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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[APRIL, 
J. Lien’s Hortieiltiral Estaliei 
For tlie Introduction of New and Bare Plants. 
GHENT, BELGIUM. 
Agency and Depot, 5 Rue la Paix, Paris. 
fJ-gs^The great success which has attended J. LINDEN’S exportations to America, has led to an immense in¬ 
crease in this department of business and has induced him to publish an AMERICAN EDITION of his 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, especially for American amateurs and nurserymen. 
J. LINDEN —successful competitor at the GRAND NATIONAL EXHIBITION of Brussels, July 
1880, taking the ' Grand prix unique d’exellence and le seul diplome d’honneur pour les introductions de I’etablissement,” 
and of the principal internal lonal Exhibitions of Europe : Brussels, 1864—Amsterdam, 1865—London, first prize for the best 
new plants. 1866—Paris. 1867—St. Petersburgh and Hamburgh, 1869—Ghent and Vienna, 1873—Florence, 1874—Cologne, 1875— 
Brussels, 1876—Paris. 1878, out of competition as President of Jury, etc.—The establishment is fully prepared to execute 
orders to any extent, and purchasers may be assured that all orders will be packed in the best possible manner, and 
despatched by the most direct routes to any part of the U. S. of America. 
The BELGIAN PLANTS are well known to he the BEST in cultivation, and to he CH E APE R than 
elsewhere 
The SPECIALTIES °f J. LINDEN’S Establishment, the houses of which present nearly 100,000 square 
feet of glass, are noted for the following: 
Plants of new and recent Introduction: Orchids—Palms-Eerns—Cycads—Bromellads—Variegated-leaved Plants-Crotons 
—Dracaenas-Caladiums—Flowering Plants—Medicinal Plants -Tropical Fruit Trees—Camellias—Azalea Indica andA.Mol- 
Ils—Rhododendrons—Roses—Decorative Plants of all kinds, &c„&c. SPECIMENS FOR EXHIBITION 
and for FURNISHING Conservatories, or Houses and Greenhouses of any description. 
J. Linden’s Catalogue for 1881 now ready and directed gratis and post-free to all applicants. Trade and Wholesale 
Lists sent on application. 
__ CABLE ADDRESS; LINDEN, CHENT, Belgium. 
The Excelsior 
LAWN MOWER, 
For Hand and Horse. 
Croquet Mower, $11.00. 
Hand Mowers, 3 Patterns, 10 to 20 in. Cat. 
Horse Mowers, 25 to 10 inch Cut. 
Onr 101ERS are LIGHT, SIMPLE, ani DURABLE. 
All Our Mowers are Guaranteed. 
We Make no Second-Quality Mowers. 
Send for Illustrated Circular and Price List. 
CHADBORN & C0LDWELL MFG.00., Newburgh, N.Y. 
1881. 
Pennsylvania Lawn Mower, 
y Surpassing all others 
and pronounced the 
best, lightest, runs 
more easily, cuts 
longer grass, is more 
durable, requires less 
repair, cuts grass 
more smoothly, is less 
liable to obstruction, 
is of handsome ap¬ 
pearance. 
Penn. State Agri¬ 
cultural Society savs: 
“ It will, we believe, wear longer, do the work better, with 
less labor than any other Mower. One of the peculiarities 
is that it will cut higher grass than any other Mower.” 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue. Every machine war- 
^LL.OYIjfsUP’PI.EE & WALTON, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Evergreens, 
I\Forest Trees, 
Very Large Stock, 
All NURSERY-GROWN, 
Evergreen. Seeds, 
Hardy Catalpa Seeds, 
R. Douglas & Sons, 
Waukegan, Ill. 
300,000trees 
arge 
■ketr 
& ORNAMENTAL 
—, n GRAPE VIRES, 
Small Fruits, 
PLANTS, etc. 
50,000 Peach Trees and an extra large stock of Ever¬ 
green Hedge Plants at lowest market rates. Catalogue 
and Price-List free to all who send for it. 
GIJO. M. COLE, Cumberland Nurseries, Deerfield, N. J. 
FRUIT and 
ORNAMENTAL. 
Large Shade Trees, Apple and Peach Trees, 
etc.—Flowering Shrubs, Grape Vines, and Small 
Fruits.— St raw berry Plants a specialty. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS A SPECIALTY. 
Send for Prices and Descriptive Catalogue f ree. 
WM. H. MOON, Morrisville, Pa. 
60 miles from New York and SO miles from Philadelphia. 
T>EACH TREES, Best Orchard Varieties. Also gen- 
X eral Stock of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 
Shrubs, Vines, etc. Send for Price-List. 
New Brunswick (Nurseries),N.J. EDWIN ALLEN. 
Guthbert Rasp 
E. P. ROE 
<D 
CO 
has one of the larg¬ 
est and finest stocks 
in the country of 
this unequalled 
market Raspberry. The wide and varied test of the past 
season proves it to be the finest, largest, and one of the 
hardiest, bright red raspberries before the public. A third 
larger and twice as productive as the Brandywine, and so 
remarkably firm that it can be shipped by rail to market. 
It has yielded at the rate of $800 per acre. Descriptive Cat¬ 
alogue free. Address 
B. I*. ROE, Cornwall-on-Hndson, N. Y. 
Makes such remarkably libaral offers 
of plants with ills superbly illustrated 
book, “ Success with Small Fruits,” 
that all having country homes should 
accept them. Descriptive catalogue free. Address E. P. 
ROE, Cornwall-on-Hudson,N.Y. 
Nice CONCORD Grape Vines 
Don’t Delay in Ordering for Spring Planting. 
Send for Circular. W > 1 . B. REED, 
Chambersburg Nurseries, ChamberBburg, Pa. 
E. P. ROE 
10 
CDADCC 
U ■ H ■ ■ I KB ’VBr uu/a-li raiua, iree oy mini. 
Special Attention called 
ties. Send for Price-List. Address, 
SON & MEISSNER, 
Plants of Best Quality. 
Warranted true to name. 
Lowest Prices, and 
Largest Assortment of 
old and new varieties. At 
dozen_ rates, free by mail. 
to Promii 
Novelt 
— & 
BUSHBERG, Jefferson Co., Mo 
GRASS, CLOVER, 
& FOREST-TREE 
[American & European] 
CATALOGUES (English or German edition), Free. 
Henry Nungesser, Seed Merchant, 83 Ave.D, New York 
* APPLE TREES. 
MAIDEN HAIR TREES. 
(Salisburia Adiantifolia.) 
And all other stock at the very lowest prices, in 
order to clear the ground. 
Send for Catalogues with closing out prices. 
RIIMSON NURSERIES, 
B. B. HANCE, Agent. Red Bank, N, J, 
Webb's Kinver Mangel. 
Half Long, & Improved Long Orange. 
Carrot, Doura, Cow Peas, 
CHOICE OATS, SPRING WHEAT, 
Sweet Corn for Fodder, Etc., Etc. 
OUR CATALOGUE, with description of above, with 
full lists of CHOICE VEGETABLE and FLOWER 
SEEDS mailed on receipt of stamp for postage. 
Send for Special Circulars of 
Agricultural Implements of every kind. 
Fertilizers of the best guaranteed quality in stock. 
R. H. ALLEN & CO., 189 ana 191 Water St., N. Y. 
7 k Bbls. MAMMOTH PEARL POTATOES for Sale at 
t) $3 50 per bbl.; will give 2 lbs. of St. Patrick Potatoes 
with each bbl. The best of *20 varieties grown by me last 
summer. Address, Josiah Hawkins, Southport, Conn. 
RUSSIAN 
WHITE OATS. 
These Oats have been tried in every State in the 
Union with the same success. Every kernel filled, 
straw firm, free from rust; with ordinary cultivation 
yield 100 bushels to the acre, endure the coldest 
climate. J. P. Thompson, La Fontaine, Ind., writes: 
“From the pound of Oats, planted May 10th, have raised 
enough to plant 2 acres; they were free from rust, while 
others rusted right by their side.” 
EVERY ONE THAT HAS TRIED THEM 
SAV THEY ARE THE COMING OAT. 
PRICE* 
1 Found, post-paid......$0 50 
3 “ “ ... 1 OO 
'A Bushel, delivered to JZx. Co. or on Cars. 1 40 
10 “or more* 1 “ “ “ per bush. 2 00 
JAMES TICK, Rochester, K. Y. 
NORTH STAR SEED FARMS, 1881, 
Fifth Annual Catalogue now ready, free, on application. 
Former correspondents will be served without application. 
The products of these Seed Farms, the most Northern in 
America, have established beyond controversy the great 
organic law, “that the further North .Seeds are 
grown, the earlier their products will mature.” 
Our St. Paul Tomato, Early Minnesota 
Sweet Corn, Red River, auel Squaw Corn, 
Pure Scoteh Fyfe Wheat (Seed Stock), Carrots, 
Beets, Onions, Minn. Early Amber Sugar 
Cane, and nearly everything In Vegetable List cannot 
he equalled in America. 
T. M. METCALF, 
Seed Grower and Jobber, St. Paul, Minnesota* 
HOVEY & CO, BOSTON, 
SEND THEIR NEW CATALOGUES OF 
SEEDS AND PLANTS 
for f 881 FREE, to all who apply. They 
contain the most valuable varieties for 
MarketGardeners, Florists andAmateurs.. 
HOVEY & CO-, 16 So. Market St., Roston. 
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 Grangers- 
“ The excellence of the Shakers’ Garden Seeds is generally 
admitted,—®/.?. American Agriculturist. 
Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds Free. 
Address, WM. ANDERSON, 
Successor to CHARLES SIZER, 
_Mount Lebanon, Col. Co., N. Y. 
Asparagus—New Variety. 
Smalley’s Extra Early Defiance; 2 weeks earlier than 
Colossal, a larger, softer grass; far superior to all other 
varieties. One acre will produce more grass with the same 
treatment than 2 acres of Colossal. It is the best Asparagus 
grown, either for private use or for market. Two-year-old 
plants, $5 per 100, $30 per 1,000; seed, $12 per lb. Address, 
A. SMALLEY, Bound Brook, Box 99, N.J. 
STRAWBERRY HULLED. e a^ for 2.1 
A. S. BUNKER, Lawrence, Mass. 
I Our Price-List of all the Best Varieties of 
_I STRAWBERRIES, RASPBERRIES, AND 
.^av^RRIES, sent free to all. Address, 
STONE LAKE NURSERY, Laporte, Ind. 
