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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[OCTOBBE 
W. J. IIessek, Plaltsmoulh, Nebraska.— There is no 
more striking illustralion of progress in the Western 
State6 than this price list, offering a general assortment 
of green-house plants, and at wholesale too ! Alaska 
Will be doing the same thing next. 
SEEDS AND BULBS. 
J. M. Thorburn it Co., 15 Jolm-st., New York, are 
first in the field with their catalogue of bulbs and flower- 
ing roots ; a very full list. 
Peter Henderson & Co., 35 C'ortlandt-st., New York, 
have also a full catalogue, in which, besides bulbs, they 
include grapes and small fruits, and a full list of garden 
requisites. 
B. K. Bliss & Sons, at 31 Barclay-st., New York, have 
their new store well filled with bulbs and other stock, all 
of which their catalogue describes. 
James Fleming, 37 Nassau-st., New York, whose 
place is by the removal of other .dealers now an " old 
stand," also imports fine bulbs. 
Francis BniLL, Mattituck, (L. I.,) N. Y., not only 
writes a book on seed-growing, but grows seeds for sale, 
and offers several choice varieties. 
Young & Elliott, at their new store, No. 12 Cortlandt- 
«t., which is the great auction flower-mart of the country, 
also have all the bulbs of the season. 
James Vick, who, it is hardly necessary to say, is in 
Rochester, N. Y., offers his usual stock of bulbs, which 
he sends very safely by mail. 
IIenht A. Dreer, Philadelphia, is also in the field 
with a general assortment of bulbs, and grecn-housc 
plants of the season. That this house sends out well- 
grown plants, we cau testify from personal experience. 
Briggs Brothers, Rochester, N. Y., make a specialty 
of bulbs, and also offer a choice assortment of winter- 
blooming house-plants. 
Bulbs in Boston.— After this list was closed, the fall 
announcements of our Boston friends came in. We can 
not, at the last moment, give each a separate item, and it 
is sufficient to say that the well-known houses of Hovey 
& Co., Washburn & Co., W. H. Spooner, and T. D. Cur- 
lis & Co., have everything in the way of bulbs and seeds 
that can be found anywhere. 
LIVE STOCK, ETC. 
M. Quinby, St. Johnsville, N. Y., offers bees, and all 
the requisites of the apiary. 
Herbert Mead, Waccabuc Farm, Golden's Bridge, 
N. Y., catalogues Jersey cattle, swine, and dogs. 
F. J. Kinney, Worcester, Mass., believes in Brown 
Leghorn fowls, and tells about them in his circular. 
IMPLEMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS. 
Hartford Pump Co., M. C. Weld, Agent, 1S9 Water- 
6t., New York. The remarkably ingenious machinery 
made by this Company, is described on another page. 
G. T. Peckham, Providence, R. I., makes the fountain 
pump, and sends illustrated circular. 
Lord's Horticultural Works, Irvington, N. Y., 
turn out greenhouses and other glass structures, which 
are illustrated in a neat pamphlet. 
EUROPEAN CATALOGUES. 
E. G. Henderson & Son, London, N. W., Eng., send 
a catalogue of new plants, including all the novelties in 
soft-wooded slock. 
William Bull, King's Road Chelsea, London, S. W., 
Eng. Mr. Bull styles himself " New Plant Merchant," a 
name to which he is justly entitled, as the number of 
novelties ho has brought into cultivation is something 
wonderful. Two monstrous catalogues, one of seeds, 
and the other of plants, the last named finely illustrated, 
are evidence of the extent of his collection. 
Cu. Huber & Co., Heyeres, France, send a list of 
choice Primula and other 6eeds. 
Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co., Paris, France, present a 
list of seeds of all kinds, illustrated by the charming little 
engravings, that make their '"Atlas of Flowers" so 
valuable. Their agents in this city are Pabst & Esch, 11 
Murray-st. 
Joseph Schwartz, Lyons, France, sends a catalogue 
of roses, which are bo great a specialty with him, that he 
calls his place " Terre dee Roses," or Rose-land. 
J. Linden, Ghent, Belgium. After the purchase of the 
renowned collection of A. Vcrschaffult, Mr. Linden re- 
moved from Brussels to Ghent, where he maintains one 
of the finest establishments in the world. 
J. C. Schmidt, Erfurt, Germany, besides a large col- 
lection of living plants, does a great business in flowers, 
grasses, and moss, dried, dyed, and otherwise, prepared 
for bouquets and other decorations. 
L. Van Waveren & Co., nillcgom, Holland, sends 
his wholesale catalogue of Dutch Bulbs, and informs us 
that he is represented in New York by Richard Laner. 
Industrial Fairs. 
Besides the various State, County, and other Fairs, 
which arc, or should be, mainly agricultural, of late years 
there have been held in various parts of the country, fairs, 
or "expositions," as it is now fashionable to call them, 
in which agriculture, if represented at all, is subordinated 
to other forms of industry; at these fairs mechanical arts 
and manufactured products, bb well as the fine arts, are 
the main features. For a longtime the American Insti- 
tute of New York was the only exhibition of this kind, 
but recently the principal cities of the Union have held 
similar fairs, and found them not only interesting, but 
profitable. They are certainly deserving oi every en- 
couragement, as they bring together under one roof a 
view of the leading industries of the cities in which they 
are held, and also often show in comparison the produc- 
tions of other localities. As not only products are 
shown, but frequently the processes by which they are 
produced are to be seen, these exhibitions arc highly in- 
structive, and they should be encouraged as important 
educational agencies. We are glad to notice that in 
Rhode Island all the manufacturing establishments in 
the vicinity suspended work for one clay, in order to 
allow the employes to attend the recent N. E. Fair, and 
we would suggest to manufacturers in and near the cities 
where these industrial fairs are held, that the example of 
the Rhode Islanders is worthy of imitation. Indeed, 
those establishments which employ skilled, and in a de- 
gree permanent laborers, would find it a good investment 
to provide their workmen and their families with free 
tickets to these fairs. The return would come in in- 
creased intelligence as applied to their business. As the 
pioneer exhibition of this kind wc mention first 
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE, 
which opened the doors of its forty-third exhibition 
early in September, and will keep them open until the 
middle of November. October is the month in which 
New York is most thronged with strangers, to many of 
whom the Am. Institute Fair is one of the chief attrac- 
tions ; nor are the cfty people unmindful of the fair, and 
its spacious halls, especially in the evening, are filled 
with admiring crowds. This fair is some years better 
than at others, but wc have never seen one of its exhibi- 
tions which did not amply repay attendance, or from 
which an intelligent person could not gain new and use- 
ful ideas. We go to press before we are able to visit the 
present fair, but learn that it is unusually attractive, espe- 
cially in machinery and the processes of manufacture. 
The fair is held in the readily accessible and spacious hall, 
formerly the " Rink," which extends from the 3d to 
the 2d Avenue on 63d St. 
THE CHICAGO INTER-STATE EXPOSITION 
opened on the same day with that of the Am. Institute. 
Our representative there sends us a full account, but 
wc have only room for the following extracts: 
" The building is one-third larger than it was last year, 
the greater part of the added space being devoted to 
agricultural implements and machinery, and to floral 
products. The floral display is an extraordinary one, 
both as to character and extent. Eastern as well as 
Western professionals are represented, and amateurs 
have contributed. In the machine department nearly all 
leading manufacturers of the country arc represented, 
those of the West assuming scarcely more prominence 
than others. In farm products the principal display is 
made by the land grant railroads, interested in calling at- 
tention to the productiveness of the sections along their 
roads. While these displays are very fine, they are 
chiefly remarkable as showing what a well organized 
effort can do in bringing prominently before the public 
the productiveness and peculiar excellence of a particular 
locality. Outside of this department, the display of farm 
products is not specially noticeable. 
"The fine art department contains the largest collec- 
tion of fine paintings ever exhibited in this country, con- 
tributions coming from New York and other Eastern 
cities, to be added to the collection from the West. This 
has the character of a National exhibition. 
"Other departments show the business of Chicago in 
miniature. All that is curious or worthy in manufactur- 
ing is represented. 
" The Exposition Building is at the foot of Adams St., 
four blocks east of the Western office of the American 
Agriculturist in the Lakeside Building. Our friends in 
the West, while visiting the great representative exhibi- 
tion of the North-west, will have a hearty welcome ex- 
tended to them at our Chicago office." 
THE CINCINNATI INDUSTRIAL, 
which was such a marked success last year, is advertised 
to close on the 3d of this month. From the extended 
report of last year's show wc feel warranted in advising 
our Western friends, who get this notice in time, to 
make the most of the last few days. 
TnE LOUISVILLE (KT.) EXHIBITION 
keeps open until Oct. 7th. This fair proved a great suc- 
cess last year, and presented several novel featl 
THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE 
celebrates its semi-centennial by an exhibition at Phila- 
delphia, which holds fiom Oct. 8th to 31st. An unusually 
favorable location has been secured, and this will prob- 
ably be the greatest mechanical display ever seen in the 
country. 
THE NEWARK (X. J.) INDUSTRIAL FAIR 
is open as we write, but we are not informed how long it 
will continue. It is an interesting epitome of the 
wonderfully varied industries of Newark. 
Supplementary List of Fairs. 
The following list gives the later fairs not in the one 
published last month. Some changes of date are given 
here. See list of last month (September) for other fairs 
to be held in October or later. 
MAINE. 
KeunebecEast South China Oct. C- 8 
Kennebec North Waterville Oct. 0- 8 
Knox Thomaston Oct. G- 8 
Jay ....Jay Oct. 7-8 
Somerset Central Skowhegan Sept. 29-Oct. 1 
VERMONT. 
Barton Barton Sept. S9-Oet. 1 
Rutland Rutlaud Oct. 6- 7 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
Norfolk Club Norfolk Oct. 7-8- 
Stow Stow Oct. 2 
CONNECTICUT. 
Hartford Bloomfield Oct. 1 
Milford and Orange . . . Orange Sept. 30-Oct. 1 
NEW YORK. 
Catskill Catskill Oct. 1- 2 
Columbia Hudson Sept. 29-Oct. 1 
Hudson River Poughkeepsie Oct. 20-23 
Skaneatclcs Skaucateles Oct. 7- 8 
Westchester Yorktowu Sept. 29-Oct. 1 
Yates Dundee Oct. 14-16 
NEW JERSEY. 
Burlington Mount nolly Oct. 6-7 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
Carbon Lebighton Oct. G- 9 
Chartiers Valley Canonsburg Oct. 13-15 
Cumberland Carlisle Oct. 6- 9 
Greene Wavncsburgh Oct. 14-16 
York York Oct. 6-9 
MARYLAND. 
Alleghany Valley, W.Va. & Penn.Cumberlaud.Oct. 2>)--:3 
VIRGINIA. 
Baldwin-Augusta Staunton Oct. 1 ::-15 
OHIO. 
Fairfield Lancaster Oct. 11-11 
WISCONSIN. 
Dodge Beaver Dam Oct. 5-7 
IOWA. 
Delaware Manchester Sept. 30-Oct. 1 
Jasper Prairie City Sept. 29-Oct. 2 
MINNESOTA. 
Martin Fairmount Oct. 8-9 
CALIFORNIA. 
Santa Clara Valley San Jose 
San Joaquin Stockton Sept 
Southern Los Angeles . 
PROVINCIAL. 
Nova Scotia Halifax 
.Oct 
Oct. 5-1 1 
. 29-Oct. 3 
20-Nov. 1 
Ocl .1' 
The New England Fair, 
The fair of the N. E. Agricultural Society was thi.- year 
held in conjunction with that of the R. I. Society, at Nar- 
ragausett Park, near Providence. Those who have visit- 
ed this race-course, which was built by Col. Atnasa 
Sprague, iu the days of the great prosperity of the 
Spragnes, know that it is unequalled in the country ; 
everything about it, even to the smallest accessory, is of 
the most thorough character. No society ever had a 
finer place for a show, and in some respects the show was 
worthy of the place. In cattle the exhibition of this year 
has not been excelled by that of any former one held by 
the Society, indeed, the strength of the exhibition, to all 
but horse people, lay in the cattle, which included bulls, 
cows, and calves of all the leading breeds, as well as 
grades, fat cattle, and working oxen, and these came from 
every New England State, though Rhode Island was most, 
largely represented in proportion. Wc have not space to 
enumerate the fine animals, or even the premium herds. 
The show of different breeds by Mr. George F. Wilson, of 
Providence, was remarkable for size and excellence, and 
the rare Swiss cattle of Messrs. Aldrich & Hall, with their 
picturesque collars and sweet-sounding bells, attracted 
much attention. The commodious stalls of the park »l. 
