specialty of this old, good firm is, at present, the Green 
Mountain grape with which our readers are, or ought 
to be, familiar. It is probably the best early white 
hardy grape in existence. It is also known as the 
VVinchel. Our readers will make no mistake in order¬ 
ing fruit or ornamental trees of any description of 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons. 
J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, Ill.—World’s Fair Edition 
of Vaughan’s Gardening Illus- 
_trated is what this splendid 
catalogue is called. The regular 
lists comprise all sorts of farm, 
garden and flower seeds, bed¬ 
ding and hot-house plants, small 
fruits and the like. There are 
a number of novelties and 
specialties to which we may 
call special attention. One is, as 
shown by a beautiful colored 
plate, new varieties of cannas. 
Of these Floronce Vaughan is 
of a bright yellow, speckled 
with crimson, while the petals 
are even broader than those 
of the famous Mad. Crozy. Mr. 
Vaughan paid $400 for the stock 
plants. Geo. W. Childs, Gustave 
Sennholz, J 1) Cabas and J C. 
Vaughan are magnificent and 
4$ distinct. There is a full-page 
colored illustration of sweet 
»2§t» peas, which is as life-like as it is 
V » bewitching. A page of pansies 
*2 in colors is brilliant enough, 
'j... . but not very artistic. Another 
• * colored page shows Vaughan’s 
: New Silver-leaf Ever blooming 
_ calla. The last cover page shows 
Vaughan’s Osage musk-melon 
and Improved Ne Plus Ultra 
' sweet corn (a more appropriate 
name than the Country Gentle- 
E. Moody & Sons, Lockport, 
M ' N. Y.—Wholesale price list of 
Niagara Nurseries. Fruit trees, 
grape vines, ornamental trees 
and shrubs. 
Jamks Vick’s Sons, Rochester, 
N. Y.—Vick’s Floral Guide, 
being a catalogue of the largest 
size (108 pages) profusely illus¬ 
trated with wood cuts and col¬ 
ored pages. The sum of $325 is 
offered in 10 prizes for the best 
dozen Maggie Murphy and 
5 American Wonder potatoes. 
Seeds are offered in collections. 
; For instance, 23 kinds of vege¬ 
tables for $1 ; 20 kinds of an- 
been tried as soon as introduced. In this way pure 
stock, true to name, has been insured, as no pains 
have been spared to keep it unmixed. Among new 
varieties announced we would call attention to the 
following: Columbus, King of Roses, Mt. Carbon, 
Vaughan, Timpe’s No. 4 and Great West. 
W. W. It A.WSON & Co., Poston, Mass —A well ar¬ 
ranged and handsome catalogue of seeds of all kinds, 
with colored covers and two 
full-page colored plates in which 
are shown 17 different kinds of 
vegetables. Mr. Rawson has > 
made vegetables an essential 
part of his life’s study and is 
one of the largest growers in 
the country. His 30 years of 
experience as a seed gro » er 
should give the firm a certain 
special advantage, as he selects 
all seed for sto.k and person¬ 
ally superintends all the wc rk 
of his several farms and green- , 
houses, one of which contains 
10,240square feet and is plowed j. , 
with a team as i f it were a field. 
bliss’s Hybrir ized potato set d ’ 
is offeied for 26 cents a packet. 
Rawson’s Arlington Fav< rite 
beet, Rawson’s Ear y Summer 
I ■*-. Hi ■ ■ M SPRotMK 
cabbage, Rawson’a White Spir e 
cucumber, Rawson’s New Hot- 
house lettuce, and Rawson’s 
Puritan tomato are believed 
to be excellent varieties of their 
kinds. The Paris Golden (Self- 
blanching) is said to be the 
earliebt celery grown, and is 
about the only variety used for . ^ 
Josselyn, Fre- 
N. Y.—Tiik R N -y. 
special attention to nut trees—Japan chestnuts, native 
chestnuts, walnuts, American black, English or 
Madeira, Japan and Persian filberts, pecans, butter¬ 
nuts, almonds, etc. 
Northrup, Btiaslan & Goodwin Co., Minneapolis, 
Minn.—A large size catalogue (80 pages) of seeds of 
all kinds. We here see offered for the first in many 
years Mold’s Ennobled oats, which 16 or 17 years ago 
George 
donia, 
would ask those of its readers 
who have grape vines to pur¬ 
chase not to make their selec¬ 
tions until they have examined 
this catalogue. Two nc w graj es [ • 
are offered, one of which, the 
Esther, was 6ent to the Rural 
Grounds in the spriDg of 1888 
It originated with E W. bull 
of Concord, Mass., well known 
as the originator of the Concord. 
The Esther (or Ester as the 
name came to us) is a pure 
white native of excellent qual- 
ity and high promise in every 
way The R. N -Y.’s opinion 
of it is already before our read¬ 
ers and need not further be 
repeated. The Rockwood has 
not been tried at the Rural 
Grounds. Mr. Bull is quoted 
as having said that it “holds 
its quality and beauty longer 
than any other black grape with which I am ac- 
quainted.” 
Mr. Josselyn offers the new Red Jacket gooseberry 
a colored picture of which is inserted in the.catalogue, 
as being of the largest size, smooth and of excel¬ 
lent quality. Neither berry nor foliage has been 
known to mildew. Our readers may order from 
Mr. Josselyn with full confidence that they will 
receive plants true to name and of the first quality. 
William Parry, Parry P. O., N. J. —There are 
several plants in this catalogue to which we desire 
to call special attention. One to which it gives 
due prominence is the pawpaw tree (Asimina 
triloba) often called the Custard apple and, 
occasionally and more appropriately, the Northern 
Banana. It really is a banana in form, in the 
quality and texture of its flesh ; and this Northern 
Banana ripens, and easily ripens in the climate of 
New York and we know not how much further 
north. T e pawpaw is one of the fruits to be 
improved, and its improvement is no more diffi¬ 
cult than was that of the crab apple, plum, straw¬ 
berry or grape. The tree is ornamental and pecu¬ 
liarly so; the flower is odd. The tree bears 
abundantly, and it is altogether one of those 
neglected things that only needs a power at the 
bellows to start the spark into a general conflag¬ 
ration of popular appreciation. 
Another fruit about which The R.N.-Y. is densely 
ignorantis the“Dwarf Rocky Mountain”cherry It 
is claimed that it is a new species of cherry not botani- Nevertheless, the oat coatings (glumes and palets) 
cally known. It stands a temperature of 40 degrees are not so hard as in the short, white oats, like Wel- 
below zero. One man is said to have picked 16 quarts come. White Australian, etc., and the proportion of 
from a three-year-old bush—80 cherries from a branch kernel to husk is larger. 
12 inches long The cherries get black when ripe and Stephen Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan, Conn.—Fruit 
as large as the English Morello. Mr. Parry gives and ornamental trees, plants, vines, etc., etc. A 
Mrs William Tbelease Chrysanthemum. Fig. 51. See page 123, 
Burpee’s World Beater. Fig. 52. See page 138, 
