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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[January, 
Amateur Cultivator's Guide 
KITCHEN AND FLOWER GARDEN. 
T w en tv- fourth Annual Edition of this popular and useful 
work, which has met with so much favor in the past, is now 
ready. It has beeu re-written and improved, printed with 
new type, aud on fine paper; illustrated witli a beautiful 
lithograph, and many other fine engravings from nature. It 
contains full description and the culture of over 1,500 leading 
varieties of Flowers and Vegetables. Also descriptive list 
of the Novelties, both Flowers and Vegetables, of the pres- 
ent season, to which is added a collection of 200 choice 
French Hybrid Gladiolus. This work has been prepared re- 
gardless of care and expense, and we feel confident that it 
will compare favorably with any other similar work. 
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From Levi Bautlett, Warner, N. H. 
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press. Please accept my warmest thanks for your kindness 
in forwarding this gem of a book to my address." 
From E.S. Rand, Jr., Dcdham, Mass., author of " Flowers 
for the Parlor and Garden." 
41 Accept many thanks for the beautiful copy of your An- 
nual Catalogue. I find much that is new and rare therein. 
The arrangement, the concise cultural instructions, copious 
illustrations, and clear typographical execution, all combine 
to make it a model catalogue. I shall ofr.cn have occasion 
to refer to it. It cannot fail to be of great use and interest 
to all horticulturists." 
From J.Hobbins, M.D., Madison, Wis., Prea't State Hort'l 
Soc, and Cor. Member of the Royal Hor'l Soc'y of Eng. 
"Please accept rav thanks for vour 'Guide.' I think you 
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From A. S. Fuller, Hort'l Editor of " The New York 
Sun." 
" There is no use in denving the fact that Washburn's 
Catalogue is the handsomest thing of the kind ever got up 
in this country." 
This work is published for the benefit of our customers, 
to which it will be sent free ; and will be sent to any address 
upon receipt of 25 cts. for paper cover, and 50 cts. for taste- 
fully bound in cloth. 
WASHBURN & CO., 
Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass. 
FEREE, BATCHELDER & CO.'S 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 
of Seeds :im<l 
VEGETABLE AND FLOWER GARDEN 
MANUAL for 1870, will be ready for distribution early 
in January. It will contain about 100 pages, with numerous 
illustrations— a complete list of Vegetable and Flower seeds, 
to which will be added a list of Summer-Flowering 
Bulbs, Plants and Small Fruits. Sent to all 
applicants enclosing 10 cents. Our customers supplied 
without charge. Address 
FERRE, BATCHELDER & CO., 
231 Main St., Springfield, Iflass. 
TO THE SEED TRADE. 
"We shall be pleased to mail to DEALERS ONLY our NEW 
WHOLESALE PRICE-LIST OF SEEDS FOR 
1870. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO., 15 John St., New York. 
Algek.— This new variety has the same potato-like foliage 
as Keyes', but the fruit is larger, of good market size, early 
and very productive, 15 cts. per package. 
Gen. Grant.— Remarkably solid, round, flat in shape, 
handsome, and of excellent, quality. Received The first pre- 
mium for the two past years at the Annual Exhibition of the 
Mass. Hort. Society, 15 cents per package. 
Crimson Cluster.— Early, grows in large-clusters bear- 
ing handsome fruit, oftentimes elegantly spotted with gold, 
l."i cents per package. 
Mammoth Cluster.— Very large, round, crimson, 15 cents 
per package. 
Boston Market.— The result of most careful selection by 
the Boston market-men for a series of years; large, flat, 
round, solid ; enormously productive, 15 cts. per package. 
Early Orangefield.— An English sort, yields its fruit in 
larae clusters. This Tomato is of a peculiarly rich aud sweet 
flavor, and excellent -as fruit for dessert, 15 cts. per package. 
Also the following excellent varieties at 10 cts. per pack- 
age. Early York, Dwarf Scotch, Keyes' Early Prolific. 
Yellow Fig, Maupay's Superior, Cherry, Large Yellow, Fee- 
jee. Cook's Favorite, Lester's Perfected. Large Smooth Red, 
Tomato De Laye, Tilden, New Mexican, Strawberry, or 
Ground Cherry. 
All of the above are of my own raising, each grown 
Isolated, scattered over three square miles of territory. 
Catalogues free. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
CATALOGUES FREE. 
E. IN EWBU RY, 
Seedsman & Florist, Brooklyn, Conn. 
Importer and dealer in all kinds of Flower Seeds, Gladio- 
lus, Tuberoses, Japan Lilies, and Bedding Plants. Cata- 
logue? ready early in January, and free oh application. 
Brooklyn, Jan. 1, 1S69. 
I WILL SEND A PACKAGE of the celebrated 
Alton Nutmeg Melon and my Catalogue for 1870, to all 
persons enclosing a three-cent stamp. Read my advertise- 
ment on this page. WALDO F. BROWN. 
Box 75, Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio. 
•? 
Importers and Dealees in 
Vegetable, Flower and Agricultural Seeds, 
Fruit aud Ornamental Trees, Green-house 
and Hardy Plants, 
53 North Market Street, Boston, Mass., and 
Cambridge Nurseries, 2 Miles from the City. 
"We invite the attention of our friends and customers, and 
all who are interested in the growth of beautiful Flowers 
and Choice Vegetables, to 
Oar New I Hits sf rated Guide 
Flower asad Vegetable Garden, 
AND CATALOGUE OF SEEDS FOR 1870. 
The 37th Edition, Revised, enlarged and improved, contain- 
ing 14S pages, profusely illustrated with more than 103 line 
Engravings. 
A BEAUTIFUL COLORED PLATE, 
and a descriptive list of more than 2,500 varieties of Flower 
and Vegetable Seeds, embracing every novelty introduced 
in 1S69, with full and plain practical directions for the cul- 
ture oi Flowers and Plants, the arrangement of the Garden, 
&c. Also a descriptive list of 150 varieties of the best 
French Gladiolus, including the superb new varieties of 
1869, now first offered here, all the line summer-flowering 
bulbs, such as Lilies, Tuberoses, Tigridias, &c, together 
with every Requisite for the garden. A copy mailed to every 
applicant on the receipt ot 25 cents. Our customers sup- 
plied free of charge. Address 
HOVEY & CO., 53 North Market Street, Boston. 
Gregory's Annual Cata- 
logue of 
en and Flow- 
er seeds. 
Having in former years introduced to the public the Hub- 
bard Squash, American Turban Squash, Marblehead Mam- 
moth Cabbage, Mexican Sweet Corn, Brown's New Dwarf 
Marrowfat Pea, Boston Curled Lettnce, and other new and 
valuable vegetables, with the return of another season I am 
again prepared to supply the public with Vegetable and 
Flower seeds of the purest quality. Mv Annuaf Catalogue, 
containing a list not only ot" all" novelties, but also of the 
standard vegetables of the garden (over one hundred of 
which are of my own growing) and this season for the first 
time a carefully selected list of flower seeds will be fonvard- 
ed gratis to nil. Sent without request to my customers of 
last season. All seed purchased of me / warrant to be 
fresh and true to vame, and that it shall reach the pur- 
chaser. Should it fail in either of these respects 1 will fill 
the order over without additional charge. 
JAMES J. H~. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
Fresh Garden, Flower, Fruit, 
Herb, Tree, Shrub, and Evergreen 
Seeds, with directions for culture, in large or small quanti- 
ties, prepaid, by mail or otherwise. Twentv-flve sorts of 
either for $1.00, prepaid. Send for Priced List. Seeds on 
Commission. Agents wanted. "Wholesale lists ready. Also 
Small Fruits, Plants, and Bulbs, &c, by mail, prepaid. B. 
M.WATSON, Old Colony Nurseries and Seed Warehouse, 
Plymouth, Mass. Established 1S42. 
Liluin Auratuni and New Colens. 
Seeds of Japan Lily Melpomene, carefully fertilized with 
L. Auratnrru In packets of 25 seeds, $1.00, post-paid. New 
Coleus, carefully fertilized seeds of the choicest new kinds 
In packets of 20 seeds, 50 cents, post-paid. "We offer the 
above from our own collection, carefully hybridized, and 
likely to produce some superb varieties. Address 
HOVEY & CO., 53 North Market St„ Boston, Mass. 
Grafting Grape-vines- 
The process of grafting gTape-vines is entirely simple, 
being ordinary cleft-grafting, and can be done by the most 
common workman who is handy in the use of the knife. 
"Grafts carefully inserted, grow with surprising rapidity 
and vigor, and the method affords a very easy way of re- 
placing an indifferent or worthless variety of grape with a 
good one. If properly done, the risk of failure is very 
small."— American Agriculturist. 
"We have issued a circular giving full particulars how and 
when to graft vines, which will be sent to all applicants. 
Seo advertisement, page 429, of November American Agri- 
culturist. Address 
H ABB-COUCH & BUSHNELL, 
" Iona," near Peekskill, Westchester Co., New York. 
Trees, Plants and Grape-vines» 
20,000 Early May or Richmond Cherry trees, handsome 
and thrifty, with well former i heads, VA to 4 ft., $150 per M ; 
4 to G feet. $300 per M. Extra fine, 6 to 8 ft., $3i0 per M. 
By the 100 at M. rates. 
Apple Trees, 2 years, leading best varieties, $75 per M. 
50,000 Concord Grape-vines, 2 year?, strong plants, $35 per 
M. No. 2, $i->perM. 
Ives*, 2 years, $50 per M, Terms Cash, or C. O. D. 
HENRY AVERY, 
Burlington, Iowa. 
Blooniingtoii (Ills.) Nursery. 
19th Year ! 500 Acres ! 10 Green-houses! 
Send 10c. for Catalogues. F. K. PHOENIX. 
Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage I 
This is the largest cabbage In the world, sometimes weigh- 
ing over sixty pounds each, and averaging as high as thirty 
pounds by the acre ! It is not onlv large, but cannot be sur- 
passed for reliability for heading, tenderness, and sweetness. 
As some cultivators have an impression that this cabbage 
cannot be fully matured outside of Marblehead. I invite 
their attention to the following extracts from among the 
many commendatory letters which I have received. 
" Your Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage cannot be excelled. 
There were heads weighing 50 lbs., and heads of Fottler's 
Improved Brunswick (from yonr seed) weighing 4Q lbs, — 
John H. Howlett, Charlestown, 111." 
"* I raised from your seed Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages 
that weighed 50 lbs.— A. H. Mace, Clintonville, N. Y., Nov. 
14th, 18G9i" 
'Your Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages were verv fine, 
they all headed well, and weighed 27 to 40. and 47 lbs.— W. 
Llewellyn, Red "Wing, Minn., March 12. 1S69." 
"Your Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages are wonderful; 
they grew to the size of an umbrella.— Thomas Flanigan, 
Palermo, Kansas." 
" The Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages were a perfect suc- 
cess. They headed well, and were three times as large as 
any cabbage I ever raised before.— J. F. Butt, Kosciiisco, 
Miss." 
"I have raised your Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage for 
two years, and it has proved the tenderest and sweetest cab- 
bage I ever saw.— S. S. Groves, Stones Prairie, 111." 
John Van Wormer, Springs' Mills. Mich- raised some 
weighing SO lbs. John Humphreys, Titusville, N. Y., 33K 
lbs. M.D. Clark, Elvria, Ohio, 37 lbs. H. A. Terry.Ciescent 
City. Iowa, 40 lbs„ measuring 56 inches around the solid 
head. Thos. A. Lambert, Becancour, C. W., exhibited three 
cabbages weighing respectively 40, 42>£, and 44 lbs. John 
W. Dean, St. Michael's, Md., has grown them weighing S3 
lbs. S. M. Shuck, Preston, Minn.. 33 lbs., when trimmed. E. 
H. Ellis, Etna Green, Ind., over 30 lbs. A. E. Garrison, Des 
Moines, Iowa, 30 lbs. James S. Allen, Union Springe, N. Y-, 
30 lbs., when stripped of loose leaves, "Wm. Lee, Jr.", Denver, 
Colorado, has grown heads weighing 45 to 50 lbs., as a penal- 
ty for which the miners of the mountains call him the * Big 
Cabbage Man." Leonard Choat, Denver. Colorado, raised 
one which weighed 46 lbs. when trimmed of waste leaves. 
Collins Eaton. Ogdensburgh, N. Y., 50 lbs. P. Sweeney, 
Loretto, Pa., 43 lbs. Sam'fB. Ornsbee, Rolling Prairie, 'Wis., 
53 lbs. Chas. W. Oden, Little Sioux, Iowa, produced quite a 
lot weighing from 50 to CO lbs. A. C. Van Tassal, £9 lbs. trim- 
med. A. C. Goodwin, Kennedy, N. Y., 45 to 50 lire. "W. H. 
Spera, Eunhrata, Pa., raised fifty heads that averaged over 
31 lbs. eacii. Wm. D. Munson, Burlington, Vt., raised some 
weighing 46 lbs. Mary B. Sellman, Galesburg, Iowa, 28 to 43 
lbs. stripped of loose leaves. Hundreds of others have 
written me that thev have "taken all the prizes at the 
County Fairs." "Raised the largest cabbage ever seen in 
the country." "Astonished all their neighbors." "That in 
sweetness, crispness. and tenderness, they were unequalled," 
etc.. etc. As the original introducer of the Mammoth Cab- 
bage, I am prepared to supply seed grown from extra large 
heads, at following prices, bv mail, post-paid : Per package, 
2o cts.; per oz., §1 ; 4 ozs., $3."50 ; per lb- §12. 
Full instructions for cultivation accompanying the seed. 
Catalogues free. JAMES J. H. GREGORY. 
Marblehead, Mass. 
C. G. CRANE & CO.'S 
Celebrated Garden Seeds. 
Our Annual Catalogue of Vegeta- 
ble and Agricultural Seeds 
FOR 
1870, 
With directions for ther cultiva- 
tion, has just been published, 
And will be mailed free on appli- 
cation to 
C. G. CRANE & CO., 
449 Broad St., 
Newark, N. J. 
Trade Price List for Dealers Only, 
NOW READY. 
CTS.— RAISE TOUR OWN LARD KEGS.— 
25 cts. per package. I have raised for 28 ye a is the 
Sugar Trough Gourd, and" have found them the "best lard 
cans I ever used. They make the cheapest and best vessels 
for sugar troughs, and arc convenient for many household 
purposes. The'v hold on an average from 1 to 2 common 
wooden bucketfuls, and often from 8 to 10 gallons, and I 
have one that I exhibited at the Agriculturist ottice ihat 
holds over eleven (11) gallons. They are very strong and 
will last a lifetime, and are as easily grown as the common 
pumpkin. My Catalogue for 1S70 tells how to grow i hem, 
and contains a price list and description of 1">0 varieties of 
vegetable and flower seeds. Send for it. Address 
WALDO F. BROWN, Box 75, Oxford, Butler Co., O. 
Thorlmrn's New Catalogue fcr 1870. 
Our ANNUAL DESCRIPTIVE PRICED CATALOGUE 
of Vegetable and Agricultural Seeds for 1ST0, is ready for 
mailing to applicants. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO., 15 John St., New York. 
Work for the Winter. 
Live, "Wide-awake Agents and Canvassers wanted. 
Pleasant business and large pay for little work. 
g3?" See advertisement, page 429, Nov. American Agricul- 
turist. HASBROUCK & BUSHNELL. 
Iona, near Peekskill, Westchester Co.. N. Y. 
Andre ILeroy's Xui'serics, 
at Angers, France, the most extensive in Europe. 
For Catalogues apply to 
BRUGUTERE & THEBAND, 
P. O. Box 15. 51 Cedar St., New York. 
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