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AMERICAN AG E1C lJ LTUR1ST. 
THE €©MCCI1SB ©SSAPI3. 
T he originator *of this new 
Grape offers for sale a line stock, raised from the parent 
vine. It lias fully sustained its reputation as the < 
BliS'l' GRAPE FOR OUT-DOER CULTURE, 
Having; survived the last two severe Winters unharmed, where 
the Isabella. Catawba and other vines were killed to the ground. 
for SIZE, BEAUTY, QUALITY and bearing, 
It is unsurpassed. It is perfectly hardy, and has never been ef¬ 
fected by rot or mildew, while it ripens from three to four weeks 
earlier than the Isabella, and two weeks earlier than the Diana, 
in the garden of the proprietor. 
The following are some of the testimonials that have been re¬ 
ceived from different sources respecting this grape : 
We have received from E. W. Bull, of Concord, a fine speci¬ 
men of the Concord Grape. Tins new seedling is attracting 
much attention among horticulturists, and deservedly. It is a 
large and handsomely clustered Grape, and the flavor of the 
specimens we have tasted is superior to that ot ihe Isabella, 
itosion Journal, Sept. 1854. 
“ [ have taken the liberty to give you the impressions my late 
vNU to your garden produced in my mind. I’ne exhibition of 
vour new Seedling Grape, now laden with its luscious fruit, 
w, ls r.o me perfectly satisfactory. The size, beauty, rich bloom 
ami tine tlavor of the Grape, fully answer the glowing descrip¬ 
tions char, have been given to it. None can look upon the won- 
dr iiiilly luxuriant vines, loaded with their rich clusters, with¬ 
out resolving to obtain one for his own garden ” Rev. A. Bul- 
iari),. Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 19,1854. 
Mr. Miller, of Calmdale, Pa., says: “Last Summer, when 
all m*v native and foreign vines lost most, of their foliage, the 
Concord was the only vine which kept its foliage throughout.’ 
We tested at our late State Fair, several specimens of this 
new Eastern Grape, and were agreeably disappointed in it. The 
berries are from a fourth to a third larger than either the Isa¬ 
bella or Catawba; the bunches are larger and heavier: the 
viue is far hardier than any other of Northern origin ; and the 
fruit ripens from three weeks to a month ea<lier.”— Horace 
Greeley, New-York Tribune, Sept. 1854. 
‘ I regret the Grapes I received from you did not keep longer. 
They gave t he utmost satisfaction, and every good judge ol 
fruit, said thev were decidedly better than the Isabella. —-J D. 
Ingersoll, Ilion, N Y., Oct. 1854. 
“The most beautiful of the new hardy grapes is undoubtedly 
the Concord.”—J. F. Allen, Report Mass. Hort. Society, 1854. 
‘‘The testimony in favor of this Grape is certainly very full 
and from well-known horticulturist s. It may be pronounced 
large, handsome and excellent.”— Horticulturist, Dec. 1855. 
Opinions of the Massachusetts H'irticultural Sociefy. 
1852, Sept.—“ Seedling Giape from Mr. Bull, large, handsome 
and Excellent.” 
1853, Sept.—* Fully equal to specimens last year, and proves to 
be a remarkably early, handsome, and very superior Grape.” 
Fine, strong plants, at $1 50 each; $12 per dozen. Two years 
old, at S2 eaoh. Three years old, extra, at each. A liberal 
discount to Clubs and the trade. 
Orders, with cash or good reference, promptly attended to. 
Address E. W. BULL, Concord, Mass. 
REBECCA GRAPE VINES 
FOR SALE. 
T O BE READY FOR DELIVERY BY 
the 15th of May, good strong Plants in pots, propagated 
from the original vine. Price $3 each 
Those wishing to obtain this new and valuable Native White 
Grape, will do well to forward their orders at an early date. 
WILLIAM BROCKSHANK. 
Prospect Hill Nursery (near Hudson), 
Columbia Co , N. Y. 
(GTSSAIPES. 
Now is the season for planting. 
C HORLTOWS COMPLETE GRAPE- 
GROWER’S GUIDE.60 cents. 
REEMELIN’S VINE-DRESSER’S MANUAL .50 do. 
ALLEN ON THE GRAPE.$1 00 
Are works which should he in the hands of every one who 
has a vine to plant or prune. The increased produce of a single 
year will pay for them. 
Sent free of postage on receipt of price. 
C. M. SAXTON & CO . 
Agricultural Book-Publishers, 
140 Fulton-st., Nevv-York. 
EVERGREEN trees. 
P ARSONS & CO., FLUSHING, near 
NEVV-YORK, offer for sale— 
Norway Spruce, grown far apart,symmetrical and bushy, 
1 to 5 feet high, at $8 to $50 per 100; 
Siberian Arbor Vine, 2 feet . . 40 do. 
do 2% to 3 feet. 60 do. 
Cedrus Deodara, 4 feet.40 do. 
Abies Morinda, do.50 do. 
Rhododendron Catawbiense, 1 foot.50 do. 
With many other varieties suitable for the trade, or planting in 
masses. 
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“ GET THE BEST.” 
WEBSTER’S QUARTO DICTIONARY-UNABRIDGED. 
SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 
A ll young persons should 
have a Standard DICTIONARY at their elbows: and 
svhila you are about it., get the best; that Dictionary is Noah 
Webster’s, the great work, unabridged. If you are too poor, 
save the amount from off your back, to put into your head.”— 
Ph. Journal. 
" Webster’s Quarto Dictionary.— Everybody knows about 
Webster’s Dictionary, and every man, woman and child, ought 
to have access to it. 
“ It will tell you everything in regard to your mother tongue 
which you want to know. It shows you the words in all their 
aspects—giving you a sort of history of each individual that is 
in any way worthy of attention. 
*• Every farmer should give his sons two or three square rods 
of ground, well prepared, with the avails of which they may buy 
it. Every mechanic should put a receiving box-in some conspicu¬ 
ous place in the house, to catch the stray pennies, for the like 
purpose. 
“ Lay it upon your table by the side of the Bible—it is a better 
expounder than many which claim to be expounders.”— Mass. 
Life Boat. 
Published by G. & C. MERRIAM, 
Springfield, Mass. 
T<0> EOVEIIS <1>F FLOWERS. 
B URST’S FLOWER GARDEN DIREC¬ 
TORY.$1 25 
BRECK’S BOOK OF FLOWERS.1 00 
Will give you the directions you need for.selecting the rarest 
and best flowers, and for their successful cultivation. These 
are the best books for amateurs. 
Sent free of postage on receipt of price. 
C. M. SAXTON &CO., 
Agricultural Book-Publishers, 
140 Fulton-st., New-York. 
IAWTIM 1LACM1EMSY. 
T his variety is unique, and 
not as many suppose. “ The New-Rochelle Blackberry,” 
improved by cultivation. The plants which abound in that 
neighborhood are no better than the wild varieties to be found 
in every part of the country. 
CARD FOR ISa 1 ?. 
. Packages carefully prepared for safe transportation, will be j 
sold at the following reduced rates:—Half a dozen, S2; one i 
dozen, S3; two dozen, $5; fifty plants, $10 ; one hundred, $18. I 
Descriptive Circulars, and full directions for planting and cul- j 
tivation, will be furnished with each package The money j 
should accompany ihe order, with name and directions dis- ! 
tinctly written. Address 
WILLIAM LAWTON. 
No. 54 Wail-st , New-York; 
or New-Rochelle, N. Y. 
N. B.—Plants set out before May 15 will fruit next year. 
LAWTON 
BLACKBERRY PLANTS 
The Subscribers announce to their friends and customerslhat 
they have now 
OYER SIX ACRES 
of the 
GENUINE LAWTON 
BLACKBERRY PLANTS 
under cultivation, and in good condition. 
They are therefore prepared to fill large orders the coming 
FALL and the following SPRING. 
PRICES. 
$18 
per 
Hundred plants. 
$10 
per 
Fifty plants. 
$5 
per 
Twenty-five plants. 
$3 
per 
Dozen plants. 
N. B. All plants ordered of us will lie TAKEN up 
and PACKED with the GREATEST CARE ; and 
UNDER GUR OWN PERSONAL SUPERVISION. 
Of the MANY THOUSANDS 
sent out by us last year we have heard very few instances of 
failure, notwithstanding that they have been forwarded to 
EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY, 
and the setting out has often been entrusted to unskillful hands. 
Printed directions for setting and cultivating are sent with 
everv Dacknge. 
GEOUGE SEYMOUR & CO., 
South Norwalk, Conn. 
THE IMiM RASPBERRY. 
T AGAIN OFFER FOR SALE A LIMITED 
-H- number of Plants of this excellent, thrifty, hardy Rasp¬ 
berry. They having been for the first time advertised last 
Fall, the supply then on hand for sale was mostly taken, and 
but a few are now left. Next Autumn, they will again he for 
sale. 
Lewis F. Allen, Esq , of Black Rock, N. Y., has for many 
years cultivated this fruit in the garden grounds (which I now 
occupy), on his Grand Island farm. It is allied to the Red 
Antwerp variety, hut is not the "true” Red Antwerp of the 
gardens and nurseries. The hush grows much larger, needs no 
sort of covering or protection in Winter, and bears abundant 
annual crops of delicious fruit of the first quality. 
Packages of ten to fifty Plants will be delivered at the Ex¬ 
press Office in Buffalo previous to t he first of May, at 10 cents 
the Plant. For packages of five dozen or more plants, $ l per 
dozen. Remittances to come with t he orders. 
Address care of L. F. ALLEN, Esq., Black Rock, N. Y. 
March 21,1857. THOMAS DUFF. 
CHOICE FARM LANDS FOR SALE. 
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL 
RAILROAD COMPANY 
IS NOW PREPARED TO SELL ABOUT 
1,500,000 ACRES OF CHOICE 
FARMING LANDS, 
IN TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARDS , 
ON LONG CREDITS, AND AT LOW RATES OF INTEREST. 
T hese lands were granted by 
the Government to aid the construction of this Road, and 
are among the richest and most fertile in the world. They ex¬ 
tend from Northeast and Northwest, through the middle of the 
State, to the extreme South, and include every variety of climate 
and productions found between those parallels of latitude. The 
Northern portion is chiefly prairie, interspersed with fine groves, 
and in the Middle and Southern sections timber predominates, 
alternating with beautiful prairies and openings. 
The climate is more healthy, mild and equable, than any 
other part of the country; the air is pure and bracing, while liv¬ 
ing streams and springs of excellent water abound. 
Bituminous Coal is extensively mined, and supplies a cheap 
and desirable fuel, being furnished at many points at S2 to 
$4 per ton, and wood can be had at the same rate per cord. 
Building Stone of excellent quality also abounds, which can 
be procured for little more than the expense of t ransportation. 
The great fertility of these lands, which are a black rich mold 
from two to five feet deep, and gently rolling—their contiguity to 
this road, by which every facility is furnished for travel and 
transportation to the principal markets North, South, East, 
West, and the economy with which they can be cultivated, ren¬ 
der them the most valuable investment that can be found, and 
present the most favorable opportunity for persons of industri¬ 
ous habits and small means to acquire a comfortable independ¬ 
ence in a few years. 
Chicago is now the greatest grain market in the world, and 
the facility and economy with which the products of these 
lands can be transported to that market, make them much more 
profitable at the prices asked than those more remote at Govern¬ 
ment rates, as the additional cost of transportation is a perpetual 
tax on the latter, which must be borne by the producer in the 
reduced price he receives for his grain, &c. 
The Title is Perfect, and when the final payments are made, 
Deeds are executed by the Trustees appointed by the State, an<J 
in whom the title is vested to the purchasers, which convey to 
them absolute titles in Fee Simple, free and clear of every in¬ 
cumbrance, lien or mortgage. 
The prices are from $6 to $30. 
INTEREST ONLY 3 PER CENT. 
20 per cent, deducted from the Credit price for Cash. 
Those who purchase on long credit give notes payable in 2, 3, 
4, 5 and 6 years after date.and are required to improve one-tenth 
annually for five years, so as to have one-half the land unde: 
cultivation at the end of that time. 
Competent Surveyors will accompany those who wish to ex¬ 
amine these lands, iree of charge, and aid them in making selec¬ 
tions. 
The lands remaining unsold are as rich and valuable as those 
which have been disposed of. 
SECTIONAL MAPS 
Will he sent to any one who will inclose fifty cents in Postage 
Stamps, and Books or Pamphlets, containing numerous in¬ 
stances of successful farming, signed by respectable and well- 
known farmers living in the neighborhood of the Railroad lands 
throughout the State; also the cost of fencing, price of cattle, 
expense of harvesting, threshing, etc., or any other informa¬ 
tion, will be cheerfully given on application, either personally 
or by letter, in English, French or German, addressed to 
JOHN WILSON. 
Land Commissioner of the Illinois Central Railroad Co. 
Office in Illinois Central Railroad Depot. Chicago, Illinois. 
FARM FOR SALE, 
IN BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 
THE UNDERSIGNED, WISHING TO 
J*- close his Farming operations in Buckingham County, Yir- 
ginia, ofi'ers for sale, upon reasonable terms, or in exchange for 
city property, two valuable tracts of land, being within six miles 
of Buckingham Court House, and adjoining the Moseley &, Gar¬ 
rett Gold Mines. One of said tracts com<iins about 230 acres, 
and known by the name of ‘‘Owen’s Mills”—having about 100 
acres at present in cultivation, with a growing ciop of wheat, 
corn and oats, with half an acre of ground planted with vegeta¬ 
bles, containing, in part, potatoes, beans. peas, onions, lettuce, 
&c., and enclosed with new fencing. There is on the place a 
small dwelling-house, and all necessary out-houses, such as sta¬ 
bles, &c., with stock of horses, cattle and hogs; farming uten¬ 
sils. &c.; also a steam saw' and grist mill, with engine of 35 
horse power, and sufficient timber for the support of the place, 
if purchased separate. The other tract lies within one-fourth of 
a mile of the one first mentioned, and contains 216 acres, is en¬ 
tirely covered with timber, but well adapted to cultivation, the 
soil being of excellent quality. These lands are in a remarkably 
healthy sec/ion of the State, with an abundance of the best 
water, and being situated very near the Gold Mines, there is al¬ 
ways a ready sale for produce of all kinds. The above lands I 
wii'l sell low, for a part cash, and a long credit on the balance, 
or will exchange the whole for property in the city of Washing¬ 
ton. The growing crop,stock, &c., I will sell in connection with 
the land, or separate, for cash, or on a short credit. Possession 
can be had immediately. 
Address E. OWEN (now upon the premises), at Buckingham 
Court House, Virginia ; or E. OWEN & SON, No. 212 Pennsyl¬ 
vania avenue, Washington. 
G enuine mohar or Hungarian 
MILLET SEED—A new and fine variety, very hardy, 
resisting extreme drouth, and yielding a large quantify of the 
choicest forage, at the Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store. 
R. L. ALLEN, 189 and 191 Water-st. 
JLINBUEUS RUIJB4RB. 
PARSONS & CO., 
FLUSHING, NEAR NEW-YORK, 
FFER FOR SALE THIS SUPERIOR 
variety of PIE PLANT, at $10 per hundred, or $80“'per 
thousand crowns. 
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