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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
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853 Feet Front—Iron and Glass. 
WORKS OF THE 
UNITED STATES WATCH COMPANY, 
(GILES, WALES & CO ,) MARION, N. J. 
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GILES, WALES A CO, 
IMPORTERS, MANUFACTURERS and JOBBERS, 
SA bP s THE >8Vi United States Watch Company, 
13 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK. 
Of all the 
Manufacturers American Watches, Pendant Winders and Key Winders, 
BOTH NICKEL AND FROSTED MOVEMENTS. 
The finer grades all having three pairs Conical Pivots, Cap Jeweled, in Gold Settings, and accurately adjusted 
to Heat, Cold, and Position; and all, even in tile cheapest grades, have the STRAIGHT-LINE Escapement, with Exposed 
Pallet Jewels, and Hardened and Tempered Hair Springs: and for our late improvement in STEM-WINDING mechanism, 
wc claim a STRENGTH, SIMPLICITY, and SMOOTHNESS hitherto unattained in any other manufacture, at home or 
abroad. 
Constantly on hand, full lines, all sizes, in Gold, Silver, Diamond Set, and Magic Cases, Minute Repeaters, Independent 1-4, 
1-5 Split and Fly-back Seconds, for taking three different times. 
B3?“ Price-Lists furnished the trade on application, enclosing business card. For sale by the trade generally. 
Wholesale Warerooms, 13 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK, 
And GILES, BROTHER & CO., 142 Lake St., Chicago, Ell. 
Watch No. 1064—bearing Trade-Mark “ Frederic Ather¬ 
ton & Co., Marion, N. J„” manufactured l)y United States 
Witch Co., has been carried by me fifteen mouths, its total 
variation from mean time being only one second per month. 
Willard derhy. 
Of Derby, Snow & Prentiss, Jersey City, N. J. 
WATcn No. 1124—bearing Trade-Mark “Frederic Ather¬ 
ton & Co.,” manufactured by the United States Watch Co., 
has been carried by me seven months; its total variation 
from mean time being only six seconds. 
A. L. DENNIS, President N. J. It. K. T. & T. Co. 
Watch No. 1251—bearing Trade-Mark “Frederic Ather 
ton & Co., Marion, N. J„” manufactured by United States 
Watch Co., has been carried by me lour months; its total 
variation from mean time being only live seconds per month. 
F. A. HASKELL, Con. Hudson River R. R. 
Watch No. 1117—bearing Trade-Mark “Frederic Ather¬ 
ton & Co., Marion, N. J.,” manufactured by United States 
Watch Co., lias been carried by me fifteen months; its total 
variation from mean time being only ail average of two- 
thirds of a second per dav. 
15. F. PHELPS, Con. N. j. Central R. R. 
WATcn No. 1037—bearing Trade-Mark “ Frederic Ather¬ 
ton & Co., Marion, N. J.,” manufactured by United States 
Watch Co., lias been carried by me since June, 1857; its total 
variation from meantime being only live seconds per month. 
HENRY SMITH. 
Treas. Panama R. R„ 88 Wall St. 
UTATCHES manufactured by tbe 
UNITED STATES WATCH CO., 
Of MARION, N. J., retailed and sent to any part of the country, by C. A. STEVENS & t'O., Jewelers, 40 East 14th 
Street, Union Square, New York. B3T" Cali or send for Price-List. 
ci T MIIAMT&. 
Our stock is immensely large, of one, two, and three-year- 
old bushes, and includes the best varieties, true to name. 
See our Price List for spring of 1870. Sent free. 
J. KNOX, 
Box 155, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Parnell and Naoini Raspberries. 
The best for market, for firmness, size, and .flavor; the 
Parnell received the Silver Cup of Cincinnati Hurt. Society. 
Apply with stamp to LOUIS RITZ, 
Plainville, Hamilton, Co., Ohio. 
1%[EW AND DESIRABLE FLOWERING and Or- 
riamental Foliage Plants l'or 1870. General Spring Cat¬ 
alogue is now ready of Green-house, Hot-house, and Bed¬ 
ding Plants and Seed? Catalogues sent to all who enclose 
stamp. Address OLM BROTHERS, Springfield, Mass. 
See Second Cover Page. 
I ^RUIT-FARM for sale, near Burlington, N. J. 
12 acres, mostly in Small Fruits in full bearing. All in 
complete order. Splendid buildings. Owner has other bus¬ 
iness. Only $1,500 cash required. For lull particulars address 
the owner. R. E. PADDOCK, Box 614, Bridgeport, Conn. 
100,000 Ives Seedling drape-vines 
for sale; has been tried for twenty-live years, never rots or 
mildews, yields from 500 to 900 gallons of Wine per acre. 
THE Grape for the million. Apply with stamp to 
LOUIS RITZ, Plainville, Hamilton Co., Ohio. 
Watcii No. 12012—bearing Trade-Mark “United States 
Watch Co., Marion, N. J.,” manufactured by United States 
Watch Co., has been carried by me five months; its total 
variation from mean time being only twelve seconds. 
GEO. LOVIS, Gen’l Eastern 
Pass’sl* Ag’t Toledo, Wabash & Western R. It. 
Watch No. 1259—hearing Trade-Mark “Frederic Ather¬ 
ton & Co., Marion. N. J..” manufactured by United States 
Watch Co., has been carried by me six months; its total va¬ 
riation from mean time being only eight seconds per month. 
Have been traveling through different sections of the coun¬ 
try, from New York to Galveston, Texas, and back, by 
steamer and railroad. 
E. RICE, of Whitney & Rice, 179 Broadway, N. Y. 
Sunbury, Pa., Feb. 26,1879. 
Watch No. 1176—bearing Trade-Mark “Frederic Ather¬ 
ton & Co., Marion, N. .T.,” manufactured by United States 
Watch Co., lias been earned by me three months; its total 
variation from mean lime being only five seconds during 
that time. HENRY DE LANCEY, 
Engineer Phila. & Erie R. R. 
Watch No. 1105—bearing Trade-Mark “Frederic Ather¬ 
ton & Co., Marion, X. J.,” manufactured by United States 
Watch Co., has been carried by me eleven months; its total 
variation from mean time being only 6even seconds in the 
entire time. 
A. II. KING, 7 Park Place, N. Y., 
Vice-Pres’t Elastic Cone Spring Co., 
N. J. Car Spring and Ii. Co. 
WALTHAM WATCHES. 
CARD TO BUYERS. 
We arc informed that some Watch Dealers are misrepre" 
senting the quality of our watches in the interest of other 
watches on which a larger profit is made, we desire to call 
the attention of buyers to certain facts which should inspire 
renewed confidence in the superior quality and unrivaled 
cheapness of WALTHAM WATCHES. Wchavc an experi¬ 
ence of sixteen years, and our advantages are the natural 
result of the precedence wc acquired in the trade and the 
proportions to which our manufactory lias attained, making 
now twice as many watches as all the other manufacturers 
in this country combined, and as no industrial law is better 
established than that which cheapens the cost of an article 
in proportion to the magnitude of its production, we are 
enabled to offer our watches at less rates, quality for quality, 
than any others made in this country. 
The conditions which make this cheapness possible are 
also favorable to the excellence of our watches. 
We have the best workers in every department that are 
available, and with machinery perfect and ample, we make 
by far the finest grade of watches made in this country sur¬ 
passing all other American watch manufacturers by our 
ability to offer buyers the largest variety from which to se¬ 
lect any style that may be required. 
Our watches have long been the leading article in their 
line, and are sold by nearly all respectable jewelers at a 
moderate profit. 
With these facts as a basis the Company confidently appeal 
to watch buyers to insist on having their preferences for 
Waltham Watches respected by that small portion of the 
trade whose hostility to them arises from the fact that they 
are sold at less profit than any others. 
Buyers should also bo on their guard against purchasing 
worthless Swiss Watches, bearing colorable imitations of 
our trade-marks. 
Not satisfied with copying our trade-marks as nearly as 
they dare, the Swiss manufacturers send large numbers of 
their refuse to this market marked “Union Watch Co.,” 
“Massasoit Watch Co.,” and “ Great Western Watch Co.,” 
and other deceptive American names. Any dealer who 
recommends these watches as genuine American Watches 
means to cheat if lie can, and when represented to be as 
good as the genuine the object is, of course, to sell them for 
three or four times their real value. 
Buyers who do not know responsible jewelers should send 
for our descriptive catalogue, which contains much useful 
information to watch buyers. 
No watches retailed by the Company. For all other facts 
and information, address 
ROBBINS & APPLETON, General Agents, 
182 BROADWAY, New York. 
Is Strawberry Culture Profitable ? 
See our Price List for spring of 1870. Sent free. 
J. KNOX, 
I5ox 155, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
HOW CROPS GROW. 
A Treatise on the Chemical Composition, Structure, and 
Life of the Plant. With numerous illustrations and tables 
of analyses. By Prof. Samuel W . Johnson, of 
Yale College. Price $2.00. 
Tins book is a guide to the knowledge of agricultural 
plants, their composition, their structure, and modes of de¬ 
velopment and growth; of the complex organization of 
plants, and the uses of the parts, the germination of seeds 
and the food of plants, obtained both from the air and the 
soil. Very full and accurate tables of analyses are given, 
and tables of the proportions existing between different 
principles, oily, starchy, or nitrogenous, in the same and 
different plants. The hook is an invaluable one to all real 
students of agriculture. 
Another work by the same author is now in press, enti¬ 
tled “How Crops Feed,” in which the subject of the Food 
of the Plant is amplified in all its details, and the atmosphere 
and the soil are fully discussed in their manifold relations to 
the Plant 
PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 
A guide to the successful propagation and cultivation of 
Florists’ Plants. By Peter Henderson, author ol “ Gar¬ 
dening for Profit!” Beautifully illustrated. Price $1.50. 
Certainly the most practical and desirable work that has 
ever been published on this subject. We are selling them 
rapidly. Some no doubt will say that it exposes the “se¬ 
crets” of the Trade too freely, and that it will make Garden¬ 
ers and Propagators so plenty that our occupation, like 
Othello’s, will he gone.—H. A. Dreer, Seedsman and Florist, 
Phila., Pa. 
Full to overflowing with valuable information. 
Francis Richardson, Toronto, Canada. 
Thoroughly practical, yet readable as a novel.—N. Y. Sun. 
Just the work for the young Florist or Amateur, as it tells 
him clearly there is no such tiling as failure, if its simple 
teachings are followed. 
Calvin & Geraghty, Florists, Newport, R. I. 
Either of the above hooks sent post-paid on receipt of 
price by 
ORANGE JUDD & CO., 345 Broadway, New York. 
