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[March, 
Airicnltm! Milemeiits 
AMD FEafiTfllAKElfiS 
In great variety for the 
mm Am gai^den. 
Send for catalogue. Address, R. H. AHLiEN »fe CO., 
CEstablishedlSIS.) P. O, Box 376, New York City . 
WW!. H. SMITH, 
(Late of the firm of HENR Y A. DREER). 
WAIlEimUSE, 1018 MARKET ST., 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
Sinitli’s Seed Catalogue for 1884, containing all the 
best leading varieties of fresh and reliable Flower, 
Vegetable and Field Seeds, also laipleiiieiits and 
Garden Requisites, sent free to all applicants. 
Market Gardeners’ 
FXilCE LIST,! 
9 Free to Market Gardeners only. Our annual Illus-a 
Btrated General Catalogue of Seeds, Plants, Bulbs,f 
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A. D. COWAN & CO., Seedsmen, 
114 Chambers St., N. Y. 
JOHN SAUL’S 
New, Rare, and Beautiful Plants for 
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It is full in really good and beautiful plants, as well as all 
the novelties of merit. 
collection of fine Foliage, and other Greenhouse 
Hothouse Plants, are well grown, and at low prices. 
Free to all my custciners : to others, 10 cts ; ora plain 
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etc.,gratis. JOHN SATJJL, Washington, I). C. 
SEEDS. 
_INORTHERW GROWH I 
Sent by mail to any part of the United States, duty paid, 
CATALOGUE for 1884 
iuteuding^u^ers. 
WAX. RENNIE, Seedsman, Toronto, Canada. 
HOVEY & CO.’S 
Catalogue of New and Eare 
Plants for 1SS4 is now ready, containing the 
novelties and popular varieties of Greenhouse, 
Hothouse Slid Bedding I’lauts ; also Fruit Trees, 
Shrubs. Roses, Bulbs, &c. Address, 
HOVEY_& CO., Cambridge Nurseries, 
lo feoiirh Market St., Boston, Mass. 
SEEDS. Try Northern Grown. 
Best Cabbage, Corn, Carrot, 
Onion, Squash, Peas, Potatoes, 
Turnips, Tomato. Cucumber. 
Flower Meed in great variety. 
KOSiiS, many thousand. Verbe¬ 
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15 years. 50 $1 Collections. Cata¬ 
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SI WILL PAY 
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prepaid by man, your 
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Duchess, Mayflower, Rural Blush, Garfield, Vick’s Prize, 
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For iui’ther information address 
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VERBENAS 
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AT LOWEST PRICES, 
FOLLOWIMC ARE SOME OF OUR TESTED SPECIALTIES: 
Sibley’s Pride of the Dforth Corn.—Ripened in all Northern sections in ’82 and ’8j, ahead of all com¬ 
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Yields 60 to 100 bushels per acre. The Surest to Ripen, Send for Catalogue. 
Waushakum Corn.—Yellow flint. The most strictly pedigree corn extant. Uniform, handsome, early. 
Very heavy, 64 lbs. per bushel. Has yielded 123 bushels shelled corn per acre. Send for Catalogue.. 
Sibley’s Imperial Barley.—-Produced 500 lbs. from 1 of seed ; at rate of 236 bushels per acre. 
American Triumph Oat.—Has the largest, longest and cleanest straw we have seen ; 6 ft. high, ^ inch 
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Welcome Oat.—Very prolific, with remarkably heavy grain, which keeps its white color when the straw 
is discolored by rust. Send for Catalogue. 
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commendation. Send for Catalogue. 
Dakota Red Potato. — Best of 125 varieties in Test Garden. Free from Rot and Blight. Superior 
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Wall's Orange Potato.—One of the best new sorts ; a great yielder ; of fine quality. Send for Catalogue. 
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Early Etampes Cabbage.—Claimed to be the earliest of all varieties. Forms fine, solid heads, of 
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J’ersey Wakefield Cabbage, of the finest strain; also Winningstadt, Fottler’s Brunswick, Excelsior 
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lanious Kieffer H\ 
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Early Blood Turnip licet. Early Oxlieart Cabbage, earliest and best for family use. Early Green Cluster 
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free. JAMES A. ROOT, Skaueateles, N. VT. 
