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MY TWENTY “THIRD 
ANNUAL CATALOGUE 
OF 
New and Rare Plants 
Illustrated with numerous engravings, and con¬ 
taining two 
BEAUTIFUL COLOBFD PLATES, 
now ready, and will be sent to all applicants on receipt 
of 25 cents. To our customers of past years it will be sent 
without charge. 
ALSO 
TRADE LIST 
OF 
SURPLUS STOCK 
SUITABLE FOR 
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Numbering fifty distinct classes of Plants, embracing some 
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AND 
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By 
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York. Mailed, post-paid for $1.50 each. 
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Vegetable and Flower Seeds, 
containing two new and beautiful colored plates, is now 
ready. Also 
Catalogue of New and Rare Plants, 
illustrated with colored plates and engravings. 
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Seed Merchants and Growers, 
No. 67 Nassau St., New York. 
Oahoon’s Broadcast Seed Sower, 
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NEW YORK. 
Select Vegetable Seeds, Choice Flower Seeds, 
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Collection of 18 varieties of Vegetable Seeds, $1. 
Collection of 20 varieties of choice Annual Flower Seeds, $1. 
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New York. American Agriculturist Building. 
James Richardson, Late with B. K. Bliss & Sons. 
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We arc now manufacturing: 
more than-one mile per day of* 
otar Improved Mooting for 
wlaicla we were awarded the 
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F loral guide & catalogue 
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Please state that you saw this In Am. Agriculturist. 
CUCUMBER, GEN. GRANT. 
A superior variety, either 
for forcing or for culture in 
the open ground. Itis perfect 
in form, solid and crisp, and 
of a most agreeable flavor. 
Many specimens were grown 
the past season averaging 
thirty inches in length. After 
a live years’ trial, we unhesi¬ 
tatingly pronounce it better 
than any other variety for 
forcing. 
Packets, containing- 10 seeds, 
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$1.00. B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
P. O. Box 5,712, 
New York. 
Conover’s 
COLOSSAL 
ASPARAGUS 
_ Seed and Roots. 
i m«™» The CX p el -j ence 0 f the past 
two seasons fully confirms 
all that was claimed for this 
variety when lirst offered, 
and it now stands unrivalled 
in size, productiveness, and 
quality. 
Specimens were exhibited 
the past season by Mr. Cono¬ 
ver, which were grown along¬ 
side the best “Oyster Bay” 
varieties, and received the 
same care and treatment, 
which attained four times the 
size of that popular variety. 
Though but two years from 
the seed, many of the plants 
produced from twenty to 
thirty sprouts, averaging 
from two to four inches in 
circumference, and were 
ready for cutting one year in 
advance of the ordinary vari¬ 
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Seeds in half-ounce packets, 
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pound. 
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mail, post-paid, $25.00 per thousand, by express, freight paid 
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Nos. 23 Park Place & 20 Murray St., New York. 
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