T. CUK'iIS & CO., 
161 Tremont St., JJoston, Mass. 
Successors to Cttrtis & Cobb. 
Seed for Early Forcing. 
Boston Market Tennis Ball Lettuce— Foz. 75c. ; isc. ¥ pkt. 
White Spined Cucumber, improved— " 50c; Kc. " 
Long Frame Cucumbers, varieties— 25c. " 
French Breakfast and Olive-sunped Radishes— y oz. 10c. 
Boston Market Celery— F or. 50c. ; y pkt. 10c. 
Early Jersey Wakefi eld Cabbage— ff oz. 7ic. ; ff pkt. 10c. 
CHOICE SEEDS. 
FOR 18-^4 
Sent free to our customers, and to all others on receipt of 
two 2-ccnt stamps for the postage. 
HOVEY & CO., 
53 North Market St., Boston, Mass. 
CIV EN I A.|>acljnK»nfCHOTCRPLOWEK8E38nsillS 
jTJJiT IS sample of Park's Floral 6nart.tr. Address, 
A WAT I with stamp, Geo. W. Park, Panncttsburg, Pa. 
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The HANSON LETTUCE. 
The most tender, sweet, and delicious varfctv grown ; free 
from any hitter or imp easant taste; heads 1 rgc and aolld, 
olten weighing 3 life. Single pligc 2.-> cfe. 5 pkgs 
SI. A Liberal Discount to De'Lefs. t3TSent n>r 
Preer's Garden Calendar for 1871. IIS i 
illustrated, w th practical directions Mailed FRl'.K to 
all applicant*. HENRY A. DREER. 
714 Chestnut St., Phllmtcl \ ihin, Pa. 
GUIDE 
ro THE FLOWER AND KITCHEf 
GARDEN 
Em, ai;..u> ANti iMrnovEn. 
Masnlflcent Colored Plate 
Hundreds of Engravincs, beside De- 
scriptive Prica List of 3000 varieties 
ot choice Flower and Vegetable Seeds, 
Rare Gladiolus, Lilies, &c, &c. Pull 
directions for culture. Complete in ev- 
s try respect Sent free on receipt of twe 
stamps. Address 
WASHBURN S CO., BOSTON, MASS. 
Haw Icy"* .Seed Catalogue. 
NEW CROP GENUINE M ETHERSFIELD 
ONION SEED. 
R. I>. HAWLEVS 
Annual Illustrated Catalogue of Fresh and Genuine Weth- 
ersfield (Conn.) Garden and Farm Seeds for spring; of 1874 
will be ready early in January to send free to all nppllcantB, 
XW Choice Stock. Moderate rates. Prompt delivery. 
Address R. O. HAWLEY, 
Seed and Agricultural Warehouse, Hartford, Conn. 
My business is to supply, what every farmer of experience 
is most anxious to get, perfectly reliable Vegeti bl<- and 
Flower Seed. With this object in view, beside- Importing 
many varieties from reliable growers in France, Enplr.no, 
and Germany, I grow a hundred and fifty kinds of vegetable 
seed on my fonr seed farm?, right under my own eye. 
Around all of these I throw the protection ol the three 
warrants of my Catalogue. Of neic vegetables J make a 
specialty, having been the first to introduce the Hubbard 
and Marblehead BqnaSbeB, the MarUcfccad Cabbages, and a 
score of others. My Catalogue, containing numerous fine 
engravings, taken from photographs, sent free to all. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
NOW READY, 
Illustrated CATALOGUE and GUIDE 
to tic Flown and Vegetable Garden fur 1ST). branilfnllr 
illustrated, and containing a magnificent Cclprrfi IM:tte 
of seven new and popular flowers. Sent FREE upon 
receipt of stamp. Adcress 
(Esta'd 1S40.) t rn.iuaii Bros.. Rochester, IC.V. 
TO 
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SEED TRADE. 
TRADE LIST. FOR DEALERS OKLY, 
mailed to applicants. 
J. M. THORBVRN & CO., 
15 John Street. New York. 
THE DTTMjF/V SEEB> FAKiri.— 
S«nd by Pofltal-C^rd for my new Spring C.tfnlogtao of 
Seeds, Plants, Lilies, Gladiolus, etc., etc. Special induce- 
ments offered. G. A. I<AW. 
RoBUndale, near Boston, Mass. 
