1902 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Catalogues of the Season 
REVIEWS OF LEADING NOVELTIES. 
Reasoner Bros., uneco, Fla.—Nine¬ 
teenth catalogue of the Royal Palm 
Nurseries, 66 pages. There are many 
line illustrations and a colored plate of 
Croton (Codiseum) picturatum. The 
finest catalogue in the United States de¬ 
voted to tropical and semi-tropical 
fruits and plants. Full lists of all de¬ 
sirable plants known to succeed in the 
South, and a treasure house of green¬ 
house subjects. 
R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Boston, 
Mass.—Catalogue of seeds, plants, bulbs 
and garden sundries, 120 pages, hand¬ 
some colored cover, illustrating tuber¬ 
ous Begonias and hollyhocks. A large, 
well-planned catalogue, listing all gar¬ 
den requisites from seeds to greenhouse 
boilers. The novelties offered have been 
carefully selected; all doubtful varieties 
being excluded. A special feature is 
made of Dahlias and fine tuberous Be¬ 
gonias. 
M. Crawford Co., Cuyahoga Falls, O. 
—Catalogue for strawberry plants, 24 
pages. One of the most readable and re¬ 
liable catalogues devoted to this impor¬ 
tant fruit. The weak as well as the 
strong points of all the varieties listed 
are given without bias. The Miller and 
Challenge are the star novelties of the 
year. Both are large commercial ber¬ 
ries, midseason to late. Challenge is 
claimed to resist drought better than 
others. There is also a large list of new 
varieties from other sources. The 
Gladiolus business of this firm has been 
sold to Chas. Betscher, Canal Dover, 0. 
Green’s Nursery Co., Rochester, N. 
Y.—Catalogue for 1902, 42 pages, litho¬ 
graphed cover, showing plums, peaches, 
apples, and the New Thanksgiving 
prune. The latter is claimed to be the 
longest keeper of any known plum. It 
has been kept until the middle of Janu¬ 
ary; said to be of superior flavor to 
most varieties, being rich and sugary, 
it ripens in October, and can be kept un¬ 
til it dries up without rotting. Not 
much is said about the tree or its bear¬ 
ing propensities. There are many ex¬ 
cellent illustrations, and the list of 
fruits, large and small, is very full. The 
Itathbun blackberry is given deserved 
prominence. 
D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich.— 
Seed Annual for 3902, 100 pages; colored 
cover, showing “Best” table beets, and 
plates of vegetables and flowers. The 
[ceberg watermelon is offered as the 
best shipping melon yet produced, and 
a great improvement on Kolb’s Gem in 
appearance and quality. The Defender 
muskmelon has about the same place 
in its class, being very firm, even in size, 
of good appearance and excellent flavor. 
Nolte’s Earliest tomato is considered 
superior to all of the “first early” varie¬ 
ties, beating the popular Atlantic Prize 
in earliness, vigor and productiveness. 
There are other specialties, among 
which is Jaensch’s Victrix sugar beet, 
claimed to contain 18 to 20 per cent 
sugar. It is the result of long selection. 
The Storks & Harrison Co., Paines- 
ville, O.—Catalogue of general nursery 
stock, seeds and plants; 170 pages; col¬ 
ored cover, showing roses and new vege¬ 
tables. Hundreds of illustrations. A 
very comprehensive catalogue, including 
about everything in the way of fruits, 
flowers and ornamentals one cares to 
plant. This well-known firm carries an 
immense stock, grown in nearly 1,000 
acres of land. The lists of varieties in 
every department are surprisingly full. 
The new Cumberland cucumber is of¬ 
fered as a great improvement on the 
standard White Spine. It is vigorous 
and productive, the fruits are thickly 
set with fine spines over the whole sur¬ 
face, and are always very straight and 
even. The Dewey peach is highly in¬ 
dorsed, and large foreign currant Comet 
offered at a moderate price. 
Peter Henderson & Co., New York.— 
Everything for the Garden, 192 pages; 
elegant cover showing Pan-American 
views in colors, and colored plates of 
new vegetables, flowers and fruits. The 
statement that this splendid annual is 
fully up to its predecessors implies high 
praise, but falls short of the truth, as 
(he present issue is in many respects the 
best. Many new things are offered, 
among which is a collection of lettuces 
named Precocity, Density and Im¬ 
mensity, according to their varying 
characteristics; also the new Express 
cos, an early heading variety of the 
tall-leaved or Romaine type. Several 
new Hybrid Tea roses, the product of 
American skill in plant-breeding, are in¬ 
troduced. All the foreign seed novelties 
are offered with introducer’s descrip¬ 
tion, but without guarantee. 
Louis Roesch, Fredonia, N. Y.—Cata¬ 
logue of grapevines and general nursery 
stock, 34 pages. Mr. Roesch has issued 
a finer catalogue this year than ever be¬ 
fore. The assortment of varieties is 
much extended, and a number of beauti¬ 
ful half-tone illustrations added. A fine 
lot of Oriental and hybrid plums is of¬ 
fered, and the Early Daisy and Lucile 
grapes strongly recommended, the first 
as the earliest black grape, and the 
Lucile as a hardy and reliable red va¬ 
riety. Both seem to be of ordinary 
quality. 
Vaughan’s Seed Store, Chicago and 
New York.—Catalogue of seeds, plants 
and garden requisites, 112 pages, colored 
cover representing nasturtiums and 
vegetables. The plate of nasturtiums is 
exceedingly well done. This issue is the 
finest ever sent out by this prominent 
house, and celebrates the twenty-fifth 
anniversary of the business. An im¬ 
mense collection, offering everything 
likely to be of value in the garden, in¬ 
cluding all foreign and domestic novel¬ 
ties. The Syracuse muskmelon, Mam¬ 
moth pepper, the Rose, and Vaughan’s 
Model tomato are prominent specialties 
not found elsewhere. 
T. J. Dwyer & Son, Cornwall, N. Y.— 
Dwyer’s Spring Catalogue, nineteenth 
edition; 72 pages, with colored plates of 
apples, deciduous ornamental trees and 
roses. The usual interesting and com¬ 
plete annual issued by this progressive 
firm has been enlarged and re-written. 
Much new and valuable information is 
given concerning varieties, the planting 
and care of fruits and ornamentals, and 
decoration of the home grounds. The 
varieties listed include all reliable 
standards, and the really valuable tested 
novelties. William Belt is recommended 
as the most profitable strawberry in 
their vicinity. We know it to be one of 
the very best in quality. 
GRAIN-0! GRAIN-0! 
Remember that name when you want a delicious, 
appetizing, nourishing food drink to take the place 
of coffee. Sold hy all grocers and liked by all who 
have used it. GraIu-0 is made of pure grain, it aids 
digestion and strengthens the nerves. It is not a 
stimulant hut a health builder and the children as 
well as the adults can drink it with great benefit. 
Costs about Mas much as coffee. 15c. and 2ac. pet 
package. Ask your grocer for Grain-O 
ESTABLISHED 1824. 
H I G H - G R A D E 
Carden Seeds 
BRIDGEMAN’S SEED WAREHOUSE 
37 East Nineteenth Street, Ne w York 
Descriptive Illustrated Catalogue mailed free 
to all applicauts. 
Wood’s Seeds. 
Cow Peas. 
The Famous 
Forage Crop 
and Soil 
Improvers. 
4VE ARE HEADQUARTERS for these and all 
Southern specialties, including Soja Beans, 
Velvet Beans, Pearl or Cat=tail Millet, Teosintc 
Bermuua Grass, Ensilage Corn, Spanish Pea- 
nuts, Chufas, Sorghums, etc. 
. n . te h'r Prices, and our interesting Catalogue 
giving full information about these crops. b 
I* W. WOOD & SONS, - Richmond, Va. 
74th Year. 
Prize 
Medal 
BUiST’S 
SEEDS 
for the 
Garden and Farm 
are grown from 
Selected Seed Stocks 
and are the FINKST 
that can be produced. They are the 
Best Seeds for Private 
Gardens or Market Gardeners 
where Purity and Quality 
is of so much importance. 
Send for Buist’s Garden Guide fer 1!K)2; 
142 pages. It is not simply a catalogue, hut 
full of desirable and important information 
on gardening, including a Calendar of 
monthly operations. I.arge purchasers of 
seeds should also send for our Wholesale 
Market Gardeners’ Price List. Both ure 
mailed free. 
ROBERT BUIST COMPANY, 
Growers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
165 
?■* We have been the originali 
introducers of more varieties 
of squash than all our brother seed men 
combined. Here’s a partiatlist: . 
Hubbard, Marblehead, Victor, Warren 
Butman, Chestnut and Golden Bronze. 
Our annual catalogue of Vegetable and 
Flower seed sent Free. 
If you want the purest 
. ^l ^ gras8 seed 8ol(1 * n 
f O S. try ours. 
J.J.H.GREGORY 
vl & SON, 
Marblehead, 
' Mass. 
Reliable Farm Seeds 
GROWN EXPRESSLY FOR SEED. 
POTATOES -Early. Bovee. Fortune. Michigan, 
Harvest, $1.10 per bush. Late.—Sir Walter Raleigh, 
Carman No. 3, $1 per bush., in 3or 4-bush, barrels. 
Henderson's.Clydesdale Oats. 
Success Beardless Barley. 
Mammoth Yellow and Learning Dent Corn. “Ja¬ 
panese” and “ Golden Southern” Millet. Recleaned < 
Timothy. Dwarf Essex Rape. Send for Price List. 1 
Cash with order; Monev Order P. O. Caledonia, N.Y. j 
D. C. MCPHERSON SEED CO., 
Pine View Farm. Garbutt, N. Y. I 
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ESTABLISHED 1802 
have been the standard of excellence 
for a hundred years, and were awarded 
the GOLD MEDAL both at the Paris 
Exposition of 1900 and Pan-American 
1901. Our 101st Annual Catalogue is in 
every respect the most complete, most 
reliable, and most beautiful of Ameri¬ 
can Garden Annuals. 
Write for it. We mall it free. 
J.M.TH0RBURN&C0. 
(Late of 1.5 John Street) 
36 C0RTLANDT STREET. NEW YORK 
BURPEE’S seeds ■ss.jg 3 as 
v ■ 8.1 ■■ OH If you want the choicest vegetables or most beautiful flowers 
you should read BURPEE’S FARM ANNUAL FOR 1902 ,—so well known as the 
Leading American Seed Catalogue." It is mailed FREE to all. Better send your address 
TO-DAY. W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., PHILADELPHIA. 
MY Silver Anni- 
versary Cata¬ 
logue contains 
everything iu Seeds, 
Plants and Bulbs 
worth growing. It 
is the Seed Book of 
the year. Eight 
colored plates. Free 
to all who apply hy 
letter; no postals. 
Address 
Wm. Henry Maule, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
The Maule 
Seed Business 
is 25 Years Old 
This Year. 
We want 
YOU to try 
DREER’S SEEDS 
“and make the. following remarkable offer to introduce them to those 
who are not already acquainted with the most reliable seed sent out 
, VCPCTAR! C C Crosby’s Beet,White Spine Cucumber, Wonderful lettuce; 
j 1CUC I flukCw Moss Curled Parsley, Cardinal Radish, Stone Tomato. 
Vl nufCDC Branching Asters, Diadem Pinks, Nastnrtimn,Large Flowering 
r LU if CnO Phlox, Slurley Poppy, Eckford’s Sweet Peas. 
.blither collection of six full size packets for 15 ots., or both collections for 85 cents, and 
, in addition we send FREE to every purchaser GREEK'S GARDEN CALENDAR 
the handsomest and most complete catalogue of Seeds, Plants and Bulbs 
‘ever issued: a Book of 80S pages, with beautiful lithographed and 
embossed covers, and four colored plates of choice Flowers and Vege¬ 
tables. If collections are not wanted, but you intend purchasing 
Seeds, Plants or Bulbs, \v,e will send catalogue free, if you 
mention this papet. 
| Truckers should send for our Special Murkct Gardener’s List. 
HENRY A. DREER,ch..tV.VPHILADA. l PA. 
CLEAR 
THE TRACK! 
Here’s the monarch—nothiug 
^ like it ou earth. Sulzer’ci New 5JOtli 
Century Out takes the cake, carries lirst 
prizes as the biggest yielder everywhere. The fact 
is, Salzer’s oats arc bred to produce. The U. S. Depart- ^ 
mentor Agriculiureolaims thatoutof over 400 samples and 
inda tested, Salzer’a were the best. How do you like that, 
Farmer? Our new 20th Century Oat is bound to completely 
atiouize oat growing and we expect dozens of farmers to report 
in 1902 running from SJOO to BOO bushels per acre. Price it 
The most marvelous cereal and hay food on earth, producing from 60 to 80 bushels 
of grain and 4 tons of rich hay per acre. 
We are the largest growers and our stock of earliest Peas, Beans, Sweet corn and 
all money making vegetables is enormous. Prices are very low. Onion Reed 60 
cents and up a pound. Catalogue tells. 
Our great catalogue contains full description of our Beardless Barley 
yielding 109 bushels; our Triple Income Corn, going 400 bushels; 
k our potatoes, yielding 600 bushels per acre; our grass ami clover 
Bh mixtures, producing 6 tons of magnillceut hay; our Pea A 
Oat, with its 8 tons of hay, and Teosinte with 80 tons Jk 
of green fodder per acre. .Salzer’s great catalogue, 
worth $100 to any wide awake gardener or 
farmer, with 10 farm seed samples,—worth 
^$10 to get a start—is mailed you ou 
receipt of 10c. postage. 
John ASalzerSeed 
