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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[April, 
A NEW FORAGE PLANT, 
Prickly Comfrey. 
This is a new and valuable fodder plant, imported from 
the Caucasus, yielding enormous crops of green food. It 
may be cut several times each year, and can be used either 
green or cured for winter. It is said to produce from SO to 
100 tons per acre. 
Price of sets per doz., 75c.; per 100 $4. 
CHINESE YAM. 
(Dioscorea Batatas .) 
A valuable esculent but little known. A well-grown root 
will measure 2 feet in length, and 2% inches in its broadest 
diameter, and are quite hardy, remaining in the ground over 
winter without protection. The flesh is remarkably white, 
and very mucilaginous in its crude state. They may be 
boiled or roasted, and when cooked possess a rice-like taste; 
are quite farinaceous, nutritive, and valuable for food. It 
is also a very desirable climbing plant, suitable for covering 
screens, arbors, and unsightly places. Packets containing 
12 bulblets, 25 cts.; 5 packets $1. 
The Earliest Tomato Known. 
EITTEE GEM. 
This new variety was raised by the originator of the Con¬ 
queror Tomato, heretofore considered the earliest in culti¬ 
vation. The vines are of medium length, compact growth, 
and excessively loaded with bright red fruit of medium size, 
of round and uniform shape, varying from four to six inches 
in circumference, of superior flavor, either raw or cooked. 
Its bright glossy red color, uniform size, shape, and other¬ 
wise beautiful appearance, make a dish of Little Gems al¬ 
most as tempting as a plate of strawberries. It may be re¬ 
lied upon to yield several pickings, a week or ten days ear¬ 
lier than any other variety. 
Price, 25 ctB per packet; five packets for $1.00. 
Bliss’s Improved Lons? Orange Carrot. 
This superior variety is the result of a careful selection 
for successive years, of the best formed, largest, and deep¬ 
est colored roots in the Imported Long Orange Carrot, by 
which it lias attained a perfection hitherto unknown in thiB 
useful vegetable, being larger, better flavored, and of a 
deeper orange color, and more sure to produce a crop. 
Butter makers will find this variety very useful in giving to 
their butter a rich, deep yellow color. We unhesitatingly 
pronounce it the best variety in the market, and one which 
will not fail to give satisfaction to the purchaser. One 
ounce, 15 cts,; four ounces, 40 cts.; one lb., $1.25; 5 lbs., 
$5.00; by mail, post-paid. 
RELIABLE ONION SEEDS. 
Our stock of onion seed has been raised from carefully 
selected bulbs, and we can recommend it with the greatest 
confidence, as equal to any ever offered In this or any other 
market.—The abundant crop enables us to offer it at a lower 
price than for many years.—Sent post-paid, as follows: 
Ounce, 'Alb. lb. 
Extra Early Bed.$0.25 $0.75 $2.00 
Early Bed. 15 50 1.50 
■Wethersfield Large Bed. 15 40 1.25 
Danvers Yellow. 15 50 1.50 
Yellow Dutch. 15 50 1.50 
White Portugal. 20 60 2.00 
Early Cracker. 20 75 2.50 
Early Bed Globe. 20 75 2.50 
Southport Bed Globe. 20 75 2.50 
Southport White Globe. 20 75 2.50 
Southport Yellow Globe. 20 75 2.50 
In lots of 5 lbs. 25 cents per pound may be deducted. 
Bliss’s Illustrated Seed Catalogue and 
Amateur’s Guide totlic Flower & Kitchen 
Garden.— 200 pages, including several hundred finely 
executed engravings, and a beautifully-colored 
Lithograph. 35 Cents. 
Bliss’s Illustrated Gardener’s Almanac 
50 varieties, $15; 25 varieties, $8. ' and Abridged Catalogue.— 136 pages. Embraces 
a Monthly Calendar of Operations, and a price list of all the 
Bliss’s Illustrated Potato Catalogue con- leading Garden, Field, and Flower Seeds, 
tains a list of 500 varieiies, beautifully illustrated; also profusely illustrated, with brief directions for their cul- 
much useful information upon the cultivation of this tore. 10 Cents, 
valuable esculent. 10 Cents. Regular Customers supplied gratis. 
See our Full-page Advertisement in March American Agriculturist. Address 
P. 0. Box 5712. B. K. BLISS & SONS, 34 Barclay St., New York. 
New Varieties Potatoes. 
No. 1.—CENTENNSAE. 
A seedling of the well-known Brownell’s Beauty, crossed 
with the White Peach Blow. Shape, round, symmetrical, 
very handsome; skin, deep red ; flesh, white, fine grain, of 
superior quality ; medium early. 
No. 2.—SUPERIOR. 
Of the same parentage as the preceding. Tubers, oval, 
kidney-shaped ; skin, very smooth, of a deep red color; eyes 
few and small; medium early; very productive, an excel¬ 
lent keeper—and retains its mealiness and fine table quality 
during the entire season. 
A Certificate of Merit was awarded this variety at the late 
International Potato Show in England. 
No. 3. IMPROVED PEACHBLOW. 
A cross between the well-known Jersey Peach Blow and 
the Excelsior, resembling the Peach Blow in appearance. In 
quality and eariinesB it far excels that variety, and will pro¬ 
duce double the quantity. 
Either of the above varieties will be mailed, post-paid, 
per lb., $1.00; 3 lbs. to one address, $2.50. 
RUBY. 
The most Froductive Fotato known. 
33 Bushels grown from one pound. 
A new red, kidney-shaped potato, from the Early Bose, 
hybridized with the White Peach Blow. The shape is oblong, 
slightly flattened, resembling that of the Early Bose. Eyes 
slightly sunken ; flesh white, fine-grained, firm, and of ex¬ 
cellent flavor. Tubers of medium size. The time of ma¬ 
turity is the same as that of the Early Bose, and it is equal¬ 
ly productive. 
Per pound 75 cts., 3 lbs. to one address, $2.00 by mail, post- 
E aid. By express, charges paid by purchaser, 1 peck $2.00; 
alf bushel, p.00; 1 bushel $5.00; 1 bbl. $12.00. 
SNOWFLAKE. 
3314 Bushels grown from one pound. 
Beautiful in appearance — superior in quality—early- 
ripening a few days later than the Early Bose—very produc¬ 
tive. Price: Per pound, 60 cents ; 2 pounds to one address, 
$1.00, by mail, prepaid. By express or freight, 1 peck, $1.50; 
>4 hush., $2.50; 1 hush., $4 ; 1 barrel, $8. 
For a full description of the above, with many other de¬ 
sirable varieties, see our Potato Catalogue. 
The Great Centennial Exhibit. 
500 Named Varieties Potatoes. 
1877' DREER’S GARDEN CALENDAR, 1877 
Contains descriptive and price list of Vegetable, Flower and 
Grass Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, Novelties, and every GARDEN 
REQUISITE. Beautifully illustrated. 180 pages. 
HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 
_ _ Vegetable and Farm Seeds, 
by mail or express. Quality unsurpassed. Prices to suit the 
times. Price catalogue free to all. Address RODNEY 
KELLOGG, Hartford, Conn. Seeds and Fertilizers. 
Floral Calendar, Jou rnal, and 8 Sample'Plants, 25 cts. 
lists Fm, J, GREIVES, See,, Box 837, Paterson,N. <J 
for 1877, contains all about the General Management 
of the Market Garden, Boot Crops, the Kitchen 
Garden, and the Flower Garden. Sent [for 10 cts., 
which will be allowed on the first order for seeds. 
CW Plants in their season. 
Fresh crop of Turnip seeds in July, zrfl 
Address J. B. ROOT, Seed Grower, Rockford, Ills. 
CHOICE FLDWEII SEE®. 
1 pkt. 10 cts.; the 6 for 50 cts. Each pkt. contains the most 
desirable kinds and colors of each variety, and arc a choice 
collection, and will please you. giving good satisfaction for 
the money invested. Pansies. Balsams, Tall Asters, Double 
Hollyhocks, Phlox, and Verbenas. Address 
L. D. SNOOK, Barrington, Yates Co., N. Y. 
plants. Capt.Jack 
and Great American, the best strawberries. Ten acres 
of Brandywine (Susqueco) raspberries, yielded in 1876, 
$4,338, Send for Catalogues. 
W.M, PARRY, Ctnnaminson, JT, J, 
ONLY THE BEST,” 
All the latest novelties and choicest varieties of 
] VEGETABLE, FARM, and FLOWER 
1 SEEDS, Summer-Flowering BULBS and 
PLANTS, SMALL FRUITS, FLORISTS’ 
SUPPLIES and GARDEN REQUISITES. 
| Illustrated descriptive Catalogue free on application. 
WM. H. CARSON, 
135 Chambers St., N. Y. 
SELECT 
SEEDS 
at reasonable prices, should send for our Illustrated 
Catalogue for 1877, descriptive of all the new, novel, 
and choicest varieties of Vegetable and Field Seeds. 
Sent free to all applicants. HAWKINS & CORNISH, 
Goshen, N. Y., (Successor to J. R. V. Hawkins. 
My Annual Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seed for 
1877 will be ready by January, and sent free to all who ap¬ 
ply ; Customers of last season need not write for it. 1 offer 
one of the largest collections of vegetable seed ever sent 
out by any seed-house in America, a large portion of which 
were grown on my six seed farms. Printed directions 
for cultivation on every parcel. All seed sold 
from my establishment warranted to be both fresh and true 
to name; so far that should it prove otherwise, 1 will refill 
the order gratis. As the original introducer of the Hubbard 
and Marblehead Squashes, the Marblehead Cabbages, and a 
score of other new vegetables, I invite the patronage of all 
who arc anxious to have their seed fr^sh, 
true, and of the very best strain. NElV 
VEGETABLES A SPECIALTY. 
JAMES J. II. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
TOBACCO SEED. 
Parties wishing to obtain the “True Conn. Broadleaf” 
TOBACCO SEED, 
Can be supplied with a very superior article, viz.: 
Per oz. X lb. lb. 
Hockanum or East Hartford Broad Leaf. .40 $1.00 $3.00 
John Williams Broad Leaf.. .40 1.00 3.00 
Belknap Broad Leaf..40 1.00 3.00 
Ohio Improved Broad Leaf_ 40 1.00 3.00 
Imported Havana.50 1.75 6.00 
By mail on receipt of price. Registered Letters, Money 
Orders, or Drafts on N. Y. at my risk. 
The seed I offer is of the best quality, grown from pure 
stock, and are the varieties most largely grown in the Valley 
of the Connecticut. My Gardener’s Catalogue and 
Price List of Select Vegetable and Farm Seeds for 1877, sent 
free to all applicants. Address 
R. D. HAWLEY, 
493 & 498 Main St., Hartford, Conn. 
BY MAIL FREE OF POSTAGE. 
They speak their own praise wherever planted 
jSQF-Thk Attention of MARKET GARDENERS 
and PRIVATE FAMILIES is particularly request¬ 
ed. LASDBETHS’ RURAL REGISTER 
AND ALMANAC, containing CATALOGUE and 
PRICES, MAILED WITHOUT CHARGE TO APPLICANTS. 
David Landreth & Sons, 
FOUNDED 1784. Philadelphia. 
““SEEDS™ 9 
Of best Eastern growth delivered at your P. O., one-tliird 
less than you can buy “Box Seeds ” at your store. We will 
send by mail, postpaid, at prices named, the following. 15 
var’s choice Flower Seeds, and 15 var’s selected 
Vnwptnhln fr»r $1 . or fltfl of ©Itfe©!* (01* $1. 
nrnip Radish, pr.lb. $.60 
v il i w rinner I’luwee oeeup. mi 
Vegetable Seeds for $ 1 , or 30 vi 
Bassona Beet_j>er lb. $ .60 Red Turnip 1_ .. 
Long Scarlet Radish. 
Dewing’s Turnip B 
Long Blood Beet... 
Large Red Onion... 
Yel. Danvers Onion... 
Long SmoothiParsnip 
Cow Horn Turnip 
Strap L’f&Goldcn Ball 
Long Orange Carrot.. 
Spinach, r’d orpr’kly.. 
E3T" >4 and X lb. at lb. rates. Catalogue free. Reduc¬ 
tions to dealers and gardeners, stale where sdv. seen. 
FERRIS & MINARP, Poughkeepsie, N. Y, 
S. IV. Hyde’s Egyptian Sweet Corn. 
Large ears, and very large grain. Decidedly the best va¬ 
riety for the table in America. First Premium awarded by 
the Md. State Horticultural Society, 1875 and 1876. 25 cts. a 
package; 50c. a pint; $1 a quart; by mail Free of Postage. For 
pale only by J. polgiano $ Son, 23 Calyqrt; St,,Baltimore,Md, 
