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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 11 
FRUIT MD ORNAMENTAL 
tr£zs : 
AT REASONABLE PRICES. 
SmAll Fruits, Grapes, Shrubs, Climbing; Pla*t#» 
Roses, Evergreens, Hardy Plants, Pseonles 
Largest aad choicest collection! la Aaeriw. | 
BEST NOVELTIES 
Descriptive Illustrated Catalogue tree. 
ELLWANCER & BARRY. 
OUNT HOPE NURSERIES, Rechester, H, T, 
Flftr-alatA Tear. 
Our Seeds, Plants, Roses, Trees, etc., advertise themselves. The 
best always cheapest. Try us, our prices and goods will please you. 
Have hundreds of carloads of 
Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Plants, Etc. 
We send by mall postpaid Seeds, Bulbs, Roses, Plants, Small 
Trees, Etc. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed; larger by express 
or freight. OPR CATALOGUE, an elegant book, magazine size, pro¬ 
fusely illustrated, tells it all, FREE. Send for it to-day and see what 
values we give for a little money. 45 th year. 44 greenhouses. 1000 acres. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO., Box 450 . Painesville, Ohio- 
Every tree, plant or vine bought at Reid’s is well-' 
rooted, vigorous, and true to name. Every care la 4 
taken In growing to Insure absolute certainty to the 1 
buyer. Save one-halt on anything you need In tht 
nursery line, by buying at Reid’s. 
We’ll help yon to choose by sending complete catalog, m 
matee, or any Information yon may ask for, free. 
REID’8 NURSERIES, BRIDGEPORT. OHIO. 
A First Rate Catalogue 
of fruits, large and small, forest and ornamental trees, roses, etc. Our new specialty, 
the October Purple Plum, is acknowledged the finest of all Japan varieties—color-plate 
picture of it, pretty enough to frame, with 64 -page catalogue, free. Write to-day. 
Established 48 years. STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS, Box 10 New Canaan, Conn. 
Best Fruits for Profit! Best Fruits for Pleasure! 
We have a large and choice stock of both classes. Our Illustrated and 
Descriptive Catalogue names the varieties This Book we will mail free 
at your request. When writing for it, advise us of your wants and pur¬ 
poses ; you will receive the Catalogue and Information by return mail. 
"vSE*” T, J, DWYER & SON, Orange Go. Nurseries, Box I, Cornwall, N.Y. 
and especially Fruit Trees, should be grown with a 
view to I.ong Life and Fruitfulness, such are made 
Constitutionally Strong by guarding the Parentage 
in Propagation. Men of thought know this to be 
FACT, not theory. If you want proof, write us. Many 
of our customers after trial Increase their orders. A trial order will make a lifetime customer ef 
you. We promise only best values. Among the new but well-tested FRUITS we are offering the 
■irnornr A I I PI H Pl/ncnnv We also offer a whole Peach Orchard 
IVItKdLltllAU BLAvlVDEliii I ■ for 15, and many other things that will 
Interest you. Free catalogue if this paper is named. Cash Premiums with Choice Seed Potatoes. 
ESTABLISHED 18i7. WILEY «t CO., Cayuga, N. Y. 
A CHANCE 
Some years ago P. T. Barnurn said ‘‘The American 
people like to be humbugged,” but it's different 
now and every man wants the worth of his money when he buys. If you 
are tired of being humbugged by tree agents and novelty pushers, and 
would like to tind a catalogue that tells the truth, you will be interested in 
our new 80 page book Orchard Improvement. Better see it before you 
buy. No novelties, no fake wholesale (?) prices, but business trees 
for business farmers, honest trees at honest prices. u., , 
TO 
The Rogers Nurseries, Dansville, N.Y. 
THE BUTLER&JEWELL CO. 
Headquarters for Japan Plums, the best Berry Plants 
that grow, all good Hardy Fruits and Ornamentals. 
fr ^v C ^ 0 u Q ^^nkv. CROMWELL, CONN. 
M We have the true Blue Colorado Spruce, grafted 
plants, sheared ; perfectly symmetrical, 
Up to Ten Feet in Height. 
m ^^^^Also, Japanese Maples up to 12 feet high. 
E. Burr, Ward PL, So. Orange,N.J. 
Telephone (2064 Orange). 25 trains daily from New York. 
follows it, which is a descriptive cata¬ 
logue of fruit and ornamental, deciduous 
and evergreen trees and shrubs, small 
fruits, roses, hardy plants, etc. It has 
no lists, however, of flower or vegetable 
seeds. Magnolia hypoleuca and Stellata, 
Alcock’s spruce, the Large and Small¬ 
leaved hemlocks, the Oriental spruce and 
the Sunray pine are among the many 
rare plants offered. 
D. Landketh & Sons, Philadelphia, 
Pa.—A catalogue of G5 pages of Ameri¬ 
can-grown seeds. This firm is in its 115th 
year, having been founded in 1784. The 
Red Bag pea, it is claimed, matures 48 
days from sowing. It is an interesting 
fact that this pea was offered in Lan- 
dreth’s catalogue of 1823. It was then 
named and offered for sale for the first 
time. Thus, it would appear, that dur¬ 
ing the past 75 years, no hard, smooth 
pea has been originated earlier than the 
Red Bag. It is now well known that 
leguminous crops do add nitrogen to the 
soil through the micro-organisms which 
cause and live in the little nodules of the 
roots. Beans, for example, sown in soil 
rich, it may be, in potash and phosphor¬ 
ic acid, may need nitrogen. Now it 
seems to have been demonstrated that, if 
soil from a field upon which leguminous 
crops have been raised, be sprinkled 
upon fields which have little or no nitro¬ 
gen, the development of microbes will 
go on and assure a thrifty crop. Again, 
if it is intended to sow a field to clover, 
the theory is that the plants will grow 
more vigorously if the field be, so to 
say, inoculated with the soil from a field 
which was in clover the previous year. 
Quoting from the catalogue: “So posi¬ 
tive has the value of the root microbes 
been proved, that laboratories are now 
established in England and Germany, 
and one is about to be established in the 
United States for the development of 
bacteria for sale.” The Landreths have 
secured a lot of this inoculated soil 
which they offer to their customers, be¬ 
ing put up in quart bottles. The firm 
offers various mixtures of grass seed for 
lawns, for shady places, for golf links, 
and for old lawns. There are many in¬ 
structive articles in this catalogue, which 
have been written by those of long ex¬ 
perience, and who, presumably, know 
what they are talking about, such as 
Hints on Lawn Making, Monthly Hints 
to Gardeners, Vagaries in Gardening, 
Cabbage and Cauliflower GrowiDg, The 
Comparative Value of Barnyard Manure. 
The Landreths are head quarters for first- 
clas s cabbage seeds, having been engaged 
in growing them since the firm was es¬ 
tablished. 
Jos. Harris & Co., Moreton Farm, N. 
Y.—Rural Annual for J899. The writer 
of these notes has always thought that 
Joseph Harris, the founder of Moreton 
Farm, did more through the papers, and 
through his hooks, to excite an interest 
in improved husbandry and to familiar¬ 
ize the farming public with the use and 
proper use of chemical fertilizers than 
any other man in America. S. M. 
Harris, the manager of the company, 
is the son of the late Joseph Harris. 
Besides the usual flower, vegetable and 
farm seeds, he offers improved Cotswold 
sheep which have been selected by care¬ 
ful breeding for over 30 years on More¬ 
ton Farm. The firm also offers pure, 
unmixed fertilizing material, and it is 
claimed that there is a difference in 
price of from $8 to $15 a ton in favor of 
the unmixed fertilizers. The advan¬ 
tages of using them are well set forth. 
H. W. Buckbee, Rockford, Ill.—This 
is a seed and plant guide of 130 pages, 
with an immense number of illustra¬ 
tions, yet a voluminous quantity of 
reading matter. Many of the plants 
and seeds are sold in collections, if so 
chosen ; for instance, 25 varieties of veg¬ 
etable seeds, “one liberal package of 
each, prepaid, by mail;” “ Buckhee’s 
Flower Seed Mixture, containing over 
500 varieties of splendid flowers, nearly 
all blooming the first season, 5 cents a 
packet oi 25 cents per ounce;” “ 14 named 
roses delivered free by mail for 50 
cents ;” Chrysanthemum collections, ger¬ 
anium collections, bouquet plant collec¬ 
tions, are offered in all sorts of combin¬ 
ations. Buckbee’s New Golden Lima is 
pronounced the finest Lima bean on 
earth. Monte Cristo is pronounced the 
sweetest flavored watermelon in cultiva¬ 
tion. The “ Illinois ” oats are claimed 
to be the most astonishing agricultural 
wonder of the age. 
Geo. W. P. Jebbabd, Caribou, Me.— 
Eighteenth annual catalogue of seed 
potatoes (a specialty) and a select list of 
vegetables. Mr. Jerrard has been, per¬ 
haps, as instrumental as any other one 
firm in introducing new varieties of po¬ 
tatoes. The Gem of Aroostook, not to 
go into particulars, is confidently recom¬ 
mended as the best all-’round potato ever 
introduced by Mr. Jerrard. 
John W. Hall, Marion Station, Som¬ 
erset County, Md.— A catalogue of small 
fruits and of second-crop seed potatoes. 
Mr. Hall advertised second-crop seed po¬ 
tatoes in 1883, and they have since be¬ 
come more and more popular every sea¬ 
son. We have several times set forth 
the difference between true second-crop 
potatoes, which are grown from the 
seed that is taken from an early crop of 
the same season. These immature pota¬ 
toes do not sprout until planted in the 
Spring. The bogus second crop are, as 
the catalogue sets forth, merely late po¬ 
tatoes usually stopped before late frosts. 
Why the true second-crop potatoes are 
superior to northern-grown seed is well 
set forth in the catalogue. They do not 
sprout or shrivel or lose their vigor 
through the Winter. They lie dormant, 
ready to grow vigorously the next 
Spring. The claim is made that the 
crop grows to full marketable size 12 to 
15 days earlier than ordinary potatoes. 
(Continued on next page.) 
“SUGAR” Prune, 
“CLIMAX” Plum, 
THE TWO 
RECORD BREAKERS. 
Other grand new Creations in Fruit and Flowers. 
1899 Catalogue free. 
LUTHER BURBANK, Santa Rosa, Cal, 
EVERGREENS 
You can increase tlie value 
of your home or- farm by 
tlie use of ornamental and 
shade trees at little ex¬ 
pense. We are the larg¬ 
est growers in America of 
Evergreens, Shade 
Trees and Forest 
Trees. We supply both 
Wholesale and Retail 
trade. Trees sent by mail. 
Let us send you price-lists 
of anything you want. 
R. DOUGLAS’ SONS, 
WAUKEGAN, ILL 
Rhododendrons, 
Not imported and therefore hardy. 
Hardy Azaleas, Japanese Maples, 
Magnolias (living guaranteed), 
Rare Evergreens, 
other Trees, new Shrubs, Hedge Plants. 
Parsons & Sons Co. limited j 
Flushing, New Yobk. 
Certificated freedom from scale. 
OCTOBER FRUITING CHERRY 
Mr. Spaeth’s greatest creation, $4 per 12; $80 per 100. 
NEW BUSH CHERRY. Japanese Novelty, only four 
feet high, wonderful fruit; $8 per 12, mailed. TWO 
SURE TWICE - BEARING ST R A W B'E R R I E S: 
St. Joseph, red: perpetual bearer, immense crops. 
L. Gauthier, or Mammoth White—berries weigh 4 
ounces ! two crops yearly, $1 per 12 , mailed, $ti per 100 . 
-BISMARCK APPLE- 
our introduction. Bears 2nd year from graft. Send 
for photo. $1.50 per 12: $10 per 100, by express. 
ALLRED APPLE: bark, leaves, tlowers, fruit, red. 
$4 per 12. GiANT “WHITE-BLACKBERRY,” Ice- 
bery. a 2,500 dollar berry, $1.50 peril!, mailed, $8 per 100. 
NEW GOLDEN ANIJ PURPLE STRAWBERRY- 
RASPBERRIES. Immense fruits, Immense crops, 
$1 per 12 , mailed. $0 per 100 . 
All the Novelties in Plants. Send for Catalogues. 
A. BLANC & CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
THE READING NURSERY 
and its illustrated catalogue, to be appreciated, 
should be patronized. Price-List Free. 
JACOB W. MANNING, Prop., Reading, Mass 
BIG NEW BERRIES 
Mammoth sweet chestnuts, Japanese plums, peaches 
-all nursery stock cheap. Free catalogue. 
J. II. IIALE V South Glaatonbury, Conn. 
TREES. 
BISMARCK Apple, October Cherry and Japan 
Plums very cheap. Catalogue free. 
C. F. MACNAia & Co , Dansville, N. Y. 
WIITC pnp DDflC|T— Contains 157pages on the 
llUIO run rnUril propagation and cultiva¬ 
tion of Nut-Bearing Trees, describing varieties best 
adapted to various sections; harvesting and marketing 
their fruits, with recipes for cooking them. Sixty 
illustrations, carefully engraved from nature, show¬ 
ing sizes, forms, etc. Price, postpaid, 5Uc. Circular 
of contents and testimonials f ree. JOHN R. PARRY, 
P. O. Address—April 1 to December 1, Parry, N. J., 
December 1 to April l, Orlando, Fla 
