be purchased anywhere, is by far the best, 
unless you can carry a hickory one. 
IIakuy asks how to trap mink and foxes. 
If lio will get the “Trappers’ Guide,”* by 
Newiiouse, he will find full information for 
the mode of capturing and traps used for all 
animals; or I could tell him through your 
columns. 
I think Letts will find the hair noose a 
good trap for prairie chickens, but then a 
good gun and dog, ready eye and steady 
nerve is the best trap and the most honor¬ 
able.—S nap SnoT, Saratoga Springs, JV. Y. 
•Thu work l* In our Book Lint, and will he sent by 
mull (poxi-puld) fmiri the office of the Rural Nkw- 
Yokkek tm receipt of price -Kns. 
his experiment with milch cows, lie is satisfied 
that cooking- saves otic-third of the feed. 
Mr. Eastman, Dutchess County, N. V., says 
that steamed food for cows in milk and for fat¬ 
tening animals is u (treat advantage. Prof. 
liottsrALr, sitys onui is greatly Improved by 
sUiamJiig us well as other feed, Im could not bo 
doprivrd of it with any satisl'aclimi. Mr. Htkw- 
aki tested tiic liouRhlnltit-ss of cooked food fur 
working homes for a number of years, ami they 
have always been healthy except where badly 
used. “Cooked food will cure Incipient heaves 
and Coughs more effectually than any other rem¬ 
edy, and double their working ages." Hon. 
(jKOrge Geodes, of Syracuse, N. Vf.,snys: I dud 
if I utIce ten bushels of meal and wet it in cold 
water and feed twenty live hogs with it, they eat 
It well; but if I take the same and cook It. it 
will lake the same number uf hoys twice as long 
to eat it up, and I think they fatten quite ns fust 
itt the same length of time. 8. II. CLAY, ol Ken¬ 
tucky, shows that a bushel of raw corn makes 
»*•< pounds «t pork, while a bushel ol' cooked 
meal makes seventeen a.id a hair pounds 
James liui.RiNQUAM states Umt throe and one- 
hall bushels of com tit the ear made nineteen 
pounds or pork, and one bushel of cooked meai 
twenty-two pounds. Thomas T. Elkje found 
that, live bushels of whole corn made forty-sev¬ 
en and threo-f piny ter pounds of pork, the same 
amount of meal, well boiled uud fed cold, made 
-Iglity-throo and three quarter pounds of pork. 
Ton bushels of raw com in tho ear made t won- 
ty-nineundone-half poundsof pork, well boiled, 
sixty-four pounds of pork. An additional ad¬ 
vantage in steaming- is that all tho foul seed will 
be destroyed. The extra expense for cooking 
fur forty-eight head of eatlluand six horses, for 
one season, willt Air. Stewart, was #00, with $20 
added for fuel, uud bo estimates the amount 
saved to bo $540. 
Mr. Wii.u.vm Crozikr. tho well known stock 
breeder, steams the Iced for 130 head of animals. 
Ills sluiemi.mt of cost and prnOt Is ver 
Gcci>3, plants anb .miscellaneous Qlboertiscmcnt 
POINTER DOGS. 
There are several kinds of pointers. We 
give an illustration of an English pointer. 
This breed is said to be remarkable for its 
extraordinary staunchness, and is said to be a 
cross between the Spanish pointer and the 
fox hound. They arc distinguished by the 
lightness of limb, firmness of coat and rat- 
lisluicss of tail. Dinks thinks the old Eng¬ 
lish pointer preferable in America to the 
modern one, it being a much heavier animal 
and having heavy limbs, head, deep llaw- 
jnws and long, falling ears. Iln thinks too 
much has been sacrificed to lightness, ren¬ 
dering the modern one too fine for long and 
continued exertion, too susceptible to cold 
and wet, and too tender skinned to bear 
contact with briars and thorns. 
lie sums up the characteristics of a well 
bred pointer as follows:—The head should 
be broad at the tip, long and tapering, the 
poll rising to a point; nose open and large; 
ears tolerably long, slightly erect and falling 
bet ween tho neck and jaw bone, slightly 
pointed at Hie top; eyes clear and bright; 
neck and head set on straight; chest broad 
and deep; legs and arms strong, muscular 
and straight; elbows well in; feet small and 
hard; body not over long, and well ribbed 
tip; loins broad at the top, but thin down¬ 
wards; bind quarters broad; hind legs strong 
and large; tail long, fine and tapering; hair 
short, sleek and close. These, he says, are 
the characteristics of the pure English, and 
the best type, of the, pointer. 
There are Spanish, Portuguese, French, 
Italian and Russian pointers; but as all au¬ 
thorities agree in recommending the Eng¬ 
lish type, wo do not fill our space with de¬ 
scriptions. 
100 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., 
Take ploasuro In offering, post-paid, by mull, on receipt of prices annexed, the following choice varlotios . 
A SI* A RAGUS.—Conover's CoIomnuI-P er packet, 00 cts. 
1 „ r.A ?,M A?.'y: S ‘ Mimrv’H Premium -Thin variety I* now well known In Bouton and rlcinltr as the 
largest and Uueat m every respect, without exception, In cultivation. Cupi. MooKE bus taken first prizes 
. . for Ills celebrated Asparagus every season for the 
\A \ , j I i P««*t VV 1 ?? ur f- “t Um Exhibition of the Miissiichu- 
1 ¥ /L I »<stla Horticultural Society: and, on the second Sat- 
/ s vS,f /if / /T urdnv In June, 1870, exhibited a hunchof twelve stalks 
A'l \lfh Si // weigh hqr throe pounds ll vis minces. On niunu day there 
/// X I V & /V was exhibited n bunch of Conover's Colossal from 
AN AT. \, >-\l If / ’/ , NewYork, of eighteen stalks, weighing three pounds 
S/wl/fiSitk \ f / / eight, cmMCeMmily throe emneon inoro.lniMl having 
/> flL fffrAS t ^x.\,7 / A six nmre-talks In bunch, showing the superiority of 
r 'v -a A m\ Moore a compared with CouovtiFs, f’m- ot., 50 cts.- 
ff f-ffT rl \ ll’j HI per pkl., 26 cts. " 
! W fc **p i \\ \ f J] /JjfJ BEET*. Egyptian -Very Sac, per pkt., 10 etu. 
'JsifcK-ti-H M. V /Aif BEETH.-IInleli’u Kmly Exirn Blood Tm-. 
XI /iftil nlp-'lhw IN an iiiiproxed variety. both in uarllness, 
. 5;-C-vrx>-« N. • 'V,■ / / smoothness ami line <|utility tor table use. und l* it 
~'xNf f J favorite wiib the grower* of firm early vegetables 
feg r-r fW . v j // for the Boston n-urkat. Tim no oil we offer Is from 
llWltl-HaK Y.\ /Mb the stock Wlileh reoi-iveil tin* (list premium awarded 
,, -\V '-HE' 1 ' \ I 1 ,! tu by the Massachusetts Horticultural Rudely for beet it 
Ig* pg gjilm ,1P®^kV /, fl W exhibUetl on **r before the first Saturday lu July. 
‘T- y - f -Jg. H mpf , r r»|| J y Per II)., jf2• per or...3U «t».. pvr i-kt, JO t:cnt>. 
• • oklfcfc-rfvrc \ ) r j&td BEETS. DcwImb's Efti-ly Tnrul|> This in u 
P--Ti ~>*-C ? TifUKUll / no w »nd superior blood heel ren-utly Hilroilured 
\ W.S\Vf 2 / j Ino root:* an; of a line globular -luipe, uniformly 
I ■ / smooth, wlili long, slonder lap-rooi Skin dark, 
I I f . 'j - /yV Ail// n purplltih-blnck -. lb -■ b deep blood n*d ; very fine 
\ :'UW K 'm a f r !l ,"n‘ , , , VV • »*-*nr «Hrlfexcellent 
'T~*7 f t t-J II lOtta' 0 ' ll ’ L "‘ ^ ur ' ^ ur °*-i<W cIh.; per pkl., 
■ • 4# vlf f'AUliIFl.OWKIC. B on i o u lltnrkrl Very 
IfrC l —ryt A early. l J |-..dui.e« lintrormly large uud line solid flow. 
1VSS3I Wv*.'! /S' er-. "I bead-. ..I mu. tv y white liens and ex.ellein || ;l . 
vor. Weight of spodooens, seven mid a-liulf iioundn • 
Vv.aI li, diameter, ten and a half Indies: clruumf.nee 
aVL thirl y-nnn lncHen; length of foliage, twenty nlnu 
i V\V \ •' X, anil a-liair Inchon. Par ox., IU.60; pur pkt., ‘-’0 els. 
v \ -I * C l l.l ic V. ItiiNlou IHnrket —A favorite rn- 
. \' - rz— - rlety In llm Ihmtnti market; rennirkahbt for it-ten. 
isntssrans 
AMERICAN INST. EARMERS’ CLUB, 
Notes of Discussion, Extracts from Let¬ 
ters, Arc. 
Cooking Food for £tock. — CoL F. D. Ctimis 
rend the following In response to u paper from 
the Prof, of Auti-Cooking-Food-for-Anlmals, 
the eonchisions whereof wore publlsht.-d on jiago 
189 of Ritual. New-Yohkkii, March36. 
In ilisciisslng tho topic of cooked versus raw 
food, fat versos lean meat, I shall not, like my 
distinguished friend, visit tho “PacificMlopn ’’ or 
take you across the Atlantic to countries where 
nature, with lavish spoiltum'ety. supplies the 
wants of men, iimliip ever vernal climate renders 
those wants hut few, but ConltuG my facts and 
argument to our own rigorous latitude, where 
we have from live to six months of winter, 
during which morn food is required for mao 
and beast, mill the latter are necessarily confined 
to the supplies of tho Stable uud farm-yard. If 
we followed milutfi’a laws, and allowed animate 
to find i heir supply of food from nature’s gran¬ 
ary, and not interpose man’s tiehesls. a derange¬ 
ment would follow amounting tx>absolute pro¬ 
hibition. A growth ol animals and a produc¬ 
tion of iioinml food are Impottaui if not 
necessary adjuncts to our olvllieutloti. This Is a 
problem we are called upon to work out for our 
own advantage, utid the Creator has Kindly en¬ 
dowed ns with reason, and given us dominion in 
order that, we may uillize these various instru¬ 
mentalities to our good. 'I’hero are nature's 
laws founded upon the physical, where llm 
aborigine on is fond prepared b.v nature raw- and 
he is hut little elevated above thobeast which 
satiatlux Us appetite; and there are nuturc’s 
la ws based upon the intelligence of man which 
direct him to prepare his food according to the 
temperature of t he atmosphere lie breathes, the 
labor he performs, and the general wants and 
waste of his system. 
I shall Hint consider tho proposition that 
cooked food will produce flesh faster than when 
fed raw, and Unit the percentage ol increase Is 
so great as not only to cover the cost or labor 
and fuel, but to leave a considerable margin of 
profit; and, second, that animal food lbus fed 
meets the requirements of Hie body and the 
bruin better, and is healthier than when reason 
Is dethroned ami instinct usurps her place. 
Constipation Is tho great curse of animals, and 
the ottu-e of' nearly all the diseases which ufTliot 
them. This inul.idy prevails almost entirely 
during tho winter months, increasing towards 
spring, Just before the young are born, Jcopnrd- 
IIis sluicuumt of cost and profit is very satisfac¬ 
tory. One tan of mixed feed i* cooked ouch day 
at a cost inr laborOne man by the month, live 
hours. (82kf coins; I wo bushels of coal, $L50 per 
ton,cents. Making 90.kf cents ex pc use. Tho 
ion of feed before being cooked lie estimates at, 
flu, and when cooked to be worth {35. This 
agrees with Mr. GdOiiOE Gedpeh, who considers 
tho value to he doubled when feed is cooked. 
A common euuldi'ou kettle will hold four bar¬ 
rels of corn meal weighing bOO pounds. This 
amount of food can he cooked on my farm at a 
cost lor labor: one man one Itemr, cents, 
and for six cord feetof fuel 18cents. A ll cook.-d 
feed should he fed when cold, and If fed in (his 
condition will make firm, hard flesh. Mr. t’no- 
ZtRH is selling lo-day, made from Ins cows, which 
arc fed exclusively on cooked feed, ull his sur¬ 
plus Im iter to Mr, Lewis at 10 cents above tho 
market price, on aceoilnl of il-superior quality. 
Labor lot-working mixed feed Is llm most im¬ 
portant question, as the percentage lor fuel In 
the country would generally la* less than a frac¬ 
tional part of one nor (suit, on the gain. The 
Iasi authority whjen I Shull quote, showing that 
cooked food Is an advantage, will lie my learned 
friend Dr. SMITH, Who admita in his aide paper 
read last week that, “ persistence in feeding out. 
cooked food to catt le or swine will iiuiloiil.tedly 
produce a larger yield of lard and tallow." It is 
a favorite idea with the doctor “ that fat meats 
are diseased." Can it tie tfeasible that the whole 
civilized world arc at fault In Ibis respect? 
In a elinillto as cold us ours, a great deal of 
bodily boat IS necessary fn resist I lie cold, and 
what might lie suitable food in a warmer coun¬ 
try or hi oor own lu summer, would not be 
adapted to our winters, a pound of fat goes as 
far in heating as seven seven-tenths pounds of 
muscular llesh. The Esquimaux subsist alone 
on fat. Well developed and nutritious muselo 
or membrane cannot bo produced, without fat, 
A thousand pounds of the former contains "0 
poundsof hydrogen, 119 pounds of oxygen, 100 
pounds of nitrogen, and 5*19 pounds of carbon— 
the hitter supplying the fuel for the heat re¬ 
quired by the system showing Unit the supply 
most be commensurate with the demand. With¬ 
out fat, (hero would he a .scarcity of heat, hence 
“Nature’s laws" are amiv>;d>y;«iiisi. the theory 
that. ** flit meuta ht<> •lisc-iW-it/ 1 Tin; Kn^li^h ure 
proverbial y a healthy people, and with John 
Boll the fatter Ids roust, the bettor. No meats 
would be eatable and savory without, being fat. 
It is tho fattening process which rounds tlm 
ham ol the mg, thickons tho loin of the beef, 
and swells the breusi of tho turkey. A pig 
without fattening would have a shrivelled Imm, 
L'ugji and wiry,hr light weight, uud unflttocat. 
-1 ho beef would bo -canty iu steaks and roasts, 
abounding in teudons and tnusejes hard to di¬ 
gest, with plenty of bones wanting in marrow. 
A turkey UUfattCUCd might inake live poundsof 
mlaemhle food, but wlieu latteiiod there would 
lie ton nice enough t.o satisfy an epicure. Dame 
Nuturo struggles lend ill tlm growing season to 
furnish the fond upon which her creatures may 
forage and fatten tm- man's comfort and enjoy¬ 
ment. In tho sprlug time t lie green grass tempts 
tho appetite t.o renewed life and vigor, iu har¬ 
vest golden boads are bowed and wait the com¬ 
ing of tho reaper, and In autumn those is the 
ripened corn uud tbo sweet, aroma of fruit. 
Roots from Long Island. -WILLIAM CltOZlElt, 
Northport, L. I., sent uomo line samples of 
MOORE'S EARLY CONCORD SWEET CORN. OvigbiutaU by dipt. J. R. Mookk "i (Wr.V.T 
Thu eurhent, li.rucst, sweetest him best • Hi 
vnrlotv In cultivation, superior to unv other tor the niMikct. and finally use. Ears uvntge |.i ... 
fhauetliuea so rows. It was exhibited l>y the Mass. I turt'l Snclely vvery Sutiirrtay, fn.m July Ski (., Si- 
la Dm- ciiiidltlou. anil uttrueted tin' iittuatlon of all A Silver .Meitiil was awarded to tills variety 
Vugelublc Cou,unftec. Price, MJ cents pot packet. .Selected ears, f I each. 
CORN. Nmv llvnncliiiig Field, JiiiInoii'n Golih-n Drop ts now offered to tho public 
most valuable variety for Mold culture. It Is a. variety of the Yellow Canada Corn. Kura a vernal 
Inches 01 lenaib, which lira produced at, the end id 1 the shoots, 
each stulit averaging front three to Uvo well formed ears, fucke 
live pkts., EJ. 
CORN. New Brueelilnsr Sweet, Jutlsttii’s Frellllc — 
Sweet or Sugar Corn, with siuiio style of growth as tho above, 
ears, it Is a second early variety, lender, a.vuul and delicious. 
CORN 
Hich Htulk. __ .. ... _ 
poses of eomaibn tl'eld-Curii for stalk's and poultry feeding 
A new and most desirable variety of the 
each stalk averaging from throe to live 
Per pkt., 50 cts.; Uve pkts., * 2 , 
New .loiut Pit reliing Most prodnellvo variety known, prodtun no from cifjhl. to ten (am On 
Although It is. strictly speaking, a variety ol parching corn, it, i.s e.philly adapted lo „|| p U r- 
' &e. It should bo planted In (Irllls three teet 
tq.urt, putting one kernel tn every foot. Per packet ol about two hundred kernels, 20 cts.; Uvo pkts., $1. 
KAIL Acme—A very dwarf curled Kail, growing close on (lie ground, with glaucous green leaves 
Intersected by a scarlet mid-rib. Really a superb thing, and combines every desideratum being very 
hardy, very curly, prolific, fender, mild, and a brilliant green 
f —yrv --issa y; lw ‘ n htibctl. ft Is I. hybrid between Dwarf Green Curled 
((-•. Boroeolo and Sea Kail. X J er pkt, 25 cts. 
\ MELON. Bnntoti IlliuUri —Wb nri> pleased to Inform 
i" Vito i.> 2V 'mir ciislomcrs that we can now offer seeds of mis celebrated 
\ n ' el ! ,ri c. Our stock was grown expressly l„r us by Mr. Ruisull 
V ' Arlington, wliosn melons have brought the highest prices 
'r% bi the inurket lor some years Persons wishing a hue melon 
HOW TO GLEAN A SHOT GUN. 
It seems as if every one who is a gunner 
must know how to clean a gun. But, strange 
as it may seem, few do. In the first place, 
tow us a cleaner is tin exploded idea. Sec¬ 
ondly, none but a most natural-horn idiot 
would ever place his month to gun barrels 
and blow in them, unless lie was most reck¬ 
less of life, and knew nothing of shooting. 
Such may he termed “ greeuys.” Thirdly, 
every gun should he thoroughly rinsed with 
boiling water, after being perfectly cleaned 
with cold, as it dries the gun immediately, 
and precludes all chances of cold water re¬ 
maining to create a nut. Fourthly, any 
one who would he guilty of using an army 
screw or worm, fastened on a slick', inside 
of highly finished barrels, little dreams the 
seed of mischief lie is sowing. Fifthly, this 
II yruy of Scotland, Mass., page 157, Rural 
New-Yorker, must not only be a novice in 
writing sporting articles, hut must surely be 
in the knowledge of sporting aud its cus¬ 
toms ; for who ever heard of a man, hunt¬ 
ing woodcock or duck shootiug, wiping his 
gun off after each discharge, any more than 
cleaning it V No doubt Harry’s intentions 
are good ; but a little knowledge is a dan¬ 
gerous thing. Experience is the best of 
masters, aud later our novice will see his 
faults. 
Now, I should like to give the best and 
most simple directions for cleaning a shot 
gun and rifle, as both should he treated 
•'dike ; also answer some questions asked. 
First, to clean a shot gun or rifle, place 
your hammers ut half-cock, draw out the 
ramrod and boll; then lift the barrels from 
t he slock and you are ready to wash. Place 
the barrels in cold water, being careful the 
water is clean aud that there is not any dirt 
or sand in the pail; then apply your clean¬ 
ing rod with the rag, or, what is better, pieces 
ot old bed blanket,and draw it upand down 
quite energetically; repeat this, changing 
the water each time till tin- gun is perfectly 
clean, placing the muzzles always down 
while changing the water. Nmv emntv 
fzlo« the lire or tf|M motJivnt nmt the otrspi lng, 
ol ton gauging tho former tu devour or neglect 
her youinr, and nroduulng fevers, oolio, cuetlng, 
misct«rriii((c<, uud the train of evils familiar to 
the stock Ineoder. A perpetual Hummer of 
green food, prepared by “ Dame Nature,’’ would 
obviate all this, but a prolonged diet upon the 
dried juices uud woody fiber of hay and straw 
mill the hard, unyielding rcreaf, exhausts tho 
gust rie Juice, breaks down tile delicti to organism 
<d digestion, Irritates tlm membranes, and in¬ 
flames iIn; Intestines, bunco emaciation or dis¬ 
ease, and tho slock come outin spring poor. Sci¬ 
ence has made advancement* in materia medka, 
and one of its golden maxims is that " an ounce 
of preventive is bettor tbau a pound of euro." 
I'liis is juat what wo propose in do, to so prepare 
food for the animal the same as for man. which 
principle is illustrated at every table (of which 
my friend is u good example,) that a hearty meal 
can bo eaten so assimilated as to bo ouBfly di¬ 
gested and readily absorbed into the svatmn 
without, waste and without Injury. Bodily 
strength and vigor In man are locroasod by the 
amount of rood digested beyond the wear of 
muscle and brain, and in animals by the amount 
of food absorbed beyond the waste of muscle 
ami ll-nlio c.MHUiuftd in iiuunfitiinng locomotion 
and life. When cooked, a innoli larger amoiuit. 
of food will bo digested and absorbed, with a 
proportionate amount of growth ami flesh. It 
is not flu; quiiiil ity of food la Icon llito the stom¬ 
ach, but the amount absorbed by It, Which lam- 
ellta the system, Hogs will live on raw pota¬ 
toes. but when conked so much more ol’ the 
starch is assimilated that they will fallen. 
Ii» summer swine will thrive wojl on grass 
alone. On dried grass they would starve; but I 
have in, doubt that if clover bay was mi earned 
and ieduced to a soft imip, approximating the 
condition of grass iu the summer, swine could 
be wintered on liny ulouo ami do well. Thor¬ 
ough mastication is necessary In order to tit 
food for the action of the gastric Juloeg, Ani¬ 
mals, like people, when hungry, gobble down 
their food wifhnut millieiont mastication. Lnili- 
gostion and loss follow, for hII food not properly 
digested is voided out mid wasted till less gather¬ 
ed up tty oi her animals. This is the dillieulty m 
lending Whole or unground grain, Which would 
be entirely obviated were they cooked. Every 
manure heap bears testimony to this general 
waste. Tho loss of undigested food voided m 
tho excromctii of the animals of an ordinary 
farm yard would pay the cost of labor and fuel 
for cooking the entire supply. Tlm only gain 
which the farmer has hi feeding Ids animals 
oilier than giving milk is the growth and in¬ 
crease pi flesh. This constitutes the profit, and 
is produced by such adaptation of food us to 
enable tho ammtU to consume tlm largest possi¬ 
ble amount without waste, which can bo done 
far better by feeding cooked food, winch will 
all bo absorbed and be a preventive Of enstivo- 
ucss, uud in its stead producing a relaxation 
which is healthful. Cooking crack* the grain 
of starch and renders nutritive what otherwise 
would be a loss. There is nutrition also In tho 
woody fiber of dried plants, which by steaming 
are made digestible. Tin's is proved by the fact 
tout umniul life cun lie sustained upou tlm ten- 
dor twig.s iif t,roes, aud browsing is a Common 
practice to eke out a short supply of fodder. 
By subjecting wood itself to ublgh heal, axub- 
stance analogous to starch is produced, which is 
pghly nutrit ious. What a saving there Is, then, 
here tor the farmer who shall steam his Coarse 
straw and tedder, and tlictuby derive from t hern 
every atom ol nutritive element. From furry 
to sixty per cent, ol straw is woody liber, and 
wheat led in a dry suite Is utterly indigestible, 
but when softened by steam, nuv* Mr E W 
Stewart, lias anutritive power equal' tuslu'reti! 
Miliums ol dollars of loud are thus annually 
wanted, when it might be converted into meat 
milk ui wool, and goes lo i be manure heap in ail 
insoluble condition ; when. It Mearned and ted 
ils value as a manure would la; increased, be¬ 
cause ot its adaptation to Immediate combina¬ 
tion with the soil. Mi-.Gbo. A. Mohrs, Buffalo, 
N. Y., says by steaming, musty buy is rendered 
sweet and palatable, and insures a gain to the 
feeder of at least ibiriv-ibree per -cent. Mr. 
Stewart found that sixteen poundsof cooked 
food given to a cow, produced four gallons of 
milk per day, and made eight pounds ot butter 
per week. To make the same amount of butter 
required twenty-four pounds of mw food. From 
■rnngomunt .1 with Col. Waring for tho sale of hi# 
celebrated tomato seeds; and our patrons may de¬ 
pend on getting the genuino, as all packets will boar 
his signature. Pur pkt., 25 ig?., five pkts.. fl. 
6MM1LAX.— A beautiful winter climbing plant, 
fianntcri anktj to tho Kmon-lumao arid oonservatopy. 
Nothing cun excel this plant In beauty of foliage aiid 
orange Iragiaiicn of the dowers, it Is extensively 
used for bnui|ucts (tad floral decorations id every 
description. 
Large sn-e Bulbs, 50 cents each. Extra, size Bulbs, 
$1 each, Sued, per pkt, 25 uls. 
NOT I- -This plant Is grown and used most exlen- 
sively a h a decorative vine by every florist in Mm 
vlelaitv of Boston. No lady, dressed for a party, 
feels her toilette complete (if natural dowers are 
worn) without a spray of Stnilux appended tn Imr 
hair. 
tlf~ For further descriptions, soo 
TO THE 
Flower and Kitchen Garden, 
20 tlx Edition. 
This work Is now too well known to need full do- 
seupllou. ft contains 130 pages, UBAUTIKtfl.I.Y 11.- 
1. CHTRATKD with over two nunclrcd engravings of 
llowurs and vegetables. Also, two 
fd’LENDID COLORED LITHOGRAPH*, 
which have been prepared at a grout expanse. Over 
2, (XK) varieties of Mowers and Vegetables, embracing 
novelties both foreign and American fully described, 
to which is added a descriptive list of mjw and rare 
Gludiulus, Lilies, Jtc. 
This work has been published recardtn-s of ex¬ 
pense, and as All UaRTLCTT. Ihr wall-known Agn- 
cullurlM iif New Hampshire, expresses, “ Is far ahead 
ol anything of Die kind ever bolero issued from the 
American press." 
Our custom has been to charge for this work tn all 
but our cuAUuiiora, but wo 0nil that nearly til) ro^civ- 
log It become so. and w#» have concluded to «« tia it 
free tu applicants, upon receipt ox two stumps. 
Address 
Sccbs, plants, (£recs, SZc 
The Qroton Is a White Grape, and is acknowledged 
by all who have tasted It to surpass in quality and 
beauty any white urape yet introduced, that will suc¬ 
ceed la tho open uir. Its flesh is uniformly melting 
and sweet throughout; of asomi-llqutd consistency, 
and fu|iy equal to the 
Tinest Foreign Varieties. 
It has held Its foliage well lu all parts of the coun¬ 
try, and in many places better than any other va¬ 
riety.' Will undoubtedly prove to be a most valuable 
tnarkot grapo. 
8MILAX — (1IYRSIPHYLLUM ASPXK AGO IDES.) 
THE SENASQUA 
Is a Black Grape; the vino a healthy, vigorous grow¬ 
er, with every appearance of a pure native, but its 
fruit, more closely resembles tho fleshy foreign grapes 
than any variety that has us yet boon Introduced. It 
is considered by some or our best poniologtsts ua tho 
Driest hardy grape they have lasted. 
For tine cut of Croton Grape, and further descrip¬ 
tion, history uf origin, reports of success In various 
localities, list of premiums awaidod, etc., etc., sond 
for circular. 
Prick List : 
„ , . Each, Pcrdoz. 
Croton,a few very largo plants..*! (Ki 
" extra, 1 year. i) (Ml {.'JO 00 
Bemtsquu. extra, 2 years. 9 (X) 30 00 
The above vines are grown from well-ripened wood, 
and are ull of largo size and perfectly healthy. Jf 
carefully planted and cared for, will bear tho follow¬ 
ing season. Will be sent by mull, post-paid, on ro- 
celpt of price. Liberal inducement* to agents. 
STEPHEN W. UNDERHILL, 
Croton Landing P. O., Croton Point, Now York. 
HAVE SPOKEN THEIR OWN PRAISE FOR I.’I*- 
HARBS OF TlilECL-qUAItTGKS OF A 
CENTURY. 
“LANDRETHS 1 RURAL REGISTER AND ALMANAC," 
FOR THE PRESENT YEAR, WILL BE MAILED TO ALL 
APPLICANTS WHO SEND THEIR ADDRESS, WITH 
STAMP TO PRE-PAY POSTAGE. 
DAVID LANDKKTH & SON, 
21 uud 23 S. tith St., Philadelphia. 
O U.AMJE (flJINf’E AND OTHER FUFIT 
I reps, Lfllpe Vines, Small hrulfa, Ac., in uuim- 
tnv. positively at town cites (/„«„ ,Ih,■ wlurr. rutu- 
logucs free. C. L. VAN DLSEN, Maoedon, N. Y. 
(IIEA l (.UN*. Smooth-bore muskets, warrant- 
\ e S„ l " shoot Sb<>t dose ami kill 1)0 yard*. Price 
ily *2.50, J, U. JOHNSTON, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
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