1870.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
71 
Mil mu Auratum. 
The Japanese Queen ©f Lilies. 
A large importation from Japan, just received by the sub¬ 
scribers, in tine, healthy condition. Flowering Bulbs mailed 
to any address at following prices: _ 
No. 1, $1.00 each: $9.00 per doz. No. 2, 75 cents each, or 
$0.75 per doz. No. 3, 50 cts. each ; $4.50 per doz. Prices by 
the hundred or thousand will be given to dealers upon 
application. B. K. BLISS & SON, 
Nos. 41 Park Row, and 151 Nassau St., New York. 
Marblehead Mammoth €afefeage! 
' This is the largest cabbage in the world, sometimes weigh¬ 
ing over sixty pounds each, and averaging a* high as thirty 
pounds by the acre ! It is not only large, but cannot be sur¬ 
passed for reliability for beading, tenderness, and sweetness. 
As some cultivators have an impression that this cabbage 
cannot be fully matured outside of Marblehead, I invite 
their attention to the following extracts from among the 
many commendatory letters which I have received. 
“ Tour Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage cannot be excelled. 
There were heads weighing 50 lbs., and heads of Fottler’s 
Improved Brunswick (from your seed) weighing 40 lbs — 
John H. Howlett, Charlestown, Ill.” 
“ I raised from your seed Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages 
that weighed 50 lbs.—A. II. Mace, Clintonville, N. Y., Nov. 
14th, 1309.” 
“Tour Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages were very fine, 
they all headed well, and weighed 27 to 40, and 47 lbs.—IV. 
Llewellyn, lied VTing, Minn., March 12.1S69.” 
“Your Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages are wonderful; 
they grew to the size of an umbrella.—Thomas Flanigan, 
Palermo, Kansas.” 
“ The Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages were a perfect suc¬ 
cess. They headed well, and were three times as large a3 
any cabbage I ever raised before.—J. F. Butt, Kosclusco, 
Miss.” 
“ I have raised your Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage for 
two years, and it lias proved the tenderest and sweetest cab¬ 
bage 1 ever saw.—S. S. Groves, Stones Prairie, 111. ” 
John Van IVormer, Springs’ Mills, Mich., raised some 
weighing 30 lbs. John Humphreys, Titusville, N. T„ 33K 
lbs. M. D. Clark, Elyria, Ohio, 37 lbs. II. A. Terry,Crescent 
City, Iowa, 40 lbs., measuring 5G inches around the solid 
head. Tlios. A. Lambert, Becancour, C. W., exhibited three 
cabbages weighing respectively 40, 42)4, and 44 lbs. John 
W. Dean, St. Michael’s, Md., lias grown them weighing 33 
lbs. S. M. Shuck, Preston, Minn., S3 lbs., when trimmed. 45. 
H. Ellis, Etna Green, Ind., over SO lbs. A. E. Garrison, Des 
Moines, Iowa, 30 lbs. James S. Allen, Union Springs, N. T., 
30 lbs., when stripped of loose leaves. Win. Lee, Jr.‘, Denver, 
Colorado, has grown heads weighing 47 to 50 lbs., as a penal¬ 
ty for which tiie miners of tiie mountains call him the ‘ Big 
Cabbage Man.” Leonard Clioat, Denver. Colorado, raised 
one which weighed 40 lbs. when trimmed of waste leaves. 
Collins Eaton, Ogdensburgli, N. Y., 50 lbs. P. Sweeney, 
Loretto, Pa., 43 lbs. Sam’l B. Ornsbee, Rolling Prairie, Wis., 
53 : lbs. Clias. W. Oden, Little Sioux, Iowa, produced quite a 
lot weighing from 50 to 00 lbs. A. C. Van Vassal, 39 lbs. trim¬ 
med. A. O. Goodwin, Kennedy, N. Y., 45 to 50 lbs. W. II. 
Spera, Euphrnta, Pa., raised fifty heads that averaged over 
31 lbs. each. Win. D. Munson, Burlington, Vt., raised some 
weighing 40 lbs. Mary B. Sellman, Galesburg, Iowa, 28 to 43 
lbs. stripped of loose leaves. Hundreds of others have 
written me that they have “taken all the prizes at the 
County Fairsi” “Raised the largest cabbage ever seen in 
the country.” “ Astonished ail tlleir neighbors.” “That in 
sweetness, crispness, and tenderness, they were unequalled,” 
ete., etc. A«Hlie original introducer of the Mammoth Cab¬ 
bage, I am prepared to supply seed grown from extra large 
heads, at following prices, by mail, post-paid : Per package, 
25 cts.; per oz., $1; 4 ozs., $3.50; per 11)., §12. 
Full instructions for cultivation accompanying the seed. 
Catalogues free. JAMES J. H. GREGORY, 
Marblehead, Mass. 
FERRE, BATCHELDER & CO.’S 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 
of Seeds S5,m«l 
VEGETABLE AND FLOWER GARDEN 
MANUAL, for 1870, will be ready for distribution early 
In January. It will contain about 100 pages, with numerous 
illustrations—a complete list of Vegetable and Flower seeds, 
to which will he added a list of Summer-Flowering 
Bulbs, Plants and Small Fruits. Sent to all 
applicants enclosing 10 cents. Our customers supplied 
without charge. Address 
FERRE, BATCHELDER & CO., 
231 Main. St., Springfield, Mass. 
To Market Gardeners, 
Your business involves an immense outlay over small 
areas, and it is of first importance that tiie seed you plant 
should he fully 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 tiie country. Because I grow these seed 
myself I am enabled to warrant them fresh and true to 
name, and to bind myself to refill the same value gratis, 
should they not prove so. All seed warranted to reach eacli 
purchaser. I also import and procure from first growers, 
ciioicc varieties that cannot be grown in my locality giving 
me tints 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. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
Evergreen Broom-corn. 
I have the genuine. The brush is worth from $5 to $20 p< 
acre more than the old sort. I will send enough to plant a 
acr a post-paid, for $1.00, one bushel as freight, $5.00. M 
Catalogue describes it, and 150 varieties of seed. Earlv Roi 
potatoes, Alton Nutmeg: Melon, Liberian Cane, Clioice*Flo\ 
ers, &c„ &e. Send for it. Address 
IVALDO F. BROWN, Box 75, Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio. 
Hlff! IMMI HORSE-RADISH SETS.—The 
vy best in market, at $3.00 ner 1 000 
EDWARD WHEELER, Box 7241 Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Nos. 41 Paris Eow, and. S5J Nassau Street, New York. (P„ ©. Box, No. 5712.) 
Importers, Growers, and Dealers in Garden, Field, and Flower Seeds, Horticultural 
Implements, and Garden Requisites. 
Would inform their friends and the public that the Sixteenth Annual Edition of their Illustrated Seed Catalogue 
and Guide to the Flower and Kitclien Garden is now ready for distribution. 
No pains or expense have been spared in preparing this edition, to make it the most complete work of the kind ever 
published in this country. 
,_ .... , , - .-. Twenty-five 
also puolisli an edition handsomely bound iu cloth at 50 cents per copy. 
CUCUMBER, GEN. GRANT. 
mwm 
A superior variety, either 
for forcing or for culture in 
the open round. It is perfect 
in form, solid and crisp, and 
of a most agreeable flavor. 
Many specimens were grown 
the past season averaging 
thirty inches in length. After 
a five years’trial, we unhesi¬ 
tatingly pronounce it better 
than any other variety for 
forcing. 
Packets, containing 10 seeds, 
25 cents. Five Packets for 
$1.00. B. K. BLISS & SON, 
P. O. Box 5713, 
New York. 
€©MOT-<er 5 s§ 
COLOSSAL 
ASFAMAGUS 
Seed and Roots. 
The experience of the past 
season fully confirms ail 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. Cono¬ 
ver, which were grown along¬ 
side tiie best “Oyster Bay” 
varieties, and received tiie 
same care and treatment, 
which attained four times the 
size of that popular variety. 
Though hut two years from 
tiie 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 vari¬ 
eties. Strong, one-year-old 
Roots mailed, post-paid, $2 
per fifty; $3100 per hundred. 
Seeds.— y, oz. packet. 50 cts. 
Address B. 'K. BLISS & SON, 
.41 Park Row, & 151 Nassau 
St., New York. 
POTATOES. 
Bkesee’s King of the Earlier, or No. 4.— Known also 
as tiie Fifty Dollar Potato (at winch price they were sold 
last spring). Tiie experience of the past season fully con- 
lirius all that was claimed lor it hvtlie raiser, and we have 
no hesitation m pronouncing it tiie Earliest, as well as one 
of the best vanetiesin cultivation, is ready for marketing one 
week in advance of the Early Rose. Mr.' Bresoe has placed 
ids enure slock in our hands, for sale at the following greatly 
reduced prices. J 
Two Pounds, by mail, post-paid, for $1X0; by Express 
(purchaser paving freight), One Peck, $5.00; Olio Bushel! 
$ln.00; One J*bl., $40.09. 
Bresee’s Peerless, or No. 0. —This is, without exception 
the best variety in cultivation, for a general crop. It grows 
to a large size, of a very showy appearance, is enormously 
productive, and fully equal to the Peachblow in quality. 
I lie stock was sold last spring at $000 per bushel. One Jb„ 
by mail, $1.00; by Express. $10.00 per peck 
Bresee’s Prolific, or No. 2.-4 It.s., bvinnil. 8100- by 
Express, $1 .25 per peck ; $4X0 per bushel; $9 per Bid. 
Climax;— 4 lbs., by mail, $1.00; $1X0 per peck; S4.C0 per 
bushel; $9.00 per Bhl. 1 
Early Rose. 4 Bs., by mail, $1.00; $1X0 per peck; $2.50 
per bushel ; $5.00 per Bhl. 
Not less than $1.00 worth of a. variety will be mailed. 
Older varieties will be furnished at market prices. Our 
illustrated Potato Catalogue, with full directions for their 
culture, will be mailed to all applicants enclosing a stamn. 
,, „ , T B. K. BLISS & SON, 
41 Park Row, & 151 Nassau St., New l'ork. 
MIOMME-LEFOET, MASTIC, or 
CORD GRAFTING WAX. 
Used in tile Imperial Nurseries a ltd Planta¬ 
tions of Paris. 
. This preparation is known as tiie best which can he used 
in the operation of grafting Trees, Shrubs, and Plants of 
any description, budding Roses, &c. It requires no previous 
melting: it is always ready for use; it grows hard in the 
open air as well as in water; and once hardened is not 
liquified under a high temperature. 
This article is far superior to anything yet produced for 
the purpose of healing all wounds in Trees, &c., arising from 
accident or disease. It rapidly causes broken or snlit branch¬ 
es to unite again ; it preserves tiie graft from moisture and 
from the intrusion of insects, &c., and is 
THE BEST STYPTIC TO PREVENT TIIE EFFUSION OF 
SAP AFTER THE PRUNING OF THE GRAPE-VINE. 
It is also an indispensable article in many other circum¬ 
stances,which can only lie illustrated by its use. Sold in tin 
. __ ■ ■- - - — >- — .... ..ppllc.....„. 
B. K. BLISS & SON, 41 Park Row, New York, 
General Agents for the United States. 
Fresh Pear Seed. 
I 1 * first-rate condition, just received by the subscribers, 
4° cts. per ounce, $1.25 per 4 ounces, $4.00 per pound, $325.00 
per 100 pounds. ’ :: 
Address B. K. BLISS & SON. 
Los. 41 Park How, & 151 Nassau St., New York. 
