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August, 1891. 
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ORCHRRD GARDEN \ 
Half tne price of tin or shingles? Guaranteed water-tight 
on flat or steep surface, and you can put it on. Sample free 
If you mention this paper and 
STATE SIZE OE EOOE. 
Indiana Paint A Roofing Co.. Nkw York. 
Greenhouse— Heatina 
A.\ I* 
VENTILATIN O . 
• Base-Burning Water 
Heaters for Small Con- 
servatories. 
Corrugated Fire Box 
Boilers for large 
Greenhouses. 
HITCHINCS & CO., 
No. 233 Mercer Street, New York. 
Send Four Cents postage for Illustrated Catalogue. 
A Boon to Poultrymen ! 
owing to its cheapness and ease of construction our 
fence is very popular among poultrymen. Large roomy 
yards means freedom from disease. Then If you want 
to coniine a vicious hull or a carload of Texas steers, 
turn ’em In; it will hold them. 
Page Woven Wire Fence Co., 
ADRIAN, MICH. 
PAIN Troops 
DIXON S SILICA GRAPHITE PAINT 
Water -will run from it pure and clean . 1 1 covers double 
the snrface of any other paint, and will last four or five 
times longer. Equally useful foranyiron work. Send for 
circulars. Jos. Dixon cuuciule Co., Jersey City.N.J. 
PHOSPHATE FOR WHEAT. 
^"Sold to Farmers direct. No agents. 
Fork Chkmical Works, York, Pa. 
PATENTS. 
How to procure a Pat- 
ent, Trade-mark, or La- 
bel. Information as to 
what is patentable, etc. 
Buds for Propagation 
Carefully selected and packed In moist sphagnum 
moss at prices quoted. At dozen and hundred rates by 
mail postpaid: at thousand rates by express. Six, fifty 
and five hundred of a variety will be supplied at dozen, 
hundred and thousand rates respectively. No order 
accepted for less than One Dollar. 
PEACHES — Chinese Blood, Lemon Free, Hughes 
IXL, Normaud’s Choice, Kaloola.Burke, Cooley’s Mam- 
moth, Adrlau, Doz., 30c; 100. $1.50; 1000, $7.50. Lov- 
ett’s White, Good, Doz., 25c; 100, $1.00; 1000, $5.00. 
All the leading standard sorts, Doz,, 25c; 100, 50c., 
1000, $1.50. 
APPLES - Carlough, Gano, Jacob’s Sweet, 
Loy, Sutton’s Beauty, Whlnery’s Late Red, Doz., 30c; 
100, $1.00; 1000, $5.00. Leading Standard varieties, 
Doz., 25c; 100. 50c, 1000, $2.00. 
CRAB APPL ES-Doz., 25c; 100, 50c; 1000, $2.50. 
PEAKS — Idaho, Wilder, Doz., 50e; 100, 
$2.50; 1000, $20.00. Kieffer, LeConte, Doz., 25c; 100, 
50c; 1000, $3.00. 
PLUMS— Satsuma Blood, Burbank, Spaulding 
Grand Duke, Orange Prune, Doz., 30c; 100, $1.00; 1000 
$5.00. Abundance, American varieties. Oriental 
varieties, and all standard sorts, Doz., 25c; 100, 50c; 
1000 $2 50 
QUINCES — Champion, Meecli’s Prolific, 
Orange. Rea’s Mammoth, Doz., 25c; 100, 50c; 1000, $3.00. 
APRICOTS— Acme ( Sheme ), Doz., 30c; 100, 
$1.00; 1000, $5.00. 
N ECTA K INES— Standard varieties, I)oz„ 25c; 
100 , $ 1 . 00 ; 1000 , $ 2 . 00 . 
A LM ON DS — Russian, Doz., 50c; 100, $2.00. 
Hardshell, Softshell, I)oz„ 20c. 100, 50c; 1000, $2.50. 
BUDDING K.N I VES— Pocket, finest English 
Wostenholm’s IXL, by mail postpaid, each, $1.00. 
RAFFIA TYING— Prepared for use, 20c. per 
lb; $1.50 per 10 lbs. By mail, 16c. per lb. additional. 
PEACH PITS. 
Natural Tennessee pits, very fine, free on board cars 
at $1.50 per bushel. Price for 10 bushels or more giv- 
en upon application. 
J. T. LOVETT CO., Little Silver, N. J. 
Money Order Office, Red Bank, N. J. 
PENSIONS, 
for Soldiers and Sailors, 
Widows, Minor chil- 
dren, and Dependent 
Parents of Soldiers. 
Arroarc nf Pa\/ °^ ta i ne( ^ f° r s°i" 
HI I cdl O U I I ay diets and Sailors, or 
and Pnnntu forWidows, Parents 
dliu DUUIliy or heirs of those who 
died in the military 
service of the U. S. 
Correspondence solicited. Address 
ALLAN RUTHERFORD, 
(Late Third Auditor U. S. Treasury.) 
Attorney & Counsellor at Law, 
Atlantic Building, 9‘JS and 930 FStreet.N. W. Boom 125 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
iooo fr c u ,' v t e :^ rs free 
In order to introduce at once the Champion 
Fruit Picker, we will send one Free to the first 
One Thousand persons answering this advertisement, 
and enclosing 25 cents to prepay the charges to deliver 
it to you. Order at once and address, 
FRICKS MANUFACTURING CO., 
L. Box 20. Fricks, Penn. 
F. I. SAGE & SON, 
COMMISSION MENCHANTS, 
1S3 Keade St., N. Y. 
Receivers of all kinds of Country Produce, Including 
Game, Live and Dressed Poultry, Dressed Hogs and Calves. 
Specialties— Berries, Grapes. Apples, Honey, Onions anil 
Potatoes. Stencils furnished. Correspondence and con- 
signments solicited. Reference: Dun's Commercial Re- 
ports, to be found at any bank. 
BAND INSTRUMENTS of ev- 
ery description. Send for Catalogue, nam- 
ing Instruments desired. B. B. DALE, 
33 Liberty fet., N. Y. Also publishers of 
choice hand music. 
LiniUlC STUDY. Book-keeping, Business 
Mil III U Forms, Penmanship, Arithmetic, Shorthand, 
II will La etc., thoroughly taught by MAIL. Low 
rates. Satisfaction guaranteed. Circulars free. Address 
Bryant* Stratton’s Collhgk, 431 Main St. Buffalo.N.Y 
AGENTS WANTED: 
A CONNECTI- 
CUT YANKEE 
Wanted an agent 
in each town to sell the above named book. This Is Mark 
Twain’s latest. Nearly 50,000 copies already sold. 250 Il- 
lustrations Nearly 600 pages. A great many agents aver- 
age forty orders per week. Almost anyone can sell twen- 
ty-five weekly. If you want to make money write for terms. 
Chus. L. Webster A: Co., 3 East 14th St.. New 
York. 
THE PE COS V ALLEY. 
THE FRUIT BELT OF NEW MEXICO 
Over 100 miles of irrigating canals now completed, 
each from 18 to 60 feet wide and carrying 5 to 7 feet or 
W '(fver 300,000 acres of the richest lands in the world 
already available for irrigation and farming under 
these canals, twenty-five per cent, of which are 6till 
subject to entry under the homestead laws. 
Other lands for sale at $15 to $3U an acre and on 
easy terms. .... » ... . 
The Pecos River being fed by never-lulling springs 
of immense size, the water supply for nil the canuls 
can carry is assured. In this resiwct the Pecos is 
unequaled for irrigating purposes by any river on the 
continent. . , , . _ 
Climatic and soil conditions here are superior to 
those of Southern California. All the fruits that are 
grown there can be produced here, except oranges and 
lemons, while the Pecos Valley grows all the cereals, 
vegetables and grasses that can be grown anywhere on 
Cotton, tobacco and hemp also grow here luxuriantly, 
while the neighboring mines afford a home market lor 
11,1 Direct "and easy rail communication with the North 
n 'send t for maps and illustrated pamphlets, giving 
full particulars. 
PECOS IRRIGATION & IMPROVEMENT CO.. 
Eddy. New Mexico. 
EGYPTIAN 
OR WINTER ON- 
ION SETS. 
A good stock now ready at reduced prices. Send 
at once for our Strawberry List containing 
many new varieties at reduced prices. 
CLEVELAND NURSERY CO.,RioVista,Va. 
Six days earlier than 
cny variety tented at the 
Agrlcuit’l Ex. Grounds 
at Geneva, N. Y. Color 
greenish white i> o i p 
lender, sweet and de- 
licious. The only grape 
that ranks II rnt both In 
earllness ami quality, 
hacb vine sealed with 
our registered trade- 
mark label. Send for 
circular* giving runner Information. Agents wanted 
Address STEPHEN HOYT’fcJ SONS, New Canaan, Ct. 
Electrotypes and Printing 
FOR 
Nurserymen, Fruit Growers, Seeds- 
men and Florists. 
CATALOGUE, BOOK, NEWSPAPER, 
And Job Printing of Every Description. 
Catalogue of 3000 Electrotypes of Fruits, Flowers, Trees. Shrubs, Vege- 
tables, Designs, Ac., at low cost, by mall for 15 cents. 
MONMOUTH PRINTINC HOUSE, 
Little Silver, New Jersey. 
