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1878. j 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
East India or Pearl Millet, 
I offer seed of this valuable forage plant, which was fully 
described in the January number of the Agriculturist, at 25 
cents a packet, or 5 packets for $1.00. Descriptive circulars 
free. WM. II. CARSON, Seedsman, 
125 Chambers St., New York. 
SHmateur, 
wm, 
&T Florists and Market Gardeners supplied 
with the most Reliable Seed. 
A work of 150 pages, 
beautifully illustrated, 
containing descriptive list of 
the rarest as well as the novel¬ 
ties in both Flower and Vege¬ 
table Seed. Sent on receipt 
OF TWO THEEK CENT STAMPS 
Address, 
CURTIS, COBB & WASHBURN, 
65 Tremont St., Boston. 
Choice Seeds 
A 
Specialty. 
My Annual Catalogue of Vegetable and 
Flower Seed for 1878 will be ready by January, and 
sent free to all who apply; Customers of last season need 
not write for it. I offer one of the largest collections of 
vegetable seed ever sent out by any seed-house in America, 
a large portion of which were grown on my six seed farms. 
Printed Directions for cultivation on every 
parcel. All seed sold from my establishment warranted 
to he both fresh and true to name; so far that should it 
prove otherwise, I will refill the order gratis. As the original 
introducer of the Hubbard and Marblehead Squashes, the 
Marblehead Cabbages, and a score of other new vegetables, 
I invite the patronage of all who arc anxi¬ 
ous to have their seed fresh, true, and of the 
very best strain. NEW VEGETABLES A 
SPECIALTY. 
JABIES J. H.’GREGOltY, Marblehead, Mass. 
“You. will Miss, Miss It,” 
If you do not send for Rogers’ Collection of 
Jefferson Co. Flower and 
G-arden Seeds. 
13 packets of choice and most desirable varieties of Kitchen 
Garden Seeds for 50 cts. Eight packets of choice,most showy, 
and free-blooming Flowers, for 30 cts. Either coll, sent 
post-paid on receipt of price; both coll., including extra in¬ 
ducements, for 75 cts. Northern grown seeds. Specially 
recommended for all points. Best quality, fresh, and true 
to name. To introduce our seeds, we offer the above coll, 
at the exceeding low price for seeds of their quality. Ad¬ 
dress all orders Rogers Brothers, Cape Vincent, N. Y. 
CHITFAS, 
OR EARTH ALMOND. 
Better than corn for fattening 
hogs. Per lb., $1.25 ; Mil)., 40c.; oz., 25c.; pkt., 10c.; post¬ 
paid. Also over 500 other varieties of FLOIYER, 
VEGETABLE AND FARM SEEDS, all of the best 
quality, fresh and true to name; large packets and low 
prices. Send for our free ILLUSTRATED FLORAL 
GUIDE and CATALOGUE, all about gardening. 
Address COLE & BROTHER, Seedsmen, Pella, Iowa. 
is the most beautiful work of the kind in the world. It con¬ 
tains nearly 150 pages, hundreds of flue Illustrations, and 
six Chromo Plates of Flowers , beautifully drawn and color¬ 
ed from nature. Price 50 cents in paper covers; $1 in ele¬ 
gant cloth. Printed in German and English. 
Vick’s Illustrated Mouthly Magazine.— 32 pages, 
fine Illustrations, and Colored Plate in every number. 
Price $1.25 a year ; five copies for $5.00 
Vick’s Catalogue.— 300 Illustrations, only 2 cents. 
Address, JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. 
FLOWER, FIELD, ami GARDEN, Fresh 
Quality. Catalogues mailed on application. 
AUGUST ROELKER & SONS, 44 Dey St., New York. 
.. JOHM SAUL’S “ 
Catalogue of New, Rare, and 
Beautiful Plants, 
will be ready in February, witli a colored plate.—Many new 
and beautiful Plants are offered for the first time, with a 
rich collection of Greenhouse and Hot-house plants; Bed¬ 
ding Plants; new and choice Hoses; Dahlias. Well grown 
and at low prices. Free to all my customers, to others 10 cts. 
—a plain copy free. 
JOHN SAUL, Washington, D. C. 
The above mentioned Catalogue of B. B. & CO. con¬ 
tains a full list of all the leading Garden, Field and Flower 
Seeds. Our GARDEN Seeds are carefully grown, clean¬ 
ed and true to name. Our SURE HEAD CABBAGE, 
a new hybrid of the Flat Dutch and Drumhead, is remarka¬ 
ble for its uniformity in heading. Attention is directed to 
our BAY VIEW HYBRID MELON, etc. FIELD 
Seeds a snoonitv. It will pav you to read about our cele¬ 
brated CHESTER CO. MAM., our new DENT, CAL. 
BROOM Corn, etc. our FLOWER Seeds are all im¬ 
ported direct by ourselves, lu varieties for 25c. 
WYMAN’S ’ 
SEED CATALOGUE 
Just published for 1S7S, and containing much of interest to all 
who nave a garden, mailed free, or with packets of the 
very best Pansies and Verbenas lor 25 cents. All seeds of 
the choicest quality, fresh and reliable, try them. Address 
E. WYMAN. Jr.. Rockford, Ills. 
ROOT’S GARDEN MANUAL 
for 1878, contains practical instructions on Gardening 
Topics, and price list of Choice Seeds. Sent for 10 cts.. 
allowed on first order. Address 
J. B. ROOT, Rockford. Illinois. 
NORTH STAR SEEDS, 
The further North Seeds are Grown, the earlier the pro¬ 
duct will mature. NYe conduct the most Nort hern seed farm 
in America. 
Earliest and Hardiest sorts a specialty. 
Catalogue free. 
HOLLISTER, CARTER & CO., 
SEED GROWERS, ST. PAUL, MINN. 
Will be flY 
mailed FRFF, 
all applicants. Itcon-^^3^ 
tains colored plate, 500 engravings 
about 150 pages, and full descriptions, 
prices and directions for planting over 1200 
varieties of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Plants, Roses, Etu. 
Kvaluable to all. Send for it. Address 
D. M. FERRY & CO., Detroit, Mich, 
SEEDS, BULBS, &c. 
By' mail, post-paid, 10 
Double Tuberoses, fine 
flowering bulbs, 75c. 12 
choice Glan'olus, 12 sorts with name, $i.00. 4Lilies, 4 beauti¬ 
ful sorts, 50t.. 5 choice Roses, 50c. All kinds of Flower and 
Vegetable seeds of the very bent quality, at Five Cents 
per paper. Bulbs and Plants in variety. Catalogues free— 
send for one at once. JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, Queens, N.Y. 
HENDERSON’S 
COMBINED CATALOGUE OF 
EVERYTHING 
FOB THE 
GARDEN 
Numbering 175 pages, with Colored Plate, 
sent free to customers of past years, and to all 
purchasers of our books.either Gardening for 
Profit ^Practical Floriculture ov Gardening for 
Pleasure (price$1.00 each, prepaid, bv mail). 
To others, ou receipt of 25c. Plain Plant or 
Seed Catalogues, without Flate, free to all. 
PETER HENDERSON & 00. 
beedsvieMarket Gardeners , and P Ion sis , 
35 Cortlandi Street, New York. 
CHOICE SPECIALTIES 
IN T 
SEEDS. 
Wethersfield Large Red, Globe Danvers, Early Red and 
White Globe Onion. Warranted fresh and genuine : Com¬ 
stocks’ Premium Flat Dutch, and Fottler’s Improved Early 
Brunswick Cabbage. Choice Seed Peas. East Hartford, 
extra early, the earliest and most productive market sort in 
cultivation, $6.00 per bushel. Norbiton Giant Long Red 
Mangold. Specimens weighing 25 to 30 lbs. grown the past 
season. Conn. Valley true broad-leaf Tobacco Seed, $3.00 
per lb., 35 cts. |per oz. Mammoth Honey Sugar Corn, $1.00 
Doz. Ears by Express. Immense size, very productive and 
sweet. “ White Prolific,” from 4 to 8 ears to the stalk, a 
wonderful sort, 75 cts. per Qt. by mail. Catalogues sent free 
on application. 
R. D. HAWLEY, 
SEEDSMAN, HARTFORD, COMM. 
Shakers’ Garden Seeds, 
True and Genuine. Fresh and Reliable. 
One of the oldest seed firms in the country. Seeds sent 
by mail Postage free. Special prices and terms to Granger s. 
“ The excellence of the Shakers' Garden Seeds is generally 
admitted.”— Ed'*s Am. Agriculturist, 
Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds Free. 
Address CHARLES SIZER, 
Mount Lebanon, Col. Co., N. Y. 
Gratis a 60-Page Catalogue, 
describing the largest and best list of new extra early and 
extra late Peaches, and the largest and best list of long keep¬ 
ing Apples ever offered la this country. Even Fruit Grow- 
er'should see this list. A full line of Nursery Stock offered 
at less than the usual retail price. I ship thousands of 
trees and plants by mail. Send for Catalogue, it tells what 
and how io plant, also much valuable information. 
RANDOLPH PETERS, Great Northern and 
_ Southern Nursery, Wilmington, Del. 
To Buyers of Seeds. 
Our Annual Catalogue and priced list of seeds will he 
published in January, and sent free to all our customers, 
without writing for it, and to all others enclosing stamp for 
postage. As the best seeds are always the cheapest, we in¬ 
vite the attention of Farmers, Market Gardeners, and others, 
to our specially fine stock of Home Grown Vegetable Seeds 
of all the staple kinds; and also of Florists, and others, to 
our very large collection of the best strains of Flower Seeds, 
Novelties, &c. Seeds sent by express and mail to all parts of 
the United States and Canada, and guaranteed to reach 
purchasers. HOVEY & CO., 
_1G South Market Street, Boston, Mass. 
Free by Wail 
Our Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of 
Flower and Vegetable Seeds, and Gar¬ 
den Requisites. 
CROMWELL & COMG DQM, 
51 Light St., Baltimore, Md. 
VALUABLE ^lEAM 
-AT- 
PUBLIC SALE. 
The property of Nathan De Cou, deceased. January 31, 
1878. Contains 256 acres under high state of cultivation, 
well fenced, good buildings, four apple orchards. Beauti¬ 
ful lake on one side. Fine shade trees. Full particulars 
in Albany. N. V.. Country Gkntlkman of Dec. 20. Jan. 
17 and 24, or address SARAH H. D14 COU, Executrix, 
Yardville, Mercer Co., New Jersey. 
