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Sc Fleming's 
SELECTED SEEDS & PLANTS 
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MARKET GARDENERS AND OTHERS. 
Quart. Mush. 
Beans (Bush), Valentine, Refugee 40c. $10.00 
Beans (Bole), Lima, Sera 75c. 14.00 
Ounce. lb. 
Beets, Short Top Round, Long Blood 15c. §1.00 
Cabbage (Early), true Jersey Wakefield $1.00 12.00 
" (Late), Flat Dutch, Drumhead 50c. $5.00 
Carrot, Early Horn, Long Orange 15c. $1.50 
Cauliflower, Early Paris and Half-Early $1.50 10.00 
Celery, New Dwarf White $1.00 $12.00 
" White Solid 30c. $3.00 
Qitart. Bush. 
Corn, Dwarf Prolific, Asylum 30c. $6.00 
. Ounce. lb. 
Cucumber, White Spine, Long Green 15c. $1.50 
" Forcing varieties 25c. per packet. 
Ounce. lb. 
Egg Plant, New Tork Improved Purple 75c. $7.50 
Lettuce, Simpson, Butter 40c. $1.00 
Melon, Citron, Nutmeg and Skillman 20c. $1.50 
" (Water), Ice Cream & Mountain Sprout. 15c. $1.50 
Okra, Tall and Dwarf. 15c. $1.50 
Onions, White, Meggets Red 80c. $3.00 
Large Red, Yellow Dutch 20c- $1.50 
Parsley, Extra Dwarf Curled 15c. $1.50 
Quart. Bush. 
Peas (Early), Dan. O'Rourke, "Extra Early.". .30c. $7-00 
" (Late) Champion, British Queen 50c. $8. 00 
* Ounce. lb. 
Pumpkin, Cheese 10c- 75 
Radish, Scarlet Turnip, Long Scarlet 15c. $1.50 
Salsify (or Oyster Plant) 20c. $2.00 
Spinach, Round and Prickly 10c. 75 
Squash (Bush), Summer Crookneck 10c. 75 
" (Late), Boston Marrow, Hubbard. 20c. $2.50 
Tomato, Early Smooth Red, Fejee 30c. $4.00 
Turnip, Red Top, Yellow Aberdeen 10c. $1.00 
Herbs, Thyme and Sweet Marjoram 50c $6.00 
" Sage and Summer Savory 30c. $4-00 
The above sent by mail to any address on receipt of the 
prices annexed, with the addition of Sc. per a. for postage. 
In packets at Sc. each, or 75c. per dozen, free by mail. 
Plants and Moots for Market 
Gardeners and Others. 
Onion Sets, Yellow, 40c. per quart, 52.00 per peck, 
$6.00 per Bnsliel. 
Onion Sets, "White, 50c. per quart, 53.00 per peck, 
$9.00 per Bushel. 
Per Bush. Per Bbl. 
Potatoes— Early Goodrich (true) §3.00 $8.00 
" Early Cottage 3.00 7.50 
'■ Gleason 3.00 7.50 
" Sebec 3.00 7.50 
" Harrison 7.50 13.00 
" Cnzco 2.00 5.00 
Asparagus, (2 years old,) $1.50 per 100 ; $10.00 per 1,000 
" (1 year old.) $1.00 " $7.50 " 
Rhubarb, Victoria and Linnaeus, $3 per doz. ; $15 per 100 
Cabbage Plants (Cold Frame), TVakeneld, $1.50 per 100; 
$10.00 per 1,000 
" " (Hot-bed), 'Wakefield, 75 cents per 100 ; 
$0.00 per 1,000 
Cauliflower, (Cold Frame), $3 per 100; $20.00 per 1,000 
" (Hot-bed), $2 " $15.00 per 1,000 
Horseradish Sets, $1.00 per 100; $7.50 per 1,000. 
HEFTOERSOSI & FI/EaHSTG, 
Seedsmen and Market Gardeners, 
67 Nassara-si., New York. 
Our General Catalogue of Flower 
and "Vegetable Seeds 
is novr ready, containing descriptions and plain directions 
for cultivation. Mailed on receipt of 10 cents. 
5few Vegetable Seeds, See. I 
BRIBCHBMAN'S 
AJNTNTXAJL DESCRIPTIVE 
PR5CED CATALOGUE 
of 
KITCHEN GARDEN 
and 
AGRICULTURAL SEEDS, 
for 1867, is Now Ready, 
and mailed free to all applicants. 
ALFRED BEIDGEMAN, 
No. 8TG Broadway, Xew Tort. 
I present to tile Public my Annual I*ist of 
New and Rare Seed for 1867, many of which 
I send oat the first time this season. 
Marelehead Mammoth Drumhead Caeeage. — 
(Tlie largest Cabbage in the world. Weighs from 
thirty to sixty pounds to the head, and is tender 
and siceet. No cabbage does so well in the South 
as this.) Cannon Ball Cabbage. — (About as round 
and hard as a cannon ball. An early sort, and the 
hardest heading of ail Cabbage.) Stone Mason Caeeage. 
—{Standard variety of Winter Drumhead Cabbage in Bos- 
ton market. Under good cultivation every plant on an acre 
will make a large and hard head. It is remarkably tender 
and sweet. In Jicdf -ounce packages.) Lenormand's Mam- 
moth Cauliflower. — (A new variety, the largest of all 
the Cauliflower family. Very reliable for 'heading.) Very 
Early Erfurt Cauliflower.— {New, remarkably early, 
and fine for hot-beds.) New Tork Improved Extra 
Large Purple Egg Plant. — (This grows to a larger 1 size, 
and is of a richer color than- the Common Large Purple 
EggPlant.) Striped Gaudeloupe Egg Plant. — (An ele- 
gant variety for the table. Theslripings of white, purple 
and yellow give it a 'magnificent appearance.) Ornamental 
Kale.-( Tlie great variety in color, and structure of the leaves, 
make them elegant ornaments for the flower garden and 
among shrubbery.) Mammoth Sweet Corn. — (The largest 
of aU Sweet Corn. Sweet, and excellent for the table. The 
ears weigh, as gathered, from two to three pounds each.) 
Mammoth French Squash. — (Sometimes grown to weigh 
over two hundred pounds. They grow well-proportioned, 
and are finely colored.) Vegetaele Caterpillars. — ( Veg- 
etable curiosities, tlie seed-vessels resembling caterpillars.) 
Vegetable Snails. — (A French Oddity, the seed vessels of 
which resemble snails.) Vegetable Works. — (Another 
curious vegetable product.) Shake Cucumber.— (A very 
long variety which grows coiled up, having the appearance 
of a large snake.) 
Laston's Prolific Early Long Pod Pea. — (Anew and 
guile distinct variety. Many of the pods contain from ten 
to twelve Peas each.) Dwarf Indian Cn jef Bean. — ( Tlwse 
ivlw have grown tlie Pole, Indian Chief zoill be pleased to 
find a bush variety of this fine Siring Bean.) Giant Was 
Bean.— (J. neio Pole Bean, being an improvement on the 
Indian Chief it being a. larger and longer Podded Bean 
than that choice variety. The Wax Beans (so called because 
the pods are of a wax color,) are lite best of all String 
Beans.) Noreiton's Giant Cucumber. — (Anew English 
variety, the finest, longest, and most prolific Cucumber in 
cultivation.) Ward's Nectar Melon. — (IVhen compared 
with all other sorts, this has been awarded the palm as the 
best of all green-fieshed Melons.) 
Each of the above sent to any part of the United Slates, 
and warranted to reach tlie purchaser, at twenty-five cents 
per package. 
American Turban Squash. — ( The dryest, finest grained, 
and best flavored of all Fall Squashes. The packages con- 
tain about fifty seed.) Hubbard Squash. — (/ was the ori- 
ginal introducer of mis, and the seed is true.) Yokohama 
Squash.— (J. new variety from Japan ; very prolific. The 
quality resembles a fine Crookneck, but is much superior.) 
Boston Marrow Squash.— (My variety took the premium 
for purity at tlie Annual Fair of the Massachusetts Horti- 
cultural Society in 1SG5.) Para Squash. — (A bush Squash 
from Soidh America, which can be kept into winter. Ob- 
long in shape, of good size, fine-grained, and excellent qual- 
ity ; far superior to any standard variety of bush Squash.) 
Improved Green Globe Savoy Cabeage. — (For family 
use, the Savoys are the richest of all Cabbages. The heads 
of tliis variety are large, hard. and of most excellent quality, 
the slumps short. PemarkaUy reliable for heading.) 
Pancalxer Savoy. — (Tlie French consider this the earliest 
Cabbage grown.) Small Early Ulm Savoy. — (Very early 
and reliable.) Burnell's King of the Dwarfs. — (In 
England this is considered the earliest of Cabbages. Very 
dwarf fine quality, andsiveet.) Large Brunswick Short 
Stem. — (A very large and very early Brumliead, much 
sought for by market gardeners.) Little Pixie Cabbage. 
—{An early dwarf; stump, short ; heads, pointed, and very 
hard, fine quality, and very sweet.) Tllden's New To- 
mato.— (Large, round or oblong •color, rich scarlet ; vines, 
dwarf, and very productive.) Early York Tomato. — 
(Very early, and remarkably prolific; has yielded at the rate 
of over one thousand bushels per acre. Fruit of good mar- 
ket size; fiat, round shape; quality, excellent.) Cook's 
Favorite Tomato.— {A targe, apple-shaped variety ; very 
prolific ; quality, superior ; decidedly the best of the apple- 
shaped Tomatoes.) Mammoth Chihuahua Tomato. — 
(Enormously large, weighing from two to three pounds. 
Some single specimens will heap a quart measure.) New 
Mexican Tomato. — (Very large, round Tomato; a great 
bearer ; resembles, in color, Lester's Perfected, bid an im- 
provement on it, in always being round.) Tree Tomato. — 
(A French variety ; grows erect in the form of a bush.) 
McLean's Advancer Pea. — (A new English wrinlded Pea. 
A decided improvement on tlie Champion of England; 
bears well, with Peas equally sweet ; is much larger, and does 
not run nearly as high.) McLean's Little Gem.— (A new 
dicarf wrinkled Pea.' grows about one foot high, very 
early, only a few days later than the Dan O'Rourke ; a de- 
cided acquisition.) Ytlmorln's New, Wrinkled, Edible, 
Podded Pea. — (Tlie first wrinkled sort yet found, the pods 
of which can be eaten.) Carter's First Crop. — (A neio 
English Pea, sent out as the earliest of all varieties.) Hair's 
Dwarf Mammoth. — (A wrinkled Pea, larger than Cham- 
pion of England, growing only half its night ; quality, 
fully equal to the Champion.) Tom Thumb Pea.— (As 
early as Ban (Xfiourke, grows ten inches lugh, and is re- 
markably prolific.) Drew's New Dwarf Pea.— (Peas, 
very large, egg-shaped ; each plant forms quite a bush. 
Peas should be planted about a foot apart. Early, dwarf, 
and very prolific.) Brown's New Dwarf Marrowfat. — 
(Warranted to be the earliest and most dwarf Marrowfat 
Pea grown. A capital Pea for market gardeners.) Forty 
Days' Corn". — (Earlier than any Sweet Com. Desirable as 
an early sort.) Bates' Extra Early Sweet Corn.— (A 
variety of wrinlded kerneled Sugar Com; earlier than 
Darling^s Early, and excellent for table use.) Mammoth 
Flint Corn. — (Ears grow sixteen inches long ; sialics very 
tall and stout, and matures as far North as Central New 
England.) Crosby's Early. — (Tlie earliest of all twelve 
rowed Sweet Corn. The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 
ciety offered special premiums for this new Corn at their last 
Annual Fair. It is of good size for market, and, a decided 
acquisition.) Mexican Sweet Corn. — (I still find this to 
be the sweetest and most tender of all varieties of Sweep 
Corn. Notliing can equal it for' the table.) Golden Sweet 
Corn. — (A Sweet Corn of golden color ; early, of good size, 
and excellent quality for the table ; flavor, fine, and distinct 
from any other variety.) Yard Long Bean. — (A curious 
Bean ; pods grooving over two feet long ; foliage, a rich, 
dark, glossy green.) Concord Bean. — (Plus new Bean is 
probably the earliest Pole Bean groicn ; very prolific, and of 
excellent quality, either as a string or shell Bean.) Fejee 
Bean. — (A neio bush Bean ; the earliest and hardiest of all 
beans ; very prolific and worthy of general cxdlivalion.) 
Intermediate Horticultural Bean. — (An excellent bush 
Bean for marketmen. Pods of the same rich color as the 
Pole Horticultural.) California Bean. — (A very early, 
large, fiat Pole Bean; excellent, either green or baked.) 
Mottled Cranberry. — (An improvement in liealUi, vigor, 
and productiveness on the old-fashioned Cranberry. Few 
Pole Beans will yield equal to this. Pods, long, large, and . 
well filled.) Simon's Early Beet. — (A new, early sort, 
well shaped ; as early as Bassano, and darker.) New Tur- 
nip Beet. — (Pound, fiat-shaped, very early, and very nice.) 
Castlenandary Beet. — (A famous French variety ; flesh, 
a deep purple color, very tender and siveet.) Crapaudine 
Beet. — (Rough skinned; color, very dark purple. Es- 
teemed by the French as tlie best of all Beets for table use.) 
Whyte's Very Deep Ked Beet. — (Medium size, dark 
color, verj/ sweet, and excellent for table use.) Yellow 
Ovoid Mangel Wurtzel. — (For- cattle. Of seventeen 
varieties tested, the crop of this exceeded all.) Early Crack- 
er Onion.— (Earliest of all the yelloio sort ; quality, very 
delicate and sweet.) Hood's New Dwarf Imperial Pur- 
ple Celery.— (J. clwice new English variety.) Turner's 
Incomparable Dwarf White Celery.— (A first class 
English variety.) Read's Matchless Celery. — (A pre- 
mium English variety, fine, solid and red.) Boston Mar- 
ket Celery. — (True. This is the short, compact, solid 
variety, so often admired by strangers in the markets of 
Boston.) True Boston Curled Lettuce. — (Tlie most 
elegant of all the Lettuce family, grows in the form of a 
Posette.) Wheeler's Tom Thcmb Lettuce.-— (J. choice 
new variety, in high favor with tlwse who have grown it.) 
Perpignan Lettuce.— -(This is an excellent Lettuce for 
standing the summer lieat. Heads, compact, attaining to 
seven inches in diameter.) Neapolitan Cabbage Let- 
tuce. — ( One of tlie finest Cabbage Lettuces yet introduced.) 
Six Varieties of Caeeage Lettuce. — (Six of ihechoicest 
varieties in one package?) Orange Watermelon. — ( Wlien 
fully ripe the skin will peel off like an Orange.) Allen's 
Superb Musk Melon. — (Quality, superior ; by some called 
the " Queen of Melons.' 1 '') Large Persian Musk Melon. 
— (A fine, large variety.) White Japanese Melon. — 
(Flesh, greenish white, very thick-meated ; one of the earliest 
and sweetest of all melons.) Dwarf Broom Corn. — ( This 
is thought to make a better brush than the common tall sorts.) 
Chufas, or Ground Almonds. — (These taste very much 
like a Cocoanut; are very prolific, yielding 100 toX.) Or- 
namental Gourds.— (Many varieties in one package.) 
New Jersey Hybrid Cucumber. — (A remarkably long 
variety ; an improvement on the Wliite Spined.) Improved 
Long Green Cucumber. — (Tins is the longest of all the 
Long Greens.) Chinese Scarlet Egg Plant.— {Of mag- 
nificent scarlet color, and higldy ornamental.) Mammoth 
Millet.— (Extra tall; seed heads much larger than any 
•-other variety.) Surry White Wheat. — (A new English 
Winter Wheat, highly recommended for poor soils, remark- 
ablyfree from blight and rust.) Otaheitian Sugar Cane. 
—{Tliis yields more Sugar than any otlier variety of Sugar 
Cane grown in tlie North.) 
Any of the above varieties wUl be forwarded, post-paid, 
and warranted to reach the purchaser at fifteen cents each. 
Early. Sebec Potatoes. — (Coming rapidly into favor 
in Boston and vicinity as a first class early market Potato. 
Large size, excellent quality, and remarkably productive.) 
Early Goodrich.— (True.) Shaker's Fancy.— (A new 
variety of white-fleshed Potatoes, considered as early as 
Early Goodrich, yielding equally well, and rapidly gaining 
favor in Pennsylvania. This and the Early Sebec arc of 
better shape for market purposes than the Early Goodrich. 
Four pound packages of either of these varieties sent to 
any address, warranted to reach the purchaser .on receipt of 
one dollar. All orders for Potatoes will be put on file, and 
be filled as soon as danger from freezing is past. 
Catalogues containing over two hundred varieties of war- 
ranted Garden Seeds, one hundred and twenty-five of which 
are of my own growing, sent, gratis, to all applicants. 
I warrant three things: 1st. That my seed is genuine. 
2d. That your money shall reach me. Bd. Tliat my seed 
shall reach you. Can the Public ask for anylMngfairer 
than tliis? JAMES J. H. GREGORY, 
Marblehead, Mass 
pAS£SONS & CO., 
offer a large assortment of tae "best 
TSSEES AN© SMRUBS, 
both for Streets and La-vrns. 
PEAR TREES of large size. 
PEACH TREES, very line, at $120 per 1,000. 
APPLE, PMM and other Frnlt Trees. 
STRAWBERRIES of the different sorts. 
ROSES on their own roots, not budded or grafted, and 
as strong, healthy and "vigorous as need be desired. The 
finest Hybrid Pcrpetuals and Mosses at 520 per 100 ; $150 
per 1,000. 
TRITOMA TV ARIA, $25 per 100. 
(See American Agriculturist, October Xo., 18C6, page SG3.) 
USnSBSJJS RHUBARB, ?3 per 100. 
EVERGREENS 
In very large variety, including hardy Rhododendrons of all 
the best kinds, from white to purple. 
For Catalogues, &c., apply to 
PARSONS & CO., Flushing, IT. Y. 
