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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
158 
Our CATALO«,GB of 
SEEDS AMD) 
REQUiSSTES 
is now ready for mailing to al! who enclose 
ten cents. 
R. H. ALLEN & CO., 
P. O. Box 376. 189 & 191 Water St., N. Y. 
GARDEN 
AND 
PLOWER SEEI>§, \Q 
& AgrietjJtufa! UmpSesnents, m 
GUANO, BOSE-BUST, ETC. jg.. 
VAHBERBXLT BROS, .^Qp 
33 Eniton, st., N. Y. ' ‘ 
Send for catalogue. 
The Best Seeds, Cheapest, 
Every variety of the best Agricultural, Garden, 
and Plotvcr Seeds. Supplied by 
HOVEY & CO., 53 North Market St., Boston, Mass. 
Catalogues of Seeds and Plants free on application. 
A~ SAMPLE OF 
MA1Y HUinXKEDS. 
“1,005 Clay St., Sara Francisco,) 
“ Sent. 9 th, 1875. S 
“ IV. F. Massey & Co. 
“.Your Plants, Seeds, &c , do better here than those 
of any we have yet tried. 
“Mrs. GEO. P. WARNRR.” 
Tills lady iias had plants from us by mail for years past. 
See onr $1.00 List elsewhere. 
W. F. MASSEY & CO., 
_ Chestertowri, Kent Co., Maryland. 
Double Master Christine Geranium. 
NOW READY, splendid NEW DOUBLE and SINGLE 
GERANIUMS, just introduced by the European hybridizers, 
Sisley, Alegatieee, Lemoine, Laxton, Paul, Geokge, 
&c. They have bloomed with us, includingMAD. THIBAUT, 
which may be called Double Master Christine, beautiful 
bright pink, free bloomer; all are magnificent. < atalogues 
of these and our unsurpassed Collection of Roses, free to 
applicants. Address E. Y. TEAS & CO., 
Rose Growers, Richmond, Ind. 
For Spring of 187G, will be ready in February, with a colored 
Plate—Many beautiful new plants are offered—all at very 
low rates—Free to all my customers, to others price 25 cts. 
A plain copy to all applicants free. 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
ALII ABOUT 
For Home use and for Market, in ROOT’S GARDEN 
MANUAL—Practical, pointed and thorough— 
containing one-half ns much matter as $1.50 books on the 
subject. Gardeners throughout the country commend its 
practical labor-saving methods as invaluable to them. Sent 
for 10 cents, which will be allowed on the first order for 
seeds. J. R, ROOT, Seed Grower, 
Rockford, Illinois. 
AMATEUR 
CULTIVATORS 
GUIDE 
To tile Flower and 
Kitchen Garden 
now ready for appli¬ 
cants. 
Send two stamps to 
WASHBURN & CO,, 
Horticultural Build¬ 
ing, Boston, Mass. 
ONE DOLLAR. 
SPOOKBB’S C-AEDffll"a"omErOB 1876, 
And Spooner’s special collection of 30 varieties, of 
choice FLOWER SEEDS, including Ornamental 
Grasses and Everlastings , will bo mailed to any address 
upon receipt of $1.00, or Illustrated Catalogue free. Address 
_ WM. H. SPOONER, Bo ston, Mass. 
L ane’s Improved Sugar Beet, Seed, 1 lb., 80c.; 4 
lbs., $3. Snowflake, and other Potatoes, and over 
80 varieties of Seeds, at low rates. Seudfor Cata¬ 
logue^_ DAVID It. WOOD, Morrisviile, Vt. 
EVERY LOVER OF FLOWERS”" 
will find much of interest in Root’s Garden Manual. Seeadv. 
“All About Gardening” & “ Success in Market Gardening.” 
BANCROFT’S WIEEtlOlJ 
Every one likes it. See cut in March No. Immense stock 
of Trees, all sizes. Send for Price List of both. 
THOS. JACKSON, Portland, Me. 
I have founded my business on the belief that the public 
are anxious to get their seed directly from the grow¬ 
er, and I therefore offer FREB 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 hundred 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, 
Phinney’s Melon, the Marblehead Cabbages, and a score of 
other new vegetables, I solicit your patronage. A11 seed 
sold under three warrants. A hundred thousand catalogues 
will be issued and sent out the first of January. 
•TAMES J. II. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
GRAPE VINES. 
Concord. Martha, Delaware, Rogers Hybrids, 
Ives, Hartford, and other leading varieties of the best 
quality and at low prices. Elvira, the best hew white 
wine grape. Our Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue, 80 large 
pages, mailed for 25 cents. Price lists free. 
Address BUSH & SON & MEISSNER, 
Busliberg, Jeff. Co., Mo. 
EEAFTIFFI, EVER-BLOOMTING 
STRONG- ROT PLANTS 
Suitable for immediate Flowering. Sent 
Safely by mail, post-paid. 
FIVE SPLENDID VARIETIES, each kind 
labeled, §1, 13 do. S3,10 do. S3, 
3f> do. S4, 35 do. $5. 
For 10 cts. each, additional, one 
MAGNIFICENT PREMIUM ROSE, 
to every dollar’s worth ordered. 
Send for our NEW GUIDE TO ROSE CULTURE, 
and select for yourself Irora over 300 finest sorts. We are 
the largest Rose-Growers in America, and the only ones 
allowing purchasers to make their own selections. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. Address 
THE DINGEE & CONARI) CO., 
ROSE GROWERS, West Grove, Chester Co., Pa. 
Roses. UEW ROSES. Roses. 
Over 500 Varieties grown in quantity on tlieir own roots, 
Including all the newest and choicest varieties. Catalogue 
sent on receipt of 3-cent postage stamp. Also—Greenhouse 
and Bedding Plants in quantity. Send for Catalogue to 
MILLER & HAYES, 
5774: Germantown Avciuic, Philadelphia. 
Fine ever-blooming and other 
roses sent safely by Mail post¬ 
paid, everywhere, and tlieir 
safe arrival guaranteed. G for 
SI, 14: for $2, 30 for $4:. Purchasers’ choice of nearly 
GOO varieties of roses and other plants; carefully labeled. 
Fine premium rose with each package, when 10c. is added. 
Catalogue free. Address 
JOS. T. PHILLIPS, West Grove, Chester Co., Pa. 
loses, ROSES, Roses. 
7 Pot-Grown Roses, Purchaser’s Selection, for $1. Clema¬ 
tis and other Climbing Plants, Flowering Shrubs, Grape 
Vines, and Small Fruits. By Mail. Send for a Descriptive 
Catalogue, Free. 
WM. II. MOON, Morrisviile, Pa. 
13 OSES, YEEBEKAO 
IHf BUDDING AND EXHIBITION FLAMTi^l 
B6EBa'5&y Sweepstakes Medal at Exposition 
Fine-Stock at Low Figures. Catalogue FREE. 
Address 15. I 3 . C I? IT Cl i ELL, Cincinnati, tfehio. 
DOUBLE TUBEROSE BULBS. 
Our Stock of BULBS this year is of 
very superior quality. 
Doz. 100 1,000 
1st quality large Flowering Bulbs.$ 75 $4.00 $30.00 
2d quality “ “ . 50 3.00 20.00 
A few hundred extra large Bulbs. 1.00 5.00 
If sent bv mail, 25 cents per dozen extra. 
MILLER & HAYES, 5774 Germantown Ave., Pliila. 
HOSES 
UWWBS vM SiOSISi WSaaSslfs 
Jlles,“Violets Geraniums, Fuschias 
She Greenbrook & Paterson City Nurseries 
Send by Vail 10 Extra Choice Varieties for $1.00, and 
Hires Fins Album Chromos or a Ohoico Liliom. Buyer’s Choice. 
2 Sample Plants, Chromos, or Lilium sentfor gg cts. 
■Address J, GRIEVES, Sec’y, Bos 837, Patbescn, N. J. 
containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form , for want of space elsewhere. 
Continued from p, 128. 
lPoiaSti-y Keeping-.— 1 “C, H.,” Lawrence, 
Mass. The Light Brahmas arc the fowls most generally 
useful, though there are others better for special pur¬ 
poses. The White Leghorns arc the best for eggs, the 
Brown Leghorns for early chickens, but for eggs, chick¬ 
ens, heavy mature birds, and ease of keeping, we prefer 
the Light Brahmas, or a cross of these on common stock. 
No one can expect to succeed in making poultry keeping 
profitable, unless he gives his own attention to it. It will 
not pay to employ - hired help. 
Morses tinsel Cows in tine Same 
Stable.—” G. H. S.,” Havana, Ill. It is not at all in¬ 
jurious to either to have cows and horses in the same 
stable. The idea to the contrary may have arisen 
through some ill effect by reason of the usually filthy 
condition in which cow-stalls are kept, and if the horse 
stalls are not kept sweet and clean, the milk would cer¬ 
tainly suffer in quality in consequence. Milk readily 
absorbs bad odors, and the eyes of animals as well as 
tlieir lungs suffer from foul air, charged with ammoni- 
acal vapors. Unless the stables are kept very dean, we 
would prefer to have the different animals separate, but 
if cleanliness and purity of air are secured, the whole 
of the stock may be housed together. 
Which ISrccii ®f Pig's L. W. S.,” 
Frederic Co., Va.—The breeds which are now - popular in 
various localities, arc the Poland-China, the Chester 
White, and the Berkshire, for packing in the west; the 
Suffolk and the Yorkshire, (white pigs), in the east for 
” pork pigs,” the Berkshire for bacon and hams every¬ 
where; the Essex for crossing and improving poor 
races ; some local races, (as the Jersey reds), are in 
favor in certain places. The names of breeders who we 
have reason to believe are trustworthy, will bo found in 
the advertising columns. 
Wlsy is ULsbiklI CSieap isi some 
Places T—“L. W. G.,” Cleveland, Ohio. It surprises 
some, as it. does you, that land in some parts of Mary¬ 
land should be offered at less prices, than it can he 
bought for in the west. But it should be considered tiiat 
many tilings go to make up the value of land. Fertility, 
liealthfiilness of climate, good water, good roads, near¬ 
ness to market, schools, low taxes, and social advantages 
all help to fix the value of land. Rich land is worth little 
in a climate where a farmer can not enjoy health, or have 
his children go to school, or where his family have no 
agreeable society. Wo know of no place in the country 
where all these advantages are to be enjoyed, in which 
farms go a begging at $10 an acre, or even much more 
than that. There are many places in Maryland, and other 
southern states, where people own too much land, and 
are “ land poorthe land is good, the climate favor¬ 
able, and the land is cheap. But in such places the 
very fact that land lias been held in large farms, is a 
sufficient reason for a scarcity of neighbors, and of 
schools. Those who do not care for these, can find plenty 
of cheap farms. It is population that makes good land 
high in price, and vice versa. 
JPowItry WauteM.— The many persons' 
wdio have inquired about poultry, are informed that w - e 
I have neither birds nor eggs for sale, and that w - c do not 
I sell poultry, or any other stock. Those who have poultry 
for sale, will probably soon make it known in our adver¬ 
tising columns in the usual way. When we figure and 
describe various breeds of poultry, and other animals; it 
i is solely for the Information of our readers, as w - e are not 
interested directly or indirectly, in the sale of anything 
of the kind. Dealers are very unwise that they do not 
advertise more generally ; w - c have for the past two 
months averaged full five letters daily, asking where parti¬ 
cular breeds of foivls, ducks, pigs, sheep, etc., may be had. 
Mow to Else IfcyMEJBBaite.—“J. F. G. L.,” 
Academia, Pa. The method of using dynamite or giant 
powder in clearing land, was explained in the Americmi 
Agriculturist of Oct., 1875. It should be used with can, 
tion, as it is eight times as powerful as gunpowder, and 
even more, under some conditions. No one should at¬ 
tempt to use it, until instructed by some experienced 
person, or unless having sufficient experience with pow¬ 
der, to handle explosives in a proper manner. 
