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ONLY THE BEST> 
Stronc healthypiants sweetest of flowers 
DELIVERED SAFELY BYMAll. FOR |4? I Witt MAIL 2. 
6n»50c |4ren $|eo Fiowerinp Bulbs t o any 
2PIANTS NEW CARNATION ADDRESS at4BuESfOR25 e 
BOTTERCUf» SO^ow 12 <5200 ANOOlRECTIOMSfaRaxOMING'- 
OilSTRftTg DESCR IPTIVE PRICED CATALOGUE FREE- 
CHASJ. 5 TARR.AV 0 N 0 ALE CH*STtRCO.PA 
BULBS & GARDEN TOOLS. W 
THI RURAL flEW-VORKEIt 
PERSONALS. 
Queen Victoria, as she appeared wheu 
opening Parliament recently, is described as 
“dumpy of form and vinegary of face.’’ 
Whittier says that yellow is his favorite 
color, because he can always distinguish it, 
while the red apples and green leaves on a 
tieeall look alike to him, as far as color is 
concerned. 
General Hancock, it is said, leaves no 
estate. He was a generous liver and a bene¬ 
volent man, and lived up to his salary. A 
fund being raised for his wife already 
amounts to about $85,000. 
It is asserted that all the money Charles 
Stewart Parnell has been able to raise has 
been given to the cause he represents, and |bat 
the estates he is reputed to own have long 
sinee been mortgaged in the same interest to 
their full value. 
Thomas A. Edison is thought to have 
cleared two millions out of his electric inven¬ 
tions. He has purchased a rural residence for 
$400,000 cash, for his new bride. In appear¬ 
ance he is a clean-shaven man, youthful in 
face, and nearly deaf. 
“Jf.kk” Davis is now in fairly good health 
and lives at Beauvoir, which place only fur¬ 
nishes vegetables and fruit for home consump¬ 
tion, and has rather a dilapidated appearance. 
He is described as a tall, slender, erect man 
Id'M All who intend to purchase tinsSpring 
lyWRfl should send for our illustrated and de- 
kSttHN seriptive Catalogues. They contain 
full information about Old and A'eto 
BhhJjl fruits. Ornamental Trees, JhMett. etc., 
and are the most complete published’ 
To t egular castomers/w; to others as follows: No. 1 
Fruits. 10c. ; No. 2, Ornamental Trees, etc., 15c.; No’ 
3, Small Fruits, No. 4,Wholesale. No.5, Roses,/ree' 
ELLH’ANGER & BIRRY, 
Mt. Hope Nurseries. RaHhestcr, N.Y. 
FOR ANNEXED PRICE WE WILL MAIL , PROMPTLY , EITHER OF 
FOLLOWING HIGH CLASS SEEDS SUITABLE FOR FRAMES. 
Thorburu'a Gilt Edge Snowball Cauliflower. . ,25e. " Earliest Roman Carmine Turnip Radtob 
New Bronae follaged Trophy Tomato.10c. Early Etampes Cabbage 
Improved New York Purple Egg Plant.10c. Improved White Plume Celery. 
Holden Perfection Nutmeg Melon. 10c. Early White Forcing Lettuce. 
'Flic Eight Sorts, Including One “Thorbura” Potato, for si. 
iPtocheuter, IV."V 
J.M. Th orb urn & Co.JS JohnS: NewYork. 
IT IS IMPORTANT 
Everybody who plants 
E a farm or garden 
XPECTS GENEROUS CROPS 
Don’t 
CRAPE VINES 
BUY YOUR SEEDS UNTIL 
YOU CONSULT US 
OLND your address 
FOR OUR NEW ARTISTIC CATALOGUES 
R H ALLEN COMPANY 
189-191 WATER ST. NEW YORK- f ?7 B s °. x 
fruits. Quality unsurpassed. YCarranted true. Verv ehean 
Descriptive price list free. LEWIS ROESCH, Fredonia, 5. L 
lOO Varieties. Also Small 
Ssample vines mailed for 15c. 
Nursery Stock 
W-H- 52 .S 2 SYRACUSE NURSERIES ISZJ&frRS&SSd 
STIID 1 RD IPPLISand dw a a r rfP 1 IRS HD PLUM 
JOHN SAUL’S 
n i oi t r .-vv. T- r- . _ 
of New, Rare and Beautiful plants for 
18$6lsNow Ready 
It Is full Ln really good and beautiful plants as well as 
all the novelties of merit. 
The rich collection of fine foliage, and other Green 
house and Hothouse Plants, are well grown, and at low 
prices. 
Orchids, a very large stock of choice East Indian, 
American, &e.. also catalogues of Roses, i trchlds. 
Seeds. Trees, &e. 
JOHN SAIllL., Washington, D. C. 
A Recent tvtckage or BLISS’S WILD GARDEN FLOW 
ek SEED ana my uew 1 0.i page Catalogue and Ama¬ 
teur Guide, free by mail. F. E. McA Ll.lsTER. 
SEED AND BULB MERCHANT, 
_Dey Street, New York. 
NEW PI ANTS BY MA 111 . Illustrated Cat- 
*■ " ”, F Wnrt aloge free. -Send for It. 
PAID BCTZ A SON, New Castle. Pa. 
Sj&isrrUaiwoii* gMverifoina 
Tjtrf'o NaJi?S^" 0 UR INTR 0 DU 12 I! 0 N_B 0 X 0 F |2 ROSES 
$ 1.50 M-SI.OO. Npw and*Rnre 
ROBERT SC OTT & S ON, ROSE CROWERS, Philadelphia, Pa. 
PDADC Ml JU CO Niagrunt, Lin |(j restate, and all the beet vanerirs. Low* 
38s58jf2^0 With colort-dj'late». Free; contain!' S1, S2, SRiindB 
So coliectioua, and uiatrucUoua for planting. JOEL H0&H£A«i’a0H, Mexehantriifi. N.J I 
DON’T READ THIS 
if you have a sufficiency of this world's goods, but If 
you have not, writ,! to Hallel & Co.. Portland, Maine, 
and receive, free, full particulars about work that you 
can do, and live at home, at a profit of from $5 to $25 
per day , and upwards. All succeed; both sexes; all 
ages. All to new. Capital not required; Hallett & Co 
will start you. Don’t delay; Investigate at once, and’ 
grand success win attend you. 
My Annual Priced Catalogue is now ready, and mail¬ 
ed free to all applicants. It contains all the leading 
and most popular sorts of 
Besides all the desirable novelties of last season, and 
nearly everything else In my Line of business. 
ALFRED BRIDGE.ni^, 
37 East 19th St., New York. 
TRIUMPH Gooseberry, New. Send for Circular, 
i mu n i n Address Geo. Achelib, West Chester, Pa. 
SFPnft Garden. Farm and Flower Seeds. 33 5c. 
, ,T 9 15for 50c..:for 25c.. p. p. Cata¬ 
logue tYee. (,eit. H. Colvin, Dalton. Pa. 
TREES AMD PLANTS! 
EXPRESS, OR FREIGHT. 
Cheapen* and Healthiest. 
miles, and 3 fearrival guaranteed. 
Cheapeolte tionsof thebesti lants 
rles. HDarhberries, t OLDER 
berries. JRWtLI, Ktrnaber- 
Al'plea, standard and Uwarf 
other Plains. « berries. Kte. 
and tee wi- l send yon valuable Oita- 
rp t*!? 
TilJE TIMES. 
Our New Catalogue and Price List of Choice Ve« 
table and Farm Heeds, Crops of 1885, for Marl 
Gardeners and Farmers, Just printed and mailed, fr 
to all applicants. 
li. D. HAWLEY & CO., 
__ Hartford, Conn 
RELIABLE 
ARDEN SEED 
MASK BTOAnDKNERS- trade i> Hp.ci.ity 
CATALOOUE FREE. SEND FoK IT. 
AARO N LOW, BO ‘ , VjEx . «AS s 
LffiSEEDS£r¥. v ^' N ^;^^ 
... a, , % nd stamp for sample, 
karlyCoru, Dietz Lontrhrrry Wheat. 
Dietv. L- ruit Dryer, New way if, uttlng fodder. 
A* Dlls* 1 ! /, C h unib€‘r*bu ru % Pa, 
ALBERTSON & HOBBS, Bridgeport, Marion County, Indiana 
Send 10 Cents to Green's Xuietrv Co., Roch 
ester. N. Y. ana getycopie Green’s Frui| 
Grower and our SO-pa.,- Fruit Guide 
Ulustrated with Colossi run. How to 
Propagate and Grow Fruit is a new 
book.it 1J0 rages. 7511 In rations and coioredplate 
“It has laved me $50 '• R. I.. F, Price 50eta' 
-.SEE D 
;4tAL0C.Ji 
inquiry- or me cnaracter a* my seeds among over s 
l '. a ™‘ er!i -ti^^toersaod PUnterawho have 
Usea daring the pa.G thirty years. Raising s 
lArge portioa of the seed wM, (few aegdattMO rmlse the 
fAJ . ***** •eU) I the flnjl aeedanun In the United 
W w vZZnFhi**. P S r C^ u,0 ^«>, lh * Ir purity And freshness. 
f for 1986 will b« 
~ mv frlPndi^ for H ' Among an Immense variety, 
my iriendb ^ in find id it (aiul In dotw> other) m new drumhead 
huge. Just about as early as Henderson’s, hnt nmrl? tripn » 
Dtrwe l lames 2. It. Ortvory. WarblrLtid wT— 
RASPBERRY PLANTS 
300.U60 first 
class Gregg, Ty- 
- — - —-- -- - - — - • ■ w - w L inw »*rvKK, iv- 
ler Bonbegan. uhto and Cuthbcrt Raspberrv Plants at 
low prices. Special rates for lots of 3,0O<) or more. 
C. C. HAltT, Houthington, Conn. 
TRPFS RV M A 11 *' Kleffer Pears, grafted, for 
lnJ!r. - * r)" „ 81, Send postal forCata- 
Iogue. _ Our .specialty. Mekch's PtoOuytcQrciCK, in any 
quantity; also. New aiul Valuable Fruits, Berries, etc. 
>\e send tuatruct tons how to grow them profitably. 
" e*>t Jersey Nursery Co., BKtt*GETo.x, N. J. 
gnutri Bonura. 25cts.packet 1 
'I, Newton, Kan., Box W. 
iiuaUcn, KiaJuooI Prlco, Induce* 
iVcircuuw HlirlOlE ttw^v lllkin.la 
M 111 up sent I’KKi: to all who write fhr It. It is a 
i lltimliMiiui' Kook of IVH with hundreds 
> ol new- lllustnulotiS. two Colored IMnle*. and tells 
all about I he Beat Gordon. Farm and Flow er 
rough bred block and Fnney I’oallr*. It to the 
I Ol the kind publtohed, and dascribes RARc KOVEL- 
*■ E.S and FLOH’EKV of real talar, which can cot 
Send address on n postal to 
ILU&TKATBD CATALOOUR. Fa Kg. 
A. D.COWAN & CO 
114 Chambers Street, New York. 
Itrsr Garden ..aide 
FRKF.u»all You aIi-UiIiI 
Ihsv.. :r. Best varieties, 
all tested. »! low prices 
sl.nii'u P«IU r.. . 
,, ^ ca r I-, urni ,\ i>| h EU Ol'KKN. and 
g'“uakV ” U u",V‘ r i , ii' T V ' VHA 
hio. been kept luitu May. This GruoeL new 
I'lV’lhe^uS^’s, * 'e ’Vo rke , 1 ,M ’l*ire. I tmv'j^f 
Vtlrc s . i r.e r /' k " f t "‘ orl ^ ,l «lor. anil shall have 
ERETT BROWN, l '{■: 
TREES^PLANTS 
We onet lortn.’ i|jriag Trad-- a l.trce and fine stock of 
We offer for-iii.’ Spring Tra,V a lores and fine «tock of 
every dem-rlplUui of Fruit and Ornamental 
Trees, bhrubs, Koses, Kjnes, Small Fruits, 
Hedge Plants, trult Tree Seedlings and 
Forest Tree Seedling*. Priced Catalogue, Spring 
1888, .mailed free on application!. Address 
BLOOMINGTON (PHtENIXi NURSERY. 
Estabiiihsd ^ BLOOMINGTON, ILL. 
Ever Blooming 
Six Distinct Sorts 
for only 50 cents 
NEW AND RARE FR(J|t s,plants.seed s 
IWs, Vines. Stooda, .te„ 6 , »« t «f a acuity js Ai.T ^ltheald^rell»ble^ 80 rt 8 _ NONE BBTTFK. %-.« C\<* tr r. * Plant 
Ho»tu«e unid. Sale arrival guaranteed. 64 CHOICE CHEAP $1 OO SETS. *"r example. *plen,li 
uiir choice, > lj I .> magnifloeiitCarnations, lAsnrte g I : l.’ri^inHanthemn^.,. it - -l' L * » ■- »ver-bUxuaiug Roeee. 13 aorb 
Or 0 Hardy Climbing 
Rob,'*, or 6 aitigle Gorw,.,.„,. ur „ 
aniurns, or 0 Raney lent cLr* 
*uch»i.ui. or 6 OhrywiniUoinuup, 
cus, or u Caj'iiatiou Pinks, or e 
_ Rosea, or 0 Pine Moou 
Goranliiiiis.or 8 Poublo Ger- 
....... , A , ranluail , i or e 
i, or 0 Hibln- 
fa.s, or u carnation piuks. or 8 
coleus, or 0 Bogoaiaa. or 0 dweet 
lota, or 8 Tuberose Bulbs, “ — 
Puoketa ellbor Flower 
For SI 25 I willsend auv ! 
; ,r ,ur S 2.50 1 will wild s ilicsc 
rctiou .if „mu, but nil Hr, 
"I'l'iinlug, labeled, tlrliverei 
k'jMM. .inti "Ibcr plants gl 
®L 23 ' ter. IlluAtnded C'l 
“ml f’tuiiU free. A idrev, 
, CHARLES A. REESER. 
_Gmb»lulU'n Greenhouaea. dPHINOFIELD. O. 
aoented Vio- 
. or 0 GlndltMuo, or lp 
or Y egouiblo ScosU, 
3 Of the .ilswe collet dons, 
■ '. :.i ctillvttioiis, iny ,c- 
! n K piauti for immediaiu 
1 Aifrly by mail . Chon« 
I veil uw.iy villi each 
Utulugue of gee da 
YEAR? t 600 >1 ACREV" ClUd 1 "8 an Immense stock of Crape Vines, 
IROE GREENHOUSES. I GIL UP KVdsFcL WORTH $4.1 5 f0r $3.0 
niUB OWMnnn _ ,, . -—- ~ tusw, ana uuuiKN POCKL 
THE 6TORRS A HARRISON OO., PAINE8VILLE; LAKE CO., OHIO 
7 pkts. Cholc« Vegetable 
unphm Quince, I. J 2 Grape 
j Hardy Catalua. >41. ;M>S„eet 
_-- orUie other 63 it seta and l.CXll WKsBr 
Everything kept In the Nursery O 
and Fruit and Ornamental Trees of all sizes, 
0 E STATE, EARLY VICTOR, 
W WTnwtNft nun. and GOLDEN POCKI,INGTON. 
