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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
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HENDERSON AND FLEMING’S 
GARDEN SEEDS, CROP OF 1865. 
IVtost of oixr "Veg-etaUle Seed.® have heen gr-own hy as, aad. are sach as 
are ased. as the 
Best and most I*rofitatoIe Sorts 
In our extensive Market Gardens near Jersey City, where 
for nearly twenty years, we have grown to supply the New- 
Tork market. Our Florist’s Business, also, has long heen, and 
is now one of tlie largest here. So from this experience as 
Practical Market hardeners 
and Florists, 
we helieve.we are well able to judge of the quality of either 
Flower or Vegetable Seeds. 
We sell no seeds without testing their germinating quali 
ties, and all such as fail, or even partially fail, are rejected. 
From this practice, we assure all purchasers tliat tiiere can 
be no failure of Seeds bought fi-om us, if properly planted. 
Our Best Early Market Tomato 
Is the EAr.LTr Smooth Ked-oui- growth—ready here by 
middle of July. 
Price 30 cents per ounce; 53 per pound. 
Our Best Market Egg Plant 
Is the New York Ijepeoted.— Large purple, most abundant 
bearer. 
Price 75 cents per ounce; $10 per pound. 
Our Best Market Ouions 
Are the Red Wetheespield and Yellow Danvers, ready 
from seeds in August, and from sets in the middle of July. 
Seeds 25 cents per ounce; $3 per pound. 
Sets 50 cents per quart; 515 per bushel. 
Our Best Early Market Badislies 
Are the “French Scarlet Tdrnip," and “Short Top 
Long.” 
Price $1.B0 per pound. 
Our Best Early Market Lettuce 
Is the Curled Simpson, an improved Silesia, of our own 
growth, marketable here the middle of May. 
Seeds50 cents per ounce; 56 per pound. 
Our Best Early Market Beet 
Is the “Short Top Round,” an improved strain of our 
own growth, marketable here middle of June. 
Price 25 cents per ounce; 51-50 per pound. 
Our Best Early Market Cabbage 
Is the true Jersey Wakefield, ten days ahead of all 
others. Seeds of our own growth. 
Price 25 cents per packet; 51 per ounce; 512 per pound. 
Our Best Early Market Cauli¬ 
flower 
Is the Dwarf Erfurt, a large headed, compact growing 
variety. We grow 15.000 heads per acre, which are sold every 
year before the Istof July, in the Now York markets. 
Seeds50 cents per packet; 52.50 per ounce; 530 per pound. 
Our Best Early Market Pea 
Is the “Extra Early,” ten days earlier than any other 
variety, and very productive. 
Price 50 cents per quart; 512 per bushel. 
©E«r Best Early Market Sweet 
Com 
Is the Dwarf Prolific, growing only four or five feet high, 
ready in July. 
Price 40 cents per quart; 510 per busliel. 
The Best Market Celery 
Is our “New Dwarf White ;” It is solid, crisp and sweet, 
and of easy culture. Seeds of our own growth. 
Price 25 cents per packet; $1 per ounce; 510 per pound. 
Mailed with our “Essay on Growing and Preserving.” 
Every good variety of Vegetable Seeds, also of Flower 
Seeds, supplied in quantities to suit. 
For further particulars send for 
Our descriptive Cataiogiae of Seeds 
Now ready, wbicli will be mailed on receipt of ten cents. 
To our customers of last year it will be mailed free. 
Sc FI.EMIMI5, 
Seedsmen, Market Gardeners & Florists, 
67 Nassau St., cor. of J^ohii St., 
New York. 
CHOICE SEEI>. 
I would again invite the attention of the pubUc to my An¬ 
nual Catalogue of clioice and reliable garden seeds, embrac¬ 
ing over two hundred varieties, over one half of tliem of my 
own growing. 1 would invite particular .attention to the 
following list of new, rai’e, or very desir.able vegetables. 
Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage, (tlie king of all cabbages, 
sometimes weighs CO lbs., and averages 30 lbs. by tlie acre. 
No cabbage will grow so large in the hot south as this. Mv 
seed are grown from the very largest and best of beads. T 
was tlie original introducer of tins, and of a number of the 
varieties in the following list.) Stone Mason Cabbage, (a 
very large druinliead, remarkably reliable for heading, very 
profitable for market: heads very hard and very tender. 
Put up in halt oz. packages, or sold by the pound.) Bur¬ 
nell’s king of the Dw.aiTs, (the earliest of all cabbages, new, 
just from England, very fine and sweet flavor.) Riclimond’s 
compact Brussells Sprouts, (new, from England; selected 
for its very dwarf and compact habit.) Mammoth Sweet 
Corn, (the largest sort known, weighing two to three pounds 
to tlie ear; very sweet. It took the first prize at the Annual 
Exhibition of tlie Mass. Hort’l Soc’y, of 1864.) Mammoth 
Frencli Squash, (weighs from 100 to 260 lbs.) Mammoth 
Chicory, (au improved French variety; largest of all.) Amer¬ 
ican Turban Squash, (the dryest, sweetest and ricliest flavor¬ 
ed of all fall squashes. My seed [I introduced this,! are the 
purest in the country.) New York Improved extra large 
purple Egg Plant, (this is of larger size and of a deeper 
purple than the common large purple.) Striped Guadalope 
Egg Plant, (grows to size of long purple, striped with yel¬ 
low, purple and white; quite ornamental, edible.) Orna¬ 
mental Kale, (several varieties in one package. Fine for 
citlier the Flower or Kitchen garden.) New Alma Cauli¬ 
flower, (a new English variety; it lia.s given great satisfac¬ 
tion.) Lenormand’s Mammoth Cauliflower, (a new Frencli 
sort, wliich promises to be the largest and most reliable va¬ 
riety grown ) Early Paris Cauliflower, (imported seed; a 
standard sort.) 'Ward’s Nectar Melon, (pure; tlie richest 
and spiciest of all the green fleslied varieties.) Caterpillar 
PlantSj) several varieties in one package ; a curious oddity 
from France.) 'Vegetable Snails, (another vegetable curios¬ 
ity used by the French cooks to garnisli their dislies.) Striped 
Leaved Japanese Maize, (a new and beautiful plant from 
Japan, with foliage striped with green and white, and at 
times with rose.) Snake Cucumber, (a long, coiled, snake¬ 
like curiosity.) Vilmorin’s new wrinkled edilile fodder Pea, 
(the first wrinkled kind yet known, the pods of wliieli are • 
eaten.) Each of the above forwarded by mail, post-paid by 
me, at 25 cents a package. Also Early Cracker Onion, (a 
flat variety, the earliest of all tlie yellow sorts ; quality very 
superior. See my Treatise on Onion Raising, page 13.) Early 
Red Danvers Onion, (an earl.v, round red variety, of a fine 
briglit color.) Early Extra Fl.at Turnip Beet, (lias a very 
small leaf top; quality excellent.) Red Castelnaudarv Beet, 
(a famous French variety, in France it lias a nut-like flavor; 
flesh deep purple, veiw tender, sweet and rich flavored.) 
Giant Ovoid Mangel wurtzel, (a new Frencli sort, character¬ 
ized by itsflrm.solid flesh,large size and symmetrical growtli.) 
Dilliston’s Extra Early Pea, (of 116 varieties tested in Eng¬ 
land, tills proved to be tlie earliest; seven days earlier than 
Daniel O’liourke.) Tom Thumb Pe.a, (very early: ten inch¬ 
es high; very productive.) Drew’s New Dwarf Pea, (new; 
very'dwarf, peas mostly oblong, each plant forms a bushy 
growth, but one pea being required to about a foot of row.) 
Brown’s New Dwarf Early Marrowfat Pea, (a new varieti', 
which may be relied upon as botli the earliest and most 
dwarf Marrowfat grown.) McLean’s Advance, (new; dwarf, 
wrinkled, very early and productive: an Improvement on 
Napoleon.) Princess Royal, (new English pea, very produc¬ 
tive. These two varieties have been selected as best out of 
ovei 20 new sorts.) Hair’s Dwarf Mammoth, (this is a larger 
pea than the Champion of England, grows but about half as 
high; is sweet and excellent.) Scarlet Flowering Bean, (an 
English bean, quite ornamental; grows about two feet high.) 
Extra Long Casekuife, (a very vigorous and productive va¬ 
riety ; has given great satisfaction.) Concord Bean, (the ear¬ 
liest pole bean I h.ave found; in quality resembles Horticul¬ 
turist, but yields much better.) Indian Cliief Bean, (the best 
string jiole bean known; always in condition for stringing.) 
Yard Long Bean, (foli.age higlily ornamental; bean a curios¬ 
ity ) Jet Cranberry: Mottled Cranberry, (each of these are 
au improvement in health, vigorous growth and produc¬ 
tiveness, on the old-fasliioned Oranbery or Tory bean.) Til- 
den’s New Tomato; New Mexican Tomato; Mammoth Chi¬ 
huahua Tomato; Cook’s Favorite; French Upriglit; Early 
York, and Bates’ Extra Early Tomatoes, (for particular de¬ 
scription of these, see my advertisement in another column.) 
Bates’ Extra Early Sweet Corn, (earlier than Darling’s Early, 
a variety of tlie sweet wrinkled kerneled corn, exc'ellent for 
the table.) Golden Sweet, (early, tender, sweet, witli a rich 
flavor, pecnliarly its own.) Sweet Mexican Corn, (the sweet 
est and tenderest variety I liave yet found.) Late Red Cob, 
old-fashioned eight-rowed sweet corn, (the ears of these two 
varieties grow to a very lar,ge size: quality sweet and very 
tender, keeping a long wliile in condition for table use.) 
Chufas, (very prolific ; taste very much like a line Cocoanut.) 
Hubbard Squash, (the drvest, sweetest and ricliest flavored 
of all winter squashes. lintroduced this seed pure.) Yoko- 
llama Squash, (tliis new variety from Japan, has the finest 
grain' of all squaslies, witli a rich, marrow-like taste.) Bos¬ 
ton Marrow, (t consider my variety to he the purest in the 
United States: it took the first premium at the last Annual 
Fair of Mass. Hort. Society.) Para or Polk Squash, (a hush 
squash for late fall and winter use ; in quality it resembles a 
rich Crookneck. My seed stock came from Para, and is 
perfectly pure.) Swiss Chard, (tlie best of all the Beet fami¬ 
ly for greens, the leaf stalks are used as Asparagus.) Cliinese 
Sugar Cane, (imported seed: pure.) Otahetian Cane, (by 
some preferred to all otlier varieties for cultivation in tlie 
North.) Covent Garden Radish, (very long, of extra bright 
scarlet color; Market Gardeners try this 1) Surry 'White 
Wlieat, (a new English sort, higlily recommended for 
poor and elevated soils; less subject to bliglit and rust than 
other varieties, and lias yielded 13 per cent, more than every 
variety with wliich it has come into competition.) Fejee 
Bean, (warranted to he both the earliest and the hardiest of 
all bush beans:) Improved Green Gl.olie Savoy Cabbage, (as 
reliable for lieading as my Stone Mason, the quality'of the 
Savoy is superior to all other varieties for table use.) Mam¬ 
moth Millet, (extra tall lieads, largest of all.) True Boston 
Curled Lettuce, (tlie most ornameutal lettuce known.) Nea¬ 
politan Cabbage Lettuce, (tliis is one of the finest Cabbage 
lettuces yet introduced.) Six choicest varieties of Cabbage 
Lettuce, (the six finest native and foreign sorts, in one pack¬ 
age.) White .lapan Melon, (very early, remarkably sweet, 
very popular.) Allen’s Superb, (quality very superior ; by 
some called “King of Melons.”) Orange Watermelon, 
(new; when fiillv ripe the skin peels olf like tliat of an or¬ 
ange.) Early Seoee Potato, (new; iias all tlie cliaracteristics 
of tlie excellent Jackson Wliite, but is ready for market 
from ten days to a fortnight earlier. A decided acquisition.) 
Early Chenery, (a new, very early, dry potato, becoming 
quite popular in Boston Market.) Goodricli’s Seedling, (new, 
quite early and productive.) Garnet Chili, (remarkably free 
from rot: largo, solid, very productive; an excellent keep¬ 
er.) Chick Pea, (used on the Continent of Europe as a sub¬ 
stitute for coffee.) Yellow Lupins, (extensively used lii Eu¬ 
rope for subsoiling: highly recommended in U. S. Agricul¬ 
tural Report.) improved Long Green Cucumber, (extra 
long; very fine.) New Jersey Hybrid Cucumber, (one of the 
largest and best varieties cnliivated. Ornamental Gourds, 
(many varieties in one package, including Dipper Gourd.) 
Sutto'n’s Students Parsnip, (new, originated in England ; de¬ 
sirable.) Chinese Bose Winter Radish, (decidedly the best 
of all the winter sorts; an acquisition.) Hood’s Dwarf Im¬ 
perial Purple Celery, (a new variety from France). 
Each of the aliove will be forwarded, post-paid by me. at 
15 cents per package, and warranted to reacli tlie purcliaser. 
Catalogues sent gratis to all. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, 
Marbleliead, Massachusetts. 
FKE§1I SFE®. 
Those who wish to purchase seed directly from the grower, 
can be supplied with Large Red, Early Round Red (very 
bright colored). Yellow Flat. Early Cracker, and Early 
Round Yellow Danvers Onion Seed,—all grown by myself 
from the vem/ best of seed stock and warranted to he both 
fresh and pure. Also half early Red, grown for me by an 
honest Quaker. The Danvers will yield a third more than 
any of the flat sorts, and sell far more readily and at a lilglier 
price in tlie Eastern market. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, 
Marblehead, Massachusetts. 
Gregory’s Seed Catalogue ! 
My Seed Catalogue of Garden and Vegetable Seeds, em¬ 
bracing about three hundred varieties, a large proportion of 
them of my own growing, will be sent out in January.—It 
will contain some new and rare varieties, not to be found in 
other catalogues, and will be sent gratis to all. Those who 
ordered seed of me last season, will receive it without writ¬ 
ing for it. I was surprised last season by a degree of patron¬ 
age that was wholly unanticipated. I have this season con- 
sequenily increased my working force to meet promptly all 
orders. 
All seed ordered warranted to reach tlie purchaser. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, 
Marblehead, Massachusetts. 
MEW TOMATOES. 
Tildeii’.'S New Seedling. Large, well shaped, very 
rich color, remarkably productive, of excellent quality, and 
keeps well for market purposes. 
THe Coolt’s Favorite. Large, apple shaped, very 
vigorous and productive. Raised by the acre, it brought 
nearly double the price of other sorts in Boston market 
this season. 
Mammoth. Cliiliuahna. Size enormous, weighing 
2 to 8 lbs. eacli, one of the largest will heap a quart measure! 
Quality excellent. 
Mexican Tomato. This is a large, round variety of 
Lester’s Perfected. I'liey areas large and as uniformly round 
as Cooks’ Favorite, and are prodigious bearers. 
Eai-ly Yorli. Very early; mostly of a flat round shape, 
of good market size, of excellent quality and very pro¬ 
ductive. 
Tomato de Laye. Tlie P’rench upright or bush to¬ 
mato This variety is entirely distinct and will bear plant¬ 
ing eighteen inches apart. 
Bates’ Extra Early. A remarkably early round 
variety, of good quality and of good market size. 
Eitlier of the above varieties will he forwarded post-paid 
by me at 13 cts. a package, and warranted to reach the 
purchaser. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, 
Marblehead, Massachusetts, 
