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VEGETABLE and FIELD 
Our SHED CATALOGUE for 1878 is now ready 
for distribution, and will be sent to all wlio apply, en¬ 
closing stamp for postage. 
Address 
R. H. ALLEN & CO., 
P. O. Box, 316. 189 & 191 Water St., 
NEW YORK. 
N.B.-We call attention to our SUPERIOR STOCK 
of MANGEL, WURZELS, SWEDES, etc., for 
ROOT CROPS, and our large assortment of Seeds for 
FODDER CROPS, including MILLETS of several 
kinds, PRICKLY COMFREV, and Svreet Corn. 
Shakers’ Garden Seeds. 
True and Genuine. Fresh and Reliable. 
One of tbe oldest seed firms in the country. Seeds sent 
by mail Postage free. Special prices and terms to Grangers. 
“ Tile excellence of the Shakers’ Garden Seeds is generally 
admitted,"--jS’d.’.s Am. Agriculturist. 
Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds Free. 
Address CHARLES SIZER, 
Mount Lebanon, Col. Co., N. Y. 
Amateur. 
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 THREE CENT STAMPS 
Address, 
CURTIS, COBB & WASHBURN, 
65 Tremont St., Boston. 
Choice Seeds 
A 
Specialty, 
SHAKER’S 
Genuine Flower and Carden Seeds. 
Address D. C. BRAINAKI), Agt., Mt. Lebanon, Col. Co.,N.Y. 
Send three cent Postage Stamp for Splendid Illustrated 
Catalogue and Amateur Guide to the Flower and Vegetable 
Garden for 1878, containing about two hundred Illustra¬ 
tions, and two beautiful colored Plates. 
ORANGE COUNTY SEEDS. 
All who wish Pure and Reliable Seed at low prices, 
should send for our Illustrated Catalogue for 1878, 
mailed free to all applicants, contains prices and full de¬ 
scriptions of all the New, Novel. and Choicestv n-ieties of 
Vegetable and Field Seed, Choice Seed Potatoes, 
Small Fruits. Wholesale Catalogues for Dealers, Iree. 
HAWKINS & CORNISH. Goshen, N. Y. 
FLOWER, FIELD, and GARDEN. Fresh 
Quality. Catalogues mailed on application. 
AUGUST ROLKER & SONS, 44 Dey St., New York. 
THE ALBANY SEED STORE 
PUICE & KNI CKERB OCKER, Successors to 
SKHlhPti! 
1 mr 
Reliable Seed by Mail. Send address on a postal 
card for our Illustrated catalogue, 96 pages. 400 illustrations. 
80 State Street, Albany, N. Y. 
GOOD SEEDS. 
Gardeners who buy from first bands SAVE MONEY. 
Cheapest, best, purest stock ever grown. Sent prepaid by 
mail or express. Gardeners write me there is none as good. 
Hundreds of splendid engravings in my new illustrated cata¬ 
logue. Fme as ever published. Free to all; send for one 
»°'V. . R. H. SHUMWAY, Rockford, Ill. 
SEEDS, BULBS, &c, Double T 
. . ,, flowering 
By mail, post-paid, 
” lble Tuberoses, fi 
. . „, ,, uuwering bulbs, 7iie. 
choice Gladiolus, 12 sorts with name, $1 .no. 4 Lilies, 4 beau 
ml sorts, 50c 5 choice Roses, 50c. All kinds of Flower a 
Vegetable seeds of the very best quality, at Five Ceu 
per Paper. Bulbs anil Plants in variety. Catalogues l'rei 
send for one at once. JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, Queens, N. 
No. 1 OSAGE ORANGE HEDGE PLANTS 
Grown on clay ground. Packed, $2.50 per 1,000 ; 5,000. 
$11. Snowflake Potatoes, $2 per bushel. 
B. H. BROWN, Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio. 
Specialties for Farmers. 
Egyptian or Pearl Millet, (Penicillaria spicata). Il¬ 
lustrated in January No. of Agriculturist. The best and 
most profitable plant for green soiling and fodder. Can he 
cut four to six times. One pound of seed will sow an acre. 
Price, $5.00 per tt.; 25 cents per pkt., or 5 pkts. for $1.00. 
Cbufas or Earth Almond, (Cyperus esculentus). 
Better than corn lor feeding hogs, sheep, and poultry, will 
yield three times as many bushels per acre. Price, 60 cents 
per quart, by mail, prepaid; $2.50 per peck; $8 per bushel. 
Prickly Coinlrey.— Recommended for the feeding and 
fattening of stock, and for increasing the milk of cows ; 
enormously productive. Price of roots, $2 per lb., by m il, 
prepaid. 
Compton’s Early Field Corn.— Was exhibited at the 
Centennial Exhibition, where it received honorable men¬ 
tion for its extreme carliness. Price, 60 cents per quart, by 
mail, prepaid ; $1.50 per peck; $5 per bushel. 
Circulars, fully describing the above, and many other 
good things, free by mail, to all applicants. 
WM. H. CARSON, Seedsman, 
135 Chambers St., New York. 
S EEDS—PLANTS.— Fresh Onion Seed, Red and Yel¬ 
low, 75c. lb. by mail. Cold Frame Early Jersey Wake¬ 
field Cabbage, $6.00 per M. Send for price list. 
WM. W. STERLING. Cutchogue, Suff. Co., N. Y. 
The above mentioned Catalogue of B. B. «fc CO. con¬ 
tains a lull 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 Dutc h and Drumhead, is remarka¬ 
ble lor its uniformity in heading. Attention is directed to 
our BAY VIEW IIY'BRID MELON, etc. FIELD 
Seeds a specialty. It w ill pav vou to read about our cve- 
brat-d CHESTER CO. MAM., our new DENT, CAL. 
BROOM Corn, etc. Our FLOWER Seeds are all im¬ 
ported direct by ourselves. 10 varieties for 25c. 
C HERRRY FULL NURSERY Established in 1832. 
20,000 Evergreens, (over 30 species and varieties), 10,000 
Sugar and other Maples, 3,000 Am. Chestnuts, 2,000 Bk. Wal¬ 
nuts, 5,000 extra large Fruit Trees, 1,0 0 Rhododendrons— 
Hardy Shrubs, Small Fruits, &c„ &c. To reduce our stock, 
many of these are offered lower than at any other Nursery in 
the country. Wholesale catalogues free. Address 
T. C. THURLOW, Newburyport, Mass. 
Specialties. 
Thos. Hogg Hydrangea...$1.00 each. 
Lapageria rosea.$1.50 to $2.00 each. 
Camellias, white and red.35c., and upwards. 
Chinese Palm, nearly hardy.75c. to $1.50 each. 
Azalias, twenty-five varieties....35c. to 50c. each. 
Plants of all kinds supplied at reasonable rates. 
C. H, HOVEY cfc CO., 
No. 22 Tipmont Street, Boston, Mass. 
txuotj I5Ain Apple Trees. I have 100.000 
AppI© Trees, one year old, which I will sell bv the 100 or 
1.000, lor less than half cost. Also-Wilson, Albany, and Clias. 
Downing Strawberry plants, for $2.00 per M. 
N. P. BROOKS, Bricksburg Nurseries, Bricksburg.N. J. 
Send Si for 35 pkts. F? otrer Seeds, 15 for 
50c., 7 for 25c., or 25 pkts. Vef/’s for Si, 
12 for 50c. The Floral Trirutk. a 100 
page Floral work with colored plate* sent with 
__ , . either of the above pkts. seeds, two rears free. 
Name this paper. Address W. H. REID. R ochester, N .Y. 
S 
ENT FREE on npplicntlon.-BRIGGS & BRO.’S 
Flower and Vegetable Catalogue. Our large crops 
enable us to SELL SEEDS LOW. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., or CHICAGO, ILLS. 
per 100 choice COLEUS. Other plants 
cheap. Send Stamp for cheapest catalogue 
out. Address W. B. WOODRUFF, 
Florist, Westfield, N. J, 
To Buyers of Seeds. 
Our Annual Catalogue and priced list of seeds will be 
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 Flow er Seeds, 
Novelties, &e. Seeds sent by express and mail to all parts of 
tbe United States and Canada, and guaranteed to reach 
purchasers. HOVEY & CO., 
16 South Market Street Boston, Mass. 
iBI PLANTED BY A MILLION PEOPLE IN AMERICA. SEE 
Vick’s Catalogue.— 300 Illustrations, only 2 cents. 
Vick’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine.— 32 pages, 
fine Illustrations, and Colored Plate in each number. 
Price $1.25 a year; Five copies for $5.00 
Vick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden, 50 cents In 
paper covers ; with elegant clotli covers. $1.00. 
All my publications are printed in English and German. 
Address. JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. 
Gratis a 60-Page Catalogue, 
describing the largest and best list of new extra early and 
extra late Benches! and the largest and best list of long keep¬ 
ing Apples ever offered in this country. Every Fruit Grow¬ 
er should see this list. A full line of N ursery Stock offered 
at less than K the usual retail price. 1 ship thousands of 
trees and plants by mail. Send for Catalogue, it tells what 
and how to plant, also much valuable information. 
RANDOLPH PETERS, Great Northern and 
Southern Nursery, Wilinmgtou, Del, 
JOHN SAUL’S 
Catalogue of New, Rare, and 
Beautiful Plants, 
will he 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 Roses; Dahlias. Well grown 
and at low prices. Free to all my customers, to others 10 cts. 
—a plain copy free. 
JOHN SAUL, Washington, I). C. 
CROSMAN BRO’S CATALOGUE & GUIDE, to 
the Flow mt and Vegetable Garden, for 1878. Elegantly 
Illustrated. Sent puke on receipt of 3c. stamp. Address 
[Established 1840.] GROSMAN BRO’S, Rochester, N. Y. 
Free by Mail 
Our Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of 
Flower and Vegetable Seeds, and Gar¬ 
den Requisites. 
CROMWELL & CONCDON, 
51 Light St., Baltimore, Md. 
Varieties of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Plants, Rosea, Et«. 
Invaluable to all. Bend for it. Address 
D. M. FERRY & CO., Detroit, Mich. 
