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« m f%|/|"V Our New Catalogue 
BA A K K t I with prices for Spring of 1875, 
ITI Hlllti* • is now at the disposal Of all 
who wish for it. and will be 
GARDEN POST FREE ON APPLICATION. 
It contains lists of the cboic- 
.™ est varieties, carefully grown 
ANO from best of stock, specially 
suited for the most select 
T-ST /"VC XT IT'D Market Garden and Hot-Bed 
Jl 1 i-vJ W XLJtl use: Farms. Private Gardens 
and Green-Houses. Address 
OPVne Sclilegel, Everett «fc Co 
SECUO 16 So Market St. Boston. Mass 
John W. Fohnbtt Is In Florenoe, itaiy. 
Madame Christine Nillbon Is well again. 
Captain-Gbkeral Concha has left Cuba for 
Spain. 
Paul Gustave Bore, the well-kndwn>rtist, 
Is seriously ill. 
Clara MORRIS In going to try thelmud baths 
of Santa Barbara. 
Corot, the late artist, was seventy-nine years 
old and a bachelor. 
Evarts Is described as “ an Interrogation 
point in good health.” 
| IBeeoher does very little work) for the Chris¬ 
tian Union at present. 
Miss Bhaddon acts In amateur theatricals 
with distinguished success. 
Bishop Doahe of the Albany diocese, has 
issued a call for prayers for rain. 
Gen. Frank P. Blair Is said to be sinking 
rapidly, with no hope of recovery. 
Verdi is writing a new. opera, with Shak- 
gpeare's H King Lear " for a subject. 
The widow of the late Confederate General 
Stevens Is a clerk in the Patent Office. 
The fountain which Lotta Crabtree, the 
actress, has given to San Fruncisco cost $10,000. 
Queen Isabella of t-'paiu. was born on 
Washington's Birthday ever so many years ago. 
Miss Vinnie Ream sings and accompanies 
herself upon the harp ut. Washington assem¬ 
blies. 
Miss Anna E. Dickinson has not yet forsaken 
the platform, where she won her first laurels, 
for the uncertain glories ctftbe stage. 
Palmer’s bronze statue of Robert R. Livings¬ 
ton of New York was placed In the old hall of 
Our new Seed Catalogue, with a 
Revised und Enlarged LT»t of Nov¬ 
elties and wpecinllicn. is ready 
for distribution, and will be sent to 
all who apply, inclosing stamp for 
postage. 
It. H. ALLEN & CO., 
189 & 191 Water St„ New York. 
ROCHESTER 
COMMERCIAL 
MRSEIHES. 
S PUING Price List, per doz .UJOand UWOof Trees 
and Plants, Including a select list of Special¬ 
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new Ornamental Catalogue. 10c. Address 
W. 8. LITTLE, Rochester, N. Y. 
Have Removed from 9 John St,, to 
“Larches, Evergreens, 
LARGEST STOCK IN AMERICA. 
Both seedling and transplanted trees. AUgrown 
from seeds on our own grounds, and better ana 
cheaper than imported stock. 
European Lurch and Evergreen Tree seeds, 
by the ounce, pound or 100 pounds. 
Send for Catalogues. 
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ZW~ Send for their Illustrated Catalogue, (tree,) of 
Vegetable and Flower Seeds, that never fail,_ 
BEAUTIFUL EVER BLOOMIN'* 
H'D-Q'RB SEED OF THE 
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KAIHED BY THE ORIGINAL PRODUCER. 
That an uxborbitant price may Dot longer keep It 
from tl * reach of muny, I will send, post-paid, u good 
liberal paper of “ Ileud-Qnnrters” 8eed of the 
Arlington cd receipt of 10c.; n pkts 50e ; 
H. D. SMITH, Arlington, Vo~ 
3lTc\u fuhUcations 
POT FUAUTS, 
Suitable For Immediate Flowering, 
SENT SAFELY BY MAIL POSTPAID. 
5 Splendid Varieties for $1 ? 12 do., $2. 
For lOo. additional we send “ MAGNIFICENT PREMIUM 
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ROSE GROWERS, 
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Ill the Fields Again 
with Professor Gray 
■ 4 tav I Tlie very best, large, oxirn- 
I ;A I t 1 . early White Grope. Atruef. a- 
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August, fully two weeks before Concord. I roduc- 
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one-vear plants, $1.50 single! dost. i w0 yp V* 
single; $18do*., post-paid. Also 20,000 Delaware Lay¬ 
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Grape-vines, cheap. Illustrated Circulars free. 
GEO. W. CAMPBELL, Delaware. Ohio. 
BOTANY; 
Spooner's Prize Flower Seeds 
SPOONER’S BOSTON MARKET 
VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
Descriptive Priced Catalogue, 
with over 150 illustrations.mailed 
free to applicant. 
W. II. SPOONER, 
Boston, Mass. 
FLOWER 
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VEGETABLE 
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Iiow Plants Behave— How Plants Grow- 
Lessons—School and Field Book— 
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books of this senes, and will sagdsampI e COpie9 of 
How PLANTS OhiiW and Yltt: BOHo il. A> 
BOOK—the two bonk* besL adapted for the brdinart 
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Circulars riving full descriptive notices of kach 
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KNOWN. 
For Spring of 1S75, will he ready in February 
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others, price 25 cts. A plain copy to all applicants 
free _ Washington, D. C» 
He believea 
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■ 10 pages, 
id plates, 
ings, and 
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»out 1200 
d Flower 
!, &c,, and 
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Florist. Address, 
Educational Publishers, 
140 Grand Street, N'ew York 
This is the White Mexican, brought to this coun¬ 
try live years ago from Brazil, there known as the 
Mammoth Rice Corn. It matures In Mexico in six 
weeks, in Kentucky In seven; in Northern Illinois. 
b» four farmers, who planted It Iasi year, their crop 
wai> wall H|.»etie<1 Annual l&th. It wut* ulunKd for 
seed in 1874 north of Madison, Wisconsin, ancMcn 
a 4 Ti 4 n were ripe for fcjueil August 22d« yieldto^ 
sixty bushel' shelled seed corn to the act a, Ddoes 
not produce much l •dder; grows about six feet high, 
and will bland more drouth thuu ar.y other Corn 
known. The kernclr ,rc of Immense sole as white 
ns rice, and sinnll cob. All the Corn grown last year 
"n Kentucky. Illinois and vvisoonisi'i has been secured 
for seed, und is put up in quantities not lessthan one 
quart, at tlfty cents per quart, ready to ship by ex¬ 
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moss. 
Optic’s Magazine, 1875 
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BELLEVUE NURSERY COMPANY, 
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A COMPLETE TREATISE 
ON THE BREEDING, MANAGEMENT 
AND DISEASES OF SHEEP. 
OALEM! SALEM 7 T-Tukinu it all In all, t 
O best hardy grape for general cultivation. Or 
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