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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[January, ]' 
: A R E.AN D iB.E-AUTIFUL FLOWERS 
EliffSelect Garden Seed/ . 
s0^CARDEN, FIELD'S''! 
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.EjtaMiM 1845 . 3 _, , 
, 130 paces, beautifully illustrated, 
Indispensable To All Interested In Gardening, 
mailed to applicants enclosing Io cents .! 
ELK.BUSS %S®N$.f 
134 BAR CLAY ST. WEWy PRKt 
FOR 1880c 
130 PAGES H15AI riFFLLY ILLUSTRATED. 
The Lest work on GARDENING. It contains descriptive 
price lists nf VEGETABLE and FLOWER SEEDS 
and CHOICE PLANTS. with every thing for the 
(hirdeu. Copy, with large Cliromo of New COLEUS* 
10 cts.; plain copy. 6 cts. for postage. Wholesale list 
for Florists and Market Gardeners free. 
HENRY A. DREER, 
Seedsman and Florist, 714 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
OUR NEW BOX FOR 1880 
contains Variegated Lima Bean, 
Mammoth Tours Pumpkin, New 
| Excelsior Watermelon, Prize Para¬ 
gon Tomato, Green Prolific Cucum¬ 
ber, Sutton's Student Parsnip, Tel- 
low Ovoid Mangel, Nimble Six Weeks' Turnip, Large Viro- 
flay Spinach and an improved New Radish. The whole 10 
pkts., at retail, are worth $1.00, but will be sent, post-paid, in a 
neat box, for only 25 cts. Burpee’s Seeds are popular 
wherever grown, and this great special offer is made to intro¬ 
duce them to thousands of new customers. Burpee’s Flower 
Seeds are finest in quality and lowest in price. Tour choice of all 
varieties at 5 CTS. PER PKT.; 25 PKTS. FOR $1.00. Our popular 
collections of 10 Pkts. for 25 cts.; 20 Varieties for 60 ets. 
FOR ONE DOLLAR we will send, post-paid, 40 Pkts. of 
Garden, Field and Flower Seeds. Full directions for culture printed 
on each packet of the above. Postage Stamps taken. Order now. 
Burpee’s Farm Annual for 1880* enlarged and fully illus¬ 
trated, telling all about Seeds, Plants, Small Fruits; Blooded Live- 
Stock, Fancy Poultry, Dogs, &c., sent free to any address. 
W.Atlee Burpee Co., 221 Church St., Philada., Ptu 
E.P. ROE'S 
Eliiistratctl 
CATALOGUE 
For Spring of 
IOOO 
Is now ready—sent free to all applicants. A superb stock 
of Strawberry plants—150 kinds-Currant, Gooseberry, 
Blackberry, and Raspberry plants. The largest and best 
stock of the celebrated 
CUTHBERT RASPBERRY, 
now acknowledged to be the best in the country. First-class 
Grape Vines in great abundance. A Manual on the 
Culture of Small Fruits. (They succeed who know how.) 
All at very reasonable rates. Address 
E. P. ROE, Cornwall-ou-Hudson, N. Y. 
Grapes 
AND 
Currants. 
P| 8 B1TP °f all the good 
rLMI? 8 woMand choice 
GTEAWj 
EASP 
BLACK 
GOOSE 
A superior 
stock of __ 
new varieties—including the CUTH¬ 
BERT Raspberry, Glendale t-traw- 
lierryandDuchessGrape. Mycat- 
alogne (free to all | gives instructions 
for culture, honest descriptions and 
fair prices. J. T. LOVETIt 
EaitSSe Silver, Monmouth Co., N. J. 
Large Lot of Lot Stocky 
Peach Trees, 
ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE for SHIP¬ 
PING LONG DISTANCES. 
Pa. B|A^CE & SON, Red Bank, N.J. 
THE CHAMPION 
REAPERS & MOWERS. 
AWARDED TffiiE HIGHEST HONORS 
everywhere, by the best expert Authority, after the most 
thorough tests' as to its capacity aud execution. 
Manufactured by Whiteley, Fassler (fc Kelly, 
The Champion Machine Company, aud Warder, 
Mitchell «St Co., Springfield, O.; and The Toronto 
Reaper & Mower Company, Toronto, Canada. 
GARDEN and FARM SEEDS 
BY MAIL OR EXPRESS 
Sent to any part of the United States by 
WM. H. CARSON, 
135 Chambers Street, New York. 
Illustrated descriptive Catalogues now- 
ready, and will be sent on request. I offer a 
complete stock of Vegetable, Flower and 
Farm Seeds, Small Fruit Plants, Fertilizers 
and Garden requisites, all of the very best 
quality, and at reasonable prices. 
ORAL QUiM 
A beautiful work of 100 Pages, One Colored Flower 
Plate, and 500 Illustrations, with Descriptions of 
the best Flowers and Vegetables, and bow 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 the Floral Guide,- telling how 
to get them. 
The Flower and Vegetable Garden, 175 Pages, six 
Colored Plates, and many hundred Engravings. For 50 
cents in paper covers; $1.00 in elegant cloth. In German or 
English. Address 
JAEV9ES Rochester, M. Y. 
A MEW VARIETY! 
Examined and Endorsed by Agricultural Department at 
Washington. A Large and Luscious 
HYBRID TOMATO. 
Superior to all other Species, taste and flavor assimilating 
orchard fruit. This species of Tomato, the Yellow Large 
and Red Medium, each equally delicious in flavor, may he 
procured in packages of about 50 seeds, and will be sent to 
any address on receipt of 25 cents. JW Address 
SEVERIN MILLER, P. O. Box 394, Davenport. Iowa. 
My Annual Catalogue of Vegetable and 
Flower- Seed for 1880 will Be ready "by January, and 
sent free to all who apply. Customers of last season need 
not write for it. L 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 hest strain. NEAV VEGETABLES A 
SPECIALTY. 
JAMES ,T. II. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
JOHN SAUL’S 
Catalogue of Mew, Rare and 
BeautifuS Plants 
will be ready Feb. 1st, with a colored plate.—It is full in 
really good and beautiful plants. — New Dracaenas, New 
Crotons, New Pelargoniums, New Boses‘. Geraniums, Cle¬ 
matises, &c., with a rich collection of Fine Foliage and 
other Greenhouse and Hot-house plants, well grown and at 
low prices; Free to all my customers, to others 10 cts., or a 
plain copy free. Catalogue of Seeds and Roses free. 
JOH N SAUL, Wash ing ton, 1). C. 
B ET A I I “T" of HEBRON and other choice 
LAU S Y SEED POTATOES* THOU- 
SA.NDS of Fruit. Plants, Vines, <&Co Catalogue free. 
Also Jersey Bull, 3 rears, handsome, gentle, thoroughbred, 
at half his value. E. & J. C. WILLIAMS, Montclair, 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-vear-old 
plants, $5 per 100, $30 per 1,000: seed $10 per lb. Address 
A. SMALLEY, Bound Brook, B ox 99, N. J. 
a Specialty. 
Cabbage Seed 
Wholesale Price Lists—for dealers only—mailed free. 
Francis Brill, Seed Grower, Mattituck, Loug Island, N. Y. 
85 COK TL ANDT . ST. NEW YORK 
KMAFS IK. 
Fresh and prime 
quality m all re¬ 
spects ; try them. 
. „ Twenty - eight 
premiums in cut flowers at Illinois State Fairs of 1878 
and 1879. Five sample packets, my selection, mailed for 
ten cents. Send your address for catalogue. 
E. WYMAN, Jr., Seed Grower, Rockford, Ill. 
Will be mailed pkhk to all applicants, and to customers without 
ordering it. It contains four colored plates, 600 engravings, 
about 200 pages, and full descriptions, prices and directions for 
planting 1500 varieties of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Plants, 
Roses, etc. Invaluable to all. Send for it. Address, 
D. M. FERRY & CO., Detroit, Mich. 
SEEDS 
Western Seeds beats the world. £fl 
Mine takes the lead. Fre»n, pure 
cheap and warranted. Prices be¬ 
low every firm. 1 give more extra 
as presents than all firms. I have _, 
issued 20 000 prettiest books on gardening 
overprinted. Every vegetable and flower-^ 
pictured and described. Worth many dollars 
io any one. Send for free Garden-Guide and 
Seed Catalogue and see that I beat them all. 
C W R. H. S HUM WAY, Rockford, Ill. 
MARKET GARDENERS. 
Fresh, Pure SEEDS for YOU. 
Send for Garden Manual and Price List for IF80. 
J. II. ROOT, Seed Grower, liocUfont. Ill. 
BERRIES, 
the largest and best. 
2.000,000 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 1379. 
Kietler’s Hybrid I'ears, Plight 
Proof, hardy; and productive, 
bears early, fruit large and good 
quality. 'Send for Catalogues 
of hest fruits. 
WM. PARRY, 
Clnnaitiinsoii, N. J. 
I guarantee safe arrival, satisfaction, stock equal to any 
100 by express for $5. 50 by mail, S3. 
Samples. IY for $1.10. Lists free. 
TYRA MONTGOMERY, Mattoon. J1I. 
SEND TO 
STORES, HARRISON & 00., 
Painesvillc, Oliio 
For their Trade List. 
Largest, assortment in the West. 26th year. 400 acres. 
15 Greenhouses. ___ 
E A (Ti l TREES A SPECIALT y7iYlT1{GE 
or small quantities. Shade Trees, Fruit and Evergreen 
Plants. Strawberries, a selection of new and choice varie¬ 
ties. Sharpless, Monarch. Crescent, and many others 
Send for price list, free. John Perkins, Mooreslown.N. J 
