1867.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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BEDDING PLANTS, &C, BY MAIL. 
Strong and healthy Plants of the following varieties will 
he securely packed and mailed, post-paid, to" any address in 
the United States, upon receipt of the price nmxed.— Selec- 
tion of varieties to be left with its.— When a less number than 
the amount specified is ordered, an additional charge will be 
made at the rate of 50 cents per dozen. 
12 Hardv Carnations and Picoteee, assorted $2.50 
12 Monthly " " " 3.00 
12 Florists' Pinks. ...ass'd. $3.50 12 Fuchsias, assorted 2.00 
12 Scarlet Geraniums, " 2.50 
12Lantanas, " 2.00 
12 Phloxes, " 2.00 
6 Salvias, " 1.25 
12 Dahlias (potrootsl, " 2.50 
G H. P. Roses, " 2.50 
S Tritomas, " 1.25 
1 Lilium Auratum 5.00 
12 Gladiolus, assorted 2.00 
■i Ornamental Foliage Plants, distinct 
12 Chrysanthemums, large Flowering. 
12 " Pomponed 
12 Heliotropes, 
12 Petunias, 
12 Pansies, " 
12 Verbenas, " 
6 Pot Roses, " 
G Feverfews 
1 Daphne Cneorum 
3 Japan Lilies (3 var.) 
12 Italian Tuberoses... 
.. 2.00 
. 2.00 
. 2.00 
. 1.50 
. 2.00 
. 1.25 
. 50 
. 1.50 
. 2.00 
. 1.25 
. 2.50 
. 2.50 
B. K. BLISS, Springlleld, Mass. 
CHINESE SUGAR CANE. 
Imported Seed, 
Doz. Hundred. 
$7.50 §50.00 
4.00 
4.00 
2.50 
In consequence of so much of the seed of this valuable 
plant that is raised in this country being deteriorated by 
hybridization with other varieties, we have .just imported a 
supply from Messrs. Vilmorin & Co., of Paris, grown from 
the original stock, which may be relied upon as perfectly 
pure. 4 ounces, 25 cents ; S ounces, 10 cents ; one ft , 75 cents. 
B. K. BLISS, Springlleld, Mass. 
Tlie Best and most Hardy Hedge 
PBant. 
Honey Locust, or Three Tiioenkd Acacia. 
Fresh Seed with directions for culture, will be mailed to 
any address, at the following prices: 1 oz., 15 cents; 4 ozs., 
35 cents ; 1 pound, §1.00. Prices in larger quantities will he 
given upon application. B. K. BLISS, Springfield, Mass. 
Grape Vines at Reduced Prices, 
Strong one year old plants. 
Each. 
Iona 73 
Delaware 40 4.00 25.00 
Diuna - 40 4.00 25.00 
Concord 25 2.50 15.00 
One each of the following varieties post-paid, per mail, 
upon receipt of $4.00. 
Iona, Israella, Delaware, Diana, Concord, Creveling, 
Union Village. B. K. BLISS, Springfield, Mass. 
THE 
IONA AND ISRAELLA 
GE A. F E © . 
Surpass all others in excellence and value for every 
purpose. 
The ISRAELLA, although BEST nntl EARLIEST of all 
BLACK GRAPES of good size, is also one of the very best 
for late keeping. The berries do not fall from the bunch 
when ripe— do not crack, and bear carriage very long dis- 
tances without injury. 
The IONA, also VERY EARLY, lias all of the delicacy, 
purity and refinement in flavor, uniform tenderness of flesh 
ami transparent beauty, that characterize the best European 
varieties, and surpasses them in RICH VINOUS SPIRIT, 
while iu HARDINESS and CONSTANCY of PRODUCTION 
and PERFECTION" of RIPENING, it is unequalled among 
our most enduring natives. 
For a full account of the characteristics of these seedlings, 
with their origin and history, see Pamphlet with engravings, 
representing the vines in bearing, which contains other im- 
portant matter concerning grapes. It is sent with Price List 
and Club propositions for a two-cent stamp. 
A beautiful colored representation of a bunch of the Iona, 
with branch and leaf, will he sent for $1.50. 
The same will be sent to agents of clubs for $1.00. Plain 
Lithographs of the same twenty cents. Club propositions 
and price lists sent with Pamphlet, when requested, with- 
out charge. 
The " Manual of the Vine " Is sent for 50 cents. It con- 
tains about 150 engravings, and Is intended to be the most 
practical, thorough and comprehensive treatise on the vine 
iu Hie language. It contains an important chapter on 
" lllpi'iilng, Taste, and Propagation," with mauy engravings. 
" I tell every one it is the only book to be safely trusted in 
all matters belonging to grapes."— John E. Mottier. 
"I have made failures In following the directions of others, 
but never in followlug the directions of the 'Manual.'" 
0. I. May. 
All Interested In grapes are Invited to visit Ioua, with as- 
surance that endeavors will be made to render the visit 
pleasant and prolltahle. Inspection of the plants convinces 
every one not only of their surpassing quality, but of their 
uncqualed cheapness, also six sample vines sent free by mail 
to any applicant at dozen prices. Sco advertisement on 
page 3fi, January No. 
C. W. GRANT, Iona, 
(near Peckskill,) Westchester Co., N. Y. 
HE "THREE WARRANTS."— Please read my 
advertisement headed " Farmers and Gardeners."' 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblchcad, Mass. 
T 
CONTINUAL LEVER and Screw Press, with 
Grinder attached, for Pressing Cheese. W',"? 3 ' Cltlcr 
and Lard, ,<tc Address WILLIAM C. ERA, 
Pleasant Run, New Jersey. 
New and Rare Vegetables. 
I present to the Public my Annual List of 
New and Rare Seed for 1867, many of -wliicli 
I send out tlie first time this season. 
Marblehead Mammoth Drumhead Cabbage. — 
(The largest Cabbage in the world. Weiglis from 
thirty to sixty pounds to the liead, and is tender 
and sweet. No cabbage does so well in the South 
as tliis.) Cannon Ball Cabbage. — (About as round 
and hard as a cannon ball. An early sort, and the 
hardest heading of all Cabbage.) Stone Mason Cabbage. 
—(Standard variety of Winter Drumliead 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 half -ounce packages.) Lenormant>\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 York Improved Extra 
Large Purple Egg Plant.— (This grows to a larger size, 
and is of a richer color t/uin tire Common Large Purple 
Egg Plant.) Striped Gaudeloupe Egg Plant.— (An ele- 
gant variety for tlie table. Thestripings of white, purple 
and yellow give it a magnificent appearance.)' Ornamental 
KA-LE.-(The 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 all Sweet Corn. Sweet, and excellent for the table. The 
ears weigh, as gatJiered, from two to three pounds each.) 
Mammoth French Squash. — (Sometimes grown to weigh 
over two hundred pounds. They grow loell-proportkmed ', 
and are finely colored.) Vegetable Caterpillars. — (Veg- 
etable curiosities, the seed-vessels resembling caterpillars.) 
Vegetable Snails. — (A French Oddity, the seed vessels of 
wluch resemble snails.) Vegetable worms. — (Another 
curious vegetable 2>roduct.) Snake Cucumber. — (-1 very 
long variety which grozos coiled wp, having the appearance 
of a large snake.) 
Laxton's Prolific Early Long Pod Pea. — (A new and 
guife distinct variety. Many of tlie pods contain from ten 
to twelve Peers each.) Dwarf Indian Chief Bean.— (Tliose 
who have grown tlie Pole Indian Chief ivill be pleased to 
find a bush variety of this fine String Bean.) Giant Wax 
Bean. — (A new 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 
tlie pods are of a wax color,) are the best of all String 
Beans.) Norbiton's Giant Cucumber.— (Anew English 
variety^ the finest, longest, and most prolific Cucumber in 
cultivation.) "Ward's Nectar Melon. — (Wlien compared 
with all other sorts, this lias been awarded the palm as tlie 
best of all green-fleshed Melons.) 
Each of the above sent to any part of tlie United States, 
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 Squaslies. The packages con- 
tain about fifty seed.) Hubbajrd Squash.— (/ was the ori- 
ginal introducer of this, and tlie seed is true.) Yokohama 
Squash. — (A new variety from Japan .; very prolific. The 
e/ueditii resembles a fine Crookneck, but is much superior.) 
Boston Marrow Squash.— (My variety took the premium 
for purity at the Annual Fair of the Massachusetts Horti- 
cultural Society in 1865.) Para Squash.— (A bush Squash 
from South 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 Cabbage.— (For family 
vse, the Savoys are the richest of all Cabbages. The heads 
of tlds variety are large, hard, and of most excellent qualify, 
tlie slumps short. Remarkably reliable for heading.) 
Pancaller 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, and sweet.) Large Brunswick Short 
Stem. — (A very large and very early Drumhead, much 
sought for by market gardeners.) Little Pixie Cabbage. 
— (An early dwarf; stump, short ; heads, pointed, and very 
head, fine quality, and very sweet.) Tilden'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 tlie rate 
of over one thousand bushels per acre. Fruit of good mar- 
ket size; fiat, round shape; quality, excellent.) Cook's 
Favorite Tomato.— (A large, 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 ?neeisure.) New 
Mexican Tomato.— (Very large, round Tomato; a great 
bearer ; resembles, in color, Lester's Perfected, but an im- 
provement on it, in edwaysbeing round.) Tree Tomato. — 
(A French variety; grows erect in the form of a bush.) 
McLean's Advancer Pea.— {A new English wrinkled t\ a. 
A decided improve/mat. on. the Champion of England; 
bears null, with Peas equally sweet; is much larger, anddoes 
not run marly OS high.) McLean's Little Gem.— (.1 tu W 
dwarf wrinkled Pea; grows about one foot high, very 
ea vli/\ onl i/ a few daus later than the Pan tfRourke; a <l<- 
Cided acquisition.) Vii.mohin'sNf.w, Wrinkled, EDIBLE, 
Podded Pea. — ( The first wrinkled sort yet found, tin pods 
of which can be eaten.) Carter's First Crop.— (. I m w 
English Pea, sent out as the < avliest. of all varieties.) Hair's 
Dwarf Mammoth.— {A wrinkled Pea, hrgo' than. Cham- 
pion of England, groivine/ only hedf its highf ; qualify, 
fully equal to the Champion.) Tom Thumb Pea. — (AS 
'early 08 Dan O'Rourke, grows ten inches high, and is re- 
markably prolific.) Drew's New Dwaitf PEA.— (ifcfiW, 
very large, egg-shaped; each plant forms quite a bush. 
Peas should oe planted about a foot apart, Larly, dwarf, 
• hid v, rif pvolifw.) Brown's New Dwarf Marrowfat.— 
{Warranted fa be the earliest and most dwarf Marrowfat 
Bsa grown, A capital Peafor market gard tiers.) Forty 
Days' Corn. — (Ekirller than any Sweet Com. Desirable as 
an early sort.) Bates' Extra Early Sweet Corn.— (.-1 
variety of wrinkled, kerneled Sugar Corn; earlier than 
Darling's Early, and. excellent for tabic use.) Mammoth 
Flint Corn.— {Ears grow sixteen inches long; stalk* wry 
tall and stouts and matures as far North a.* Central Xew 
England.) Ckosiiv's Kakly.— t 77;.' car/hst of all twelve 
rowed Sweet Corn, Tlie Massachusetts Horticultural So* 
ciety offered special pre mi urns for tliis new Corn at their last 
Annual Fair. It is of good size for market, and a decided 
acquisition.) Mexican Sweet Corn.— (/ still find this to 
be the sweetest and most tender of all varieties of Sweet. 
Cor-n, Kotln '.ng can equal it for the 'table.) Golden Sweet 
Corn.— (A Sweet Corn of golden color ; early, of gooel size, 
and excellent gueility for tlie table ; flavor, fine, and distinct 
from any other variety.) Yard Long Bean.— (J. anions 
Bean; pods growing over two feet long; foliage, a rich, 
dark, glossy green.) Concord Bean.— {Tlds new Bean is 
probably the earliest Pole Bean orown ; very prolific, and of 
excellent quality, either as a string or shell Bean.) FejeE 
Bean. — (A new bush Bean ; the earliest and hardiest 'of all 
beans; very prolific and worthy of general cultivation.) 
Intermediate Horticultural Bean. — (An excellent bush 
Bean for market men. Pods of the same rich color as the 
Pole Horticultural.) California Bean.— td very earl//, 
large, flat Pole Bean; excellent, eitlier green or baked.) 
Mottled Cranberry.— (An improvement in health, vigor, 
and productiveness on the old-fashioned Cranberry. Few 
Pole Beans will yield ee/nal 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, flat-shaped, very early, and very nice.) 
CastlenandaryBeet.— (A famous French variety ; flesh, 
a deep purple color, very tender and sweet.) Crapaudine 
Beet.— (Rough skinned; color, very dark purple. Es- 
teemed by the French as the best, of all Beets for table vse.) 
Whvte's Very Deep Red Beet.— (Medium size, dark 
color, very sweet, and excellent for (able 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 .yellow sort; quality, very 
delicate and sweet.) Hood's New Dwarf Imperial Pur- 
ple Celery;. — (J. choice 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, soliel 
variety, so often admired by strangers in the markets of 
Boston.) True Boston Curled Lettuce.— (The most 
elegant of all the Lettuce family, grows in the form of a 
Rosette.) "Wheeler's To'm Thumb Lettuce. — (A choice 
new variety, in high favor -with those who have grown it.) 
Perpignan Lettuce. — (This is an excellent Lettuce for 
standing the summer heat. Beads, compact, attaining to 
seven inches in diameter.) Neapolitan Cabbage Let- 
tuce. — (One of the finest Cabbage Lettuces yet introduced.) 
Six Varieties of Cabbage Lettuce.— (Six of the choicest. 
varieties in one package.) Orange Watermelon. — ( W7ien 
fully ripe the skin will peel off like an Orange.) Allen's 
Superb Musk Melon.— ( Quality, superior ; by some called 
the im Queen of Melons?" 1 ) Large Persian Musk Melon. 
—(A fine, large variety.) Dwarf Broom Corn. — {This 
is thought to make a better brush than the common tall sorts.) 
Chufas, or Ground Almonds.— (Tliese taste very much 
like a Cocoanut; are very prolific, yielding 100 tol.) Or- 
namental Gourds.— (Many varieties in one package.) 
New Jersey' Hyerld Cucumber. — (A remarkably long 
variety ; an improvement on the While Spineel.) Improved 
Long Green Cucumber.— ( This is the longest of all the 
Long Greens.) Chinese Scarlet Egg Plant. — (Of mag- 
nificent scarlet color, and highly ornamental.) Mammoth 
Millet. — (Extra tall; seeel heads much larger than any 
other variety.) Surry Write Wheat. — (A new English 
Winter Wheat, l/ie/hly recommended for poor soils, remark- 
ably free frombUght and rust.) Otaheitian Sugar Cane. 
— (T)iis yields more Sugar than any other variety of Sugar 
Cane grown in the Forth.) 
Any of the above varieties will be forwarded, postpaid, 
and warranted to reach the pure/laser at fifteen cents each. 
Early Sebec Potatoes. — (Coming rapidly into favor 
in Boston and vicinity ets a first class early market Potato. 
Large szse, 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 Stbcc are of 
better shape for market purposes than the Early Goodrich. 
Four pound, packages of either of these varieties ■-■ ) ' to 
any address, warranted to reach tin parch a .-xr. on red Ipt 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 h undrt d varit ties of tear- 
ranted Garden Seeds, one hundred dud twenty-five of which 
etre of my own growing, sent) gratis, to all applicants. 
I warrant three things; 1st. That, my seed is genuine. 
Set. That your money shall reach me. od. That my seed 
shall reach you. Can the Public ask for anything fairer 
than this? JAAfES J. H. GREGORY, 
Marblchcad, Mass. 
Flower Seeds in Collections. 
The 5 collections tlfsitshouW bo sown 111 overy Garden in 
the country are: 
12 Varieties of Finest Gentian Asters for $i.on 
12 " " " " Slocks '• '- 25 
8 " " French C:unclU:i Balsams for 
10 " " Beautiful Phlox inununondii for K 
8 " " " Portulacft for -10 
ALSO COLLECTIONS OF 
ion " " Annuals, Biennials and Perennials, for. . . 5.00 
50 ' " " • " - ' ' 
20 ' "... LOO 
10 " .. 50 
20 " " Move Rare Annuals. " .2,00 
10 " " .. Mjjl 
•>0 '■ "' Choice Cireen-llnuse Seeds. "... LOO 
40 " " "....." 
20 " " Hardy Biennials and Perennials, ... loo 
ALL STRICTLY OTJE OWN* SELECTION. 
PT" Send for our Flower Seed Catalogue. 
J. M. TIIOHBUKX & CO., 
IS John-st., New York. 
Fort Edward Institute, N. V. 
Sixty dollars for tlilrlcen wooke. TVst sustained Boarding 
Seminary in tho Stale. A tow vacancies. Spring term, 
March 21. Address ItEV. J. E. K11»0. V D 
knox's NunsiaitY at your door, a 
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