SEED-TIME AH© HARVEST. 
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UNEQUALED in ACTUAL VALUE! 
The new varieties of seeds offered in the Rural’s next 
Free Seed. Distrilovitioii 
are alone worth more, at retail prices, than the combination price of both papers. 
SEED-TIME AND HARVEST 
A TVTTI mTTTJ 1 
RURAL NEW YORKER, 
(The leading rural journal of America,) 
WITH ITS EIGHT KINDS OF ENTIRELY NEW VARIETIES OF FARM. 
VEGETABLE AND GARDEN SEEDS—ALL ONE YEAR FOR 
ONLY' TWO DOLLARS. 
Specimen Copies with Illustrations from nature will be sent FREE 
to all who apply to 34 Park Row, N. Y. 
The Rural New-Yorker now in its 34th year, is 
accepted in all parts of our country as the leading 
journal of Agriculture and Horticulture and alto¬ 
gether unequaled in the originality and enterprise 
with which it is conducted. 
1st. It has the best writers in the world and is 
original from beginning to end. 
2d. It costs more to publish than any other paper 
of its class. 
3d, It presents over 500 original engravings yearly. 
4th. Eighty-two acres of experiment grounds are 
conducted in the interests of subscribers, where all 
seeds and plants, whether grain, flowers, vegetables, 
or small fruits, are tested and reported upon re¬ 
gardless of individual interests. 
5th. It is conducted by practical farmers. 
6th. It is the accepted medium for the introduc¬ 
tion of all New Plants, Seeds and Agricultural Im¬ 
plements. 
7th. It is the first journal to have established Ex¬ 
perimental Grounds and the first to have distributed 
valuable seeds and plants free among its subscribers; 
The first, in short, to combine in practice the true 
interests of the farm and garden with the editorial 
labor of a rural journal. 
8th. It is utterly indifferent to and independent of 
all advertisers’ interests when their statements or 
claims are antagonistic to those of its readers. It is 
conscientious, sparkling and alive. It is the com¬ 
plete journal for the Rural Home. It never in any 
case sells seeds, plants or anything whatever to 
subscribers and its reports are accepted as unbiased. 
Send for free specimen copies and 
corripare them with other 
journals before select¬ 
ing for another 
year. 
THE RURAL’S NEXT FREE SEED 
DISTRIBUTION, is as follows and will 
be sent without charge to those who sub¬ 
scribe for both papers: 
1st. THE RURAL UNION CORN. Twenty years’ 
selection, from three kinds at first. Prolific, very 
early, six feet high. Large kernels, small cob. 
Never offered for sale. 
2d. CLEVELAND’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PEA. “I would not sell my stock for $1000,” says the 
originator. The earliest and best in cultivation. It 
will not be offered for sale in two years. 
3d. THE CROSS-BRED DIEHL-MEDITERRA¬ 
NEAN WHEAT. The hardest and most prolific of 
wheats. 
4th. THOUSAND FOLD RYE. A new rye of 
great promise. 
5th. HORSEFORD’S MARKET GARDEN PEA. 
An intermediate of great productiveness. Not offer¬ 
ed for sale. 
6th. BLACK CHAMPION OATS. A selection 
from many foreign varieties. Not offered for sale. 
7th. THE RURAL GARDEN TREASURES. One 
hundred kinds (mixed) of the choicest annual, bien¬ 
nial, and perennial flowers collected at the Rural 
Grounds and imported from Europe. 
8th. TOMATOES of all the newest kinds, together 
with several originating at the Rural Experiment 
Grounds and never offered for sale—not less than 
1J kinds in the packet. 
ONE PACKET 
each of the entire collection will be sent to each sub- 
| scriber to the Rural New-Yorker upon application. 
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE BEST! 
The farmers, stock-men, gardeners and fruit growers of America cannot afford to 
do without it. $2,CO a year. No club or second price. Send for free specimens. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
34 Park Row, N. Y. 
