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,, I3Q PACtS, LEAUTIFUUY IELUSTRATED,! 
Indispensable To All Interested In Gardening, 
MAILED TO APPLICANTS ENCLOSING IO CENTS .l 
B.K.BLISS * SONS, i 
34 BARCLAY ST. WEWyPRKf 
Success with Small Fruits. 
They Succeed Who Know How, 
offers a superb stock of Plants 
at very reasonable rates, and 
a practical Manual on tbe Cul¬ 
ture of Small Fruits, showing 
bow best to raise and market 
them. Winter is the timo to 
read and plan success. 
Descriptive Catalogue free. Address 
E. P. ROE, Cornwall-on-IIudson, Orange Co., N. V. 
E.P.R0E 
I.0RAL 
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beautiful work of 100 Pages, One Colored Flower 
.'late, and 500 Illustrations, with Descriptions of 
•he best Flowers and Vegetables, and how to grow them. 
All for a Five Cent Stamp. In English or German. 
VICK’S SEEDS are the best In the world. Five 
Cents for postage will buy tbe Floral Guide, telling how 
to get them. 
The Flower and Vegetable Garden, 175 Pages, six 
•olored Plates, and manv hundred Engravings. For 50 
eents In paper covers ; $1.00 In elegant cloth. In German or 
English. Address 
JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. 
BERRIES 
tlie largest and best. 
2.000,1100 Sharpless Strawberries. 
1,000,000 Miner’s Great Prolific. 
10 Acres other choice varieties. 
Queen of the Market, Cuthbert, 
Turner and Welsh Raspberries. 
2.625 bushels Berries grown at 
Pomona Nursery in 1819. 
Kiettcr's Hybrid Fears, Blight 
Proof, hardy, and productive, 
hears early, fruit large and good 
quality. Send for Catalogues 
of best fruits. 
WM. PARRY, 
Clmiamlnson, N. J. 
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 $10 per lb. Address 
^^^^^^AUKY|jBoraD^ROOLBo^lNJ. 
Larp Lot of Low Stocky 
Peach Trees, 
I ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE for SHIP- 
| PING LONG DISTANCES. 
j A. HAS0CE & SON, Red Bank, N.J. 
Hurpcc’s Illustrated Farm Annual 
sent free to any addresB. Every Farmer anil 
Gardener should have it. Our NEW BOX OF 
SEED, containing 10 pkts. improved varieties of 
Garden Seeds, sent for only 25 cts. in postage stamps. 
This special offer is made to introduce our Seeds to new 
•ustomers. Send your address plainly written to 
W. ATI,EE BURPEE & CO., 
221 Church St., Philadelphia. Pa. 
ESTABLISHED 1765. 
An Improved 
FLOWER POT. 
Having manufactured the Flow- 
A > ev Pots for Mr. Henderson, as are 
A described in the Oct. number of the 
American Agriculturist, we are 
prepared to furnish them without 
extra charge tit wholesale or retail. 
Address A. H. HEWS & CO.. 
Manufacturers ot Flower Pots, 
"North Cambridge, Muss. 
WE HAVE MADE 
Our Seed Drills and Wheel Hoes, and our Combined Drill, Wheel 
Hoe, Garden Plow and Cultivator, so perfect and complete as to 
call forth the continued praise and admiration of practical men, 
hut we intend that future purchasers shall have still better goods. 
Inquire for them at any hardware or seed store, or we will be glad 
to correspond and furnish descriptive circulars and testimonials, 
and all desired information. These articles quickly save the wholes? 
first cost. S. L. ALLEN & CO., 229 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 1 - 
THE MONITOR SEED DRILL. 
This is the most complete and positive Seed Drill ever invented. It is radically 
different from and superior to all others. It is the only machine which measures and 
- - - .-roughly tested during t 
seasons of 1878 and 1879, and heartily endorsed as a 
FIHST-CLASS 3VE-^LC3EH3XrU 
by Professor Geo. Tliurber, of New Jersey, and bv Jas. Vick, of Rochester, N. T. 
VST Agents Wanted.— For full descriptive circular and testimonials, address 
THE MERRIMAC MACHINE C0. 5 Newburyport, Mass. 
Cabbage Seed 
a Specialty. 
Wholesale Price Lists—for dealers only—mailed free. 
Fkancis Brill, Seed Grower, Mattituck,Long Island, N. T. 
100 
Acres 
Planted witli 
BERRIES. 
Plants Grown 
tor 
Transplanting, 
AND 
Fruit for Market. 
See new Catalogue and 
what sorts to plant. Sent 
free. Address 
VARIETIES 
Selected 
FRUITS. 
JOHN S. COLLINS, Moorestown, N. .T. 
My Annual Catalogue of Vegetable anil 
Flower Seed for 1880 will he ready by January, and 
sent free to all who apply. Customers of last seasoaneed 
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 are anx¬ 
ious to have their seed fresh, true, and of the 
very best strain. NEW VEGETABLES A 
SPECIALTY". 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
Early Prolific and Reliance, 
the most certain and best paying Market Raspberries, 
12 acres now In hearing on our grounds. 150,000 plants 
for sale. ‘200,000 Cinderella, 200,000 Continental. 
200,000 other fine varieties of Strawberries, including 
Sharpless, Miners, Glendale, etc. Lots of other 
good things. Prices low. See new descriptive circular. 
GIBSON & BENNETT, Woodbury, NT. J. 
New and Rare Winter Flower¬ 
ing Plants—New Fruits, 
Dutch Bulbs, &c. 
New Pears, new Peaches, new Cherries, new Grapes, new 
Strawberries, &c., with a large stock ot all kinds of Fruit 
trees, shrubs, &e. 
DUTCH BULBS.— Large importations direct from 
the leading growers in Holland: First quality Bulbs. Beau¬ 
tiful Hot-house plants, Dracaenas, Crotons, &c. Winter 
flowering plants, Roses, &c., well grown. Cheap by the 
single plant or doz., by mail or express. Catalogues mailed 
to applicants. JOHN SAUL, Washington, D. C. 
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MARKET GARDENERS. 
Fresh, Pure SEEDS lor VOU. 
Send for Garden Manual and Price List for 1880. 
J. B. ROOT, Seed Grower, Rockford. Ill. 
2 to 7 in, 
YEKT. 
DRAIN Till, 
For Prices" 
Address 
W. M. BELL, Smyrna, Del. 
MATTHEWS’ DRILL 
The Standard of America* 
Admitted by leading Seedsmen 
and Market Gardeners every¬ 
where to be the most, perfect and 
reliable drill iu use. Send for 
circular. Manufactured only by 
EVERETT & SMAIJL, Boston, ftlasg, 
PEARCE’S IMPROVED 
Cahoon Broadcast Seed Sower. 
iuOTI iiffilW/ffi F°» Sowing all kinds of 
i.nmillGrain and Grass Seed. 
Does as much work as 
men can do by hand, 
and BETTER work than 
can be done by any other 
means whatever. Agents 
wanted in every county 
the United States. 
Price 86. Send stamp for 
circular. 
GOODELL COMPANY, 
Antrim, N. H., 
SOLE MANUFACTURERS. 
we sell EVERYTHING for the 
GARDEN 
Priced Illustrated Catalogues Free on application. 
PETER HENDERSON&CO. 
35 CORTLANDT ST., NEW YORK. ' 
DYEH0USE CHERRY: 
and early bearer; fine quality. See October Agriculturist, 
p. 389. Circular on application. 
^^^RJ^ACKjBrmejjMMdCo-Obfe 
each Trees lor everybody. Apples adapted to a wide 
range of climate. Small Fruits, etc. Price-list free. 
R. S. JOHNSTON. Stookley, Del. 
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THE BELLE CITY 
FEED CUTTER, 
The Best. Feed Cutter 
in the World. 
The only one that runs 
light enough for Wind- 
Power. 
Send for circular, references, &c. 
Name this paper when you write. 
DAVID LAWTON, Manufacturer, Racine, Wis. 
Impiweil Baldwin’s American Fodder Gutter 
The simplest and Best 1 
Only three Feed Gears! Cuts 
all kind* of feed, hay, straw, aud 
corn-stalks with ease and rapidity. 
Power cutters fitted with our Im¬ 
proved Safety Fly Wheel, 
which secures perfect safety to the 
operator and machine. See large 
advertisement in Oct. No. of Agri¬ 
culturist. Send for illustrated cir¬ 
cular. C. PIERPONT & CO., 
Manufacturers, New Haven, Ct. 
THE PREMIUM 
FARM GRIST MILL 
Has superior claims over all 
others. The grinding parts are 
made of 
STEEL 
Is simple, durable, and cheap. 
Grinds all kinds of grain rapidly. 
Is adapted to all kinds of horse 
powers. +Se?ul for Descriptive 
Circular . 
WM. L. BOYER & BRO., 
3101 Germantown Ave., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
T> A TENTS, TRADE-MARKS, CAVEATS. 
I MUNN & CO., No. 37 Park Row, New York. Proprietors 
of the Scientific American. Thirty-four years’ experi¬ 
ence as Solicitors of Patents. Hand-book on Patents, with 
full directions and advice, sent free. 
