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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[April, 
The Earliest Tomato Known. 
THE CONQUEROR. 
TEN DATS EARLIER THAN ANT OTHER VARIETV. 
Prof, Thurber, the well known editor of the American 
Agriculturist, flays: 
'■ t think it a moderate statement to say the Conqueror 
was ten days earlier than any other in the Garden. I 
would also add that in color, shape, and quality, this variety 
was highly satisfactory.” 
Messrs. D. M. Ferry & Co., of Detroit, make this statement: 
“The product of one acre of this variety last season was 
over 1,000 bushels, all put into market before most other 
sorts had begun to ripen.” 
Price, 25 cts. per packet; 6 packets, $1.00. 
THE GOLDEN TROPHY. 
A sport of the well-known trophy, arid its counterpart in 
shape, size, and general appearance, of a rich golden yellow 
color. Letters from our customers in the southern states, 
who tested this variety last summer, speak of it as the best 
of all varieties for their section. 
25 cts. per packet; 6 packets, $1.00. 
NEW SWEET COaH-T&ITJMPH. 
(A valuable acquisition). 
This new and superior variety is the result of ten years of 
careful cultivation and selection, and is highly endorsed by 
reliable and prominent parties who have given it a trial. 
Nothing can surpass it as a market variety. 
y pint Packets 25 cents. Select cars by mail, 30 cents. 
Green Prolific Pickling Cucumber. 
A new variety now offered for the first time; selected with 
great care by one of the largest growers of pickling cucum¬ 
bers in the country; with good culture 200,000 can be grown 
on one acre. 
Packet, 25 cts.; oz., 75 cts.; % lb., $1.75; lb., $5.00. 
Bliss’s Improved Long Orange Carrot. 
This superior variety is the result of a careful selection, 
for successive years, of the best formed, largest and deepest 
colored roots of the Imported Long Orange Carrot, by 
which it lias attained a perfection hitherto unknown in this 
useful vegetable, being larger, better flavored, and of a 
deeper orange color, and more sure to product; a crop. 
Rutter 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 ; by mail, 
post-paid. 
Genuine Wethersfield Onion Seed, 
We have received a line stock of the above from one of 
the most reliable growers in Wethersfield, which we offer at 
prices greatly reduced from last year; 
oz. 
'A lb. 
lb. 
Extra Early Red. 
$1 00 
$3 00 
Early lied. 
25 
75 
2 50 
w etlmrsfickl Large Red. 
. 20 
60 
2 00 
Danvers Follow. 
75 
2 50 
Y allow Dutch. 
75 
2 50 
AV bite Portugal. 
. 30 
1 00 
3 00 
Early Cracker. 
. 30 
1 00 
3 00 
Early Red Globe. 
. 30 
1 00 
3 00 
Southport lied Globe. 
. 30 
1 00 
3 00 
Southport White Globe. 
. 30 
1 00 
3 00 
Southport Yellow Globe. 
. 30 
1 00 
3 00 
Alfalfa or Chilian Clover, 
The great forage plant of California, mid equally adapted 
for culture east of the Rocky Mountains. By mail, post¬ 
paid, (ill cts. per lb. Prices for larger quantifies will be given 
upon application. Twenty-live pounds will sow an acre. 
Lawii Grass Seed, 
. l!y the use of our improved mixture a beautiful Lawn may 
'lie ina le in a very short time. For preparing a Lawn, and 
subsequent management, see our Seed Catalogue. 
Packages of one qt., 30c.. mailed to any address, post-paid. 
By express, per peck, $1 50; per bushel, $5. 
B. K. BLISS Sc SONS, 
34 2$a relay St. 9 New York.. 
isfliSLg 
irfSfiSmtL 
1- 
f^mrBJiBL/ss^SQNs, 
$50© to be divided among the six 
most successful growers who shall 
produce the largest quantity from 
I lb. of KUKY and AI,PIIA 
potatoes. Price of each, $1 per lb. 
CENTENNIAL PREmumSa 
to be awarded for the best 
collection, one neck each, of pota¬ 
toes introduced by us since 1867. 
«§5© for the best and most prom¬ 
ising seedlings raised this year from 
Pringles Hybridized Potato 
Seed. Packets of 25 seeds, 50 cts. 
The collections for which the last 
two premiums of $200 arc offered will be exhibited at 
the Centennial Exhibition, in Philadelphia, in October 
and premiums will be awarded by their committee. 
Eor conditions and full particulars send for our Potato 
Premium Circular, mailed free to all. 
HSliss’s Illustrated Seed Catalogue and Ama¬ 
teur’s Guide to the Flower and Kitchen Garden, con- 
tains a descriptive list of 2500 varieties of Garden, Field 
and I< lower Seeds, with explicit directions for culture, 
200pages, several hundred engravings, and a beautifully 
colored lithoyranh. Sent postpaid, for 35 cents. 
l>liss*s Gardener’s Almanac and Abridged Cata- 
toque of Garden, Fieldand Flower Seeds. 116 pages, beauti¬ 
fully illustrated, mailed to all applicants inclosing lOcts. 
Mliss’sIllBEstrated Potato Catalogue contains 
a descriptive list of all the new varieties recently intro¬ 
duced,with many other desirable sorts.also much useful 
i nformation upon their cultivation. 32 pages, 10 cents. 
E. K. BLISS <& SONS, 
r.O. Box No, 571*. 34 Barclay St., N.Y. 
Ilamd©lph 5 s Fertilizer Distributor. 
Something tlmt no Funner can afford to be without. 
Randolph's Maud Seed Sewer. 
For sowing all kinds of Garden Seed?, 
from Peas down to the smallest Seeds, 
with accuracy and desnatch. 
its cost is trifling compared with the 
advantages resulting from its use. The 
saving in lime and seeds will undoubt¬ 
edly repay tile outlay in ilie plant.iim of 
a single week. $1.25 each. Sent l>v 
mail, post-paid, to any address in the 
Timed m ites upon receipt of $150. 
Descriptive Circulars mailed to all ap¬ 
plicants. 
In order to 
introduce this 
useful imple¬ 
ment, we will 
present one to 
each of our cus¬ 
tomers w li o 
will order $5 
worth of vege¬ 
table or flower 
at o u r 
catalogue 
prices. 
Address B. &£., BLISS &. SOMS, 
34 Barclay st., Mew York. 
©IS13ER’S 
IMPROVED LIMA BEAR. 
The distinctive features of tiffs sort are early maturity, 
proliileness, and extra quality of beau, containing more sac¬ 
charine matter and producing one-third more shelled beans 
to the pole than the Large Lima, while the shelling becomes 
an easy matter, from the fact of the pods being entirely full 
of beans, forming one against the other like peas in a pod. 
The American Agriculturist of November, 1874, says: 
We regard the improving of this beau as one of the most 
important of the recent contributions to horticulture.” 
Price, $1.00 per pint. 
20 cents per paper, mailed on receipt of price. 
HENRY A. DKEEK, 
714 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, 
THE ALBANY SEED STORE, ESTABLISHED 1831. 
PRICE <Sfc K’POKF.R ROCKER, Successors to 
Our SPRING CATALOGUE for 1S7G, containing 96 pages, 
and 250 illustrations of Flowers, Vegetables, etc., is ready 
for distribution, and will be mailed free to any one writing 
for it. 
Use Earliest Potato Known, 
ALPHA, 
A very early variety for farm and garden culture; fit for 
tlie table ten or fifteen days before the Early Lose. Of me¬ 
dium size; flesh verv white, fine-grained, dry, and of excel¬ 
lent flavor; quality of tlie highest excellence. A first-class 
certificate was awarded by tlie Royal Horticultural Society, 
of London, in 1874. A silver medal was also awarded by the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 
Per pound $1.00 ; 3 pounds to one address, $2.50, by mall, 
prepaid. By express or freight, charges i aid by tlie pur¬ 
chaser, y peck, $2.00; 1 peck, $3.00; y bushel, $5.00; 1 
bushel, $9.00; 1 barrel, $20.00. 
$250 will be paid in premiums to the six persons growing 
the largest quantity from one pound. For conditions and 
full particulars send for our Potato Premium Circular, 
mailed free to all. 
Address B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
34 Bniclny Sf.. -New York. 
One of the best and most productive Potatoes ever introduced. 
1,417 lbs. (23 ii-10 bushels) raised from 
one pound of seed. 
This variety, first sent out bv us in the Spring of 1873, lias 
been thoroughly tested, botli in tills country and in Europe, 
the past two seasons, and we have yet to learn of tlie first 
instance where it lias failed to give entire satisfaction. 
Tlie Committee who awarded the premiums offered by us 
last spring, report as follows: 
“ The Siicwflaltp lias received more and higher praise 
than has probabiv ever been bestowed upon any Potato. 
There is no dissenting voice among the whole list of reports, 
nearly every one of whieli contain ‘It is the best Potato I 
ever saw.’ Its quality and uniformity of size are especially 
commented upon. In many cases 25 to 40 perfect Potatoes 
were found in every hill planted, and tubers of two or three 
pounds each, cooked readily and completely through. Mr. 
Perkins could select 1,000 tubers weighing 1,000 pounds from 
a gross product of 1,304 pounds, and finds them preferable 
to any Potato out of over a hundred varieties he grew. Mr. 
Salter ‘ never saw so fine a Potato ; beautiful in color and 
shape, firm in texture, flesh white ; luscious cooked in any 
way; it stands unrivaled.’ There is certainly within our 
knowledge no variety which combines all the essential points 
of a Potato in as high a degree as the Snowflake. Quality, 
shape, size, color, yield, are all that can he desired, and it is 
difficult to perceive in what direction further improvement 
can be obtained.” 
By mail, postpaid, per pound, 60 cts.; 2 pounds, $1.00. By 
express or freight, charges paid by tlie purchaser, 1 peck, 
$1.50; y bushel, $2.50; 1 bushel, $4.00; 1 barrel, $8.00. 
A few barrels of small size potatoes for sale by the barrel 
only, at $5.00 pel' barrel. 
3. EC. BLISS & SONS, 
Sox 5,712. 34 Barclay St. , Ne w Yo rk. 
Tailby’s Hybrid Cucumber. 
This combines in itself the best qualities of tlie English 
Frame and the White Spine. 
IS BEMABEABLY PROLIFIC, 
as Handsome as a Picture, and in brief, any man who plants 
it side by side with the best varieties lie raises, 
WILL FIND IT AIT ACQUISITION. 
Per Package, 15 cents. 
JA&iiSS J. H. GRECOE?Y, 
Marblehead, Mass. 
