124 
AMEETOAN^ AGEIOELTERIST. 
[March, 
$500.00 IN PREMIUMS 
Offei’ed. for tlie Largest Yields of 
PRINGLE’S NEW CEREALS, From One-Quarter Acre of Ground. 
PRIiVfJIiE’S AMERICAN TRIUMPH OATS. 
The average liight, as the grain standi in the lieid, is six feet, yet the straw is so 
strong and linn that it iinids up weli, without lodging, tlie tall, luxuriant heads 
fllled with plump, heavy grains The quality and productiveness of the grain are 
unexcelled, yielding fiom 50 to lOU bushels per acre, according to the condition and 
state of fertility of the laud, 
PKINGUE'S ADAMANT SPRING AVHEAT. 
In this beardless variety we have one of the hardiest and most flinty varieties in 
cultivation, very productive, hardy, and vigorous. Straw vellou ish-whlte, very 
stiff and erect, averaging 4 feet in heiglit. For cultivation in Northwest, Colorado, 
and the Pacilic coast, wlicre hard wheat is the favorite sort, we are confident that 
this will be particularly desirable. 
PKINGUE’S GREEN MOUNTAIN SPRING WHEAT. 
This is another beardless variety of great promise. The straw averages about 4 
feet, liglit yellow, very strong, and free from rust. Heads average 4 to 5 inches in 
leugtli, somewliat tapering; kernels white, large, and plump. Very hardy and 
produetivc. 
PISINGUE’S INVINCIISUE SPRING AVHEAT. 
Tills is a beardless variety of remarkably robust and vigorous growth; tlie straw 
is strong, stiff, well gUazel, liealtliy, ami stands up well in all kinds of weatlier. 
The heads are four to five iiiclies loug, very compact, and uncommonly well fllled ; 
berry of light amber color, plump, bard, and very heavy. It is wonderfully prolific; 
a busliel will easily preduce fifty to seventy bushels, if properly cultivated. 
Price of eacli of the above varieties : By mail, .$1.00 per lb.; Slbs., $2.50; 2 oz. trial 
packets, 25 cts. each, post-paid. By express, at purchaser’s expense, per peck, $4 ; 
Dusli., $12. 
Every one can compete. No resti’iction«« except the seed iiiiist be 
bought of us this spring. IJesci’iptive ciitiilars, with full particu¬ 
lars. mailed free ou application. 
B, K. BLISS & SONS, 
34: Mar clay St., New-Yorli. 
I Pea, miss’ Abundance.—90 pods counted on a single plant. Very productive, 15 to 18 inches high. 
Second Early, pixcellent quality. 25 cents per packet; 5 packets. $1.00. 
Pea, miss’ Ever-hearing.— A perpetual bearer, yielding a full crop until frost ; an excellent late 
variety, IS to 24 inches liigii. Peas 1 1-3 inches in circumference. Immensely productive. 25c. per 
packet; 5 packets $1.00. 
Pea. Bliss’ American Wonder.— The best and earliest variety grown. Very dwarf, excellent flavor. 
20 cents per packet, 40 cents per pint, 15 cents per quart, post-paid. 
I N. 11.—These three vai-icties will give you I’eas the entire season until frost. Require no 
briisliiug. 
American Champion Watermelon. —The best eatingand best shipping melon grotvn. Moreprodtic- 
tlve than auy otlier sort. 25 cts. per pkt., Spkts. $1.00. Cauliflower, Sea Poam.— The best early variety, 
I sure to bean. 50 cts. per packet. 
Rliubarh, Early Paragon— A new English variety. Tlie earliest and most productive. 'Never rnnsj 
to seed.— Roots only for sale, 15 cts. each, post-paid. Pansy, Blis.s’ Perfection.—The choicest strainf 
yet produced. Our Uarclener>s' Hanct-hooJc, tov 1881, contains a beautifully colored plate of tliis maguifleent 
variety. 50 cts. per packet of 50 seeds. Carnation. Shakesperean.— Tlie finest ever introduced. Con¬ 
tinue in flower tlie wliole season. 50 cts. per pkl. Plants, SO.cts. eacli. $1.00 for the set of 9 varieties. Wild 
Garden Seed.s.— A .mixture of JOO virietles of Flower Seeds. A packet will plant a square rod of ground. 
25 cts. per pkt., 5 pkts. $1.00. For other Novelties see "Bliss’ Illustrated Novelty Eist, which de¬ 
scribes tlie newest and choicest Flowers', Vegetables, Fruits, Cereals, Plants, etc. Maileil free. 
BEISS’ lEEUSTllATEI) HAND-BOOK FOB THE FARM ANO GARDEN, 150 pages. 
Beautiful Colored Plate, 300 Illustrations. Invaluable to all interested in gardening or farming. Mailed for G cts 
IS. K. S4 SSai’cSsay New York. 
1 MellETMS^rs4s5:mMBL@gyi 
“H ARDENERS’ C ORflPAWlOW.” 
PR 
PRICE lO CENTS. The most complete and brilliantly erobelUsbed .Seed Catalogue ever 
published, costing fifteen cents. The article on Market Gardening under Glass is worth 
twenty times the price. This being OIJR ONE HUNDREDTH "YEAR, we publish this 
Ornate Guide for tiarden and Farm. To all sending us TEN CENTS in stamps, 
we mail a copy, and on orders for Seed wilt give credit for that amount. Address 
LANDRETH & SONS,' Seed Growers, Lock Box,Phila,Pa. 
Alley’s Early Deep Head Cabbage. 
Every one, who has raised that magnificent cabbage, the Fottler or Brunswick, has 
regretted that so line a cabbage did not make a thicker liead. The Alley Early Deep Head 
is the successful result of years of careful selection and higli cultivation, to obviate 
these defects. As early as Fottler, it is as large, is thicker and heavier bulk for bull.', 
and brings more in market tliau any otlier drumliead, PER PACKAGE, 25 CTS ; PER 
OZ., 75 CTS. Early Eta.hpes Cabbage (new) earliest of all, 10 cts. per package. Guerande 
Carrot, inew) remarkably thick at the neck, tier packet, 10 cts.; per oz.,30 cts.; Perennial 
Onion (new) lives in tlie ground witliout protection all winter, and is ready for use 
weeks earlier than any other kind, per pkt., 15 cts.; perqt., 80 Cts.; Solid Ivory Celery, 
(new) nearly self-blanobing, per pkt., 15 cts. White Bonnieul Cucumber (newi, a mam- 
motlt white variety of extraordinary diameter, per p.ackct, 15 cts.; Dwarf Green Early Let¬ 
tuce (new) from France, per packet, l.i cts.; Banana Melon (newt, it resembles in color 
and form a luige banana, and lias strikingly tlie same fragrance; per packet, 15 cts.; Ken¬ 
tucky Wonder Pole Bean. I have not found in GO varieties one so prolific; a capital string 
beau; per packet, 15 is. Marblehead Early Horticultural, probably the earliest of all 
beans, and yet a true horticultural ! per packet. 15 cts.; per quart, 80 cts. Marblehead 
Early Sweet Corn. The earliest of all. giving growers a complete monopoly of the early 
market; original stock, per packet 10 cts.; per quart, GO cts. Sea Foam Cauliflower; de¬ 
cidedly the finest variety of all; per packet, 50 ets. To tliose taking tlie entire collection 
I will present a copy of either one of my four books, on the raising of Onions, Cabbages 
Squashes, Mangold Wurtzels aud Carrots, tlie purchaser to make the selection. 
I offer $ 1 , 000.00 in Fremiums, p"IasImMdeUiils?nm^^ 
SENT FREE TO ALL. 
TKiT CTTiTTiTTA I oflTer one packet each, of choice mixed selec 
(U / TT XlilV ioJLllH^» tions, from the following varieties, for 40 cts. 
EARLY DEEP HEAD, the retail price of which would be 90 cts.: Asters, Balsams, Nasturtiums, Drummond 
Phlox, Salpiglossis, Sweet pea. Dahlia, Holzhock, Petunias, Abronia, Umbellata (very beautiful). 
.jr A TAM-unca ir. H. CSj-rtEGrOH-Y, 3Vta,rl3>lol3.oa.ca., 
<sar£)en;p^ 
FLOWERSEEOS 
PIANTS,BULBS, 
AND GARDEN*: 
_ Established . 1848 . 
300 BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS 
150 pages, and a Beautitiil Colored Plate oU 
Flowers, tells what, when, and now to plant, and is 
full of information invaluable to all interested in garden¬ 
ing. Mailed for three two-cent stamps, to cover 
postage. 
Bliss’s Illustrated Potato Catalogue.— Con¬ 
tains a list of 500 varieties of Potatoes, embracing several 
new and very promising varieties witli explicit directions 
for culture, and much other valuable information re¬ 
specting this indispensable esculent. 10 cents. 
THE AMEEICAW GAEDEN. 
A beautifully illustrated Montlily devoted exclusively 
to the Garden. Valuable Premiums given to 
each Subscriber. $1.00 per year, 8 montlis trial 
trip, 30 cts. Sample copy aud Premium List free. Do., 
with Colored Plate, 10 cts. 
Purchasers ordering seeds to the value of 
Five Dollars in oue order, will be entitled to a 
copy of the Americau Garden for one year. 
Hi. K. BUISS A: SONS, 34 Barclay St., N. Y. 
THYOEEirSOMOEM 
SEEDS 
I -which have been planted by 
I some growers for 45 years. 
1 The quahty is the first 
1 consideration secured by 
1 the most careful selection, 
f 'The prices, the lowest con- 
/ sistent -with sterUng merit, 
forcer’s Garden Calen- 
ydar for 1884, offering Vege- 
tableMflower and Field Seeds, 
_ Plants, Bulbs, and everything for 
the garden, mailed Free. HENRY A. DRFER, 
. - PHIUADEL.PHIA. 
For 1884 is an Elegant Book of 160 Pages, 
Two Colored Plates of FUDWKR.S and. 
Vegetables, and more than 1000 Illustra¬ 
tions of tlie choicest Flowers, Plants and 
VEGETABUE!^, aud Directions for 
Growing. It is luuid.some enough for the 
Center Table or a Holiday Present. 
Send on your name and Postoffice address, 
witli 10 cents, and we will send you a copy, 
liost-paid. 'Ibis is not a quarter of its cost. 
It is printed in botli English and German, 
If you afterwards order seeds deduct the 
10 cents. VICK’S SEEDS AKE THE BEST 
IN THE WORLD. The Floral Guide will 
tell bow to get and grow them. 
VICK’S Illustrated Montlily Magazine, 
32 I’ages, a Colored Plate in every number 
and many fine Engravings. Price $1.25 a 
year; Five Copies for $5. Specimen num¬ 
bers sent lor 10 cents; 3 trial copies25cts. 
Address, 
JAMES VICK, 
Ilocliester, N. Y. 
SEED CORN 
DOUBLE your CHOP by PLANTING CAREFULLY 
SELECTED 4& TESTER SEED of the Best Varieties. 
The IMPROVED LEAMING is the earliest yellow Dent 
in cultivation, ripcnlnfiT to 100 days from time of 
planting. Ripened perfectly in Northern States the past 
two seasons when all other varieties failed. Kars large and 
handsome, deep grain of dark orange color, small red cob; 
stalks of medium height, producing two good ears, husks anti 
shells easily; adapted to all kinds of soil. 186 bushela shelled 
corn have been grown to the acre. It far HurpaNHCH ali other 
varieties in earliiietsKt productlveiieHH. and fine Quality. 
See our Catalogue for testimonials, etc. Packet lOo., lb. 60c.* 
3 lbs. ^1.00* postpaid by mail; quart 25c.* pock 90c.« bushel 
$2. 75* bag (2 bushels) $5* ten bushels lfi22.50. Cheater Co. 
Mammoth* Farmer’s Favorite, Golden Dent* extra, 
selected, lb. 40c.* 3 lbs. $1, postpaid: peck 75c.. bushel ^2.50* 
2 bushels ifi4.50, 10 bushels $ 20 , White Surprise* Pride 
of the North* Cloud’s Early Deut* each per packet lOo., 
lb. 40g.* S lbs. i|(1.00* postpaid; peck, OOch bushel $2.75. 
bag (2 bushels) $5. ORDER NOW* and GET OUR NEVf 
AND COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, 
in which IN CASH PRIZES FOR 
we offer SI>OOObUU 1884. MAILED FREE. 
JOHNSON & STOKES SEEDgMEN 
1114 MARKET ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
