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CURTIS & CORE'S 
PERFECTLY RELIABLE SEERS. 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 
The undersigned would inform llieir friends and the pub¬ 
lic that the Seventeenth Annual Edition of their IL¬ 
LUSTRATED SEED CATALOGUE, and FLOWER AND 
KITCHEN GARDEN DIRECTORY, .with price of Seeds, 
Gladiolus Bulbs, Select Small Fruits, &c., &c., will be ready 
for mailing early in January, and will be sent to all appli¬ 
cants enclosing Twenty-five Cents. Old customers sup¬ 
plied without charge; and should any such not receive it in 
due time, we will thank them to notify us. Our Catalogue 
has been frequently pronounced one of the best issued, and 
our endeavor will be to keep it fully up to its present high 
place amongst its competitors. Please forward orders early 
to CURTIS & COBB. Seedsmen and Florists, 
348 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 
Mew Cabbage Seed. 
The following varieties of cabbage seed I grew this season 
on my three sieed Farms, all perfectly isolated, scattered 
over an area of three square miles. You will find them all 
fresh and true. 
Early Jersey Wakefield, (true) .$0.75 
Early Winningstadt. no “ 
Improved American Savoy. 
Fottler’s Improved Brunswick. 0.50 
Stone Mason Drumhead. 0.40 
Premium Flat Dutch.0.35 
Marblehead Mammoth Drumhead. 
Early Wyman. 
The above seeds were all grown from fully developed heads, 
and will lie sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. 
Catalogues j H . GKEG0K y, Marblehead, Mass. 
Fresh Garden Seed. 
We have reduced the price of Beans, Peas, Sweet Corn, 
and other Garden Seed, and oiler them to clubs and country 
merchants at the very lowest rales. For instance, Champ¬ 
ion of England Peas, of the finest quality, at $6 per bushel, 
25 cents per quart, 5 cents per packet, by express; Daniel 
O’Rourke (eq. early), $4 per bushel, 20 cents per quart, 4 cts. 
per, packet. 
Fine valued Gladiolus, from 10 cts. to $3. Good varieties, 
$8 per 100. Other bulbs for spring planting, very low. 
Early Rose, and other potatoes, $3.50 per barrel. Norway 
and Surprise Oats, $3 per bushel; Three bushels, $1.50; 
Thirty bushels, $65. Catalogues free. Address 
WARD WELL & CO., West Dresden, Yates Co., N. Y. 
fo Market gardeners. 
Your business involves an immense outlay over small 
aieas, and It is of first importance that the seed you plant 
should lie fullt/ reliable. My enterprise is of special inter¬ 
est to you,'as I am engaged in growing, directly under my 
own eye, a great variety of vegetable seeds, many of which 
seedsmen usually import or gather together from growers 
scattered through the country. Because I grow these seed 
mvself I am enabled to warrant them fresh and true to 
name, and to bind myself to refill the same value gratis, 
should tliev not prove so. All seed warranted to reach each 
purchaser. I also import and procure from first growers, 
choice varieties that cannot be grown in my locality, giving 
me thus one of the largest if not the largest variety of veg¬ 
etable seed sold by any dealer in the United States. Give 
my seed a trial. Catalogues gratis. 
JAMES J. II. GREGORY, Marblehead, JIass. 
STRAW! STRAW!! STRAW!!! 
C. I). Langworthy, of Alfred, writes: “My Norway Oat 
Straw from one acre is worth as much as an acre of my best 
meadow hay, my cattle eat it in preference to hay. It seems 
to lie more juicy and tender than ordinary straw.” A Con¬ 
necticut farmer writes: “ I was offered 75 cts. per hundred 
for my Norway Oat Straw, (common oat straw is a drug at 
50 cts.), but my cattle like it so well, that I have determined 
t.o sell hay in its stead.” There is no longer any question, 
but the straw of this grain is fully as valuable per acre as 
bay, while its enormous yield of seed is a clear gain. Price 
$7.'50 per bushel, $4 per half bushel, $2.50 per peek, by stand¬ 
ard of 32 lbs. to tliebushel. Our seed is warranted pureancl 
enuine. Parties are advertising who fill their orders with 
ogus seed, and farmers are cautioned against these frauds. 
Address, D. W. RAMSDELL & CO., 218 Pearl St., New 
York; or 171 Lake St., Chicago, Ill. 
E 
BOSTON MARKET CELERY. 
I can supply best seed of the genuine Boston Market 
Celerv, the varictv described on page 420 of the Nov. (1S69) 
Agriculturist. Per package, 15 cts.; per ounce, 50 cts.; by 
mail, post-poid. Catalogues free. 
JAMES J. II. GR EGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
Peacla Trees. 
4 to 6 ft. high, 1 year from bud, well ripened. Leading 
varieties, true to name. Also a general assortment of Nur¬ 
sery stock. Concord Vines and Osage Hedge in quantity. 
Potatoes for seed of the newer varieties. Early Rose by the 
hundred bushels. Send for price list. 
H. M. ENGLE, Marietta, Pa. 
Small Fruits and Plants a Specialty. 
All the desirable and profitable varieties—after 18 ycar3 
experience in small fruits. The fruits yield the. profit, and 
the plants sold at about the cost of raising them. 
Send for descriptive price list. 
SILAS WA LTON, Moorestown, N..T. 
New and Rare Vegetables. 
make the seeds of new and rare vegetables a specialty, 
besides growing all of the standard sorts. Catalogues fi ee. 
JAMES J. II. GREGO RY, Marblehead, Mass. 
" POISON A NURSE IKY. 
, WILLIAM PARRY, CiniiaminsoB, N. J. 
50 acres ill Raspberries. 
50 acres in Blackberries. 
And the largest stock of Kentucky Strawberries. 
Send for Catalogues. 
13. K. BLISS & SON, 
Nos. 41 Park Row, and 85 4 Nassau Street, New York 
Importers, Growers, and Dealers in Garden, Field, and Flower Seeds, Horticultural 
Implements, and Garden Requisites. 
Would inform their friends and the public that th c Sixteenth Annual Edition of their Illust rated Seed Caialegne 
and Guide to the Flower and Kitclien Garden, now in press, will lie ready for distribution early in January. 
No pains or expense have been spared in preparing this edition, to make it the most complete work of the kind ever 
published in tills country. 
It will contain nearly two hundred choice engravings of favorite Flowers and Vegetables—a large portion of which 
are entirely new; also, two beautifully colored lithographs, and a descriptive list of upwards of two thousand species 
and varieties of Flower and Vegetable Seeds, including all the novelties of the past season, with directions for their cul¬ 
ture; also, a list of upwards of One Hundred varieties of Choice Gladiolus—with many other Summer-Flowering 
Bulbs—and much useful information upon the subject of gardening generally. 
A copy will be mailed to all applicants enclosing Twentg-five cents. Our regular customers supplied without charge. 
Bliss’s ®ardcraeF’s Alssaaiia© fbr 187®, 
Also in press, and will be issued the first of January. It will contain about 70 pages of closely printed matter, em- 
braeing a Monthly Calendar of Operations, and a price list of the leading varieties of Garden. Field, and Flower 
Seeds, with brief directions for their culture. A copy will be mailed to all applicants enclosing a three-cent stamp. 
Address ‘ B. K. BLISS, & SON, P. O. Box 57Vi, New York. 
CONOVER’S 
COLOSSAL ASPARAGUS 
SEED AMD EOOTS. 
The experience of the past season fully confirms all that 
was claimed for this variety when first offered last spring, 
and it now stands unrivaled in size, productiveness, and 
quality. 
Specimens were exhibited the past season by Mr. Conover, 
which were grown alongside the best “ Oyster Bay’’ varie¬ 
ties, and received the same care and treatment, which at¬ 
tained four times the size of that popular variety. 
Though but two years from the seed, many of the plants 
produced from twenty to thirty sprouts, averaging from 
two to four inches in circumference, and were ready for 
cutting one year in advance of the ordinary varieties. 
Strong, one-year-old Roots mailed, post-paid, $2.00 per 
fifty ; ,$3.00 per hundred. 
Seeds.— 34 oz. packet, 50 cts.; ft., $3.00. 
Address B. K. BLISS & SON, 
41 Park Row. and 151 Nassau St., 
P. O. Box, 5,713, New York. 
Jersey Stock for SaBe. 
Tbo subscriber has Just landed from Steamer Queen a num¬ 
ber of superior Jersey Cows and Heifers, selected bv himself 
from tlie best herds on tlie Island. Manv of them are prize 
animals, and all very fine. May be seen at his farm, Allan- 
dale St., Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
H. M. WELLINGTON. 
DEVONS FOR SALE. 
Ten thorough-bred Devon Bulls of various ages, sired 
by New England (294), also several cows and heifers of tlie 
Minnie family. H. M. SESSIONS, South Wilbraham, Mass. 
pURE-BRED CHESTER WHITE PIGS. — 100 
R head of Superior Boars and Sows from 4 to 12 months 
old; bred and for sale by J. W. & M. IRWIN, 
Penningtonville, Chester Co., Pa. 
Ciiesteu Pros all ages, at six weeks, $10 apiece. Pure 
Cotswold Sheep, last spring’s lambs, $15 each. Fancy Poul¬ 
try at low prices. Aldernev Calves, and other blooded stock. 
All warranted, for sale by N. GUILDER!', Gwynedd, Pa. 
FOIST PRIZE BUFF COCHINS. 
HODGSON BROS., 7 Bowling Green, New York, winners 
of the First Premiums at the New York State Poultry Show, 
and owners of the unsurpassable Cooper Trio, have for sale 
a few choice pairs and some extra cocks, and arc now book¬ 
ing orders for eggs. This stock is admitted to be the best ex¬ 
tant, having taken numerous premiums on both sides of the 
Atlantic. Send letter with stamp, as above, for full informa¬ 
tion. Also a few line Light Brahma Cocks. 
IC'GGS AND FOWLS of the following varieties : 
St^Houdan, Crevecoeur, La Fleche, Buff Cochin, Partridge 
Cochins and Dark Brahmas. Address, with Stamp, 
N. S. COLLYER, Pawtucket, R.I. 
Lilmm Anratnm. 
The Japanese Queen of Lilies. 
A large importation from Japan, just received by the sub¬ 
scribers, in line, healthy condition. Flowering Bulbs mailed 
to any address at following prices: 
No. l, $1.07 each; $0.00 per doz. No. 2, 75 cents each, or 
$6.75 per doz. No. 3. 50 cts. eae.li; $4.50 per doz. Prices by 
tlie hundred or thousand will be given to dealers upon 
application. I>. K. BLISS & SON, 
Nos. 41 Park Row, and 151 Nassau St., New York. 
RAMSDELL NORWAY OATS. 
Warranted genuine. For Prices, etc., address 
A. NIESE, Port Eweii, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
1 (Hi!?! -S-fb dj ^ £7 (H V er Month guaranteed. 
VjXj Sure pat/. Salaries paid 
weekly to Agents everywhere selling our Patent Everlasting 
White Wire Clothes tines. Cali at. or write for particulars to. 
the Girard Wire Mills, 261 North Tliird-st., Philadelphia, Pa. 
■077 \RLY ROSE POTATOES.—Full pri.ee $3.50 
HAJ per Bu. For sale by J. A. RYI1IE, Wholesale and Re¬ 
tail dealer in Landretli’s Garden Seeds, Alton, Illinois. 
ft CwlENTTS — Superior inducements 
7S. offered bv 
SOUTHWICK & HASTINGS, Worcester, Mass. 
W ARD KEG SEED. — Don’t Laugh, but read 
advertisement on page 30. 
®END 50 CENTS FOR A STENCIL PLATE. 
^ for marking clothing, ink, brush, &e., included. Only 
25 cents for a Key Check, neatly lettered with your name and 
address, can be attached to kevs. &c. Send lor Circulars. 
W. H. BERRY, Portsmouth, N. If. 
$75 to $209 per Month to Agents, salary or commis¬ 
sion to sell our Patent. White Wire* Clothes Lines. Address 
HUDSON RIVER WIRE WOliK-S. 7T> William St., N. Y., 
Chicago, Ill., Richmond, Va., or Memphis, Term. 
f.1 U 1! SAL E. 
* FISH GUANO. 
TO. II. H. GLOVER, Southold, N. Y. 
4 LL LOVERS OF GOOD FRUIT should read 
JrxL advertisement, page 439, Nov. American Agriculturist. 
