72 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[February, 
jJf' Our new Seed Catalogue, with a revised 
and enlarged Ust oi Nove&fcieg and 
Specialties* is ready l'or distribution, 
and will be sent to all who apply, enclos¬ 
ing stamp l'or postage. 
R. H. ALLEW & CO., 
189 «Se 191 Water St., New Yogis. 
SEEDS 
that WILL. 
CROW l 
A n EXPERIENCE of nearly THIRTY Years in tile 
Flower and Vegetable Seed business lias convinced us 
taut tliere are but TWO KINDS OF SEED in the 
world, viz : those that will, and those that will tint, grow. 
The former are priceless—the latter worthless. The sale or 
Utterance of worthless Seed, through cupidi.ty.nr lack of 
business standing, raises sad havoc with the business of 
legitimate Seedsmen. For nearly thirty years past we have 
made the growth and procurement of ISOJIE I?l;T 
GOOD SEED a study, until we are proud to say, foreign 
or native seed growers from whom we procure such of our 
supplies as we do not raise upon our own farms, never think 
of offering us any but First-Cluss Seeds. To this one 
point we attribute our success, and the universal verdict of 
the Press and People is that Seeds procured of 
filHlGGS & BROTHER Wild. GROW. 
To give customers the benefit of our own actual experi¬ 
ence, we issue an ILUJSTRATED Quarterly 
FLORAL WORK, which is sent to any address pre¬ 
paid for the mere nominal subscription price of 25 cents, 
which amount is re-placed to tlie'credit of the customer on 
receipt of an order for @1 or upward worth of Seed. We 
oend no seed that we have not first tested, therefore it is 
perfectly safe to buy such as we recommend. Our J.-iiiti- 
ib.tv Number, containing several hundred Engravings 
and much useful information to the amateur or professional 
gardener, is now out. Send for it. 
8 ®" Descriptive Price Lists, Circulars, &c., sent free by 
mull on application. 
BRIGGS & BROTHER,mi 
a 
Volcanoe 
J* DOUBLE 
FURROW 
PLOW, 
recommended in January number of this paper. Saves its 
cost in plowing thirty acres. 
CARR & HOBSON, 5G Beekman-st., New York. 
OWE HEW CATALOGUE FOR 1875, 
150 pages, with Colored Plate, 
containing the greatest variety of Garden and Flower Seeds, 
Novelties, ete., and llie best strains of home grown seeds 
for Market Gardeners, Family Gardens, Amateurs, and 
Florists, will be sent free to all who apply. 
IIOVEY & CO., 
53 North Market St., Boston, Mass. 
mm 
CHEAP SEEDS are Worthless. 
Buy directly of the Grower, and get good stock. 
SEN oun OR NEW CATALOGUE FDR 1875, 
FREE to any address. GEO. S. HASKELL & 
CO., Seed Farmers, Rockford, Illinois. 
TIiOWERGB 1 ' 
I will send 12 Flowering Plants for One Dollar 
( yourchoice fro m 100 sorts), by MAIL 0P. EXPRESS. 
‘SSptTpSraafpfc MV ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, 
describee the cnltnrecf Plants & Seeds, 
jpSS—-to customers free; others. 10c. Address 
WM. E. BOWDITCH, 645 Warren st., Boston, Mass. 
RUSTIC WORK. 
Illustrated Catalogues ready February loth. 
PECK & 8KILTON, Westvllle, Conn. 
TREES, Etc, 
NYe offer for 
SPRING, ’75, 
an unusually 
large stock of well-grown, thrifty 
Standard a,aid Dwarf Fruit Trees. 
Grape Vines, mm All Fruits. 
Oroiumciatsil Trees, Shrubs, Roses. 
New si ml Rare Fruit and Ornamental Trees. 
Evergreens and Bulbous Roots. 
New and Rare Green si ml Hot House Plants. 
Small parcels forwarded by mail token desired . 
Prompt attention given to all inquiries. 
Descriptive and Illustrated Priced Catalogues sent prepaid 
on receipt of stamps , as follows: 
No. 1— Fruits, 10c. No. 2— Ornamental Trees, 10c. 
No. 3— Greenhodsf, 10c. No. 4— Wholesale, Free. 
Address 
Estaovaim. ELLWAMGER a BARRY, 
Mount Hope Nurseries ,. ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 
ABE POPULAR, BECAUSE RELIABLE. 
Buist’s is the largest Seed-Growing Establish¬ 
ment in the United States. — 1,50 i Acres are annually 
planted to produce their supply. Purchase your seeds direct 
from the Grower, and secure the most improved at low 
prices. Bnist’s Garden Almanac and Manual for *75 con¬ 
tains 130 pages of useful information on Gardening Opera¬ 
tions. Also the Gardener’s and Planter’s Price-List of Seeds 
by the paper, ounce, pound or bushel, mailed free. 
Merchants who deal in seeds send for our Wholesale 
Catalogue, giving quotations to the tr.ide. 
Address ROBERT I5IJ1ST? Jr., Seed Grower, 
Warehouse* 922 924 Market St., 
.Lock Box 62, P. O. Philadelphia, Pa. 
Onion Seed—Of li Growth 1874. 
Large Red Wethersfield......per lb., $4.00 
Yellow Butch, or Strasburg. “ 4.00 
Yellow Danvers. .... ... “ 4.00 
Orders for 10 poumK $37.00, including postage. 
Q2P" Buist’s Price-List of Seeds for Market Gar¬ 
deners mailed on application. \udress Robert Bnist* 
Jr., See<rGrowei\ Rock Box 62. Philadelphia, Pa. 
Tree, Yhae, &smI Plant !Lalb©S§ 
<o>tf Hed. Cedar. 
They will retain pencil-marks legibly, and last longer 
than other woods. 
Useful to all who graft, bud, or plant, for preserv¬ 
ing names and dates. 
PECK & SKELTON, Manufacturers, 
Westvllle, Conn. 
Ask your Seedsman for them. 
my wholesale price-list.of fruit and 
ornamental trees, vines, plants, 
Root Grafts, &c. Address W. G. 
McKELVIE, Geneva, N. Y. 
e mail- 
Free 
'to all appli- 
’ cants. This 
is one of the 
'largest and most 
'complete Catalo- 
published. It 
'is printed on beauti- 
tinted paper, con- 
'tains 216 pages, two ele¬ 
gant colored plates, over 
tine engravings, and 
Ogives full descriptions, prices, 
“'and directions for planting about 
"1200 varieties of Vegetable 
Flower Seeds, Bedding 
''Plants, Hoses, &c., and is invaluable 
Farmer, Gardener and Florist. 
^Address, D. M. FERRY & CO. 
Seedsmen and Florists, DETROIT, Mich. 
The Patent Department 
of the American Agriculturi st, 
lias been discontinued. Mr. G. M. PLYMPTON, 2 A 5 
Broadway, (Agriculturist Building,) has had charge of 
this department, ami will continue to obtain 
patents. He lias had many years’ experience in all 
business connected with obtaining U. S. and Foreign 
Patents, and in prosecuting rejected applications 
at tile Patent Office, besides prosecuting and defending 
Suits for Infringement hefor the U. S. Courts. 
caress C~ M, PLYMPTON, 
My ANNUAL CATALOGUE of VEGETABLE 
and FLOWER SEEJD for 1875, will be sent free 
to all who apply ; customers of last season need not write 
for it. On my several seed farms I raise one hundred and 
fifty varieties, and also import from growers in Europe 
their choicest kinds. In my Catalogue will he. found several 
valuable new varieties oTvegetables, I having made this 
department a specialty for maby years, I would particular¬ 
ly invite the patronage of Market Gardeners, and all others 
who are especially desirous to have their seed pure and 
fresh, and of the very best strain. All seeds sent out from 
my establishment are covered by three warrants, as given 
in my Catalogue. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
Onions, Cabbage, Squash. 
Farmers in the Middle and Southern States think they can 
not grow onions the first year from the seed ; this is a mis¬ 
take ; from my strain of seed some have grown them to 
weigh a pound the first season as far South as Texas! as see 
letters in my Seed Catalogue, My Treatises on Onion, Cab¬ 
bage and squash Raising, abounding in a thousand minute 
directions from how to select the ground to how to market 
the crop, by mail 30 cts. each, Seed Catalogue free to all. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
THE BUTMAN SQUASH. 
This new American Squash combines in itself all the ex¬ 
cellencies of our best squashes, being dry, line grained, and 
of a delicious flavor, peculiarly its own. Packets, contain¬ 
ing seed sufficient to raise a supply for a famil}', 25 cts. each; 
live for $1.00. My illustrated catalogue, containing a full 
History, and the largest variety of vegetable seed to be found 
in any catalogue published in the United States, free to all. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
DUTCHESS NURSERIES. 
(ESTABLISHED 1863.) 
All kinds of nursery and greenhouse stock ! 
Perfect! pure and fresh flower and vegetable seeds! 
All seeds sold under a guarantee. Seeds and plants by 
mail.—13 choice bedding plants sent post-paid for $1.—10 
Everblooming Roses for $1— Highland Hardy Rasp¬ 
berry ! ! Proved to be. handiest and most prolitable Red 
Raspberry grown. Very early. Prices, post-paid, per doz. 
$1; per 100, $4.50. Liberal discount for large quantities. 
Semi for full catalogue and price-lists. 
City Office and VV. JL. FERRIS Jr., & CO., 
Seed Store. 15 & IT Academy st., Poughkeepsie, A'. Y 
6 |W« will send 6 varieties PURE FLOW- 
| ii ER SEERS, (your choice,) for 25 els. Al4 
(true to name and warranted. 30 l'or $1, Send 10 
F fl T)S c,s - ,or a package of our Newest liwarf Bou. 
I HLnuet Aster aim our Catalogue lor 1875. 
J u 8 DONNELLY «fc CO., Importers and 
O iKl Dealers in Flower and Vegetable Seeds. 
&L Dfl Lock Box, 140, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
and send for one of CARR & HOBSON’S SWIVEL 
PEOWS— recommended by American Agriculturist , June 
number, 1874. 
KOT-BEB BASHES, 
We can spare 300 or more good sound sashes, 8^x7 feet. 
Price $8.00 each—in lots of 10 or more $2.50 each. Will take 
$2.00 each cash down for the whole lot. Hand made, with 2 
straps, and cost $5.00 each. Are sold because we have no 
further use for them. 
Will exchange part for certain kinds of greenhouse plants 
and bulbs. 
W. F. MASSEY & CO., i’tfestertown, Md. 
CsipJhea 
Although not strictly new, this exceedingly valuable little 
plant is almost entirely unknown in this country. -Having 
tested it thoroughly for nearly two years, in every possible 
position, for bedding, hanging baskets, vases, specimens 
under glass, &e., we have no hesitation in recommending it 
as one of the neatest and most attractive miniature plants 
with which we are acquainted. The habit is very dwarf and 
compact: color" of tlie small leaves; dark glossy green; flow¬ 
ers briglit-lilac and produced in great profusion all the year 
round, beginning even with llie cutting in the sand-bed. 
Sent by mail post-paid, on receipt of the price—75 cts. 
eacli: $6,011 per doz. 
(See American Agriculturist. Jan., 1875, for full descrip¬ 
tion of the above.) 
HOOPES, BRO. & THOMAS, 
Cherry Hill N urseries, West Chester, Pa. 
