AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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ity at the first three market days of the 
month ; last Wednesday a short supply and 
an advance of lc.aH per lb., the selling 
prices being for Premium eattle l-2£c.al4c. 
per lb. net or dressed weight; First qualityi 
lHc.al2c.; Medium quality, lOc.allic.; 
Poor quality, Qc.alOc.; Poorest quality 8c. 
a9c.; General selling prices, lOJc.allic. 
Average of all sales, about llc.allic. 
The Weather.— The weather, during 
April, has been strictly according to the most 
approved almanac, with an exception or two. 
We have had no “ snow squalls ” hereabouts. 
The whole month has been mild and pleas¬ 
ant, the thermometer ranging most of the 
time from 40° or 45° to 60°, with very few 
cold nights. April showers and sunshine 
have alternated in rapid succession, since the 
15th inst.—before that time, though it often 
sprinkled, not enough rain fell to replenish 
the long-time-dry cisterns. On Satuiday, 
12th, a tornado swept over Philadelphia, do¬ 
ing immense damage to buildings. Y r ve had 
a heavy blow, accompanied with a long, 
heavy rain here on Sunday and Monday, 
the 20th and 21st, which did some serious 
damage to buildings, &c. The rain sus¬ 
pended operations in the field for a time, and 
and filled the swamps and higher ground pre¬ 
viously dry. It is now quite warm, with an 
occasional shower. 
MAY FOR EVERGREENS. 
When Deciduous Trees have commenced growing, aud can 
no longer be moved, Evergreens can be moved safely. 
Norway Spruce and Whit e Fine for Trees, and Rhododendrons 
for Shrubs, will make the most dreary place look bright in the 
Winter. Roses and Flowering Plants, in pots, can now be 
planted in clumps upon the lawn. These, with all the varieties 
of Evergreens, can be obtained of 
112n6nc PARSONS & CO., Flushing, near New-York. 
C hoice seed potatoes : 
PRINCE ALBERT—Recently imported, hardy, prolific 
and verv superior quality. 
EXCELSIOR. 
EARLY JUNE. 
NUTMEG. 
KIDNEY. 
RACE HORSE. 
DIKEMAN. 
All the foregoing are earlv choice varieties. 
April 25,1836. R. L ALLEN, 189 Water-st. N. Y. 
G arden, field and flower seeds. 
—A large supply of the most desirable varieties of Garden 
Seeds; a choice and good supply of Flower Seeds; and Grass 
Seeds of all kinds. Field Seeds—Wheat,Oats. Corn. Bariev. &c. 
We take great care to have all our seeds fresh and best of their 
kinds, and offer them for sale at wholesale or retail on most fa¬ 
vorable terms. R L. ALLEN. 
189 and 191 Water-st., New-York 
The Advertising Columns are set apart 
for business men to tell their own story 
about their wares, for which they each pay 
a stipulated consideration, according to the 
amount of space occupied. We assume no 
responsibility for what is therein said, though 
we reserve the right to limit the space or to 
reject any advertisement we may not choose 
to admit. 
We have‘no connection, directly or 
indirectly, with any other business than 
publishing this paper. Our location in an 
agricultural street, and in rooms rented for 
our own convenience in an agricultural es 
tablishment, involves no connection what¬ 
ever, either with the business of the street, 
or that carried on in other parts of the build 
ings we occupy. We wish it distinctly un¬ 
derstood that we are independent of all sub¬ 
sidiary influences. We have the Agricul¬ 
turist to sell, and nothing else, and shall en 
deavor to make our paper worthy of being 
bought. 
The above remarks have been called for 
by sundry insinuations that have come to 
our hearing. We hope not to be under the 
necessity of referrrng to this matter again 
P ARSONS & CO., Flushing, near New- 
York, offer for sale their large assortment of APPLES, 
standard and dwarf PEAR, CHERRIES, PEACHES, PLUMS, 
and olher Fruits. 
To their stock of well-grown PLUMS, they would call 
especial attention. 
They also offer a large assortment of the well-known and also 
the more rare Deciduous and Evergreen Trees and Shrubs. 
They also grow for massing, and can offer, at reduced rates by 
the quantity, the different varieties of Maples. Elms Lindens 
an'l other Deciduous Trees, with many sorts of Shrubs. 
Thev would also call atiention to their Evergreens,-which are 
unusually finely rooted and symmetrically formed. Of these 
they can supply Norway Spruce, at prices ranging according 
sizeand form, from SIO to S60 per hundred. 
Cedars Deodora, Siberian Arbor Vitae. White Pine. Pines 
Benthamiana, and others, can also be supplied for planting in 
masses, at moderate rates. 
Their stock of ROSES is always large, and can be furnished 
by the quan’ity at greatly reduced iates. 
Their Foreign Grapes are propagated from bearing vines. 
Their Exotic Department includes the desirable and rare 
sorts, and the Plants are well grown and thrifty. 
Catalogues furnished on application. 105—116 
A gricultural seeds.—'T he sub- 
scribers offer, of the growth of tho past year, and of the 
finest qualities, their large stock of 
Early Yellow Stone Turnip, at 75 cents per lb. 
Yellow Aberdeen do. 75 do. 
Skirving’s improved Ruta Baga do., 50 cents per lb. 
Early White Stone do. 75 do. 
Large White Norfolk do. 50 do. 
Large White Globe do. 50 do. 
With twenty other varieties of Turnips, for which 6 ©e priced 
catalogue. 
ALSO, 
Long Orange Carrot, clean seed. $ t per lb. 
White field do. do. 75c. do. 
Early Short. Horn do. do. SI do. 
Long Red Mangel Wurtzel Beet, 50 cents per lb. 
White Silesia Sugar do. 50c. do. 
Round Leaved Spinach, 75 cents per lb. 
New Flanders do. SI do. 
Prickly or Winter do. 75c. do. 
And at. reduced rates in quantities, and a full assortment of 
Vegetable, Flower and Field Seeds, warranted fresh, pure and 
Lucerne and White Dutch Clover. Sainfoin, English and Ital¬ 
ian Rav Grasses, Sweet-scented Vernal Gr^ss. The Fescues 
and other varieties of foreign Grasses, and the most approved 
mixtures of English, French, and domestic Grasses for lawn 
purposes. _ _ 
Norway Spruce, and other Evergreen Seeds. Osage Orange 
and Honey Locust., for hedges: Yellow Timber Locust: im¬ 
proved King Philip Corn ; Japan Peas, &c. &c. 
Priced catalogues mailed to applicants inclosing a three cent 
stamp, and orders bv mail promptly responded to. 
T M. THORRURN & CO , 15 .Tohn-st.., New-York. 
DTOSCORREA RATATAS—New Chinese Potato or Yam. 
at. S3 per dozen. Description and direction for culture fur¬ 
nished to applicants. —112n52 
L AWTON’S BLACKBERRY PLANTS. 
PRICES FOR SPRING AND AUTUMN, 1856. 
Packages of Six Plants -*---- $3 00 
Packages of Twelve Plants 5 00 
Packages of Fifty Plants - 15 00 
Packages of One Hundred Plants 25 00 
Orders supplied in roiation as received, and none sold but the 
pure plants of my own raising A reduction to clubs. The 
monev should accompany the order. 
pnekages of root-- will be forwarded by anv express or trans¬ 
portation line leaving New-York city. WM. LAWTON. 
No. 54 Wall-st . New-York, 
HI_tfnll or at New-Rochelle, N Y 
TEW- ROCHELLE OR LAWTON 
1 BLACKBERRY.—The subscribers having devoted much 
attention to the cultivation of this new species of Blackberry for 
a number of years, have now the largest, area of ground in culti 
vation of anv in the country. Their Nursery, while in hearing 
has been visited hy thousands of persons from all parts of the 
States, and hy all pronounced to be the - ne plus ultra.” 
Orders will be filled from our Grounds with great pleasure, at 
the folio vingprices : One half-dozen, S3 50; One dozen, $5 00 
Fifty, $13 50, and One Hundred. S?5. 
GEO. SEYMOUR & CO. 
South-Norwalk, Conn., Jan. 20, 1850. 109—112n2 
N EW-RClCHELLE BLACKBERRY. 
Genuine Plants from the Original stock, deliverable in 
November. March or April, or sale hy ISAAC ROOSEVELT 
95 — 1 I 6 M 212 NI 4 Pelham, Westchester Co..N. Y. 
jOHUBARBAND ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
.ta. for sale by R L. ALLEN. 189 and 191 Water-st. 
TERMS — (invariably cash before insertion): 
Ten cents per line (of ten words) for each insertion. 
No advertisement taken at less than one dollar. 
By the column or half column, $12 per coluirin for the first 
insertion, and $10 for each subsequent insertion. 
T O LANDOWNERS.—A situation as 
Overseer or Farm Manager, is desired by a practical 
Eng isli farmer, of experience in this country ; (is married, but 
without encumbrances ;) has first class references, and is com¬ 
petent, to manage a farm of large size. Address ROBERT 
GADD, at Mr. Lowry’s, 942 Broadway, New-York City. 
—i 12n58 
Y'hYNAMOMETER, for testingthe draught 
of Plows and various Machinery—one of the most ap¬ 
proved English pattern—for sale, or will be loaned for a reas- 
nable price. R. L. ALLEN, 189 Water-st. 
A GOOD TEMPERANCE HOUSE IN 
New-York is a great desideratum, especially one kept on 
THE EUROPEAN PLAN, 
Where travelers and visitors can find 
NEAT, QUIET ROOMS. WITH GOOD BEDS j 
at moderate prices; and get their 
MEALS WHENEVER OR WHEREVER DESIRED. 
Such a Hotel is 
SAVERY’S TEMPERANCE HOUSE. 
(On the European plan,) 
at 14 Beekman-st., corner of Nassau, (In the Daily Times Block 
neai the Park and City Hall.) 
This House contains 150 good rooms, all supplied with the 
best quality of hair mattrassbeds, kept neat and clean. Prices 
35 to 50 cents per night, including d;iv occupancy; or. $2 to $3 
per week. Extra large rooms. S4 to $5 per week. 
In the spacious Dining Rooms, gentlemen, with or without 
their ladies, can, al all hours, (from 6 % A. M. to 8 P. M..) ob¬ 
tain meals or lunches. paying onlv for what they may order. 
The bill of fare is made out in the Federal Currenry, thus : 
Tea or Coffee, 3 cents per cup ; Pies. Puddings, &c., 5 cents per 
plate, (not. 6 % cents;) Meats, withaccompaniaments. 10 cents, 15 
cents, and 20 cents per plate, (not 121 a cents, 18% cents, 25 cents ' 
A temperance man, the editor of a leading journal of this city, 
savs; 
“ * * Savery is, and always has been, a consistent temper¬ 
ance man. and he keeps his fine Hotel upon upright principles. 
* * * We are glad to inform our friends everywhere, that 
there is a good, quiet Home for them while stopping for a day 
or longer in this city, one every way worthy of their patronage, 
and where thev will find fair accommodations on moderate 
terms. * * **2—tfn60 
TSABELLA AND CATAWBA 
GRAPE 
VINES, of proper age for forming Vineyards, cultivated 
from, and containing all the good qualities which the most im¬ 
proved cultivation for over fifteen years has conferred on the 
Croton Point Vineyards, are offered to the public. Those who 
may purchase will receive such instructions for four years, as 
will enable them to cultivate the Grape with entire success 
provided their locality is not too far north. 
All communications addressed to R. T. UNDERHILL,M. D,, 
New-York, or Croton Point, Westchester County, N. Y., will 
receive attention. 
The additional experience of three past seasons gives him full 
assurance that, by improved cultivation, pruning, &c., a crop of 
good fruit can be obtained every year, in most of the Northern, 
all of the Middle. Western and Southern States. 
N. B.—To those who take sufficient to plant six acres, ns he 
directs, he will, when they commence hearing, furnish the own • 
er with one of his Vinedressers, whom he has instructed in his 
mode of cultivation, and he will do all the labor of the vineyard, 
and insure the most perfect success. The only charge, a reason¬ 
able compensation for the labor. 
Also, APPLE-QUINCE TREES, (which are sometimes 
called the Orange Quince,) for sale as above. 
109—112 R T. U. 
. RBOR VITjE HEDGE PLANTS.— 
L CHAPMAN JACKSON & CO., No. 55 William-st.. N. 
V., offer for sale a large quantity of AMERICAN ARROR 
VI r.®. in fine condition, at the following prices : From 1 to 2 
feet, S3 per hundred ; 2 to 3 feet, S5 per hundred; 3 to 4 feet, 
$ 10 per hundred. Any quantity furnished to order. —112n54 
w 
M. R. PRINCE & CO.. FLUSHING, 
Rice-white variety ; tubers, in cans, at $5 and S10; or growing 
vigorously, ten inches high, in pots, at $6 for 6 , and $12 per 
dozen, treatise on culture therewith; Licorice.for field culture, 
cheap in quantity; Earth Almonds, Chinese Sugar Cane Seeds, 
succeeds wherever Broom Corn does; Madder. Yellow and 
Honey Locust, Osage Orange. Evergreen and other Tree Seeds. 
An unrivaled collection of Trees and Plants of every kind. 
Sweet Almonds, Figs. Pomegranates, Lawton’s and Imperial 
Blackberries, finest Raspberries. Gooseberries and Currants, 
premium Strawberries, surpassing all others; Grapes and Rhu¬ 
barb. in quantity ; Osier Scions, of finest kinds; 500,000 Ever¬ 
greens, including Norway Spruce, for nurseries, at low rates. 
Priced catalogues for applicants. —112n55 
M. R. PRINCE & CO. announce that 
every applicant, for the Chinese Potato has been replied to 
by stating the price for tubers , and that in no case have an v roots 
been obtained from Europe, nor have any been sold in this 
country,except by cutting theminto small pieces or eyes We 
will pay $25 each for 100 roots. Any persons receiving tubers 
from us may return them if not satisfied. —112n56 
No. 14 Maiden-lane, 
Books, and Importer and Deale r 
in PAPER aiid' STATIONERY of every description. Partic- 
ar attention paid to orders. * 78-130 
WHLLARD FELT, 
v V Manufacturer of Blank I 
A merican institute—farmers’ 
CLUB.—WM R. PRINCE having made a most ample 
report on the Dioscorea Batatas to this Institutiom-on the 
18th March, refuting and annihilating the false statements 
•which, ignorance, malice and stupidity have palmed upon the 
public, will transmit his report to applicants. PTe also pre¬ 
sented to the Farmers'Club, on April 8 th. fine roots, firm and 
excellent, dug that day. whichhave withstood the rigor of the 
Winter, the severest ever known. _ — 11 2n57 
ORTICULTURAL TOOLS—A full as¬ 
sortment of Hedge and Vine Shears, Pruning Knives, 
Hoes, Rakes, Cultivators, Trowels, Forks, Watering Engines. 
&c. &c. 
P LOWS—A large variety of patterns, 
among which are the most approved Soil, Stubble, Side-hill. 
Double-mold, Sub-soil. Lock Coulter, Self-Sharpener. &c. 
Y^ARTS AND WA GONS—With iron and 
wood axles, on hand or made to order, in the best and most 
serviceable manner. 
D RAINING TOOLS of all sizes, and of 
the latest improvements. Spades, Scoops, &c. 
For sale by R. L. ALLEN. 
189 and 191 Water st., New-York. 
