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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[April, 
BLISS’ SELECT GARDEN SEEDS. 
Hew Varieties Potatoes. 
BLISS’ TRIUMPH.—A new and early variety. Ten 
days earlier than the Early Rose; one of the most promising 
varieties we have ever offered. 
TROPHY.—This fine, second early variety resembles 
the Snowflake in shape and quality. It has a beautiful red 
skin, and may be justly called a ** lied Skin Snowflake.” 
Price of each variety'\ $1.00 per lb., 3 lbs., $2.50, by mail 
postpaid. 
MANHATTAN.— A new round late variety, with purple 
skin occasionally blotched with white, very hardy, of vigor¬ 
ous growth, flesh very solid, white, and of tine quality. It is 
enormously productive, an excellent keeper, and a most de¬ 
sirable variety for the main crop. 
Price, 75 cts. per lb.; 3 lbs., $2.00; by mail, post-paid. 
HARLEQUIN, or VARIEGATED-LEAYED 
EARLY ROSE.— A sport of the Early liose, with beauii- 
lully variegated foliage. 
Price, $1.00 per lb. Single tubers, 25 cts. 
ALPHA.— The earliest variety known, and of extra fine 
quality—matures its crop in 55 days. 
BLISS’ IMPROVED PEACHBLOW.-A cross 
between the well-known Jersey Peach Blow and the Ex¬ 
celsior, resembling the Peach Blow in appearance. In 
quality and earliness it far excels that variety, and will pro¬ 
duce double the quantity. 
ALPHA AND IMPROVED PEACHBLOW 
will be mailed, post-paid, per lb., 60 cts.; 3 lbs. to one ad¬ 
dress, $1.25. Peck, $1.00; bush., $3.00; bbl„ $7 00. 
SNOWFLAKE, RUBY, SUPERIOR, CEN¬ 
TENNIAL, and all other popular varieties, at the lowest 
market prices. 60 cts. per lb.; 3 lbs., $1.25. For prices by 
bbl., see Potato Catalogue. 
The Great Centennial Exhibit. 
500 Named Varieties Potatoes. 
The largest collection In the world, for which was award¬ 
ed the Grand Centennial Prize Medal and Diploma. 
One Tuber eacb of the entire collection, correctly la¬ 
beled, and carefully packed, express or postage prepaid: 
500 varieties, $100; 250 varieties, $50; 100 varieties, $25; 
50 varieties, $15; 25 varieties. $8. 
Bliss’s Illustrated Potato Catalogue con¬ 
tains a list of 500 varieiies, beautifully illustrated; also 
much useful information upon the cultivation of this 
valuable esculent. 10 Cents. 
Two New Varieties of Sweet Corn. 
DOLLY DUTTON.— The earliest Sweet Corn ever 
introduced. A very dwarf arrowing sort, stalks from three 
to four feet high. Ears small, averaging from four to five 
inches in length, kernels of good size, tender, very sweet 
and delicious. It ripens from seven to ten days earlier than 
the early Minnesota, and is of much better quality. 
Package containing sufficient for fifty hills, 25 cents; five 
packages for $1.00; selected ears 15 cents each ; two for 25 
cents; $’.25 per dozen. 
WASHINGTON MARKET.— This is. without ex-i 
ception, the best of the large varieties of Sweet Corn, and 
when better known, will, we are confident, become a 
standard variety for general cultivation. Stalks strong and 
vigorous, averaging About seven feet in bight. Ears large, 
having from twelve to fifteen rows of kernels of good size, 
and very productive. It is very sweet and tender, and of 
delicious flavor, surpassing all others. It will be found one 
of the most profitable varieties for the market, and, on ac¬ 
count of its superiority, will bring a much higher price than 
the ordinary varieties. For canning purposes, it has no equal. 
Packets containing sufficient seed for 100 hills, 25 cents ; 50 
cents per pint; 75 cents per quart. 
Bliss’ Illustrated Seed 
One of the most valuable works on 
$250 in Premiums. 
Pringle’s New Hybrid Spring Wheats. 
CHAMPLAIN.— A bearded variety—a cross between 
the Black Sea and Golden Drop—combining the remarkable 
hardiness of the former, with tlie superior quality of the 
latter. Its strong and vigorous straw, growing 6 to 12 inch¬ 
es higher than its parent varieties, stands erect, frequently 
bearing even in very ordinary culture heads from 5 to 6 inches 
in length, containing from 60 to 75 kernels each. 
Brice. $1.00per lb.; 3 lbs. $2.50, by mail, post-paid. 
DEFIANCE.— Another variety of Spring Wheat of the 
highest promise, the result of a series of experiments to in¬ 
corporate superior qualities upon tlie hardy stock of our 
common Club Wheat, by hybridizing it with one of the 
finest, whitest, and most extensively grown sons of the 
Pacific Coast. 
Tliis variety displays great productiveness, vigor, and 
hardiness. It is a beardless, white chaff wheat, with heads 
irequentiy 5 to 6 inches long, very closely set with large white 
kernels, Irequentiy numbering 75 to SO to the single head 
Price, $1 per lb.; 3 lbs. $2.50, by mail, postpaid. 
In order to induce Wheat Growers to give these new sorts 
a thorough and universal trial, we offer $250 in premi¬ 
ums for the largest quantities grown from 1 poundofseed 
also for the 20 largest heads. For particulars see Circular. 
Egyptian, East Indian, or Pearl Millet. 
This new Millet Is quite distinct from all other species, 
and is without doubt destined to take a place in the front 
rank of valuable forage plants. Cows, horses, and other 
farm stock are exceedingly fond of this kind of millet eat¬ 
ing it with as much avidity and apparent relish, as they do 
the green leaves of Indian corn. One pound will sow an 
acre. Price, 25 cts. per packet; 5 packets, $1; per lb., $3. 
Prickly Comfrey. 
Descriptive circulars with directions for culture , mailed 
to all applicants. 
Pricklv Comfrov i 
fatte 
grov . „ __. 
soiling: plant, producing: on a given space a far greater quan¬ 
tity of fora ire than any crop now grown. Good grass land 
yields but 8 tons of grass to The acre, efit green ; Lucern. 40; 
Rye Grass, 50; Vetches, 20; Comfrey, 80 to 120 tons. 
4,000 sets will plant an acre. 
AVe will supply roots ot the above at the following prices, 
post-paid, by mail: 4 ounces, 75 cts.; 8 ounces, $1.25 ; one 
lb., $2.00 ; 4 lbs., $7.00. 
One pound of tbe roots will make 175 strong cuttings. 
A NEW EARLY PEA. 
BLISS’ AMERICAN WONDER.—A cross between 
tbe Champion of England and Little Gem—combining the 
good qualities of both varieties, but is earlier and more 
productive. 
M Pint packages, 25 cts ; Pint, 75 cts., by mail, post-paid. 
EARLY LIMA BEAN. 
A careful trial of this variety tbe past season proved it to 
be ten days earlier than the ordinal-}' variety. 25 cts. per 
packet. Pint, $1.00, by mail, post-paid. 
Hioscorca Batatas—Chinese Yam, 
One of the most valuable esculents in cultivation, though 
but little known. A well grown root, two years from the 
Dulblets, will measure 2 feet in length, and 2X inches in its 
broadest diameter, and is quite hardy, remaining in the 
ground over winter without protection. The flesh is re¬ 
markably white, and very mucilaginous in its crude state. 
1 hey may be boiled or roasted, and when cooked possess a 
rice-like taste; are quite farinaceous, nutritive, and valua- 
ble for food. It is also a very desirable climbing plant, 
suitable for covering screens, doors, and unsightly places. 
It is sometimes called “ Cinnamon Vine.” on account of the 
peculiar odor of its blossoms. Small bulblets, in packets of 
one dozen, 25 cents ; 5 dozen, $1.00; 1 year-old roots, S2.C0 
per dozen; $12.50 per 100. 
Kenney’s Early Amber Sugar Cane. 
In this variety we have a plant that is destined to prove of 
immense value to the northern portions of our country. Its 
saccharine qualities are of the first order, fine and rich, and 
its earliness highly recommend it to the whole country. It 
stands up well, does not easily blow down. When planted 
early in May, the seed almost invariably ripens, thus giving 
one the advantage of a double crop in one year, from one 
planting, some 20 or 25 bushels of seed, and 150 or more gal¬ 
lons of fine syrup per acre—that, is, if it is skillfully handled. 
All kinds of farm stock are fond of the seed. Wo have seen 
sugar produced from this variety equal to the best coffee 
sugars in the market. By mail, 75 cents per lb. 
d Kitchen Garden. 
35 Cents. 
with Monthly 
Catalogue and Amateur’s Guide to the Flower f» T ' 
gaidemng ever published. 222 pages, fiOO illustrations, price 35 
JJliss 7 Illustrated t*ardeners 7 Almanac for 1878, and Abridged Catalogue. 136 nacres 
Calendar of Operations, with many valuable illustrations, 10 Cents. * ^aiaiogue. p^ges, 
. Bliss’ Illustrated Handbook, for the Farm and the Garden, and abridged Catalogue of Gnrden. Field, and 
Flower Seeds, Fertilizers, Agricultural Implements, etc., etc. One hundred pages, many illustrations. Three cents. 
B! i sfs’*ifltist "atedTist” of^Novelties Lawn ’ andFl0Wer Garden ’ imd 
P. 0. Box 5712. B. & BLISS & SONS, 34 Barclay St., New York. 
Free by Mail 
Our Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of 
Flower and Vegetable Seeds, and Gar¬ 
den Requisites. 
CROMWELL & COMCDQN, 
51 Li:g!il St., Baltimore, Md. 
10 Ever Blooming 
500.000 Roses for $ 1 . 
Plants and Evergreens sent free bv mail. Catalogues 
free. Address I. C. WOOD & BRO,, Nurseryinei> and 
. Florists, FISHKILL, N. Y. 
SEEDS and PLANTS 
SPUING CAT A COGUE NOW READY, 
Mailed free on application. 
Vegetable and Flower seeds for the Greenhouse and Gar¬ 
den. Choice stove and Greenhouse Plants. Florist’s sup¬ 
plies, etc., etc. C. II. HOVE Y CO.. 
22 Tremont St., (under Museum), Boston, Mass. 
I OFFER Compton’s Early Field Corn; Lane's Sugar 
Beet, and choiee Tomato seed ; Superior, & other Potatoes; 
ami a general list of Seed, all at low prlees. Send for Price- 
list. DAVID R. WOOD, Morrisville, Vt. 
D ON’T GO WE'IT.-Maryland Farms on Navigable 
Salt. Water, and R. R.. very low. 12 hours from New 
Yot k, Write (or catalogue,C, Plummer, Cambridge, Md, 
Collections FLOWER-SEEDS 
No. 2. 25 Choice Annuals, free bloomers.$t. 
No. 3. 20 Choice Biennials and Perennials... . 81 . 
No. 4. 12 Very choice Annuals,(red bloomers, 81. 
No. 7. 5 Very rare Annuals (Florists’).$ 1 . 
of Asters (12 var.), Balsams (12 
ASSORTMENTS of 
var.). Pinks (16 var.). 
Pansies (8 var.), Primulas >6 var.), German Stocks 
^son^en"! EACH fi |l.00 S .° rt8 ’ ^ 8eparate ’ |,er 
VEGETABLE SEEDS! 
Twenty Varieties of the leading sorts $1.00. Collec¬ 
tions of larger quantities for *2, $3, $:■. $10, $30. Any of the 
collections sent FREE BY MAID on receipt of price. 
CALENDAR for 1878 gives instructions. Mailed free 
HENRI' A. DKEER, 714 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 
SHAKER’S 
Genuine Flower and Garden Seeds. 
Address D. C. BRAINARD, 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. 
ONE MILLION 
Vegetable Plants 
—— p. r 1 ana 
Cabbage, Farly York, 
Per 1000 
(cold frame) $ 6.00 
Jersey Wakefield, “ 7.50 
Henderson’s Early Summer, “ 10.00 
Cauliflower, Early Erfurt, “ 15.00 
“ Early Snowball, “ 30.00 
Lettuce, Curled Simpson, & Butter, “ 6.00 
Spring Sown Plants by May 1st, half above rates. 
Horse Radish Rosts, - $5.00 per 1000 
True Colossal Asparagus, 6.00 “ 
Tomato, Cabbage «fc Celery Plants con¬ 
tracted for in largo quantities at special low 
rates. Al 1 kin ds of Plants & Roots can be seen 
at our store, fresh from our gardens daily. 
Market Gardeners and Seedsmen. 
Cortlandt Street, New York. 
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ARB PLANTED BY A MILLION PEOPLE IN AMERICA. SEE 
Vick’s Catalogue.— 300 Illustrations, only 2 cents. 
Vick’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine.— 32 pages, 
line 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 ; will; elegant cloth covers, $1.00. 
All my publications are printed ill English and German. 
Address, JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. 
The New Potatoes. 
THE LEADER.-First time offered. Beautiful in form 
and color, immense yield, and of unsurpassable quality. 
1 lb., by mail, 75c., per peck $5.00, BuBhel $15. 
THE TRIITM PH, 1 lb. by mail, 75c. pr. pk. $5. Bush. $15. 
THE TIOGA, “ 50c. “ $1. “ $3. 
SUPERIOR, “ 50c. ‘ $1. *3. 
BTJRBANK, “ 50c. “ 75c. “ $2. 
DUNMORE, “ 50c. “ 75c. “ $2. 
Also 25 more of the newer varieties, for which see my 
Catalogue, which will be sent free on application. To every 
purchaser of my seeds or' potatoes to the amount of $3.00, I 
present a copy of my new work on “ Vegetable Plants.” 
ISAAC F. TILLINCHAST, 
Late Tillinghast Bros., 
Factoryville, WyomingCo., Pa. 
CHOICE SEED POTATOES & other Seeds. 
Bliss's Triumph, Trophy, What Next, Harlequin. $1,01 
lb P Paid. Beautv of Ilebron, Perfection, Little Giant. 
75 cts. lb., 2 lbs. $1.00. Superior, Centennial, Improved 
Peachblow, Red Lion. Alpha, Tioga, Mahopac Seedling. 
-,0 cts. per lh„ 3 lbs. $l.0u. For other choice varieties of 
Potatoes, Choice Onion Seed, &c., &c„ send for price 
list. All warranted pure and time to name 
Address E. B. JENNINGS. Seed Grower. 
j3ox 76. Southport, Conn. 
Agricultural 
Insurance Company, of faterton, N. T, 
Capital. $200,000.00. Net Surplus, *189,315.03. Total assets 
for the security of Policyholders January 1st. 1877, $1,050,- 
622.00. Insures'only Farm Property and Residences against 
fire and lightning, Takes no business risks.. 
