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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[February 
thePHILA. BRO AB-e AST SEEDERS 1 
SOW ALl SEEDS AND FERTILIZERS 
The No, 2 hand machine, price sows from 4 to 6 
acres per hour: No, 1, (see cut) price $30? from 10 to 12, 
at the same time sowing far more evenly than by any other 
method, also saves the Seed. Send for Circular. Agents 
Wanted, BENSON, M A ULE & CO., Philadelphia 
Wm. H. CARSON, 
114 (late 125) Chambers St., New York. 
Catalogue of Seeds now ready, and will be mailed as usual 
to my customers, and to all who apply by letter. 
Gardeners and Farmers, 
And every one interested in having goorf 
Seeds, iPlauts, or Tools, 
should send their address for new price list, now ready. 
ys - - ' . 
Address 
E. P. THOMPSON East Rockport, Ohio. 
81-POUND CUBAN QUEEN WATER-MELON. 
This new Melon from the West Indies is certainly The Largest and 
Finest Variety in the world. Flesh, bright red, remarkably solid 
luscious, crisp and sugary— far surpassing all others, and on a Melon of enor¬ 
mous size there is barely half an inch rind ! The first prize Melon the past 
dry season weighed 81 Founds. We offer $50.00 IN CASH 
PRIZES FOR 1882 for the three largest Melons grown from our Seed. 
Do not fail to try and see how large the Cuban Queen can be grown. 
MOTHER SPECIALTIES FOR 1882.-Burpee’s Net- 
tod Gent Musk-Melon (see illustration), the earliest, most productive, 
sweet as honey and a gem indeed ! Burpee’s Sureliead Cabbage, 
the very best, all head and always sure to head. Lemon Pod Wax: 
Beans, marvellous for great beauty, fine quality and immense productiveness. 
Livingston’s Perfection Tomato, bright red and smooth as 
an apple. Giant Rocca Onion, grown from our Seed last year to 
weigh II lbs. each. Burpee’s Improved Bong Orange Carrot, 
finest strain. Peerless White Spine Cucumber, best for 
table or pickling. Giant White Stuttgart Radish, early, largo 
and fine. Red Top White Globe Turnip, very handsome. 
Bassano Beet and a choice variety of Bettuce. Illustration, descrip¬ 
tion and full directions for culture printed on each packet. 
A REM ARK ABBE OFFER to those who order direct from this advertisement. The above 12 packets' of the choicest 
and New Vegetable Seeds, all full size, are worth at our catalogue prices $1.15, actual value, but we will send the 
entire collection, by mail, post-paid, to any address, for only 50 CENTS, or 5 Collections for $2.00. Get your neighbors to- 
order with you and thus secure your own collection Free! This is certainly an unparalleled offer, and many may ask 
HOW CAN WE AFFORD IT? We answer, by growing and importing these Seeds in immense 
quantities, papering them by the hundred thousand, especially that we may be able to offer this great induce¬ 
ment for new customers to give our Seeds a fair trial. We spend thousands of dollars in advertising, but 
rely on the quality of our Seeds to retain the permanent patronage of all who plant them. Our Seeds are all 
Warranted First-Class, and are pronounced by the most critical market-gardeners to be altogether 
UNRIVALLED IN OIJABITV. TRY THEM ! 
OCR FBOWER SEEDS are equally as fine as our Vegetable Seeds, and for the same reason we 
now offer BURPEE’S GEM COBBECTION, embracing Asters, Balsams, Pansy, Petunia, Phlox 
Drummondii, Verbena Hybrida , Double Zinnia, &c., in all 10 packets, most beautiful varieties, with full 
directions for growing, for only 30 Cents, or ten 3-cent stamps, sent post-paid to any address. jJ^Both 
Collections of Flower and Vegetable Seeds, in all 22 packets, will be mailed for 75 Cents, Postage 
stamps accepted same as cash. Order now. and ask for BURPEE'S FARM ANNUAL FOR 
1882, beautifully illustrated, tells all about the best Garden, Field and Flower Seeds, Bulbs, Plants, &c., and is 
Sent Free to any Address. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., 219 & 221 Church St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
We have advantages as Seedsmen of which we wish to tell the public. Thirty years experience as PRACTICAL I 
MARKET GARDENERS AND FLORISTS, gives us such knowledge as to enable us to judge not only what are l 
the best kinds for Fruit, Flower or Vegetable crops (whether for Private or Commercial Gardening), but also to tlior-1 
oughly test the quality of all Seeds and Plants. Our Greenhouses and Frames in Jersey City, are the largest in r 
America, covering upwards of four acres, solid in glass, employiug aii average of seventy men throughout the year. * 1 
Cj*Wc send our Illustrated Catalogue of 
“Everything for 
| tlie Garden. ” 
I on application 
ted Catalogue o 
FREE, 
PETER HENDERSON & CO. 
35 Cortlandt Street, New York. 
CHOICE SEEDS f BEST OFFER YET! 
For nine 3c. postage stamps I will send for trial 11 papers- 
Choicest Seeds, growth of 1881. 50 to 500 seeds in each 
paper; Large Jt. Pansy (16 varieties), Verbena (from 100 
kinds); Double and Quilled Asters (15 colors). Large. Double 
Everlasting (6 colors), New Golden Striped Double Portu- 
laca, China and Japan Pinks (11 varieties), New Feathered 
.Celosia, Whit/avia, Double Pompon Aster (12 colors), Agera- 
turn, New Spiral Mignonette, and my New Illustrated Seed 
Catalogue. L. W. (iOODELL. Amherst, Mass. 
Is an Elegant Bonk of 150 Pages, a Colored 
Frontispiece of Flowers, and more than 1,000 
Illustrations of the choicest Flowers, Plants, and Vege¬ 
tables, and Directions for growing. It is handsome enough 
for the Center Table or a Holiday Present. Send on your 
name and Post Office address, with 10 cents, and I will send 
you a copy, postage paid. This is not a quarter of its cost. 
It is printed in both English and German. If you after¬ 
wards order seeds deduct the 10 cents. 
VICK’S SEEDS are the best in the world. The 
Floral Guide will tell how to get and grow them. 
Vick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden, 175 
Pages, 6 Colored Plates, 500 Engravings. For 50 cents in 
paper covers ; $1.00 in elegant cloth. In German or English. 
Vick’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine— 32 Pages, 
a Colored Plate in every number and many line Engravings. 
Price $1.25 a year; Five Copies for $5.00. Specimen Num¬ 
bers sent for 10 cents; 3 trial copies for 25 cents. 
Address, JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y, 
FOREST and EVERGREEN TREES. 
Cataipa speciosa, 
EUROPEAN LARCH, WHITE ASH, NORWAY 
SPRUCE, Etc., Etc. 
Largest stock In America. Forest and Evergreen 
Tree Seeds. Forest Trees by mail. 
_ R. DOUGL AS & SONS, Waukegan, Ills. 
Plants of Best Quality. 
Warranted true to name. 
Lowest Prices, and 
Largest Assortment of 
old and new varieties. At 
dozen rates, free by mail. 
Special Attention called 
ismg moveines. Send for Price-List. Address, 
BlTSH & SON & MEISSNER, 
BUSH BERG, Jefferson Co., Mo. 
iV8y Catalogue of 
SMALL FRUITS, FLOWER, and VEGE¬ 
TABLE PLANTS, ROSES, SHRUBS, &c., 
is full of information, describes the new things, gives full 
instructions for culture, offers plants and reasonable prices, 
and is free to all. 
GEORGE S. WALES, Rochester, N. Y. 
IT}EACH TREES A SPEcULTY.-Oth"''Fruit 
JT Trees and Plants at Low Rates. 
R. S. JOHNSTON, Stockley, Del. 
GRAPES 
to Promising Novelties. 
.LEGAL. TENDER STRAWBERRY. 
Productive as the Crescent; firm as the Wilson ; large,' 
handsome, delicious. Will he offered by subscription. New 
White Strawberry, the Fairy. Orient, and Satin 
Gloss a grand success the past season. Manchester, Mt. 
Vernon, etc. Early Prolific and Reliance Raspberries, 
still ahead. 20 acres now in bearing. Kiefer ana Lecont 
Pear wood in quantity. All the best Small Fruit Plants. 
Prentiss and other choice Grape-vines, Trees, etc., at low 
prices. Send for List. J. C. GIBSON, Woodbury, N. J. 
TpSCSg®? 
'UESD 
MlflZfcZ. 1 
^Fon 1882 
Will be mailed free to all applicants, and to customer* without 
ordering it. It contains five colored plate*, 600 engravings, 
about 200 pages, and full descriptions, prices and directions for 
planting 1500 varieties of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Plants, 
Fruit Trees, etc. Invaluable to all. Send for it. Address, 
D. M. FERRY & CO., Detroit, Mich. 
Great, Northern and Southern Nursery. 
Catalogues gratis.— Showing how and what to plant, 
with much valuable information. For spring, one million 
of strawberry plants, largely of Sharpless, Crescent Seed¬ 
ling and Wilson’s Albany. Full line of Peach. AppleJPear, 
Cherry, Osage, Asparagus,Rhubarb. Raspberries andBlack- 
berries, and all stock usually found in a first-class nursery. 
RANDOLPH PEfERS, Wilmington, Delaware. 
HIRAM SIBLEY & GO, 
Will mail FREE their Cata¬ 
logue for 1882, containing a 
full descriptive Price - List of 
Flower, Field and Garden 
SEEDS 
Bulbs, Ornamental Grasses, 
and Immortelles, Gladiolus, 
Lilies, Roses, Plants, Garden 
Implements. Beautifully illus¬ 
trated. Over 100 pages. Address 
ROCHESTER,N.Y. & CHICAGO,ILL 
179-183 East Main St. 200-206 Randolph St 
ROOT fil? t FTS! • Choice Varieties, New and 
Mtvvk Uft.llTlS, Old, from Bearing Trees. 
R. J. BLACK, Bremen, Fairfield Co., Ohio. 
ROR SALE, STANDARD PEAR, large stock, 2 to 
J. 6 year ; 2 to 8 feet, $10 to $25 per 100; 5 to T feet, $18 per 
100 ; and other stock. Catalogue Free. 
HARVEY CURTIS, Owego Nursery, Tioga Co., N. Y. 
Ret Fruits Free. 
I Send for Sample Copy of 
“ Green’s Fruit Grow- 
I er,” Rochester, N. Y. 
Rogers’ Reliable Garden Seeds. 
Established 1850. Catalogues for 1882 now ready. Will be 
mailed free on application. Address 
--i, 133 ” ‘ 
C. B. Rogers, 
Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
SEEDS. 
My Annual Priced Catalogue Is now ready and mailed 
free to all applicants. It contains all the leading and most 
popular sorts of 
VEGETABLE, FIELD, 
AND 
FLOWER SEEDS. 
Besides all the desirable novelties of last season, and 
nearly everything else in my line of business. 
ALFRED BRIDGEMANj 
_ 876 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. _ 
ifegManif ffliilini ii ii 
FLOWER SEEDS AT HALF PRICE! j 
The Best Offer fob Reliable Seeds Evee Made. 
New,Hardy,Perpetual blooming, Double White Chrysanthemum . 1 
The most beautiful new plant introduced for years. Verbenas 
named, 60c. per doz. Roses and Bedding Plants. Catalogues free. 
D. C. McGRAW, Riverside Gardens, Binghamton, N. Y. 
A GOOD BARGAIN 
HIWASSEE CORN, the largest gTain, 
smallest cob, and most productive variety in 
the world, .package 25c. MAMMOTH 
CABBAGE, 20 to — ” 
25c. MAMMOT” 
grown to weigh 1__„ __..._ 
SNAKE CUCUMBER 2 to 6 ft. in length, 
coils up .like a snake, package 25c. SAN¬ 
GUINEUS, a tropical-looking plant, 10 ft. 
high, covered with bright red fruit, package 
25c. CHOICE GARDEN SEEDS, XOc. 
per package. Asparagus (.Conover's Colossal ), 
Ca.rrot(LongOrange),Cvees(Curled), Cucumber 
(GreenCluster ), Lettuce (Silesia), Musk Melon 
( Nutmeg ). Watermelon ( Mt. Street ), Parsnip 
(Long White ), Radish (Sc arlet), Spinach ( Round 
Leaved), Tomato (Acme), Turnip ( WhiteDutch). 
SELECT FLOWER SEEDS, 10c. per 
package; Portulacca, Phlox Drummondi, 
Flowering Peas. Gilia, Fragrant Candytuft, 
| Acroclinium, Marigold, and Double Zinnia. 
A SPLENDID OFFER! 
I will send the above Superb Collection of Seeds 
(25 packages, price $3.25) and the PracticalFarm 
Journal, a neat eight-p age publication, devoted 
to farming, gardening, etc., for one year, all 
postpaid, for only SI; club of four, S3. Or¬ 
ders promptly filled. Agents wanted. Remit 
by Registered Letter, or P. O. Order on Lyons, 
N.Y. Be sure and mention this paper. Address 
atonce, FRANK FINCH, Clyde,Wayne Co.,N.Y. 
“ Mr. Finch is perfectly reliable.”— 
. All who favor him with their orders will he 
, honestly and fairly dealt with.”-/. W,Briggs,!’.M 
