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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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TO TREE PLANTERS. 
PARSONS & CO. 
Offer their fine stock of 
FRUIT TREES 
of as good quality as can he elsewhere procured, and at low 
prices AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 
Standard Apple, Pear, and other Orchard Trees. 
Dwarf Fruit Trees, of different sorts, for the Garden. 
Delaware, and other Native and Foreign Grapes, 
at moderate rates. 
• DWARF PEACH TREES 
pruned for immediate hearing in Pots, and in the open 
ground, at low rates. 
Versailles and other Currants in quantity, as well as 
Blackberries, Raspberries, Strawberries, and Goose¬ 
berries. 
Pear Stocks and Cherry Stocks of fine quality. 
Of Ornamental Trees and Plants they can also 
supply the varieties generally required, whether for 
THE GARDEN, THE LAWN, OR THE AVENUE. 
Our Street Trees are of very fine size and quality, and 
our Shrubs embrace all the novelties, as well as those need¬ 
ed in quantity for massing, which we sell at reduced rates by 
the quantity. They invite especial attention to their Ever¬ 
green Trees and to their Rhododendrons and other Evergreen 
Shrubs, which are very healthy and of fine form. 
KW Trees,delivered by steamboat, at Fulton Market slip, 
New-York,/ree of charge. 
S3T Catalogues, and any desired information, can be ob¬ 
tained of HARVEY B. LANE, at 
42 Paris Row, (Times Buildings,) New-York City. 
Where, also, orders may he left, and specimens of trees, 
shrubs, etc., may be examined, during the planting season. 
HEW VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
Madras Edible pod Radish .per packet. 23c. 
Lester's Perfected Tomato . do_12c. 
Early White Japan Musk Melon, (extra fine) do .. 23c. 
Earjly Green do. do. (extra fine). do _ 25c. 
Strawberry Water Melon .do_23c. 
Honey Dew do. do .do_25c. 
New Cottager’s Kale .do_10c. 
New Pine Apple Beet .do_10c. 
Honolulu Nectarine Squash .do_23c. 
The above will be mailed post-paid on receipt of the 
amount annexed. 
Descriptive Catalogue of Vegetable and Agricultural 
Seeds will be mailed on application. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO., 
15 John-st., New-York. 
GARDEN SEEDS. 
I have now in store a full assortment of Garden, Field, 
and Flower Seeds, among which will be found all the va¬ 
rieties of Beans, Beet, Cabbage, Carrot, &c., &c., (all 
American growth.) 
CORN—Extra Early Dwarf Sweet, Early Burlington, &c., 
Cucumber, Lettuce, Melons, Onion, Parsnip. 
PEAS—Princess, Lord Raglan, Epps Monarch, Champion 
of Scotland, Dwarf Green Marrow, Daniel O’Rourke, Com¬ 
petitor, Champion of England, all line varieties. 
TOMATOES—Fejee Island, very solid and extra fine, and 
all other varieties. 
TURNIP—American growth anc\ of extra quality. Radish, 
Asparagus, Spinach, Squash, Salsify, Rhubarb, Rape, Parsley, 
Artichoke, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Celery, Cress, Corn Salad, 
Leek, Endive, Kale, Chervil, Collards or Colswort, Brussels 
Sprouts, Okra, Nasturtium, Mustard, Egg Plant, Pumpkin, 
Pepper, Scorzonera Mushroom, Herbs, &c. 
POTATOES—Ash Leaf Kidney, Early June, Early Dike- 
man, Peach Blow, Prince Albert, and all other goool varieties 
CLOVERS—White Dutch, Lucern, Red,Alsyke, Scarlet, &c 
GRASSES—Red Top, Timothy, Creeping Bent, Tall Oat 
Green Grass (best for lawns), Orchard, Ray. Foul Meadow 
Kentucky Blue, Sweet Vernal, Hungarian, Saintfoin, Fescue 
Foxtail, Fine Mixed Lawn, &c., &c. 
SEED OATS, Scotch and American, extra heavy and clean 
FRUIT, ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, and EVER 
GREENS, and all kinds of plants furnished to order, carefully 
packed, from the best nurseries and conservatories in the 
United States. Send for a Catalogue. 
R. L. ALLEN, 189 & 191 Water-st., New-York. 
IMPROVED LONG ORANGE CARROT, 
SUGAR BEET, &c. 
The subscribers beg to offer their fresh supply of Seeds of 
Root Crops, all of which have been raised from the finest 
stock in the world. 
They would call particular attention to their Long Orange 
Carrot Seed, which has proved to be the most valuable 
Hoot Crop now in cultivation. lbs per acre Per D) 
Long Orange Cakrot Seed. 2 $0 73 
Red Altringham do. do. 2 73 
Half Long Red do. do. 2 1 00 
Early Scarlet Horn do. 2 1 00 
White French Sugar Beet. 3 50 
Yellow do. do. . 3 SO 
Long Smooth Blood Beet. 4 75 
Best Guernsey Parsnip. 3 73 
Long White French Turnip, best in culti¬ 
vation, and also the most productive. 1 75 
Improved Ruta Baga . 1 75 
Red Top Strap-leaf Turnip. 1 75 
White Strap-leaf do. 1 75 
Early White Dutch do. 1 75 
With 20 other varieties of Turnip Seed. 
Catalogues on application to 
J. M. THORBURN & CO„ 
15 Jolin-st., New-York. 
Oporto Grape Vines. 
The Oporto has been thoroughly tested, as to its hardiness, 
productiveness, and wine making qualities, and will certain¬ 
ly revolutionize wine-making in tins country. Strong vines 
$1 each: $8 per dozen. Strong layers, $3; $18 per dozen. 
Small plants by mail, pre-paid, $1 each. For vines, or Cata¬ 
logues of Lyon's Nursery, address 
E. WARE SYLVESTER. Lyons, N. Y. 
Flower Seeds by Mail. 
Considerable experience in selecting enables 11 s to make up 
collections which are invariably satisfactory to purchasers, 
and our unusually full assortment the present season, em¬ 
bracing every desirable novelty and standard sort, either 
raised here or imported from the most reliable Floral Seed 
Growers in Europo, insures assortments of the rarer sorts 
and finest qualities, all of the growth of the past season, and 
true to name. 
COLLECTIONS OF 
100 Varieties of Annuals, Biennials, and Perennials, for $4 00 
50 do. do. do. do. 2 00 
25 do. Annuals.\. 1 00 
10 do. do . 50 
20 do. New and Rare Annuals. 2 00 
20 do. Choice Green House Seeds. 2 50 
40 do. do. do. do.5 00 
20 do. American Seeds, for European Culture.. 2 50 
STRICTLY OUR OWN SELECTION. 
The above will be mailed post-paid on receipt of the 
amount annexed. J. M. THORBURN & CO., 
15 John-st., New-York, 
SEEDS! SEEDS! SEEDS! 
GARDEN, VEGETABLE, GRASS, AND FLOWER 
SEEDS, OF EVERY DESIRABLE VARIETY. 
PRICED CATALOGUES SENT FREE BY POST ON AP¬ 
PLICATION. 
No. 1.—Descriptive List of Flower Seeds, Horticultural Im¬ 
plements, etc. 
No. 2.—Vegetable, Grass, Herb, and Miscellaneous Seeds. 
No. 3.—Wholesale Priced List of Vegetable Seeds, &c„ for 
Dealer’s use. ALFRED BRIDGEMAN. 
No. 876 Broadway, New-York City. 
ASPBERRIES—5,000 Brinckle’s Orange. 
BLACKBERRIES—7,000 New Rochelle. 
RHUBARB—10,000 Myatt’s Linnaeus, or Pie Plant. (This is 
the best variety,) for sale at reduced rates. 
FREEMAN & BROTHER would call the attention of Nur¬ 
serymen, Market Gardeners, and others, to the large stock of 
the above plants, which will be sold at greatly reduced rates. 
FREEMAN & BROTHER, (late II. C. Freeman,) 
Raveuswood Fruit Garden and Nurseries, Ravenswood, L. I. 
New Bedding and Green-House 
Plants. 
PARSONS & CO., 
FLUSHING, N. Y., 
Offer a fine healthy stock of novelties from Europe, embrac¬ 
ing, among others, the newest 
Fuchsias, 50 cts. each; $3 per dozen. 
Heliotropes, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per dozen. 
Petunias, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per dozen. 
Dahlias, including the dwarf sorts, 50c. each; $4.50 per doz. 
Gloxinias, 35 cts. each; $3 per dozen. 
Cinerarias, 50 cts. each. 
Phloxes, 25 cts. each; $2 per dozen. 
Chrysanthemums, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per dozen. 
Lantanas, 25 cts. each; $2 per dozen. 
Bouvardias, 30 cts. each; $3 per dozen. 
For other varieties, as well as for list of Green-house and 
Stove Plants, see Catalogue, furnished on application. 
US’” Catalogues, and any desired information, can be ob¬ 
tained of HARVEY B. LANE, at 
42 Park How, (Times Buildings,) New-York City. 
Where, also, orders may be left, and specimens of plants may 
be examined, during the season. 
§tra.wli>ei-ries! Strawberries I 
“ By their fruits ye shall know them.” 
What Strawberry shall I plant ? Why! the Wilson’s Al¬ 
bany.—Why ? Because it is the most productive, the largest, 
and finest berry out. In fact it is the fashionable ” berry. 
Originated at the Albany Nursery, where plants can be 
procured by addressing JOHN WILSON, Albany, N. Y. 
Price per lfiO plants. $1 
do. 1000 do. 58 
Liberal discount to the trade. 
C RANBERRY PLANTS.—2,000,000 PLANTS 
of the celebrated Cape Cod Bell and Cherry varieties 
(pure) at low prices. 
THE CRANBERRY CULTURIST, a treatise on its culture, 
for 12 cents in stamps. WM. H. STARR, 
East New- London Nurseries, Ncw-London, Conn. 
M ANSEMOND SWEET POTATO PLANTS— 
for Northern planting—1000, $2; 5000, $9; 10,000, $15; 
during May and Juno—packed to go safely long distances. 
Produces good crops in the northers States, even as high as 
44°. Send for our Circular, and read the experience of our 
patrons in different portions of the country. C. B. MUR¬ 
RAY, Foster’s Crossings, Warren Co., Ohio. 
ANSEMOND SWEET POTATO PLANTS for 
sale, best quality, sent by express. $2 per thousand. 
EMORY LUCE, Ashtabula, Ohio. 
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 
A general assortment at wholesale prices. 
_A, LONGETT, 34 Cliff-st„ New-York. 
CBiestcr County Pig’s. 
The undersigfled continues to execute orders as heretofore, 
for his pure stock of the above, which will be carefully ship¬ 
ped to any point of the Union. 
The selections are made only from pure bloods, and chiefly 
from premium animals, which have been uniformly success¬ 
ful at our local Fairs. He refers to purchasers from him in 
all sections of the Union. 
PASCHALL MORRIS, Agricultural and Seed Warehouse, 
1120 Market-st., Philadelphia, Pa. 
T horough bred north Devon heifer 
“EUGENIA,” recorded in 3d vol. Deven Herd Book— 
in calf by imported Duke of Sussex. Devon and Ayrshire 
yearling, and two-year old bulls. These are desirable ani¬ 
mals, with first rate pedigr ees, and for sale low. 
ALFRED M. TREDWELL, 46 Fulton-st., New-York. 
w 
C ARROT, BEET, AND TURNIP SEEDS, of the 
various kinds, of extra quality, for sale byj. E. MA- 
COMBER, Wholesale Seed Grower, Portsmouth R. I. 
OSTETTER’S COMBINED” BAG-HOLDER. 
AND CONVEYER, is wanted by every farmer, miller,, 
and dealer in Grain, &c. Patented Dec. 18,1860. Township, 
County, and State rights for sale over the whole Union- 
Send for circular, (with stamp,) with engraving and full des¬ 
cription. Orders also promptly filled. Retail $6, delivered, 
on cars. J. R. HOFFER, 
Mount Joy, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
C LOTHES WRINGING MACHINES FOR 
large and small families, and Hotel and Laundry use. 
and TheMetropolitan Washing Machine. For sale Wholesala 
and Retail by 
METROPOLITAN WASHING MACHINE CO., 
Middlefleld, Conn., and the principal Agricultural Stores, and! 
by H. B. Lane, 42 Park Row, in New-York, and The N. Hay¬ 
wood Co., 46 flanover-st„ Boston. 
JONAS BROOK & BROS., 
PATENT GLACE AND PATENT SIX CORD 
SPOOL COTTON. 
White, Black, and Colored; on spool 
of 200, 500, and 2400 Yards. Consumers 
of thread are requested to notice that 
BROOK S SPOOL COTTON took the 
[HIGHEST PRIZES awarded to SPOOL 
IOTTON at the GREAT EXHIBI¬ 
TIONS in LONDON in 1851 and la 
PARIS in 1855. Being made under the 
g ersonal directions of the Messrs. 
rook, the quality will be uniform, and 
the lengths guaranteed. Witli ttie lustro 
of silk, it combines the strength oi 
linen, and thousands of families and manufacturers, now 
using it, unite in testifying as to its excellency for either 
hand or machine sewing, its strength not being impaired 
either by washing or by friction of the needle. On every 
spool of the genuine is a ticket—as in margin of this adver¬ 
tisement-bearing the name and crest of Brook. Constantly 
for sale in cases of 100 Doz. each, assorted Nos., by the manu¬ 
facturer’s Agent, WM. HENRY SMITH, 32, 34 & 36 Vesey-st.„ 
New-York. 
Sijsaire’s Patent Coulter Harrow. 
TREDWELL & PELL, owners of Patent Rights for several 
States, and also Manufacturers. For price (which is reduced> 
and terms call or address at 45 Fulton-st„ New-York. 
URE ANiTrELIABLE SUPER-PHOSPHATE* 
OF LIME.—We have an article made under our own 
observation, that we can thoroughly recommend. Call an# 
examine it.. TREDWELL & PELL, 45 Fulton-st., New-York 
FERTILIZERS. 
FOWLE & CO.’S SOLUBLE PHOSPHATED 
PERUVIAN GUANO, 
Superior to Peruvian Guano alone, and twenty per ceW 
cheaper. 
FOWLE & CO.’S SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME. 
These Fertilizers have been generally tested by the mosi 
intelligent farmers of Virginia and Maryland, with the most 
satisfactory results. Pamphlets containing analysis by Pro¬ 
fessor Campbell Morfit, of New-York, with testimonials, and 
other valuable information, will be supplied by mail, and or¬ 
ders will be promptly executed upon application to the agent 
in New-York, EDWARD FRANKS, 
42 Exchange-place. 
Fowle & Co., Proprietors, Alexandria, Va._ 
GUANO, 
Swan Inland. 
ORGANIC, PHOSPHATIC AND AMMONIATE GUANO. 
The attention of Farmers is called to this valuable Guano- 
which contains over seoenly per cent of Animal Bone Phos¬ 
phate of Lime, Organic Mattek and Ammonia. 
A trial will prove it to be the best and cheapest concentrated: 
fertilizer in use. 
Price, (packed in barrels,) only $40 per tun. 
Imported and for sale by the 
SWAN ISLAND GUANO CO., 
184 Water-street, New-York. 
For sale also by GEORGE E. WHITE, 55 Cliff-st.: R. L- 
ALLEN, 191 Water-st- and by GRIFFING, BROTHERS & 
CO., 60 Cortlandt-st„ New-York. 
AMERICAN GUANO 
FROM 
Jarvis and Baker Islands 
IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN, 
Under the protection of the U, S. Government. 
Address 
AMERICAN GUANO CO., 
No. 66 William-st„ New-York. 
PERUVIAN GUANO. 
GOVERNMENT BRAND AND WEIGHT. 
ICHABOE GUANO. 
SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME. 
BONE DUST. 
POUDRETTE, Staten Island Co. 
LAND PLASTER. 
For sale in quantities to suit purchasers. 
A. LONGETT, No. 34 Clifl-st„ New-York. 
R. L. ALLEN’S MANIPULATED GUANO. 
This is a mixture of the best Peruvian and American 
Guano, and for most purposes, is believed to be fully eqna. 
to Peruvian. Price $15 per ton of 2000 lbs., either in barrels or 
bags. R. L. ALLEN, 139 & 191 Water-st, Now York. 
