February 10 
There’s no profit in it, but it pays us, for we 
know the quality of our seeds—a trial ordermeans 
a permanent customer. We can fill the hundred 
thousand orders we expect from readers of The 
Rural New-Yorker and a few other great publi¬ 
cations like it. Not space enough here to describe 
these varieties; we simply brief them; all about 
them in 
Much for 25 cents 
Much more for a dollar 
Saucy Pansies though we be, 
We would have you know 
That we know aching or two— 
BURPEE’S SEEDS WILL GROW 
Four Favorite Fordhook Collections 
the leading American seed catalogue. 172 pages, 
hundreds of illustrations direct from photographs, 
beautiful colored plates as bright and true as Nature. 
New designs for ’ 94 , noteworthy novelties nobody 
else has. The original, interesting, and instructive 
seed book of the world, valuable to everybody. 
Mailed free to everyone who plants seeds ; to others 
10 cents, which is less than cost. 
That those who do not know .us may be forever convinced that 
In 1892, when we first advertised THE LATEST 
FASHIONS IN PANSIES, five packets for 25 cents, 
a prominent seedsman said to us: “ You are ruining 
the Seed Trade.” I’robably other seedsmen, ctjually 
short siglited, thought tlie same of last year s ad¬ 
vertisement of SWEET PEAS are All the Go. 
We now surintss all previous oilers in the FOUR 
FAVORITE FORDHOOK COLLECTIONS FOR 
1894 , advertised on this page. 
What wiil our comi)etitor 8 say to this? ]?ut legiti¬ 
mate competition isthe life of trade,—let them make 
it still livelier if they can. So long as they do not sell 
cheap seeds (cheap in quality as well as (juantity), 
it is all to the benefit to Horticulture. We only wish 
other seedsmen would join with us in trying to i)er- 
suade everyone who lives in town or country to learn 
the delights of gardening. In this new country of 
ours the trouble is that the struggle for material 
prosperity is so absorbing, that many are in such a 
hurry to add dollar to dollar, that they overlook the 
j)!ea.sure (and jn’olit, too, for that matter, to both 
pur.se and person) to he derived from a good garden. 
We will send ALL FOUR FAVORITE 
FORDHOOK COLLECTIONS as 
advertised, neatly boxed, by mail postpaid, 
together with Mrs. Rorer’s New Book, 
“ How to Cook Vegetables.” 
2 Collections of Beautiful Flowers 
/TTV FORDHOOK FASHION COLLECTION. 
Comprises Six Novelties in three of the most fashionable flowers of the day, together 
with a bright booklet, entitled •' Pansies, Poppies, AND Sweet Peas.” It contains:— 
AJ ' hw ii'1'WN NEW SWEET PEA,—AMERICAN BELLE. The Florai, Novelty for 
’**94- Extremely early, wonderfully free-flowering ; bright rose with wings of crystal- 
i'i white, vividly spotted rich purplish-carmine. See Colored Plate in Catalogue. 
T-V ECKFORD'S GILT EDGE, or SURPASSING SWEET; PEAS. This 
grand strain of New Sweet Peas in mixture is unequaled ; new seedlings. 
BURPEE’S DEFIANCE PANSIES, FINEST MIXED. Magnificent new 
giant-flowered Pansies, which measure two and one-half to four inches across. 
^ SUPERB NEW IMPERIAL GERMAN PANSIES. All known colors, including 
g f j ^SSSr brightest fancy varieties, blotched, veined, mottled, and margined. 
fj NEW CARDINAL POPPY. Glowing cardinal-scarlet flowers, which are uniformly of enor- 
// mous size and perfectly double; of great profusion and long duration in bloom. 
1 / GOLDEN GATE POPPIES. If you already have this superb strain you can give this packet to a 
I friend, to whom the thousands of beautiful flowers will be a constant source of delight. 
I IVe It a 7 ie a beautiful colored plate, painted from nature, of the distinct ne^u PANSIES, POPPIES, 
r and SWEET PEAS, 7 vhich 7 ue 7 uill mail enclosed flat with our FARM ANNUAL for 1804 . 
*»-The Complete Collection—one p.acket each of the above six varieties—mailed for 25 CENTS. 
With each collection we include free a copy of the bright new booklet, “ PANSIES, POPPIES, AND SWEET 
PEAS,” wliich is beautifully printed and charmingly illustrated, specially written for us by three well-known 
authors’. We have thus an unique combination of the best literature on the subject, together with the choicest seeds. 
LET US TALK TO YOU 
more fully than we can on this single page of Thk 
Rural New-Yorker. Yon can buy a postal card for 
a cent, and if on it yon write,“I intend to jdant seeds 
this spring,” and mention The Rural Nnu-Yorker, 
we will gladly mail you Rurpee’s Farm Annual 
FOR 1894, a handsome hook of 172 iiages, which costs 
us more than ten cents a copy in quarter-million 
editions. We will try to persuade you to jirove for 
younselves the truth of the well-known motto that 
BURPEE’S SEEDS GROW 
and are 
The BEST SEEDS That Grow. 
On the “addre.ss only” side of the postal write 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 
but do not forget to write your own name and address 
plainly on the reverse side, and remember ice trust 
you. If you htive no use for seeds, but want 'run; F'arm 
Annual merely because you are interested in the 
progress of horticulture or dosire tlie heaufiful ])ainf- 
ings from nature for framing, we expect that you 
will send a sealed letter enclosing either a silver dime 
or live two-cent stamps. 
l( Mrsp £ 
|\-FRJhlCIPAb ^ 
FORDHOOK FANCY COLLECTION. 
This collection embraces seeds of ten easy-gro 7 ving annuals of real 
beauty that should be in every garden,—it contains one full-sized 
packet each of all the following:— 
NEW YELLOW DOLICHOS. Quite unique, not only in 
color but also in habit of growth The foliage is very dense, the 
stems show a hairy growth, and no vine is more quick growing. 
Every color, many distinct types. 
PHftADELPHIA^ 
ASTERS, CHOICE MIXED, 
BALSAM,BURPEE’SSUPERB CAMELLIA-FLOWERED.’ 
Magnificent double flowers of unusiial perfection; alLcolbrs. 
MARGUERITE CARNATIONS. Perfect double carnations in 
full beauty, all colors, in four months after sowing the seed. 
CALLIOPSIS CORONATA. Brightest yellow flowers of large size. 
DIANTHUS, MIXED. All colors and forms of both double and 
single Chinese and Japanese Pinks. 
NEW ERFURT MIGNONETTE. Flowers of large size, great 
substance, and delicious fragrance. 
FORDHOOK STRAIN OF PHLOX DRUMMONDII 
GRANDIFLORA. Remarkable not only in brilliancy of colors, 
but also in extra large size of the flowers. 
SALVIA SPLENDENS. The most gorgeous of all plants. 
VERBENA HYBRIDA, MIXED, All colors. 
fl’it'The entire collection, one packet each of the above ten varieties, 
which is less than one-third the regular retail price, if purchased sepa. 
Every housewife wants Mrs. Rorer’s New Book, 
“ How to Cook Veget.ibles,” and many have 
written to inquire its price. Although the copy¬ 
right is owned by us, we are under contract not to 
sell a single copy, otherwise we could have sold 
thousands of this book at Ji.oo each during the 
past two years. So suppose there are some seeds 
in the four Collections which you do not need,why 
not purchase a complete set for $ 1 . 00 , and thus get 
this valuable book Free as a premium? Surely 
you can give the extra seeds to some friend. Ifyou 
live in the city and are so unfortunate as to have 
no garden of your own, what more accept.Tble 
present could you send to a friend in the country 
than these four Collections of Fordhook Seeds, 
at the same time instructing us to mail the book 
separately to your own address. 
Purchased separately at retail, the 26 pack¬ 
ets of seed enumerated on this page, would cost 
^ 2 . 90 , while the cook book of 182 pages is fully 
worth 50 cents—making in all an actual value 
of $ 3.40 for $ 1 . 00 . 
If requested, we will include in each complete 
box with the seeds and book a small sample packet 
also of the valuable new White Cap Dent Corn 
a4 described on page 35 of The Farm Annual. 
This is really the best Field Corn in cultivation to- 
d.iy, and we desire to introduce it to every farmer. 
TO TELL YOU MORE of the great DOL¬ 
LAR offer we must remind you that our new 
book, “ Selection in Seed Growing,” can be 
had free with any dollar order, so you are, of 
course, entitled to this unique book of 112 pages if 
you ask for it when sending us $ 1.00 for this offer. 
Poppies rare and poppies fair, 
Nodding to and fro; 
The tiniest seed will show the breed— 
BURPEE’S SEEDS WILL GROW 
2 Collections of Choicest Vegetables 
FORDHOOK FIRST COLLECTION. 
St appropriately named, as this collection comprises the 
ve earliest vegetables, those first to mature, and all of 
which are of F'okdhook introduction. Everyone in the 
spring is especially desirous of getting the first fresh 
vegetables on the table. This collection contains one 
full size packet each of:— 
i EARLY BLACK LIMA BEAN. Bears great 
ropes of pods in wonderful profusion, weeks earlier 
than any other Lima. 
NEW TOMATO,—FORDHOOK FIRST. Ex¬ 
tremely early; the only first early tomato that is 
ahuays smooth and perfect. 
BURPEE’S ALLHEAD EARLY CABBAGE. 
Thousands of gardeners testify that this is the most 
thoroughbred and best Eaj ly Cabbage. 
COLUMBIA BEET. This distinct new Beet is 
the earliest of all; of surpassingly fine flavor, 
f BURPEE’S EARLIEST RADISH. Ready to 
pull in only 20 days from the time of sowing tke seed. 
STS' One full-size packet of each of the above Five 
ENTS. Each packet bears an illustration of the var- 
ire. Purchased separately, the five packets wo«ld cost 
3 r 25 cents,—less than wholesale price. 
AMERICAN GARDENING 
Modern Methods of the 
Seed Trade, 
This is the title of a very interesting article by 
Mr. C. L. Allen, the well-known agricultural 
writer of New York. In connection with other 
articles it describes the methods of seed growing 
and seed testing at Fordhook, and will be of real 
interest to all our patrons. But besides these 
articles on our own operations, the new book, 
SELECTION IN SEED GROWING, gives 
all the most important papers read before the Seeds¬ 
men’s Session of the World’s Horticultural Con¬ 
gress at Chicago. 
ORDER TO-DAY and ask for 
FORDHOOK FAMOUS COLI 
This collection is also appropriately named, ai mbraces five 
of the most famous vegetables introdi from Ford¬ 
hook Farm. It contains one full-size p- each of:— 
BURPEE’S BUSH LIMA. The bushforntof 
the true large Lima Bean, and -‘'y pronounced , 
the most remarkable of jienv vegeialt 
BURPEE’S SUREHEAD r^^IBAGE. Seepage ^ 
52 of the Farm Annual for tl ^cord of seventeen ^ 
years’ trials of this world-famous Cabbage. 
NEW ICEBERG LETTUCE. On our colored 
plate we show a head painted from nature, and truly 
tell the decided tnerils of this rare novelty. 
BURPEE'S MELROSE MELON. No other 
melon is so handsome and none can equal this in ■ ^ 
delicious flazior. The flesh is quite unique in color, i 
being of a beautiful light green, shading to rich salmon. i-;;: 
WHITE VICTORIA ONION. Famous for thelarge 
size it attains, particularly under the new onion culture. 
jtKg“One packet each of the above Five FAMOUS FORD 
at retail, but we include the five packets in onr FORDHOO. 
postpaid. On each packet is printed an illustration, our registi 
We’re Sweet Peas and, if you please. 
We are “all the go,” 
But you will need the best ot seed— 
BURPEE’S SEEDS WILL GROW 
THE LEADING AMERICAN 
SEED CATALOGUE. 
A handsome book of 172 pages. It tells all about 
The Best Seeds That Grow. 
