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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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1 Lilies Roses Jiolsts, Carnations, taims, k I 
? The G-reenbrook Sc Paterson City Nurseries g- 
J Mail 12 Choice Varieties for $1.00, or 5 for 50 cts., with 3 £ 
« Album Chromes or a Fine Lilium gratis. Samples 23 cts. j? 
Address J. Greivus, Sec’yi Box 837, Patep.soh.H.J. S 
I have founded my business on the belief that the public 
are anxious to get their seed directly from tile grow¬ 
er, and I therefore offer FREE to every man and woman 
in the United States who cultivates a farm, tills a vegetable 
garden, or plants a flower garden, my large. Illustrated 
Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds for 1876, it con¬ 
tains, in addition to the choicest kinds produced in Europe, 
one liuitdred and fifty varieties of vegetable 
seed grown on my four seed farms. Customers 
of last season need not write for it. As the original intro¬ 
ducer of the Hubbard, Marblehead and Butman Squashes, 
Plnnney’s Melon, the Marblehead Cabbages, and a score of 
other new vegetables, I solicit your patronage. All seed 
sold under three warrants. A hundred thousand catalogues 
will be issued and sent out the first of January. 
•JAMES .1. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
SEEDS 
FOR GARDEN & FIELDS, 
KELlABhE AND TRUE. Send to 
TOLEDO SEED HOUSE, 
AUGUSTUS B. TABER, Toledo, O. 
TtfRlarket Gardeners. 
The varieties noted below are the best that can he select¬ 
ed and grown, the same stock which we supply largely to 
Philadelphia and other market gardeners. For "other varie¬ 
ties send for Dreer’s Farmers’ and Gardeners’ Price List, 
mailed free. 
BEET—Bastian’s Perfection Extra Early Red Turnip. The 
earliest and most profitable, per lb., $1.65. 
BEET—Bastian’s Perfection Half Long Blood. Everything 
that can bo desired in point of color, shape, and size, per lb., 
$1.05. 
CABBAGE—Pure Jersey Wakefield (American), oz., 50c.; 
per ib„ $6.10. 
CABBAGE—Premium American Flat Dutch and Drum¬ 
head, the best produced, oz., 50c.; per lb., $5.00. 
PEAS—Dreer’s Extra Early, the best and earliest, per 
bushel, by Express, $8.00. 
RADISH—The best sorts, pure, per B., $1.15. 
The above mailed at prices quoted. 
Henry A. Dreer, Seed Grower and Dealer, Philadelphia. 
TO THE FLOWER & VEGETABLE GARDEN 
Beautifully Illustrated, and containing a Magnificent 
COLORED PLATE. Mailed to any address FREE. 
GROSMAN BROS., 
Established 1840. Rochester, IV. Y. 
Catalogues Gratis. Prices Reduced 
of all leading items of nursery stock, especially in my un¬ 
surpassed list of new and popular peaches, among which 
limy he found the only desirable kinds to grow for market 
value—such as Early Beatrice, Early Louise, Early ltlvers, 
Early Alexander. Amsden’s June, Briggs’ May, Christiana, 
Brandywine, t-ianticoke, Bilven's Late October, Tuckahoe, 
Mewingtou Free, and all the new and old approved orchard 
list. Send for catalogue, which will he a great help to all 
who plant orchards, as I give the exact t otal ion of ripening, 
so that all can plant intelligently. So they can have one va¬ 
riety succeeding another the whole season. Also at cor- 
respondinglr low prices—Apple Trees, Cherry, Plum. Pear, 
standard ail'd dwarf. Smali Fruits, Ornamental Trees and 
Shrubberies, Greenhouse Plants—ill fact, all stock usually 
found in any first-class establishment. Pencil pits in sand 
all winter, $1.50 per bushel. 
RANDOLPH PETERS, Great Northern and 
Southern Nurseries, Wilmington, Delaware. 
Seed Time Cometh! 
Our twenty-third edition of the Flower anti Kitchen 
Garden Directory, Illustrated, for 1876, will 
soon he published, embracing a complete List of the Best 
Standard Boston Market Varieties of Vegetable 
Seeds, and the most beautiful of Flower Seeds, and 
other Horticultural Requisites; it will be sent free 
to all former customers, and others, on application. 
D. T. CURTIS <fc CO., 161 Tremont Street, 
Boston, Mass. Successors to Curtis & Cobb. 
OUR WHOLESALE 
Price List of Seeds for S87 6 
(FOR THE TRADE ONLY) 
is now ready for mailing. 
R. H. ALLEM & CO., 
189 & (91 Water St., 
P.O.Box 376. HEW YORK,. 
Wholesale! Eetail! 
Pure, fresh, reliable flower and garden seeds. Send for 
catalogue. See our nursery advertisement of host raspberry', 
etc., in another column. AV. L. FERRIS, Jr.., & CO., 
Dutchess Nurseries, established 1S63. Poughkeepsie, N. V. 
can he attained only by a thorough knowledge of the busi¬ 
ness, a practice of labor-saving methods, good seeds, a judi¬ 
cious apportionment of crops, ami hv energy and tact in 
making sales. In my Garden Manual I have endeavored to 
give such practical information upon these and kindred 
topics as I have gained ill an exiensive exnerience as market 
gardener and see'! grower. Onions for Market. Rye 
as a Green Manure, IIot-Beds with Fire Heat. 
Asparagus for Market. Garden Pests, Special 
Manures and their Uses, Management of the 
Kitchen Garden, Early Radishes, and oilier topics, 
are very fully treated, altogether embodying half as much 
as $1.50 books on the subject. A similar but smaller number, 
devoted to plants and transplanted crops, is issued late in 
March, and another treating of seasonable topics in June. 
All the numbers of the year are sent for ten cents, which will 
he allowed on first order for seeds. Address 
j. B. ROOT, Seed Grower, Rockford, Ills. 
TREES. 
AVe. call attention to our immense Stock (600 acres) of 
Fruit Trees, Standard and Dwarf. 
Small Fruits, Grapes, Currants, Raspberries, &c. 
Ornamental Trees «fc Shrubs, deciduous*evergreen. 
Roses a specialty—all the finest sorts. 
Green A Hot House Plants, including best novelties. 
Small parcels forwarded by mail when desired. 
Prompt attention given to all orders and enquiries. 
Descriptive and Illustrated priced Catalogues sent prepaid 
on receipt of stamps, as follows; 
No. 1, Fruits (new ed., with colored plate), 15 ets. 
No. 3. Ornamental Trees, with col’d plate of Roses. 35c. 
No. 3. Greenhouse, Free. No. 4. Wholesale, Free. 
No. 5. List of New Roses for 1876, Free. 
Nos. 1 & 3—Neatly hound together, forming ail interesting 
and valuable book for reference, 50o. by 
Address mail, post paid. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY, Rochester, H. T. 
"OTTl A rill TREES.—Handsome stock of best new 
JL JCjxS. YyAJL and old sorts, with general assortment of 
hardy fruit and ornamental trees, flowering shrubs, vines, 
small fruits, &c. New price list free. 
EDWIN A BEEN, 
New Brunswick Nurseries, N. .J. 
PEA CM.— Earliest and Best 
■AS- Early Peacli in the world. For full history and price of 
tlie trees, root grafts, and cions, address 
JOHN WAMPLER. Carthage, Missouri. 
PEACH TREES. 
The largest stock in the country. Other stock in full sup¬ 
ply.—Earliest and promptest shipments. 
HEIKES NURSERIES CO.. Dayton, O. 
HOME 
GROWN 
SEEDS 
OUR NEAV CATALOGUE, 100 pages, 
containing the greatest variety of 
Garden and Flower Seeds, ami 
the best strains of home grown seeds 
loi'Market Gardeners, Family Gardens, 
Amateurs and Florists, sent free to all 
wlio apply. 
HOVEY CO., 53 No. Market St..Boston,Mass. 
A MAIUAI 
Of all Garden Requisites 
Seeds, Implements, Fertilizers, &c., 
4 
:s\ 
For PRIVATE or MARKET GARDENS, 
FLORISTS and FARMERS. 
FREE ON APPLICATION. 
.TAMES FLEMING, 
07 Nassau St., New York. 
V 
/ 
FLOWER SEEK 
Our DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF 
P EACH TREES, of best varieties; Norway Spruce 
and American Arbor Vitaes, several sizes: Mammoth 
Cluster and Brandywine Raspberry ; Cherry Currants; 2 yr. 
Concord Grape Vines; Strawberry Plants; and a general 
Nursery stock at greatly reduced rates. Satisfaction guaran¬ 
teed. For prices, address, David Baird, Manalapan, N: J. 
ASSOiri'ME^T or 
PEACH TREES, at $3 to $5 per 100, or $20 to $40 
per M. Wilson’s Early Blackberry Plants, at $r> per M. 
fi. S. JOHNSTON, Georgetown, Del. 
10.000 s? 
Pear Root Grafts, § 
one-year-old st. Pear Trees, 5 to 35 inches 
high, $5 to $10 3 101). 2-yr„ 3 to 4 ft., $16 $ 100. 
Is, $12 $ 1,000; also other stock. Price listfree. 
HARVEY CURTIS, Owego Nursery, Tioga Co., N. Y. 
-pplc, 0®o«is% Plum, Mazzardand Mfilial eb 
-PS. Cherry Seedlings for sale. Also Quince Stocks. 2 year 
layers (strong). Apple and Cherry Trees, lending sorts, 3 vrs. 
from hud. Send for price list. E. P. CLARK, Dansville, N.Y. 
FRUIT TREES AND S(VI ALL FRUIT. 
A large stock o4 Apple, Pear, Peacli, ( berry and Orange 
Quince. Also Raspberry. Blackberry and Strawberry plants. 
Apple grafts low. Agents wanted. Price List free. 
Address JOHNSTON’S NURSERY, Palmyra, N. Y. 
NfJKSERIKS. — A Large 
™ Stock of Peach and other Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 
Small Fruit, &c., at low rates. Send for Circular. 
CI1AS. BLACK, Hightstown, N. J. 
FLOWEE SEEDS, with all the NOVELTIES 
FOSS 1876, is now ready for mailing to applicants. 
Also, CATALOGUE OF SFIESNG BULBS. 
T71JTT¥nri TREES AND SMALL FRUIT 
JP AIL JL JL PI, A NTS—finest stock of Strawberry 
plants in the State; best varieties. Price list free. Prices 
marked teat/ down. 
E. W. HARRINGTON, Palmyra, N. Y. 
Also, CATALOGUE OF VEGETABLE 
aisd AGRICULTURAL SEEDS. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO., 
15 John St.,'New York. 
Spooner’s Prize Flower Seeds. 
Seeds of Superior Quality 
UAEYE¥ ISHOTMEKS, 
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN CHOICE 
Vegetable, Field, and Rower 
Seeds. 
FLORISTS’ GOODS, GARDEN REQUISITES, AND 
HORTICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 
Illustrated Priced Catalogue Post-tree on Application. 
SEED WAREHOUSES, 
360 and 363 Washington St., Buffalo, N. Y. 
Spooner’s Boston Market 
Vegetable Seeds. 
The cheapest and best seeds in 
the market. Send two 3 cent 
stamps lor our illustrated catalogue 
and see the prices. 
W. II. SPOONER, 
BOSTON, MASS. 
FLOWER 
SEEDS. 
VEGETABLE 
SEEDS. 
"07 VERGREEKf TTtree — 
JsL 4 Nursery grown—cheap, young, small sizes, for orchard 
protection, screens, wind-breaks, timber belts, ornament. 
For price per 100, pOr 1,000, address H. M. THOMPSON, 
St. Francis. Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin. 
SfflASJ. FRUIT CULTURE. 
A concise Manual on the Culture of Strawberries. 
Raspberries and other small fruits—just how to raise 
and market them—By E. I 3 . ROE. author “Play and 
Profit in ilt / Garden.'’ Ac. Mailed on receipt of price —35 cts. 
Also ready—Circular and price list of Strawberry 
plants and other small fruits , choicest kinds for spring trade. 
Address E. P. HOE, 
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson , Orange Co.,N. Y. 
PUKE um SEED. 
~%T A PIETIES. —Libert AN, Rrgui.au Sor- 
? go, and Oomsekana. PRICKS:—By- 
Mail, postage paid, 50 cts. $ ft.; by Express, 
25 lbs. or less, 30 cts. $ ft.; over 25 fts. 20 cts. 
ft., package included. The Neeazana is 
dropped from our list. We recommend the 
Liberian for general cultivation. Two to 
three pounds required per acre. Money 
with order. 
The Sorgo Hand-Book, containing valua¬ 
ble information on the culture of Cane and 
making Syrup, and description of the cele¬ 
brated" Cook Evaporator and Victor Cane 
Mills, sent free. 
BLYMYER MANUFACTURING CO., 
Cincinnati, O. 
