1870.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
191 
K"ew and Valuable Melons. 
Persian Watermelon. — Introduced by Bayard 
Tavior, Esq., the well-known traveler, from the oordersof 
the Caspian Sea, and first offered for sale in 1867. Altera 
trial oi two years, we can confidently recommend it aa a 
most valuable acquisition, particularly for Hie Middle and 
Southern Stat-.-*. It is globular and elliptical in form, of 
pale green color, with dark stripes; flesh, crimson, and of 
remarfctblv flue texture; delicious flavor, with only half an 
inc-h of rind. A peculiarity of this Melon is that it can be 
taken off the vine to ripen, and will keep until winter. It 
grows to a large size. Per pkt„ 25 cts. 
TIic Rti^ian- American Watermelon.- Raised 
also by Mr. Taylor; a hybrid between the above and the 
Mountain Sweet Melon. " This is an extraordinary hybrid, 
and entirely unsurpassed for size, delicious crispness of 
flesh, and sweetness of flavor. Three of thein measured re- 
spectively, 20x15. 17x14, and 13x14, the largest weisrhin^ forty 
fionuds. The Russian- American ripens about three weeks 
ater than the American varieties, has the narrowest possible 
rind, with a mass of crimson flesh five inches in diameter. 
invariably sweet and solid, and far surpasses all melons 
hitherto known in the United States. Per pkt., 2o cts. 
Minorca Mn«kmelon.-A new and valuable variety, 
grows to a large sizfl flesh of firm texture, excellent flavor, 
and very productive; 25 cents per packet of ten seeds; 
5 packets for $1X0. 
Alton IVntme?.- This varietv 13 hicrhly esteemed at the 
Wesl as a market varietv. Its great productivness, beauty, 
size and firmness of flesh make it uneqnalecl for shipping. 
It :- of a delicious flavor, and continues long in bearing. 
Price per packet, 15 cts. ; per oz., 50 cts. Address 
Mew Sweet Potato. 
Soiz.t3ic3-ii Queen. 
A year's trial, of this superior varietv introduced by us last 
season, confirms ail that we then claimed for It. 
Dr. Thurher, Editor of the American Agriculturist, thus 
speaks of it in the Horticultural Annual for 1S70: "The 
root is very large, longer than the Nansemond, of a very 
light color, and is said to keep remarkably well. The vine 
i> :i vigorous grower, and the leaves larger and darker col- 
ored than the Nansemond. From a single trial of this potato 
v.-e are inclined to place a high estimate upon its produc- 
tiveness and good quality." 
We offer for sale a limited number of plants at $2/0 per 
103 ; £s.00 per 500; ? 15.00 per 1,000. No orders will be ac- 
cepted for less than 100. 
Xanscmcnd Sweet. 
Plants 75 cents per 1C0; $3X0 per 500; §5.00 per 1,000. Sent 
by mail at 10 cents per hundred additional. 
Cash must accomnany the order. Address 
B. K. BLISS & SON, 
P. O. Box Ho. 5,7 i 2, New York. 
Xew Joint Parching Corn. 
The most productive variety known, producing from 
eight to ten ears on each stalk. Equal to a yield of from 
one hundred to two hundred bushels per acre. Although it 
Is, strictly speaking, a variety of parching corn, it is equally 
adapted to all purposes of common field "corn for stock and 
poultry feeding, etc. It weighs, when shelled, stricken 
measure, sixtv to sixty-two pounds per bushel. It should 
be planted in drills three leet apart, putting one kernel to 
every foot. Per packer, of about two hundred kernels, 50 
cents ; five packets, $2.00. For sale nv 
li. K. BLISS & SON", 
41 Park Row, and 151 Nassau St., New Tork. 
Liliam AtiFatum, 
The Japanese Queen of Lilies, 
A large importation from Japan, just received by the sub- 
scribers, in Hue, healthvcondition. Flowering Bulbs mailed 
to anv address at following prices: 
No. I, $1.00 each; $9.00 per doz. No. 2, 75 cents each, or 
$6.75 per doz. No. 3. 50 cts. each : $4.50 per doz. Prices by 
the hundred or thousand will be given to dealers upon 
application. B. K. BLISS & SOX, 
Nos. 41 Park P.ow, and 151 Nassau St., New York. 
ALSIKE CLOVER. 
A fresh supply of the genuine variety just received bv the 
subscribers. 75 cts. per pound, bv mail: $7 per peck o"r $.'5 
per bushel, by Express. B. K. BLISS & SON. 
41 Park Row & 15! Nassau St., New York. 
BLISS' IMPROVED 
Long* Orange Carrot. 
This superior varietv is the resnlt of a careful selection, 
for successive years, of the best formed, largest, and deen- 
tlored roots of the Imported Long Orange Carrot, by 
which it has attained a perfection hitherto unknown in this 
useful vegetable, being larger, better flavored, and of a 
deeper orange color, and more sure to produce a crop. But- 
ter makers will tlnd this variety very useful in giving to 
their butter a rich, deep yellow color. We unhesitatingly 
pronounce it the best variety In the market, and one which 
wiil n->t fall to give satisfaction to the purchaser, loz.,20 
cts.; 4oz„(TtCts.; 1 pound, $2, by Mail, post-paid. 
Address B. K. BLISS & SON. 
P. O. Box 5,712. New York. 
Seeds Tor Hedges. 
Mailed to any address upon receipt of price. ■ Oeace 
Orange, $2 per m. ; Three Thorned Acacia, "> eta. per pound. 
Prices for hirger quantities will be given upon application. 
Itarhcrrv. C BerberUi vulgaris,) very hardy, producing n 
One compact hedge, affording ample Becurfty against Intru- 
sion: also valuable for its fruit, which Is excellent for pre- 
serving. Per oz., 4U cts.; per lb., ?".. 
P. K. BLTSS & SON, 
P. 0. Box No. 5.712, New York. 
GLADIOLUS. 
One dozen splendid mixed varieties mailed, post-paid, to 
I li - upon receipt of $1.50. Address 
n. K. BLISS * SON. 
r. O. Cox So. 5,713, Sew York. 
Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage ! 
This is the largest cabbage in the world, sometimes weigh- 
ins over sixty pounds each, and averaging as high as thirty 
pounds by the acre ! It is not only large, but cannot be sur- 
passed for reliability forheading, 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 cannotbe excelled. 
There were heads weighing 50 lbs., and heads ofFottler's 
Improved Brunswick (from vonr seed) weighing 40 lbs.— 
John H. Howlett, Charlestowfi. Til." 
" I raised from vour seed Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages 
that weighed 50 "lbs.— A. H. Mace, Clintonville, X. T., Nov. 
14th. 1309." 
"Your Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages were very fine, 
thev 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 limes :is large as 
anv cabbage I ever raised before.— J. F. Butt, Kosciusko, 
Miss." 
"I have raised your Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage for 
two years, and it fias proved the tenderest and sweetest cab- 
base* I ever saw.— S. S. Groves, Stones Prairie, 111. " 
John Van Wormer, Springs' Mills. Mich., raised some 
weighing 30 lbs. John Humphreys, Titusville, N. Y. r 33^ 
lbs. M. D. Clark, Elvria. Ohio, 87 lbs. H. A. Terry.Creecent 
City. Iowa, 40 lbs., rhensurlnjf 50 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 33 
lbs. S. M. Shuck, Preston, Minn.. 33 lbs., when trimmed" E. 
H. Ellis, Etna Green, Ind., over 30 lbs. A. E. Garrison, Dcs 
Moines, Iowa, 30 lbs. James S. Allen, Union Springs, 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 45 lbs. when trimmed of waste leaves. 
Collins Eaton." OgdensTr.irgh, N. Y., 50 lbs. P.Sweeney, 
Loretto, Pa.. 43 lbs. Sam'i B. Ornebce, Rolling Prairie, Wis., 
53 lbs. Chas. W. Oden. Little Sioux. Iowa, produced cfuite a 
lot weighing from 50 to (10 lbs. A. C. Van Tassal, 39 lbs. trim- 
med. A.C.Goodwin, Kennedy, M. Y„ 45 to :"0 lbs. W. H. 
Spera, Eunhrata, Pa., raised fifty heads that averaged over 
31 lbs. each. Win, D. Munson, Burlington, Vt., raised some 
weighing 45 lbs. Marv B. Sellman, Galcsburg, Iowa, 2S to 43 
lbs. stripped of loose leaves. Hundreds of others have 
written me that they 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, 
25 cts.; per oz., $1 ; 4 ozs., $3.50 ; per lb, $12. 
Pull instructions for cultivation accompanying the seed. 
Catalogues free. JAMES J. H. GREGORY, 
Marblehead, Mass, 
FERRE, BATCHELDER & CO.'S 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 
of Seeds arnxi 
VEGETABLE AND FLOWER GARDEN 
MANUAL for 1870, will be ready for distribution early 
in January. It will contain about 1C0 pages, with numerous 
illustrationgr-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, Mass. 
Early Mohawk Potatoes. 
The earliest of the earlies. of large size and free from dis- 
ease, and of superior quality both as an early and late winter 
and spring varietv. 
$15 per Bbl. ; $1 per bushel ; $'0 per Peck. 
(^Hover's Colossal Asparagus Roots, 
The Largest. Best, and most Prolific variety ever intro- 
duced, at. d pronounced by the leading horticulturists the 
greatest improvement in vegetables of the da v. 
$3.00 per hundred ; $25.00 per thousand. 
Send for Circulars of Testimonials and directions for set- 
ting out to S. B. COXOVEK, 
260 West Washington Market. New Tork. 
Three Best Squashes! 
The Hubbard is the sweetest, drvest, and richest table 
squash lor winter, the American Turban for tall, and the 
Boston Marrow the best pie squash. Seed sent post-paid to 
any address, at 10 cents a package; Hubbard and Turban 25 
cents an ounce, and Hoston Marrow 20 cents an ounce. I 
take pride in havirnr been the orftrlnal introducer of the 
Hubbard squash. Mv Illustrated Catalogue of Garden and 
Flower seed sent gratis to all. 
JAMES J. II. GBEGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
European Larch Seed (LarizEurojwt). 
A supply of Fresh Secdjust received by ihesnbscrtherB.nnd 
mailed post-paid to any address at following pi-ictus: 1 oz., 
•tr* eta.; J< lb., 73 els.; 'l lb., $'£.50. 
Address n. K. rxiss & son-. 
P. O. Pox No. 5,712, New York. 
Sweet Potato Plants. 
Southern Q,-noeii.— The best Sweet Potato known. 
7*100 to four weeks earlier than any other variety. $2.00 
per one hundred. 
Nansemond, 73 cents per wo. bv mail. 
A. M. UALSTED, Ryi . N. Y. 
NaasemoM 
Sweet Potato Plants,, 
Of best qnaliry, dnrimr May and 
June. Put np to "carrvsafelv long dis- 
tances. Bv Exnres s. Price, 500, S2.25 -,— * 
1 000, $0.50;— 5,0.0, $!5.00;-l0,0CO, $28- 
This varietv is successfully grown at 
the North. " Send for our Circular of 
directions, etc Address 
BE. BE, MURRAY & CO., 
Foster's Crossings, "Warren Co., Ohio, 
and IS! & lS3*West Second Ft., 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
T&TAXSEMOND SWEET POTATO PLANTS, by 
-L« the 100, 1,000, or 10,0^-0. Send for price list of Vegetable 
Plants. Address H. E. ACKER, Seed Grower. 
Woodbridge, IN. J. 
"SNARLY ROSE POTATOES, $1 per 60 lbs.; 2d 
-H-^ sire, 75 cts. per 60 lbs.; or as low as any offered in this 
paper. Also. Small Fruit Plants, all warranted genuine, 
packed and shipped at Philadelphia without extra cost. 
JOHN S. COLLINS, Moorcstown, X.J. 
PREMIUM SANFORD CORN.— Warranted gen- 
uine, $3 per bushel, $1 per peck, or one quart, post-paid, 
40 cts. Also, 100.000 Nansemond Sweet Potato Plants. $-1 per 
1.000. Address A. R. NORTON, Seidell, Long Island, N. Y. 
Superior I>B@tch ISailfos. 
RICHARD LAFER 52 Cedar St., Xew York, Importer. 
Sole Acent for the TJ. S. of the celchrated nurserymen 
Messrs/L. tax "NYavef.ex & Co., Holland, whose superior 
products are unsurpassed, Is now prepared to receive special 
orders from responsible parties. All orders forprimesclect- 
ed Bulbs must be sent in to me before the 15th of June. Price- 
current with Catalogue of my Fall Importation forwarded 
upon application. Post Office Box 1,033. 
" CONSIDER THE LILIES." 
BOTANY- 
"Woo&'s American Botanist and Florist. 
564 pages royal \Zmo, post-paid, $2.50. 
This new and eagerly expected work is the result of the au- 
thor's experience and liic-long labors in Classifying the Sci- 
ence of Botany . He has at length attained the realization of 
his hopes by a wonderfullv ingenious process of condensation 
and arrangement, and presents to The world in this single 
moderate-sized Tohirae a compW* manual. In 370 duode- 
cimo paces he hns actaallv recorded and defined nearly -l.Of.O 
species. The treatises on Descriptive and Structural Botany 
are models of concise statement, which leave nothing to he 
said. Of entirelv new features, the most notable are the Sy- 
noptical Tables'for the black-board, and the distinction of 
species nnd varieties by variation In the type. Sample to 
teachers for examination, half price. 
A. S. BARNES & CO., 
Ill & 113 "William St., N\ T. 
Green-Heuse Plants and Marshall 
Neil Rose. 
A fine stock of this superior Rose for sale at ffi per dozen, 
or $25 per 100. A fine colored plate of which, will be sent 
free to all applicants. Green-house and Bedding Plants in 
full assortment and excellcntlv grown, supplied. Also, 
selections of Hoses and Bedding Plants, varying in price 
from $25 to $5 for each selection. Special Circulars giving 
lists of the selections, sent free to all who apply. 
Address H. E. BOAKDMAN", 
Monroe Avextts Nt/useries, Rochester, N. T. 
The Cranberry and its Culture. 
By A H.RICHARDS. Mail«d free on receipt of 25 cts. 
GEO. F. MILLER, Hannnonion, N. J. 
CHEAPEST AND BEST. 
Concords— $12.50 per 100; Ives'— $12.50 per 100. 
Descriptive. Illustrated List of Grapes ami Small Fruits, 
GKA.TIS. M. H. LEWI*. 
Drawer 150, Sandusky, Ohio. 
Blooniingten (Ills.) Bfursery. 
19th Year ! 500 Acres ! 10 Green-houses ! 
Send 10c. for Catalogues. F. K. IMIOKNIX. 
SILVER MAPLE.— The best quick growing s\ a Ic 
^ and timber irr.'. Seed, freshly gathered, sent i>y mail if 
ordered by June 15th. 1 oz., 15c.: 8 oz, $1.00; 1 IK. $1 JO. 
J. M. liEN I'll ALL, Quasqueton, Buchanan Co., Iowa. 
ORNAMENTAL PINE SEEDS.— 100 lbs. Seeds 
of " CfldrtiS I'eoiiora." just received, for Bnlc by 
w. LUVING CLAlili, 212 Pear) St., New xork. 
MEXICAN" EVERBEARING STRAWBERRY. 
A hardy, vigorous plant, beirtne mm from enrly 
June until the frosts of vinter. Of good size and One fla- 
vor N'o earden should be without them. Orders ad- 
dressed' to J. P. WHITINK & CO.. Detroit, Mich., or to 
aresscu to ,-., U;I - & mT CHCOCK. Buffalo, IS. v.. 
■Will receive prompt attention. 
' SEND FOB CIKCn.AU. 
PUICE OP PL.VSTS, S3.O0 per Dozen. 
PURCHASERS WANTED tor l.OOO.Oon Small 
Fruit Plants and 1,000 barrels of Early Hose Potatoes. 
Send for prices. JOHN S. COLLINS. Moorestown. J. . J. 
1 AA AAA Strawberry Plants for sale, all the hi b( 
1UV,VVW k ,„ lls . for 'particulars see my adverUscment 
lu April No. Send ror descrlpttve Catalognc. 
Wli. S. CARPENTER, Rye, West chester Co., N. Y. 
IMPORTED AND NATIVE NURSERT STOCK 
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