the paths and along the boundary fences, and 
make irregular clusters and belts of mixed 
trees and shrubs with few, very few, single 
specimens. Above all things, don’t plant at 
regular intervals or thickly. A dozen, alto¬ 
gether, of elms, maples, boise-cbestnuts, 
beeches, lindens, oaks, Norway and White 
Spruces, pines and hemlocks, will abun¬ 
dantly furnish a door-yard such as you 
see in the illustration, consisting of, say, 
an acre at most in the front of the house. 
Cluster about these and near curves of paths 
and entrances SO or 40shrubs—spiraeas, weige- 
las, forsythias, snowballs, dogwoods mid 
privets—each some five orsix feet apart in the 
group, and your lawn is in all essential par¬ 
ticulars complete. Buy small, thrifty, well- 
rooted trees or shrubs of reputable nursery 
men, and possess your soul in patience, and 
great will be your reward in future when a 
fully equipped lawn of finest trees appears. 
Just recall for a moment some remarkably 
fine specimen oak, elm, linden or maple, and 
imagine just one or two such trees established 
in front of your parlor or sitting-room win¬ 
dows. But you couldn’t obtain snohspecimens 
on your lawn, if you planted all over, as most 
pec pie do. The trees, long before they devel¬ 
oped into full beauty, would crowd each other, 
rob each other of symmetry and make your 
place a forest instead of a lawn, and if you 
did not cut down the bulk of them quite soon 
enough (and people never do cut down trees 
soon enough), there would be no decent single 
specimens to leave. Besides, one specimen dis¬ 
plays the distinctive beauties of its kind better 
than a hundred specimens grouped together. 
Do you think a hundred Purple Beeches 
together would look ns well as one ? I don’t 
Shrubs can be more readily cut out and piuned 
iuto shape, but they,too,ought to ha ve room to 
develop, for it is very hard in auy case to 
secure a thinning out just at the light time. 
Flow rs, whether of bedding plants like geran¬ 
iums or verbenas, or hardy herbaceous plants 
likeroses, moss pinks, larkspurs, pmonies, etc,, 
both yourself and your women folks can in¬ 
dulge in from year to year at will; but that 
is neither here nor there, for in carrying out 
the plan above set forth a genuine lawn has 
been made at what I think any fanner must 
allow is, all things considered, a very slight 
expense. 
examine this catalogue. This firm is old 
and trustworthy. 
Hovky & Co., 10 South Market St., Boston, 
Mass. A fine illustrated Catalogue of 65 
pages of the best straius of vegetable and 
flower seeds, choice novelties and rare plams. 
IV ill be sent free to all of our subscribers who 
apply Our friends, as a matter of reciprocal 
courtesy are requested to month n the Rural, 
New-Yorker in their applications for all 
catalogues which we are at pains to announce. 
John Saul, Washington D. C. This firm 
is among the first to offer captivating novel 
ties. Quite a number of those which have 
been tested at the Rural Grounds, drawn, en¬ 
graved and presented in these columns, have 
come from Mr. Saul. The present catalogue 
comprises 100 pages with a colored plate of 
roses. Then follow lists of new rose? and 
geraniums. thru other novelties and finally 
the regular lists of plants This is free to 
all without the colored plate—10 cents with, 
except to customers. 
Bowkkr Fertilizer Co , 43 Chatham St., 
Boston, Mass. — Catalogue aud descriptive 
price list of the Stockbridge Chemical Fertil¬ 
izers. This explains the principle of the 
Stockbridge manures; gives reports from 
farmers on all sorts of crops: compares stable 
manure with these concentrated feitilizers. 
The list also explains the use of the B >wker 
fertilizers forall kinds of grain, grass, rootsand 
vegetables. 11 answers many questions which 
our friends are constantly asking us. It will 
be sent to our subscribers free on application, 
as above. 
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Don't locate before seeing our James River 
Settlement IUvxtrated Catalogue free. 
.1. F. MANCHA, Claremont, Surry Co., Va 
Made from Professor Horsford'a Acid 
Phosphate. 
Recommended by leading physicians. 
Makes lighter bisenit, cakes, etc., and 
is healthier than ordinary IL-iing 
der. 
in cans. Sold at a reasonable price. 
The llorsford Almanac and Coc-k Rook 
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Rutnford Chemical Works, Providence, R. I. 
O | ' WILL BUY an Elegant COUNTRY 
Ld,lMFW RES | DUNCE ami * acre* of choke 
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Abundtiuce of fine fruit. Churches, Schools. Tele¬ 
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FOREIGN CATALOGUES. 
Hooper & Co.. Co vent, Garden, London, 
England. Spring Catalogue of seeds of all 
kinds.—100 piges. 
Anthony Watkrer, n^ar Woking, Surrey, 
England Catalogue of ornamental trees and 
shrubs of all kinds 
James Vettoh & Sons., King’s Road, 
Chelsea. England. Catalogue of seeds—!K) 
pages, well illustrated. 
Charles Sharpe fir Co . Sleaford, Lincon- 
sliire, England. Seeds of all kinds. A hand¬ 
some catalogue of 125 pages. 
Little & Ballantyne, I arlisle, England. 
Illu-Iraied catalogue of farm and garden 
seeds, and tubers and roots—75 p 'ges. 
Sutton & Sons. . Reading, England. Am¬ 
ateur’s Guide of 125 pages, illustrated with 
many engravings ami three large colored 
plates. 
James Veitch & Sons , King’s Road, 
Chelsea, England. Catalogue of plants in 
eluding many rare novelties, 100 pages—hand¬ 
somely illustrated. 
Webb & Sons , Wordsley, Stourbridge, 
England. Seeds of all kinds. A catalogue of 
100 large pages, beantifullv illustrated with 
engravings and colored plates 
J. Carter & Co., High Holborn, London, 
England. A large, beautiful catalogue, 
(Viola mecutu) of 100 pages, profusely illustra¬ 
ted with engravings and several colored 
plates. 
William Bull, King’s Road, Chelsea, Lon¬ 
don. England. Lise of flown- and vegetable 
seeds, L 1 es, Gladioli and other bulbs—56 
pag s. Al-o, a retail list of new and rare 
plants, 2<>0 pages, illustrated. 
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tor circular. Sold by druggists and country stores, 1 . 
The choicest and cheapest now in the market. SIX), 
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acres earliest selections of speculators' lands. All In 
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gravimrs. 135 prescriptions, price 
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WANTED. 
Parties to start a creamery. Requisite number of 
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Address W. W. GRISWOLD, 
Secretary of Board of Trade, Morris. Minn. 
Miller & Hunt, Chicago, 1,11.—Catalogue 
of Roses. Free to all. 
W. Atlke Burpee & Co.—Farm Manila'. 
This offers #1 15 worth of seeds for 50c. Free. 
R. D. Hawley. Hartford, Conn,, makes 
a specialty of choice Wethersfield Onion seeds. 
Sidney Tuttle, Bloomington, Illinois, 
tends a priced catalogue free. His ground, 
cover 600 acres, including 13 greenhouses. 
T. T. Lyon, South II iven, Mich. Circular 
ot small fruits. Pres. Lyon is the original in¬ 
troducer of the famed Bulwell Strawberry. 
B. B. Hance, Riimson Nurseries, Red Bank, 
New Jersey, new deseiiptive catalogues of all 
sorts of fruits and ornamental trees. Free to 
applicants. 
J. Lewis Childs, Queens, N. Y., sends to 
applicants, free, a beautiful illustrated catal¬ 
ogue of rare flowers. His seeds are sold in 
five-cent packages. 
Wm. Parry, Parry P. O., N. J.—Catalogue 
(free) of the Kieffor Hybrid Pear, Manchester 
and other strawberries and fruits in general. 
An old house. 
J. G. Gibson, of Woodbury, New Jersey, 
advertises the Legal Tender Strawberry. 
Not having tested it, we have sent for plants. 
Mr. Gibson’s circular of fruits in general is 
sent gratis. 
Stephen Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan, Conn., 
offer the new Champion Quince, the liolfe 
Apple, Smith’s Cider, and a full assortment of 
fruit trees in general. This is a trustworthy 
establish tneut. 
Price & Knickerbocker, 80 State St., 
Albany, N, Y., offer # 100 worth of premiums 
for the best yields of the new potatoes Sun¬ 
rise and Conqueror. The illustrated seed cat¬ 
alogue and circular free to all. 
Innisfallkn Greenhouses, Springfield, 
Ohio, offer $400 iu cash prizes to growers of 
the best vegetables from their seed—$75 for 
the best five cabbages ; $135 for the best nine 
meloas. Catalogue free to ail of pur sub¬ 
scribers who apply. 
V. H. IIallock, SON & Thorpe, Queens, 
N. Y.—A fine catalogue of seeds and plants. 
This firm makes a specialty of the beautiful 
Gladiolus and or Lilies. Fifty acres of dow¬ 
el's—ten large green houses. A trustworthy 
firm. Catalogue free. 
Hon. C. S. Cooper, Scraalenburgh, New 
Jersey, offers Plymouth Rucks and Light 
Brahmas—eges and birds. Our experience 
with live poultry dealers as a class has not 
been very satisfactory. Mr. Cooper is an 
honorable exception to this rule. 
Stokrs & Harrison. Puinesville, Ohio, 
have now issued u Dollar Collection Circular. 
These collectious are made up variously. Some 
include only fruit trees ; some roses ; some 
small fruits; some grapes. Then there is a 
choice collection of dime plants. All should 
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