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Iowa. 
Seeds for Free Distribution in 1861. 
Each subscriber for the twentieth volume of the American 
Agriculturist (1861) is invited to select four or five varcels of 
seeds from the list given below— provided tlic follow¬ 
ing conditions l»e noted and complied witb. 
(For further remarks see Febr. No., page 60, or Jan. No., p.5.) 
If to go by mail, the applicant will (of course) furnish 
prepaid envelopes, of ordinary size, which should be prepar¬ 
ed as in the engraving here given—that is : Put the figures 
corresponding to the Catalogue 
plainly on the upper left hand of the 
envelop, and put all the postage 
stamps upon the right side of the 
envelop, — one above the other, 
when two or more are needed, as 
shown in this pattern. Arranging the stamps thus, will 
prevent the seeds being crushed in the stamping process 
in the Post-Office. One ordinary envelop will generally 
hold tlie amount of seed - packages carried by two or 
three stamps, g The amount of stamps can be calculated 
from the Catalogue. Single 1 -cent stamps on letters are of no 
value, unless there be even threes of them, as letter postage is 
rated by the half ounce. 
Canada subscribers, and those on the Pacific Coast, will need 
to substitute U. S. 10-cent stamps (or money) in all cases 
where 3-cent stamps are named in the catalogue. (Post¬ 
age is not necessarily prepaid here, on Canada letters.) 
When several persons send together, it will frequently 
be cheaper to receive seeds by Express. 
[Descriptive Notes upon the following seeds are given 
on pages 3, 4, and 5, of January number.] 
Field Seeds. 
140—Imported Giant Wheat, requires 'A of a 3-cent stamp 
for postage on eacli package. 
3—Improved King Philip Corn—Single, double, or triple 
packages, as desired, requiring 1, 2, or 3 stamps. 
3—Stoweli's Sweet Corn .Same packages as No. 2. 
141—Darling’s Early Sweet Corn Same packages as No. 2. 
14*3—Yellow Stone Turnip.. ,y z of a 3-cent stamp. 
143—Waite’s Eclipse Turnip,. A of a 3-cent stamp. 
08—Long Red Mangel Wurzel... One 3-cent stamp. 
101—Improved Long Orange Carrot. 'A of a 3-cent stamp. 
Vegetable or Garden Seeds. 
8—Daniel O'Rourke Pea.Packages same as No. 2. 
O—Champion of England Pea.do. do. 
58 —Napoleon Pea.do. do. 
130—Great Eastern Tea.One 3-cent stamp. 
13—Green Kohl Rabi.One-third of a “ 
13 —Enfield Market Cabbage.do. ,. u . 
145—Flat Dutch (Winter) Cabbage. do. do. 
140—Early Battersea Cabbage.do. 
141 —Neapolitan Cabbage Lettuce .do. 
148—Long dark Blood Beet. 
140—Extra early Bassano Beet 
74—Solid White Celery.do. 
151—Yellow Danvers Onion.. 
95—True Hubbard Squash... 
153—Fine large Cheese Pumpkin.do. 
153— Large Red Tomato.do. 
154— Ice-cream Water Melon.do. 
76—Skillman’s Netted Musk Melon.do. 
103—Sage.do. 
155— Long Cayenne Pepper.do. 
150—Summer Savory.do. 
157—Long Prickly Cucumber.do. 
17—Red Strap-Leaf Turnip.One half of a 
71—Long White French Turnip.One 
107—Giant Asparagus.do. 
Flower, Fruit, and Ornamental Seeds. 
89—Cotton Plant (2 kinds, mixed).one 3-cent stamp. 
Ill—Castor Oil Bean (Ornamental). A of a 3-cent stamp. 
On an average about five of the following varie¬ 
ties will go under a 3 -cent stamp. 
100—Raspberry Seed...(for Experiments.) 
161—Currant Seed..do. do. 
163—Gooseberry Seed.do. do. 
163—Strawberry Seed.... do. do. 
33—Mignonette, (a.) 166—Lobelia gracilis, < a.) 
. of a 3-cent stamp. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
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do. 
do. 
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; of a 3-cent stamp. 
.One 3-cent stamp. 
do. 
35—Mixed Nasturtium, (a.) 
37—Extra Cockscomb, (a.) 
39—DoublcBalsams mix’d(a) 
30 — Tassel Flower, (a.) 
31— Chinese Pink, (a.) 
33 —Portulaccas, mixed, (a.) 1173—Lnnarin biennis, (ft. 
167—Malope Grandifiora, in.) 
108—Swan River Daisy, («.) 
189—Clarkia pulcheila, (</.> 
170— Evening primrose, (to 
171— Forget me not, (p.) 
if t*7»> T <,n..l.; 
33—Cypress Vine, (a.) 
43—Foxglove, (ft.) 
49—Candytuft, (a) 
51—Phlox Drummondii, (a.) 
86 — Euphorbia, mixed, (a.) 
87— Coreopsis, (a.) 
133—Mixed Canterbury 
Bells, (6) 
133— Gilia nivalis, (a.) 
134— Whitlavia, (a.) 
136—Long-tubed Centran- 
thus, (a.) 
1G4—Sweet Ageratum, (a.) 
a, annual—ft, biennial— p, perennial. 
173—Mixed branching Lark¬ 
spur, («.) 
175— Mixed Salpiglossis («.) 
176— Tom Thumb Nastur¬ 
tium, (a.) 
177— Ornamental Grass, (a.) 
178— Lathyrus latifolius. ip.) 
180— Centaurea Americana («) 
181— Jacob’s Ladder, ip.) 
183—Sweet Alyssnm, (a.) 
183—Mixed French and Ger¬ 
man Asters, in.) 
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We hear that several Post Masters are charging 12, 18, 36, 
and even 76 cents a year on the Agriculturist. This is wrong. 
The law expressly says that a Periodical issued at stated pe¬ 
riods, and not weighing over 3 ounces avoirdupois, shall he 
charged one cent per number, and only ftal/tliis sum if paid 
quarterly in advance. The paper for the Agriculturist is 
purposely manufactured so that it shall weigh a small por¬ 
tion less than three ounces. We would add an occasional 
extra page for more advertising room, could we do so with¬ 
out increasing the postage to our subscribers. The Post 
Master has several times decided that the postage on the 
Agriculturist is only six cents a year. See one of these de¬ 
cisions on page 96, volume XVII. There has been no change 
in the law or in the weight of the paper since. Tlie paper 
must be weighed dry and without the wrapper. Subscribers 
will please inform us of any future over charge. 
Business Notices. 
2TY“ Eighty Cents a Line of space. 
THE SUREST WAY 
To Secure tlie Very Best and at tlie 
Iiowest Price, 
is to order any tiling you want through the Pur¬ 
chasing Agency of H. B. Lane. (See full particulars in 
advertisement on next page, and note the guarantee of 
several of the leading men of New-York.) This Agency 
is established at the request of many individuals who de¬ 
sire some reliable person to save them from imposition 
and deception in the purchase of 
Trees, Plants, Pure Seeds, Pure Guano, and other 
Fertilizers, Good Implements, etc., etc., etc. 
AMERICAN HYDROPULT COMPANY, 
151 Nassau St., New-York. 
NEW WAY OF ATTACKING INSECTS. 
Dr. Asa Fitch, tlie distinguished Entomologist of the State 
of New-York, in a communication to the Country Gentleman 
of Feb. 14th, in directing a subscriber how to drive insects 
from his fruit trees, says:—“In uly experiments for destroy¬ 
ing noxious insects, I have for a long time felt the want of an 
efficient Instrument with which to shower and drench the 
leaves of trees and herbs with certain medical infusions and 
chemical solutions, to cleanse them from insect vermin 
thereon—an instrument more capacious than the syringe and 
more economical than the garden engine. This want is at 
length fully supplied by the Hydropult of Wm. T. Vose, 
manufactured by the American Hydropult Company, at 151 
Nassau-street, New-York. This implement, costing twelve 
dollars, if I rightly remember, and sent by express wherever 
ordered, should oe in every country habitation, as a safeguard 
against fire, if not needed for any of the several other uses 
to which it is applicable. And the best advice I can give our 
querist, is to furnish himself with this instrument, and when 
those bugs again appear on his quince leaves, treat them each 
and every one to a dose of tobacco water, aloes, quassia, and 
other bitter Infusions, soap suds, weak lye, lime water, &e„ 
and long before he has exhausted the pharmacopeia, we think 
he will come to something that is such an efficacious remedy 
for this insect, that, elated with the discovery, he will imme¬ 
diately let the world know it. 
m tieeler & Wilson's 
SAWING MACHINES 
AT REDUCED PRICES, 
with Glass-Cloth Presser, Improved Loop-Check, New 
Style Hemmer, Binder, Col der, etc. 
Office No. 505 Broadway, New-York, 
“This Machine makes the ‘LOCK-STITCH,’ and 
ranks highest, on account of elasticity, permanence, beau¬ 
ty, and general desirableness of the stitching when done, 
and the wide range of its application .”—Report of Amer¬ 
ican Institute, New-York. 
Steiartia Pemfag’ynia. 
PARSONS & CO. have a good stock of this fine plant, 
noticed and illustrated in the American Agriculturist for 
February. Price 75 cents each, six dollars per dozen. 
Address Flushing N. Y. 
Market Review, Weather Notes, etc. 
American Agriculturist Office, ) 
New-York, Tuesday, March 19, 1861, j 
The changes in business during the past four weeks 
have not been very important. Such as have occured, 
have been, in the main, encouraging for producers. Trade 
in most kinds of Produce has exhibited signs of steadily 
increasing activity—the effect in part, of the partial re¬ 
sumption of navigation in the interior. The Hudson 
River boats have commenced their regular trips for the 
season. The receipts of Breadstuffs have been somewhat 
heavier. The railroads have been bringing in unusuallv 
liberal supplies, especially of Corn. The sales, however, 
have been large,—far in excess of the arrivals, and stocks 
of Flour and Grain, here, have been much reduced. In 
view of the active demand from shippers, and the pro¬ 
spects of an immediate increase of orders from the East¬ 
ern states, where supplies are commonly very light at the 
close of the winter months, most parties seem to antici¬ 
pate a rise of prices. Money was not abundant and the 
Banks, early in the month, were very cautious in buying 
bills of exchange drawn against produce sliipped to 
Europe, which had the effect of depressing rates on such 
bills, to a point considerably below par. It was, there¬ 
fore, difficult for merchants having foreign orders for 
breadstuffs, to raise the means of paying for adequate lots 
of Flour or Grain, and export movements were checked. 
This temporary failing off in the foreign demand was not 
compensated for by any improvement in the inquiry 
from the regular home trade. Holders of Breadstuffs 
were consequently compelled to reduce prices. A return 
of ease in the market for money has partially reversed 
this state of affairs, and with the favorable circumstance 
of a decline in rates on freight, the market for Flour, 
Wheat and Corn closes with an upward tendency. The 
latest advices from England reported the actual result of 
the harvest in Great Britain,—showing in the item of 
wheat, particulaily, a very large deficiency,—the yield 
being in the majority of instances from 1-5 to X less than 
the usual average result of the crop,—and in weight and 
quality, a remarkable inferiority was also apparent. The 
leading London authority, on this subject, says the weight 
of a bushel measure varied from 47 to 60 lbs., or an aver¬ 
age of only 56 lbs, which falls six to seven pounds short 
of the average in prosperous seasons. Again, though, 
owing to the coldness of the atmosphere during the 
harvest, a very small portion of the wheat was sprouted, 
the bulk of the crops never ripened properly, and much 
was cut when very green. In the northern counties of 
England the harvest was protracted beyond precedent, 
many hundreds of acres being still in the fields in No¬ 
vember, and even up to the beginning of the new year. 
Now it is imposssible for the grain under such conditions 
to be fit for market, or even for human food ; and we find 
therefore that a large deficiency will arise from this cause. 
Such wheat, even if not utterly spoiled, can never yield 
any tolerable produce of flour, either in quantity or qual¬ 
ity, and is totally unfit to be worked up alone. This is in 
fact the case with a very large proportion of the crop in 
every county in England.... The deficiency thus revealed 
iu all its magnitude, America alone is competent to meet, 
at prices which shall put all competition out of the 
question, and this assures us of a good run of custom for 
the materials of bread, for many months hence. And as 
great backwardness in farming operations in the British 
Islands has resulted from the extraordinary severity of 
the past winter, it is generally believed that the growing 
crop must be a short one. This circumstance and the 
prospect of a general war in Europe seem to be favorable 
for Americans,and cannot fail to excercise influence on the 
course of trade in Breadstuffs, favorable, in the main, to the 
interest of our cultivators. Already, merchants are tak¬ 
ing advantage of their position, and such as hold supplies 
do not appear to be willing to part with them, unless in a 
rising market. Occasionally, they are obliged to realize 
on some portion of their stock, in order to procure money 
to redeem their maturing notes; but as the principal 
houses get liberal assistance from the strongest of the 
city banks, they are not, as a rule, obliged to resort to this 
extreme measure, to obtain relief. Hence, there is no 
noticeable eagerness to force off supplies,—while there is 
a manifest desire among purchasers to buy freeiy, and as 
promptly as convenient, rather than postpone the execu¬ 
tion of orders to a time when it is very probable higher 
prices might be current in the market ...Cotton has ad¬ 
vanced a trifle, but has not been active. Reports from the 
South mention a large falling off in arrivals at the shipping 
ports ...Hay, Hops, Tobacco, and Rice have been in 
moderate request.Wool has been less active, but 
steady_Provisions have been sparingly bought. 
Other branches of trade have exhibited no important 
variations. 
transactions at the new-york markets. 
Receipts. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Barley. Oats. 
24 (lays this month 156,000 158.800 274,000 7,800 115,000 128 500 
26 days last month 159,500 255,000 133,400 8,270 73,300 77,000 
Sales. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rue. Barley 
24 days this nion., 310,000 1,327,000 1,376,000 14,800 51 3()0 
26 days last mon„ 363,000 1,638,000 1,380,000 26,900 51 800 
