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FLOWER SEEDS, 
ALSO FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS. 
Our new SEED OATALOUVEi which contains 
a greatly enlarged lint, of Flower Seeds, sud Includes 
all tin' Novelties of Value, both In FI.OWEUS 
and VEG ETA MUCH, is n<iw ready for distribution. 
Address 
R. H. ALLEN & CO., 
r. 0. Box 376. 189 Ar 191 Wafer St., 
NEW YORK. 
MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN 
Agricultural anti ilortleulturnl Implements, 
MuehInery and Fertilizers. 
ODDS AND ENDS, 
Apple or Fruit Dumplings.— A lady 
iuquires how to make “Apple dumplings 
and rice puddings.” I know how. The best 
and nicest way to make any kind of fruit, 
berry or jam dumplings, is to wot up a good 
dough with salaratus, sour cream and but¬ 
termilk; if only with sour milk, use a small 
lump of butter for shortening; take a piece 
of dough the size of your two fists, roll out 
until it is a little less than half an inch 
thick; spread fruit, berries, or jinn on it; 
roll it up. tuck in the ends, and boil it in a 
pudding bag, allowing it room to swell; put 
it on to cook in boiling water, and don’t 
allow it to stop boiling; it will be done in 
just one hour; when eaten, cut in slices 
across the cud; five dumplings of this size 
are enough for a largo family, or a half 
dozen hungry men; bring them to tho 
table piping hot, one at a time; eat with 
line sugar and butler, and drink good milk. 
This is a nicer way than to make a dozen 
separate dumplings and turn them naked 
into a kettle to boil and Sputter, and flop 
and swear, and burst open, and come to the 
table watery and washy, and not looking a 
bit appetizing. 
To Make Iliee Pudding, say in a quart 
bowl, take two eggs and two heaping table- 
spoonfuls of line sugar, well beaten together; 
till the bowl half full of cooked rice, a few 
little bits of butter, ami a. good handful of 
raisins; stir in all well together, then till the 
bowl with new milk. After the ingredients 
are thoroughly mixed together, bake in a 
hot oven half an hour. When set away to 
cool, take a spoon and stir it up so as to mix 
in the melted butter on tho top and the 
raisins at tho bottom. Eat with oream, 
slightly sweetened. Season with nutmeg, 
or whatever you like. It is a good plan, if 
one’s family is large, to bake a rice pudding 
in a basin, and make two quarts uv a time. 
Abridged from Webster's Quarto, Illustrated with 
nearly TWO HUNDRED Engravings on Wood. 
Ky Wm, G. Webster and Win, A. Wheeler. 
This volume embraces a careful selection of more 
than IS.OUI of the must important words of tho lan¬ 
guage. The introduction contains, besides the Pic¬ 
torial Illustrations, Tables of Money, Weight and 
Measure, Abbreviation*. Words, Phrases, Proverbs, 
&e,, from the. Greek, the Latin, and the Modern 
Foreign Languages, Holes tor spelling. Ac., ,tu.; mak¬ 
ing altogether the most complete and useful pocket 
companion extunt. H is bountifully printed on tinted 
paper, and bound in throe different styles. Tucks, 
gilt edges. $1. Sent by uttill on receipt of the price. 
IYISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOK & 00., 
PUBLISHERS, 
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“Tin: K\ru'itixu mo.ntmlntb of Fknimork 
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THEY SHOULD FIND A FI.ACE IN EVERY AMERI¬ 
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A NEW AND 
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WORLD-FAMOUS 
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D. Appleton & Co. announce that they have com¬ 
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Novels, In u form designed for general popular cir¬ 
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“ Leather-Stocking Tales,” five jn number, which 
will be published in the following order, at intervals 
of about n month : 
I. The Last op the Mohicans. 
II. Tut: Oebusi.ayeu. IV. Thf, pioneers. 
III. The Pathfinder. v. The prairie. 
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Illustrated with entirely new designs by the distin¬ 
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the now story and family paper, it will be sent 
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IS NOW READY FOR DISTRIBUTION, 
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WE WILL GIVE TIIE BEAUTIFUL 
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To every one sending us by mail or Othcl a,. 
Aii Order for $2 Worth of Garden or Flower 
Seeds in Packets. 
Tills Cliromo is II by II Incites, printed from sixteen 
plates, in sixteen colors, and is sold in the retail atoms 
for about two dollars. 
T nsf Published, Royal 4tn.. Ornamental Cloth, 
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Pottages; with the uctualeost of each, and A Practi¬ 
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Arch’t, Oxford. Oxford and London: Jus. Parker A Co. 
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the amount in full for four complete sots of tills 
series ($15), will receive an extra set gratuitously, 
each set accompanied by the steel portrait of Cooper 
Tito volumes of tlio series will be mailed to each 
subscriber, post-paid, us rapidly as published, and 
the portrait Immediately on the receipt of tho remit¬ 
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Yu/., AWIATSUH 
JL J CULTIVATORS GUIDE 
jfgHp| \ \ffJy f’Yottvr and Kitchen Garden. 
larfill We are pleased to announce 
riLffriL /lx that the 40th Annual Kdl- 
pjFtFHj^Wv ill l ion of (Ins well-known work 
AS. I ‘ \t»! J is now ready, enlarged end tm- 
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; KgCa YAaf IMA engravings in addition to Us 
vtmff w.s foil descriptive price-1 1 st. of 
3,000vtirlMIcsof c! dice 1> lower 
'Irm '»m iT ' ip X Vegetable Seeds, Rare 
Gladiolus, l.tlies, Tulieroses, 
etc., with full directions lor 
hii a—their culture. This Is, without 
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AND GUIDE TO THE 
Flower mid Vegetable Garden, 
FOK. IMTli, 
Contains 115(1 pages, with many line Illustrations of 
Flowers 'and vegetables, and a beautiful Colored 
Ulnto; also a descriptive list of over two thousand 
species and varieties of slower and Vegetable Seeds, 
Novelties of the Season. Choice Gladiolus, Summer- 
(lowering Bulbs, etc : the most extensive and cbtu- 
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tions for the culture of Flowers and Vegetables, ar¬ 
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HOVEY *&. CO., 
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Our Seeds -warranted Frink, and to reach Purchasers 
Apple Dumpling, — I give my way of 
making what amounts to the same thing as 
dumplings, and is far less trouble. Pe«l and 
core tart apples, half a milk pan full; cover 
well with water; have ready some dough, 
made liko biscuit, rolled out round to cover 
the apples. Put Lho pan on the stove while 
the water is cold ; cover it tightly with an¬ 
other pan, or something that will give it, 
room to rise, and let it stew half an hour. 
Tie- steam will cook the dough nicely, and 
it. ran be cut and served the same its dump¬ 
lings. Have plenty of water in the pan, 
that it may not boil dry. Some call this an 
“ Apple Jonathan,” but it deserves a more 
poetical name, for if well done, it is deli¬ 
cious. 
Hire Soap.—Let the liquor in which beef 
ha* been boiled stand over night, then re¬ 
move all the grease from the top, put in a 
half teacup of rice, and let it boil, gently, 
a half an hour. Season with salt, pepper 
and butter, and thicken with a couple of 
spoonfuls of flour and water, stirred to¬ 
gether. 
For Vegetable Soup, instead of the rice, 
put in the same liquor, add to it a quarter 
of a head of cabbage, chopped flue, a turnip, 
a couple of onions, if you relish t hem, a half 
dozen potatoes, all chopped fine; season to 
your taste. Put in some of your cold beef, 
hashed up. This makes excellent soup. 
Never be guilty of t hrowing away the liquor 
in which you have boiled fresh beef.—A 
Farmer’s Wife. 
TWELVE TIISH KOOKS 
WHICH CONSTITUTE A 
1200 or more Songs and Pieces for Piano-Forte 
or Reed Organ. Worth from $300 to $400. 
Sold in book form for $30!! 
THE MUSICAL TREASURE. Vocal and In¬ 
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TIIE -4 EVER CHOKIL local. 
Large number of the best Songs. 
HEMS OF GERMAN Ml\(l. Vocal. 
The verv best, Songs of Deutschland. 
HEMS OK SACKED SONG. Vocal. 
A eboiet* collection 
OEMS OK SCOTTISH SOME Vocal. 
Sol acted from a large number. The best. 
WR HATH OK 44KMS. Vocal. 
Popular Norms. More recent Hum Silver Chord. 
ODER A TIC PEARLS. Vocal. 
Comprise* no ist ol the favorites of Standard Operas. 
SHOWER OK PEARLS. |V»r,(. 
Completely llllert with the best Imets. 
PIANIST'S ALBUM. Instrumental. 
Is the stone uh Home Circle, Vol 3. 
PIANO-KORTE OEMS, Instrumental. 
Is the stone as Home Llrole. Vol. I. 
HOME CIRCLE. Vol*. 1 and 11. Instrumental. 
Those tint! hooks gave :■ mono to the whole set, 
which is often culled The 11 nine Circle Series, 
nil the hooks being of uniform binding ami size, and 
tilled, not with the most ditfluult or the most severely 
classical music, hut with that, which i.\ genial, bright, 
popular and titled for t he entertainment of the happy 
••circle” at home. 
Price of each book, *4.50 in Boards : S3 in Cloth, 
and Full Gilt, £14. .Sent, post-paid, for the above 
prices. 
0. DITS0N & 00., Boston. 
C. H. DITSON & CO., New York. 
LYON A HEALY, Chicago. 
Rare and Beautiful Flowers and Choice Vegetables 
CAN ALWAYS HE OBTAINED UV SOWING 
We Invite the attention of all Interested to call and 
examine our choice stock of Field and Ollier Seeds. 
We give this branch of mir business special attention. 
We have now In stock Seed Wheat, Rye, Barley, On Is, 
Corn, Clover uml other Gross Seed. Semi foi t’iiculur 
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Dealers In Agricultural Implements, Machinery, Fcr- 
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B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
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Is WHITE, and la hardy, healthy, vigorous and 
productive. Is equal in quality and beauty to tho 
llnest European varieties. Is doing well everywhere. 
Send for Illustrated Descriptive Circular and Price 
List. STEPHEN VV. UNDERHILL, 
Croton Landing P. O., Westchester Co., N. Y. 
IMPORTERS, GROWERS AND DEALERS IN 
Garden, Field and Flower Seeds, 
SMzYXjXj FRtJXTS, 
llorlieuliurtil Inipleuienls, 
Fertilizers and Obiter Requisites for 
the Farm and Garden. 
XjA.WIU MOW33HS 
Of the inn*d Approved Panel'll*. 
The JBlqMrnith Annual Edition of their celebrated 
Herd Catalogue nml Amaivur’u Guide to the 
Flower and Kitchen Gurden, 1* now ready for 
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of is?l as rapidly a« possible, umi to all applicants, 
upon receipt of ‘45 eents 5 tin edition beautifully 
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This is without exception tins largest and best Cat¬ 
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It contains about 400 page*. Including several 
hundred Dimly executed engravings of favorite flow¬ 
ers and vegetable*. ;»ml u beaut I tally colored 
( broiiio ot'a arroitpof twenty of the moat popu¬ 
lar flowers ill cultivation, and the new Early 
Egyptian Beet. Also a descriptive list of 2,500 species 
and varieties of dower and vegetable seeds, Includ¬ 
ing till the novelties of the past season, With full di¬ 
rections for culture. 
UV Will send a packet ot choice Flower Seeds gratis to 
persons ordering Catalogues (Inclosing Twenty-Fivo 
cents), if then trill state the name of the paper in which 
then sa w this advertisement. 
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P. O. Box 5,714, New York City. 
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NOYELLO’S Popular Songs. 40 
NOYELLO’S Oratorios. 50 
NOYELLO’S Opera*.$1.00 
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751 Broadway, New York 
Apple Dumplings. — One quart flour, 
one tablespoonful baking powder, one do, 
butter; mix baking powder well through 
the flour, and then the butter. Take sweet 
milk enough to mix the same as for biscuit. 
One apple to each dumpling, peeled and 
cored: wrap around it, and then steam or 
bake. 
Pot Pie.—One quart flour, one egg, one 
tablespoonful baking powder, a little salt. 
Stir very stiff, and drop a large spoonful in 
tite meat when boiling. Serve as soon as 
done.—K atik of Kansas. 
OUK CATALOGUE of Small Fruits, containing 
much valuables information on Small Fruit cul¬ 
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sent, for 10 cent*. 
OI K CATALOGUE of Vegetable and Flower 
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Ol K CATA LOG UR of Roses, Shruhs, Evergreens, 
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One each of the above catalogues, which, combined, 
Contain over 100 pages, sent for 15 cents. 
pr Wo offer great Inducements to purchasers, and 
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was 
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To Ornament Butter.—Make lho butter 
the desired shape. Then make a hole in a 
piece of cloth, the size of the vine wished; 
wet the cloth, and squeeze some butter 
through; then squeeze more butter through 
coarser or finer doth, for flowers or frost¬ 
work, aud ornament to suit the fancy. 
Stair Rods.— Will some one tell, from 
experience, which is the best kind of stair 
rods’—L. A, C„ Levunna, X. Y. 
IN THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE, wo have re¬ 
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PLUM TREES! 
Domestic Inquiries.— 
the best process of making 
ons kinds of Graham bread 
10,000 Plum Trees, 4 and 3 years old, for sale 
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