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SEED-TIME AND HARVEST. 
Business Notices. 
Messrs. Ellw anger and Barry, of Mount Hope 
Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y , send us a copy of their 
Descriptive Catalogue of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, 
&c., probably the most complete work published in 
this particular line. It contains an elegant colored 
plate of the new Weigela Candida , which is the first 
pure white-flowering plant of this genus which is of 
a vigorous habit and an erect grov r er. The Weigelas 
are a superb class of shrubs for law r nplanting, origi¬ 
nally introduced from Japan. The flowers are pro¬ 
duced in great profusion in June and continue 
through the summer and until autumn. It is doubt¬ 
ful if any firm in America can show as complete and 
extensive a stock of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 
Shrubs, Roses, &c., as are to be found in the Mount 
Hope Nurseries; and seldom have we ever spent a 
day more pleasantly than we once did in walking 
over their extensive grounds, the various depart¬ 
ments of which comprise, we believe, some six- 
hundred acres. The immense fountain, which, 
when viewed from any of the city towers, some three 
or four miles distant in the east, looks like an 
angel draped in white against the distant horizon to 
the sight seer of Rochester, plays in the centre of a 
reservoir, called Mount Hope Water Works. This is 
in the midst of Ellwanger and Barry’s grounds. 
Mr. T. S Hubbard, of Fredonia, N. Y., sends us 
his semi-annual Grape Vine Catalogue, under an un¬ 
usually neat and artistically engraved cover. His 
business is the production of American Grape Vines, 
of about one hundred of the most prominent varie¬ 
ties in large quantities; and he sells principally to 
the trade at lowest wholesale rates. The Catalogue 
contains a fine colored plate of his great specialty, 
the Prentiss, which is a new, hardy, white grape of 
great promise. It is a pure native seedling, ripening 
with the Concord, being very productive and of the 
finest quality ; it sells readily at nearly double what 
even the weil-known Delaware brings in the same 
market. Parties wishing to t lant grapes largely, 
cannot do better than to consult Mr. Hubbard. 
Mr. Wm. F. Bassett, of Hammonton, N. J., has 
recently associated with him in business his son, 
F. L. Bassett, and together they propose to push the 
production and sale of small fruit plants, &c., with 
renewed energy. Although their general stock of 
the old standard varieties is large and fine, their 
great specialty is the new Atlantic strawberry, which 
is principally in their control. They write us that 
they have reason to believe that other varieties 
have been sold for Atlantic in some places, and 
that the only way to be sure of the genuine is to pur¬ 
chase of the originator. See their new advertisement 
in this issue. 
We are just in receipt of a Fall Catalogue of 
Hardy Fruit Trees, Vines and Plants from Mr. John 
Perkins, the old veteran fruit grower of Moorestown, 
N. J., whose advertisement is nearly always to be 
found in our columns. We notice that Mr. Perkins 
offers a year's subscription to Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest to all, who request it. when sending him a cash 
order to the amount of $5.00 or over. Mr. Perkins’s 
stock of Strawberry and Raspberry Plants, Peach, 
Pear, and other fruit trees, &c., is very large, and 
his prices extremely low. We hope our readers will 
patronize him liberally". 
While sending his new advertisement of the Su¬ 
perb Raspberry which appears in this issue, Mr. John 
Churchman, the originator of this famous berry, 
writes; “This is the tenth year in bearing and no 
failure or deterioration in its record as to extreme 
hardiness, great earliness of bearing, largest size 
and finest flavor of fruit, and immense productive¬ 
ness. We commenced picking for market from its 
original ground this season June 33rd, and the ber¬ 
ries sold freely all through the season, in our home 
market, at from 50 to 100 per cent, higher prices 
than any" other berries offered.” 
The Floral Instructor enters upon its fifth year 
with the August number, and shows a healthy growth 
having been enlarged until it rivals many journals 
of greater pretensions. See advertisement, Page 19. 
Mr. A. Blanc, the noted Photographer and En¬ 
graver, of Philadelphia, has favored us with a large 
photographic view of a group of some forty promi¬ 
nent Horticulturists, who were assembled at Judge 
Parry’s Pomona Nurseries in June, to confer and 
pronounce upon the new “Parry” Strawberry, which 
was figured and described in our last month’s issue. 
The features of nearly the entire assemblage are re¬ 
markably distinct, and the familiar faces of all 
whom we had ever met could be readily recognized, 
even without the reference to names which are 
plainly given to distinguis those with whom we 
are not familiar. We presume this artistic photo¬ 
graph can be supplied to those desiring it by" Mr. 
Blanc, but we are not informed upon w r hat terms. 
The largest and most complete Catalogue of 
American Ch-ape Vines that ever reached our table 
comes with the compliments of Bush & Son & Meiss¬ 
ner, Bushberg, Mo. It is a volume of over 150 pages, 
and in addition to giving a complete description of 
all varieties wdiich have ever received the attention 
of vineyardists — over 500 in number—it gives several 
carefully written essays completely covering every 
imaginable subject connected with planting and 
growing the vine. In no volume published, which 
we have seen, can so much valuable matter be found 
relating to the Grape. 
The Jumbo Strawberry! 
LATEST OF ALL BY TEN BAYS!! 
For full particulars, write for my" Catalogue, also 
for a specimen copy of 
PURDY’S FRUIT RECORDER, 
the best and most practical paper on fruits and flow¬ 
ers printed in this country at only $1 00 per y"ear, and 
also send 25 cents for my 
Small Fruit Instructor, 
which will tell you all about growing Small Fruits. 
Address A. M. PURDY, 
9— Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y. 
Fairview Nurseries. 
—established in 1835.— 
Potted and Layer Strawberry Plants, 
New Peaches. ‘‘John Haas” ^nd 
lord's “Gate YVliite.” 150,000 
’each Trees, best kinds, 1 yr from bud. 
IEFFER and Le CONTE Pear Trees, 
< hampion Quince, All Kinds of Fruit 
Trees and Small Fruit Plants. 
l^Two Hundred Acres in Nursery.^^^ 
OSAGE ORANGE a specialty. Also the cele¬ 
brated Martin Amber Wheat, PURE. 
* Send for Catalogue and Price List. free. Address 
9— j. PERKINS, Moorestown, N. J. 
CATALOGUE FREE ! 
FRUIT Trees, Crape 
VINES, FLOWERS, PLANTS, Ac See. 
The choicest grape vines delivered safely by mail, 
8 for $1.00, 20 for $2.00 Address, 
F. WALKER A CO., 
2tf New Albany, Ind. 
PEAR HEADQUARTERS. 
1*EACII & other FRUIT TREES. 
New and old varieties of BERRIES. 
Early Cluster 
Blackberry 
Currants, Grapes. &e. Catalogue Free 
JOHN S. COLLINS, Moorestown,N. J. 
