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Three New Potatoes. 
Garden Requisites." 300musTB^SONS 
150 PAGES. Price 10 
i^BARCL^Sf-NW YORK.) 
Bliss’ Illustrated Amateur’s Guide to 
the Flower and Kitchen Garden. 
A descriptive List of 2.500 varieties of Flower 
and Vegetable Seeds, with explicit directions for cul¬ 
ture, and much practical information iupon the subject of 
Gardening. 220 Pages—Two Double-Page Chro- 
mos. 500 Illustrations.— Price 35 cents In paper cov¬ 
ers. Bound in cloth, $1.00. 
Illustrated Catalogues of Plants and Small 
Fruits mailed free to all applicants. 
PRINGLE’S NEW 
Hybrid Spring Wheats, 
Champlain and Defiance, 
Two off the Best and Most Productive Varie¬ 
ties on Record. 
J791 lbs. CHAMPLAIN, 528 lbs. DEFIANCE, 
GROWN FROM A SINGLE POUND OF SEED- 
128 Ilusbels to the Acre. Heads from five to seven 
IncheB long, producing from seventy-five to one hundred 
kernels per head. 
50 to 75 Strong Stalks from a Single Grain. 
Descriptive Illustrated Circular mailed free to all appli¬ 
cants. Price of each variety, per lb , 40 cents 3 lbs. for $1, 
by mail. By express, freight paid by pu-chaser, $2 per 
peck; $7 per bushel. 2 bushel bags of either variety, $13. 
pearlHviillet. 
Clean Seed, 10 cents oz., 25 cts. M 1!>„ 60 cts. lb.: 4 lbs. $2.25, 
by mail, post-paid; by express at expense of purchaser, 40 
cts. per lb. Prices to tbe trade will be given on application. 
Prickly Comfrey Roots. 
25 cts. lb.,75 cts. lb., by mail, post-paid,by express 50 cts.ll>., 
5 lbs. $i. Directions for cultivation accompanying each lot. 
Dioscorea Batatas;—Chinese Vain. 
A valuable esculent, quite hardy, remaining in the ground 
over winter without protection. When cooked they posse s 
a rice-like taste ; are quite farinaceous, nutritive, and valua¬ 
ble for food. It is also a very desirable climbing plant. Small 
bulblets. in packets of one dozen, 20 cents; $1.50 per 100; 
1 year-old roots. $1.25 per dozen : $6.00 per 100. 
1. Pride of America.— In appearance resembles the 
Snowflake, a few days later; very productive, large size, 
an excellent keeper; of superior quality. 
2. Matchless.— Tubers very jhandsome, round; pale- 
red ; flesh tine rained, pure white, and of excellent quality. 
A great cropper, an excellent keeper. 
3. Silver Skin.— A cross between the Early Rose and 
White Peach Blow. Tubers medium to large. Skin smooth, 
silvery white, russeted. Flesh snowy white, fine grain, 
splendid quality, an excellent keeper. 
Prices of each of the above, $1.00 per lb., 3 lbs. $2.'0, 
by mail, prepaid. By freight or express at purchaser’s ex¬ 
pense, M Peck, $3.00; 1 Peck, $5.00; % bushel, $7.00; Bushel, 
$12.00; Barrel, $25.00. 
Alpha.— The earliest variety known, and of extra fine 
quality—matures its crop in 55 days. 60 cts. per lh., 3 lbs., 
$1.25, by mail. Peck, $1.00 , bushel, $2.50 ; barrel, $6.00. 
Bliss’ Illustrated Potato Catalogue, contains a 
descriptive list of all the new varieties recently Introduced, 
with many other desirable sorts,beautifully illustrated. Cen¬ 
tennial collection of 500 varieties. Also much useful infer 
mation upon the cultivation of this valuable esculent. 10c. 
RELIABLE ONION SEEDS. 
Our stock of Onion Seed has been raised from selected 
bulbs, and carefully tested, and we can recommend it with 
the greatest confidence, as equal to any ever offered in this 
or any other market. 
Extra Early Red. 
Early Red. 
Wethersfield Large Red. 25 
Danvers Yellow. 
Yellow Dutch. 
Whi .< Portugal. 
Early Cracker. 
Early Red Globe. 40 
Southport Red Globe... 
Southport White Globe. 
Iu lots of 5 lbs. and over, .'0 cents per lb. may be deducted 
Postage must be added at tbe rate of 16 cents per pound 
when ordered by mail. 
OZ. 
a ib. 
lb. 
.$0.35 
1.10 
3.50 
.. 30 
1.00 
3.00 
.. 25 
75 
2.00 
1 25 
4.00 
.. 30 
1.00 
2.50 
. 30 
1.00 
2.75 
. 40 
1.25 . 
4.00 
.. 40 
1.25 
4.00 
.. 85 
1.10 
8.50 
.. 35 
1.10 
3.50 
B. K. BLISS ’«& SON'S, 34 Barclay St., N. Y. City. E*. Bos 4I2». 
FOR 1880. 
IBB PAGES B! . Yl Tlidl I.I.Y ILLUSTRATED. 
The best work on GARDENING. It contains descriptive 
price lists of VEGETABLE and FLOWER SEED8 
and CHOICE PLANTS, with every thing for the 
Garden. Copy, with large Chromo of New COLEUS, 
1 O cts. ; plain copy, O cts. for postage. Wholesale list 
for Florists and Market Gardeners free. 
HENRY A. DREER, 
Seedsman and Florist, 714 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
OCii liWA JP Oli iooV 
• contains Variegated Lima Bean , 
Mammoth Tours Pumpkin, New 
I Excelsior Watermelon, Prize Para- 
' gon Tomato, Green Prolific Cucum¬ 
ber, Sutton's Student Parsnip, Yel¬ 
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, hut will be sent, post-paid, in a 
neat box, for only 25 cts. Burpee’s Seeds ure 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. Your 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 50 cts. 
FOB 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 188/),. 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 Bur nee «fc Co., 221 Church 8t.. Philadn., Pa* 
A SHEW VARIETY l 
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. Tin's species of Tomato, the Yellow Large 
and Red Medium, each equally delicious In flavor, may be 
procured In packages of about 50 se eds, and will be sent to 
'dress 
enport. Iowa. 
any address on receipt of 25 cents. <JW Address 
SEVERIN MILLER, P. O. Box 394, Davenpo 
Farm & Vineyard for Sale. 
Rare Chance for a Good Investment. 
Address Lnfk Box 15. Geneva. IV, Y. 
P each Trees for everybody. Apples .-ul ipfed to n wide 
ransro of climate. Small FrniN. etc,. Price-list free. 
U.S. JOilXSTi.N, Slucklt-v. Del. 
Ask Your Merchant for 
commission. 
They are NOT put up in Fancy Picture Papers, il¬ 
lustrating improbable vegetables. 
They are NOT to be found for sale in grog shops. 
■' hey A RE grown bv the Subscribers on their own farms 
in Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey and Wisconsin. 
They A 1JE put up in plain paper, at the lowest cost. The 
purchaser, therefore, pays for seed and not for fancy paper 
and printing. 
They ARE sold by respectable Merchants, Druggists, 
Grocers, etc., wlio buy them outright, because they 
know they will prove satisfactory to their cus¬ 
tomers. 
They ARE to be had in any quantity in papers—in lb. 
packages, in pints of Peas. Beans, and Corn, or in Bulk. 
If your Merchant does not keep them, send for 
Landreths’ Rural iregister and Almanac, containing cata¬ 
logue and prices,and order them direct from headquarters. 
DAVID LANDRETH & SONS, 
‘41 nrxi r.'t 'kniitli <)th 81,. Philiiclcloliin, Pa. 
IMPTflEi: 
Also Trees, Small Fruits, &c. Wholesale rates 
very low to Nurserymen, Dealers, and large Planters. 
Send stamp for Descriptive l ist. Price List free. 
- T. JIFBBARR, Fredonia, N. Y. 
Prices lower than ever. 
Largest Assortment of 
old and new varieties. 
Plants of best Quality; 
at doz. rates free by Mail, 
Send for Price List. Address 
BUSH & SON & MEISSNER, 
HUSH BE B G. Jeffe rson (»., Mo. 
MOORE’S EARLY 
New SCO Prize Grape. Very hardy, very earlv, and 
line quality. Never Mildews, Winner of a first-class Cer¬ 
tificate ol Merit. The $611 Prize for the best new seedling. 26 
First Prizes; 2 Silver Medals. Also Moore’s New Cross- 
Bred Asparagus, the largest grown Send for circular. 
JOHN B. MUORli, Concord,Mass! 
GRAPES 
HSAgMRTERg 
The Hoy ally of Raspberries. 
The CBTH BERT 
I have by far the largest and best 
stock in the country of this*‘Queen 
of the Market” as well as the 
Fruit Garden. 
A superior!)| B RITPof all the 
stock of f LHI1 I O good old 
and choice new varieties for 
Spring planting, of 
K /GOOSE UL81,11 LU Currants. 
feZI a My new Catalogue for Spring (24 
nAspBERKi Jsrw'ssssisss: 
• n, honest descriptions and/air prices. Free to all. 
J. T. LOVETT, 
LITTLE SILVER, Momnonth Co.. N. J. 
]Vew (Seed WflweugE. 
THE FIRST TO INTRODUCE EUROPEAN PRICES, 
allowing purchasers to make their own 
selection of Flower and Vegetable Seeds in 
packets, at the extraordinary discount of 
33 K per cent, from Catalogue rates. 
CATALOGUES SENT FREE TO ALL. 
DESIRABLE NOVELTIES. 
Early Washington Tomato.—Avery hand¬ 
some variety, of perfect form, smooth as an egg, 
and ricih deep-red color. Fully a week earlier than 
“Acme, as solid as “Trophy,” and decidedly 
superior in flavor. Per packet, 15 cts. 
Carrara Rock Cauliflower.- The earliest 
variety known; produces beautiful,compact,snow- 
white heads of the finest quality. Resisting heat 
and drought, it will head where other varieties fail. 
Per packet. 50 cents; half oz., $6.00; oz., $10X10. 
Coral Flesh Mask-Melon .—(From Japan.) 
A very early, densely netted variety, of round f rm 
and medium size. The rind Is remarkably thin, 
while the euffused coral flesh is thick, deliciously 
crisp and melting. Per packet, 25 cents. 
A. D. COWAN & CO., 
TtaRic/iy JSeed W^REpeasE, 
114 Chambers Street, New York. 
My Annual Catalogue of Vegetable and 
FI wee Seed for 1880 will be ready by January, and 
sent free to all who apply. Customers of last season need 
not write for it. 1 offer one of the largest collections of 
vegetable seed ever sent out by any seed-house in America, 
a large portion of which were grown on my six seed farms. 
Printed Directions for cultivation on every 
parcel. All seed sold from my establishment warranted 
to be both fresh and true to name; so far that should it 
prove otherwise, I will refill the order gratis. As tbe original 
introducer of the Hubbard and Marblehead Squashes, the 
Marblehead Cabbages, and a score of other new vegetables, 
I invite the patronage of all who are anx¬ 
ious to have their seed fresh, true, and off the 
very best strain. NEW VEGETABLES A 
SPECIALTY. 
JAMES J. II. GREGORY'. Marblehead, Mass. 
HWKHB 
iSEEDS 
Western Seeds beats the world. \ 
Mine takes the lead. Fresn, pure 
cheap and warranted. Prices be¬ 
low every firm. I give more extra 
as presentstban all firms. I have _ 
issued20 000prettiest bookson gardening fWffl iBEST 
everprinted. Every vegetable and flower-JlllM /seeds 
pictured and described. Worth many dollars^*®/ P ii r n 
toanyone. Sendfor free Garden-Guideand'SK/ tVtK 
Seed Catalogue and see tbatl beat them all. V grown 
tr R. H. S HUM WAY, Rockford. Ill. a 
SEEDS, BULBS, PLANTS, 
Of Superior quality, Free by Mail. 
^ 10 Gladiolus, 10 fine aorta.named.......$ .50 
9 Lilies, 9 fine sorts, named... 1.00 
12 Double Tuberoses. 65 
6 “ ** Pearl. 45 
All pood large Bulbs. Remit Currency or 
Postage Stamps. I warrant everything I sell 
-t-’yr'^ ,e true to name. Beautiful Illustha- 
—tkd Catalogue Flee. I offer many new and 
beautiful novelties, som e o iwhich Iposeesethoon’y Stock iu America. 
■40 New Lilies, my Collection [70 kinds]!* one of the choicest in the 
'world. New Amaryllis, Gladiolus, Tuberotesk Carnations Rose*, 
Choice Seed ol house plants, Ac. A1 Iseedsbjth r lower an d Vegetable 
aresold in Five Cent papers, (except choice greenhouse kinds] the best 
system ever adopted. Quality in nl 1 casos first class. My prices are 
low. Mv goods hnvo an established reputation and go to all parts of 
the world. J. LEWIS CHILDS, Queens. N . Y. 
