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A MERIOAN AGRICULTUHIST 
[May, 
Randolph’s ISand Seed 
Sower. 
B. K, Bliss & 
34 Barclay St., 
New York. 
P. 0. Box 5,71 
For sowing all kinds of Garden Seeds, 
from Peas down to the smallest Seeds, 
with accuracy and despatch. 
Its cost is trifling compared with the 
advantages resulting from its use. The 
saving in time 
and seeds will 
undou 1) te d 1 y 
repay the out¬ 
lay in the plant¬ 
ing of a single 
w e e k . $ 1.25 
each. Sent by 
mail, post-paid, 
to any address 
in the United 
States u p o n 
receipt of $1.50. 
Des< ri p Li v e 
Circulars mail¬ 
ed to all appli¬ 
cants. 
ALPHA. 
A very early variety for farm and garden culture; fit for 
th? table ten or fifteen days before the Early Hose. Of me¬ 
dium size; flesh verv white, fine-grained, dry, and of excel¬ 
lent flavor, quality of the highest excellence. A first-class 
certificate was awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society, 
of London, in 1871 A silver meda'l was also awarded by the 
Massachusetts Horticultural S ciety. 
Per pound $1.00; 3 pounds to one address, $2.50, by mall, 
prepaid. By express or freight, charges paid by the pur¬ 
chaser, K peck, $2.00; 1 peck, $3.U0; 'A 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 H. K. BLISS & SONS, 
34 Barclay St., New York. 
SNOWFLAKE. 
One o f the beet and most productive Potatoes ever introduced. 
1,411 lbs. (23 ii-10 bushels) raised , from one pound of seed. 
This varietv, first sent out by us in the Spring of 1873, has 
been thoroughly tested the past two seasons, and we have 
yet to learn of the first instance where it has failed to give 
entire satisfaction. Quality, shape, size, C' lor, yield, are all 
that can be desired, and ii is difficult to perceive in what di¬ 
rection furthe improvem nt can be obtained.” 
By mail, postpaid per pound, GO cts.; 2 pounds. $1.00. By 
express or freight, charges paid by the purchaser, 1 peck, 
$1.50; K bushel $2.50; 1 bushel, $1.00; I barrel, $8,00. 
A few barrels of small size potatoes for sale bv the barrel 
only, at $5.00 per barrel 
B. K. BUSS & SOWS, 
Box 5,712. 34 Barclay Si., NcwYork, 
T he Victor Potato. 
Yields 500 Bushels per acre. Cooks white 
as snow. Testimonials furnished. 
Sent post-paid, Two lbs., whole potatoes, 75 cts.; 75 eyes. 
$1: 130 eyes, $1.50: by express or freight, paid bv purchaser, 
one peek, $2.00; one bushel, $5.00; one DDl., $10. Discount 
to Granges Address all orders to 
A. C. ASHALD, Garrettsville, Ohio. 
NEW SWEET CORN—TRIUMPH. 
(A valuable acquisition). 
Tills 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. 
A pint Packets 25 cents. Select ears by mail, 30 cents. 
Green Prolific Pickling - Cucumber, 
A new variety now offered for tlie first time; selected with 
great care by one of the largest growers of pickling cucum¬ 
bers in the country; with good cult ure 200,000 can he grown 
on one acre. 
Packet, 25 cts.; oz., 75 cts.; lb., $1.75; lb., $5.00. 
Bliss’s Improved Long Orange Parrot. 
This superior variety is the result of a careful selection, 
for successive years, of the best formed, largest and deepest 
colored roots of the Improved Long Orange Carrot, by 
which it has attained a perfection hitherto unknown in this 
useful vegetable, being larger, better flavored, and of a 
deeper orange color, and more sure to produce a crop. 
Butter makers will find this variety very useful in giving to 
their butter a rich, d**ep yel ow color.' One ounce, 15 cts.; 
four ounces. 40 cts.; on<» in., $1 25; by mail, post-paid. 
Packages of one qt., 30c.. mail* d to anv address, post-paid. 
By express, per peck, $1 50; per bushel, $5. 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
34 Barclay SI., New York. 
THE DUCHESS, 
The Earliest Strawberry, 
Large, solid, profitable, hardy, and of the best quality. 50 
cents per plant, $2 for six, $:>'per dozen. For descriptive 
price-list of every desirable variety of Small Fruits, Pota¬ 
toes, and Garden seeds. Address 
F. M. HEX A BIER, 
New Castle. Wcsleliester Co., N. Y. 
[Successor to Reisig & Hexamer]. 
KTiuinmv punts' 
$250 in Cash Prizss—To Potato Growers. 
New desirable varieties direct from originator. Descrip¬ 
tion, Brice, Conditions, ami much cood advice, free to all ap¬ 
plicant. D. A. COMPTON, Hawley, Wayne Co., Pa. 
S 
nowflake Potatoes, $7.00 pee bbl. Oerter nt, once. 
EEDS «&r PLANTS, I E. Ii. JENNINGS. 
CHEAP. Southport, Ct. 
SWEET POTATO unsemoiirt, 
Bermuda, Southern Queen, Earle Red. Bv mail, $1 per 100 . 
Express, $ per 400; $2 per 1.00" ; $s per 5.000 ; $15 per 10.000. 
W. W. KA rilBO.SE, Sweet Potato i'nltnrist. 
Marietta, Ohio. 
ui iiiifi imiiin i mm 105 
By the 100. 1,000, 10,000. or 100.000. 
MONARCH OF THE WEST, COE. CHENEY’, 
WILSON’S ALBANY, Seth Boydeu, thus. 
Downing, Do nor, Triomphe do Hand, Ken¬ 
tucky. Also STA It OF THE WEST, Champion, 
Dr. Warder, Late Prolific, Black Defiance, 
Agriculturist, Eeuning’s White, and others. 
A. HAY CIO & SON, 
Nurserymen and Florists, Red Bank, N. J. 
"V F.w DOMINION STB AWliEtiRY. — Large, 
14 Hardy, and Productive. Highly recommended by the 
Fruit Growers’Association of Ontario. Send for Circulars 
to A. M. SMITH, Druinmonoville, Ontario, 
I have founded my business on the belief that the public 
are anxious to get their seed <K> eel ly 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 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 Marbleh ad 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 Jauuary. 
.TAMES *T. H. GREGORY. Marblehead, Mass. 
THE ALBANY SEED STORE. ESTABLISHED 1S31, 
PRICE & KNICKERBOCKER, Successors to 
WR.’D'OUWS 
sm 
Our SPRING CATALOGUE for 1876, containing 96 pages, 
and 250 illustrations of Flowers, Vegetables, eic., is n ady 
for distribution, and will be mailed free to any one writing 
for It. 
For Spring of 1R76, will be ready in February, with a colored 
Plate—Main - beaut'ful new plants are offered—all at very 
low rates—Free to all mv customers, to others price 25 cts. 
A plain copy to all applicants free. 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 
CHEAP PLANTS FOR ALL,. 
Catalogue Free to all Purchasers. 
WM. BENNETT & SONS, 
Box 9”9, Pittsb urgh, Pa. 
A f=iI* SOCIAI/S'Y. 
” 3H0 Acres in Fruits. No. 1 Plants of nil best sorts at 
very lowest rates. SeePage ill, March number Send for 
prices to JOHN S. COLLINS, Moorefctown, N. J. 
P RIME HUNGARIAN GRASS SEED for sale. 
$3.15 per bag of two bushels hag included. % to 1 bus. 
required tor an acre. Send all orders to 
HENRY WANNER. Requea. 1 ancastor County. Pa. 
4 If) ? 25Evergreens for $1, post-paid. Cata- 
Yu iO Jjji\ JL « logues of Plants and Nursery Stock 
for stamp. See Advt. in April American Agriculturist. 
WM. MORTON & SON, Allen’s Corner,Maine. 
A SAMPLE OF 
MANY HUITOREBS. 
Seed Corn. 
Favorite ” Yellow Dent. Best in the World. 
EARLIEST Days), MOST PRODUCTIVE, 
Descriptive circular free. Send stamp for sample. 
ZW~ Send tor Catalogues of (-ard< n. Flow* r Si Field 
SEED L Rustic Work, Implements. 
Iving & Savage,?? Stsitc St., C'llieago, Ill. 
SEED S. 
GARDEN, FLOWER & FIELD SEEDS, 
reliable, fresh and pure, at reasonable prices. 
(ESTABLISHED 1S39.) 
13. H. STAIR Si CO., 
Cleveland Seed Store. Cleveland, Ohio. 
Yellow Danvers Onion, 
Grown from selected stock. By mail, $2.00 per pound. 
Seed Catalogue on application. 
H. GRINTON, 
53£ Main St., aucl (57 Chippewa St., 
BUFFALO, N. Y. 
Yellow Globe Mangel Wnrzcl Seed. 
Of my own raising, from selected bulbs. Price, 75 cts. per 
pound; 4 lbs. for $2.50; sent prepaid by mail. 10 lbs., or 
over, by express, 50 cents per ib. There is no better root for 
milch cows, sheep, or pigs. Address, 
JOSEPH HARRIS, Moreton Farm, Rochester, N. Y. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
All the best varieties at lowest iates. Price-list Free. 
Please mention what paper von saw this in. 
CHAS. S. PRATT, North Reading, Mass. 
S BE S3 § I will send the following 
Si ff H ¥ r W % §1 i 3 A by mail, post-paid, all for 
W 3 o ” la B out -door planting, and 
true to name. Brighton, (new), best early red, each $1.50; 
Worilen’s Seedling, (new), very fine large early black, 
each $1 ; Walter, earl. , the only American Raisin Grape, 
$1 each. One of each for $3. Also Kerr’s Prolific 
Strawberry, (new), very promising, $2 pi r dozen; $5 per 
100, and Star of the West, (new), $2.5 i per doz.; $5 for 
50. Deduct 20 per cent when over $5 worth of above are 
ordered. Raspberry and other Fruit Plants for sale very 
low, and in great variety, at “Hudson River Fruit 
Gardens.” Berry Baskets and Crates, many styles. 
Address. It. 11. HAINES, Malden-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. 
THE LADY GRAPE. 
T HE finest early White Grape in cultivation. A pure 
Concord seedling, perfectly hardy, healthy, productive, 
and reliable. Eight years tested. Ripens middle of August. 
Recommended by the best horticulturists in the Union. 
Single vines, 1 year strong, post-paid, for SI.50, $15 per 
doz.; 2 years, S2 single, v-io p. r doz. Also large stock of 
Concords, Delawares, and all valuable grapes. Illustrated 
Catalogue for J-ct. stamp; with splendid colored plate of 
Lady Grape, 10 ets. Address 
GEO. W. CAMPBELL, Delaware, O. 
“1,005 Clay St., 
“ W. F. Massey & Co. 
Sail Fean cisco, 
“ Sept. 9 til, 1875. 
“.Your Plants, Seeds, &c , do better here than those 
of any we have yet tried. 
“ Mrs. GEO. P. WARXRR." 
This lady lias bad plants from us by mail for years past. 
Sec our §1.00 List, elsewhere. 
W. F. MASSEY & CO., 
Chcstcrtown, Kent Co., Maryland. 
Bates 5 Folding Vine Protector. 
This Protector was 
introduced in 1859. and 
parties that had them 
in that year have pro¬ 
tected their plants 
every year since, and 
they are good now. 
4 doz. for $5. 
Send for Circular. 
Also Imperial Pekin 
Ducks eggs, from pure 
stock, $5 per doz. 
Caleb bates, 
Kingston. Mass. 
All About Gardening. 
For Home Use and for Market, in BOOT’S GARDEN 
MANIIA h. Contains half as much as $1.50 books on tlie 
subject. Sent postpaid for It) cents. 
.1. B. ROOT, Seed Grower, Rockford, III. 
"Visiting- Cards, with your name finely 
printed, sent for 25c. We have SO© styles. 
Agent. Wanted. © sampl s sen for 
stamp. A. II. Fuller & Co., Brockton, Mass. 
