1884] 
AMERICJAX AGRICULTURIST. 
125 
MAULE’S 
SEEDS 
Are the Best. 
Our new Catalogue 
FREE TO AEE, 
1,500 varieties, 300 
illustrations. Send address 
on a postal card before 
buying any where. It will 
save you niouey and 
you ought to have it. 
!FjllLA.fillOilDllST HDERS! 
SAVE TIME, MONEY, 
AND SEED. 
Sows 1 to 6 acres per Uoiir, 
far more evenly itrail by 
band or any otlier inetliod. 
Price $G. 
For above Seed Catalogue 
and Circular of tliese won¬ 
derful labor-saving seed 
_—--- sowers, address, 
BENSON, MAULE &, CO., 
129 & 131 S. Front St., Phila., Pa. 
ARE-THE-BEBTil 
mBRANTEOWGlVE-SATlSfACTION i 
f)f^NIQNEY-RETURNED,;SP.EGIAL- 
INDOCEMENMQR-MARKELGARDNERS.! 
QUR-VALUABllE- CATALDBUE-Op 
IHS>PAGES • FF\EE-TO.^ALi:ti 
Established 1834. 
HOVEY & CO., 
16 SO. MARKET ST., BOSTON, MASS., 
Invite the attention of all who are in want of 
Eeliable Seeds or Plants 
To our new Catalogues which contain descrip- 
. tioiis and prices of all the novelties of merit as 
well as a vast aiiioiiiit ot information fur the 
Fanner, tiSardeuer, or Florist. Sent Iree to all 
who apply, and t« customers of last year without 
< ordering it. 
Will be mailed CBPC'‘:0 all applicants and to 
customers of last rnCC year without ordering it. 
It contains illustrations, prices, descriptions and 
•directions for planting all Vegetable and Flower 
Seeds, Plants, etc. Invaluable to all. 
-- --DETROIT, 
micti. 
v'CCLXo, a,* a m 
D.M. FERRY &C0.‘ 
Should have a Copy of the New Edition of 
“Forest Leaves.” 
PRICE 50 CENTS, POST-PAID. 
It describes over 60 Varieties of Trees, and tells 
how to grow them from the seed up. It contains 6 beautiful 
colored plates, showing the leaves of 37 Varieties in 
Autumnal Colors. A Price List of Trees and Seeds 
for Forest and Ornamental Planting mailed free to any 
-address. 
W. W. JOHNSON, 
Snovvflalco, Antrim <lo., Itlicli, 
SEED CORN. 
Early Clinton County Tellow. Well-matured. AH’ will 
•^ow. Yields well. Last year raised on 30 acres 2,900 bush¬ 
els. Price, $1,50 per bushel. Also, pure blood Jers«‘y Red 
■pigs and Jersey Cattle, both thoroush breds and grades for 
sale by R. A. CALVERT, Portsmouth, Ohio. 
BURPEE’S MAMIVIOTH IRON-CLAD WATER-MELON.: 
As the introducers of the dott celebrated Cuban Queen, we 
now bring before the public, for the first time, an entirely distinct 
and most valuable Water-Melou. Burpee's Mammoth Iron*Clad 
has such decided points of superiority that it will speedily 
become a popular favorite with all lovers of fine Melons, while 
for market it is u^ie^wafcd. The shape is the most perfect; 
skin handsomely stripeil; seeds drab-white. The flesh is parti¬ 
cularly beautiful, of a dainty red, and more crystalline than in 
any other Melon. Of most delicious, rich, sugary flavor, the 
heart is very large, and the flesh next to the rind is fully equal 
to the heart in luscious taste. The flesh is never mealy, but 
always firm.— remarkably solid. Burpee’s Mammoth Iron-Clad 
grows uniformly to a larger size than any other variety known. 
Under ordinary cultivation we have had hundreds of Melons 
weighing frora’60 to 70 tts. each, and the entire crop averaged 
50 lbs. Very vigorous growth, matures early, aud is the most 
productive variety known. The Melons are truly Iron-Clad, 
and have frequently been dropped from the shoulder of a man, 
without bursting. The hardness and tenacity is in the outside 
coating or enameling of the skin. "Without exception, Burpee’s Mammoth Iron-Clad keeping, 
25 cts. per pkt.; 5 pkts. for SbOO. Each purchaser is entitled to compete for $100.00 in CASlI I KlZIta for Is84. 
BUHPEE’S CrOLl>EN-IIEAI£T LETTUCE—Entirely new; most attractive, mammoth, firm heads; delicately curled 
leaves ; beautiful golden-yellow heart, and remains of superb quality for weeks duriug liottest weather. Pkt., 25 cts.; 5 pkts., Sl.OO. 
A DrMADVADI C niCCCD I In order to induce thousands of new customers to give our Seeds a fair triftl (knowing. 
ntlVlnill\nDLC urr Ell I from experience, that they then become regular customers), we make the following liberal 
offer for 1884 :— On receipt of only 50 €ciit», in Postage-Stamps, we will send one packet each of the two rare novelties above- 
named, alone worth the price, and al«o one packet each of Kurpce’n Netted Oeiu MiiHk-Melon, sweet as honev, and a 
gem indeed . RurpeeV Imp. Blood Turnip Beet, best; Etainpes Cabbage, earliest; Burpee’s Surehead Cubbaffis 
all head and always sure to head; Yellow Bauvers Onion; New Ked It^ccu svnion, mimense size. nuld;^ 8paniAh 
Monstrous Pepper, 1 ----- - 
Early Lonj? Scarlet ] 
Turnip, earliest 
iictuil Value, $1 
Collections for $2.0C 
FOR ONE 
■Ultra Sweet 
White Spine 
Larjpe Flat f 
Cnulillower; . , 
of most striking beauty, enormous size, and pleasant i-_ , ... . 
white ; Spinach, new, thick-leaved, round, and Burpec’i* Climax Tomato, justly so celebra^cL 
DTT* The SO VARIETIES new and choicest Seeds, as named above, amount to $i2.i5 ACTUAL VALLE; but we will 
nAil the entire Collectiou for ONLV ONK DOLLAK. This is certainly the greatest otter ever made by any nttiable 
Seedsmen All fuli-ftlze packet>*, with illustrations and full directions for culture jinuted on each, u e are 1 UKS 
and not imitators of this plan of placing a valuable Collection of the best Garden Seeds before the public at less than half usual 
prices. BURPEE’S SEERS are warranted first-class in every respect, few equal, none better, and we are determined 
to prove their superiority to all who will try them. . , , ^ ^ 
fiiP\ IN CVSII PRIZES FOR 1884, to the Growers of the best Vegetables and Farm Products from 
^innil fill Burpee’s Seeds. Competition open to all. See our Catalogue for particulars. Show this advertisement to 
your friends and get them to send with you. 3 Complete Dollar Collections (in all 90packages of Seeds,) 
mailed for $S.60. Entire satisfaction guaranteed to every purch^er. • « ^ , 
PI niA/rn <vrpn0 BURPEE’S gem collection of Asters, Balsams, Pansy, Petunia, Phlox, 
rLUWtn*bttU5 Verbena, Rouble ZInnIa—m all TEN PACKETS—most beautiful varieties, with full 
directions for culture, for only S5 ets., or, 20 Packets Choicest and most Popular V^arieties, worth $1.25, mailed for 50 ets. 
The *’0 Pkts. Flower-Seeds and the 50.Cent Vegetable Collection—in all 35 Packets—mailed for One Dollar-^io^s than 3 cts. a Packet, 
onma A I TNOUCEMENT for readers of The American Agriculturist. If you OL’DER EARLi , we mil send free 
OrtLIAL a copy of BCKPEE’S FARM AUNDAL for 1884, (price lo cts i 120 hunttretts 
with 3 superb Colored Plates,—the best and most complete Catalogue ol the kind. BLRi EES ABXtlRGEi^ LAIA- 
LOGUE, with large illustrated circular of WELCOME OATS, mailed free to any address. 
««« ABman OF" Dm R B n BUP E? P1IILAI>ELPIII.\, PA..Warehouses: No. 475 
V^. Ai LElE SURPEt ^ *1114477 iV5thSt.,-fc476 and 478 VorkAve. 
ALBERT DSCKSNSOS^, 
Dealer in Timothy, Clover, Flax, Hnngariati, Millet, Ked Top, Blue 
Grass, Lawn Grass, Orchard Grass, Bird Seeds, &c. 
POP CORN. 
; 11 s, 117 cSt llSKinzie St. Office, 115 Kinzie St., 
' 1114, 1110-Uill & 11(1 Michigan St. CHICAGO, ILL- 
IVarehouses 1 
ELCOME 
"OATS!' 
' The earliest, beariest, and uiost pro- 
, 7Hiiptive Oat ever introduced. Nothinie 
like tbeiii ever before seen, weiuhing- 50 
lbs. per level bushel. Grows 5 to 6 feet higrh, 
with slroiiA, straight, stifl stravv. Heads 20 
to ‘M inches long. Over lO measured bnsliels 
■ raised last year from 2 ounces ,of seed. Their 
wonderful productiveness is explained by 
their abundant stooling, single grains producing 
40 to 75 stalks. Our supply is grown from Orig- 
inal Ileadouarters Seed, and (I4IJAKAN- 
TEED .Strictly PURE and GENUINE. 
Prices: Packet i5c., lb. 65c,, 3 lbs. ^1.75 
postpaid; Peck (measured 1‘2J« lbs.) S>2.25, 
Bushel (measured 50 lbs.) 87.50, Bag (2 meas¬ 
ured bushels, 100 lbs.) 814.00. 5 measured 
bushels 830.00. ORDER NOW, and get 
OUR NEW and UOMPI.ETE II.LUs- 
TRATED UATAEOtii UE m which we ofler 
S66S.00 IN CASH PRIZES 
FOR BEST PRODUCTS OF OUR 
SEEDS IN t8S4. Address, 
JOHNSON&ST 0 KES 
PH8LADELPHIA,PA, 
THE VERY BEST OF 
Garden Seeds 
13Y AlYIL. 
DIRECT FROM THE FARM. 
AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES. 
Warranted to Grow, or money refunded. Market 
Gardeners, and all readers ot the American Aqriculturisi, 
who want good seeds in large or small quantities, are re¬ 
quested to send for my Catalogue for 1884. It will cost you 
nothing—aud the Deacon says it is worth all it costs. 
JOSEPH HARRIS, 
Moreton Farm, Rochester, N. Y. 
If you want to grow Bett‘r 
CABBACE 
'Fry tills braiici of Seeds. 
They are produced by years 
of careful selection from the 
very best strains of American 
varieties, grown and seeded 
.0)1 Fiiget Sound, which 
has a climate and soil more 
vcrfecflyadavted to perfect- 
ill}*' tile Cabba-e than any 
other in the world, and are grown by ourselves, so 
that we know tliey are riglit. They are the 
tarqcst and plumpest seeds and produce the 
tbriftiest plants and lliiest lieads o/an?/ 
in the. world. We can now supply True Early 
Jersey Wakefield, Early Bleichfleld, Fottler's Im¬ 
proved Brunswick, Late American Drumhead and 
Late Flat Dutch, all of this superior brand, at 5 
cts. per packet, 25 cts. per ounce, .$4.00 per ponnd, 
free by mail. Samples/)x't'. Try them: S'-nd for 
Catalogue for full n I'-ti • ilar.s. Address 
Isaac F. 'E'illiEi(;E>ast, Ea Flume, S’a. 
