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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 11 
Catalogues for 1899. 
(CONTINUED.) 
James Vick's Sons, Rochester, N Y.— 
This is a Golden Wedding Edition of 
Vick’s Garden and Floral Guide—112 
pages and many colored illustrations. 
On the second page, is a list of the vege¬ 
tables and flowers which this firm has 
introduced during the past 40 years An 
excellent photo-engraving of Mr. Vick, 
the founder of this firm, appears oi the 
first page. On page 11, is a colored pic¬ 
ture of the comparatively new Clematis, 
Madame Edouard AndrA The color, as 
shown, is not bright enough, the true 
color being a purplish crimson seen in 
few other plants It is very hardy and 
blooms incessantly. 
Alfred Bridgkman, 27 East 10th 
Street, New York —The Diamond Jubi¬ 
lee catalogue of this firm, which was 
founded in 1824—a catalogue of vegeta¬ 
ble, grass and flower seeds—is one abso¬ 
lutely free from the gross exaggerations 
which we find in too many other cata¬ 
logues. The trial grounds of this firm 
are located at Balmville, New burg, N. Y., 
and there many of the standard varie¬ 
ties of vegetable and flower seeds are 
tested every year. There many of the 
so-called novelties are tried ; “ very few 
of them ever become standards ” It 
was many years ago that we first pur¬ 
chased seeds from this firm of the Tail- 
by’s Hybrid cucumber. For home use, 
we prefer this cucumber to any other 
that we have ever tried, not only be¬ 
cause it is just the right shape, being 
long and slender, but because it is near¬ 
ly seedless. It is not, however, very 
prolific. 
Ford Seed Company, Ravenna, Ohio.— 
This is a neat catalogue of 65 pages with 
this motto at the top, “ Not many pic¬ 
tures, but plenty of good seeds for your 
money.” It gives careful attention to 
the seed potatoes which it advertises, 
and they are put up at reasonable prices 
in any way or in any quantity that the 
purchaser may desire. Among a long 
list of strawberries, it especially praises 
three new kinds, viz., Dole, “ of superior 
quality, largest size, exquisite beauty 
Excelsior, “ as early as Michel’s Early 
and five times as productive Sample 
“ has yielded at the rate of 500 bushels 
to the acre for two successive years.” 
All of the leading large fruits are of¬ 
fered, among them, the best of the 
Oriental plums. The Ford Company 
offers the Ridgely chestnut, which The 
R. N.-Y. regards as the best in quality 
of the large kinds. The price for from 
four to six-foot trees is 00 cents each. 
W. H. Maule, Philadelphia, Pa.—One 
hundred pages of garden, farm and flower 
seeds, with many illustrations and five 
colored pages. The new Commercial 
potato has nearly everything to com¬ 
mend it, according to the catalogue. It 
is a seedling of the Wilson Rose. It 
is offered as a main-crop potato, not as 
a late variety; it is earlier than Sir 
Walter Raleigh. Judging by its records, 
Mr. Maule has no hesitation in predicting 
that, under good conditions, it will yield 
from 400 to 500 bushels per acre. It is 
claimed that the Enormous tomato is the 
largest of all, the hardiest, the best 
keeper, the greatest shipper, the most 
productive and the handsomest. The 
lists of cabbages are very fully illus¬ 
trated and described; so, too, with 
sugar corn, cucumbers, melons, onions, 
peas, radishes, squashes. One colored 
page represents Maule’s Bouquet collec¬ 
tion of six new Dahlias ; anofher, the 
Enormous tomato; another, six new 
Cannas; another, carnations, Star Phlox, 
Asters, Sweet Williams, etc ; another, 
leading varieties of vegetables 
John A Sal/.er Seed Company, La 
Crosse, Wis—This is a catalogue of the 
largest size (130 pages) fairly divided be¬ 
tween plants, flower, farm and vegetable 
seeds, trees and small fruits, and imple¬ 
ments of many different kinds Ten 
pages a^e devoted to implements, includ¬ 
ing all sorts of farm implements, forges, 
vises, egg carriers, meat choppers, saws, 
carpenters’ tools of all kinds, guns, 
bicycles, and farm and other wagons 
One colored page shows the Salzer farms 
and the “Big 4 Oat-Wonder ” which, it 
is claimed, yielded 120 bushels per acre 
on 320 acres. Salzer’s Golden I. X. L 
dent corn was sent out for the first lime 
last Spring under the name of Nameless 
Beauty. Several prizes have been, and 
are, offered in connection with the corn 
which, according to the statonents, 
yields more heavily than any other of 
its class. Salzer’s All Gold field corn 
during last season yielded 300 bushels 
per aere. The company offers Phalaris 
Canadensis as a new grass for wet soils 
We fancy that this is really the Calama- 
grostis or Deyeuxia Canadensis. Accord¬ 
ing to an old authority, this constitutes 
about one-third of the natural grasses in 
someof the meadows of the Adirondacks, 
and the farmers believe it to be one of 
the best grasses of their meadows. We 
are glad to see that Mr. Salzer pays so 
much attention to Bromus inermis which, 
at the Rural Grounds, in very poor soils, 
continues to grow luxuriantly from year 
to year. Potatoes are a specialty, and 
many new varieties are offered. 
C. F. McNair &Co., Dansville, N. Y. 
—A catalogue and price-list of the 
choicest apples, pears, Japan plums and 
small fruits known. The Japan plums 
are a specialty. Of the Borgeat quince 
the firm has this to say: “This new 
variety is attracting great attention be¬ 
cause of the wonderful vigor of growth, 
and the fine appearance of the fruit. In 
the nursery, the tree grows more like an 
apple tree than a quince, having that 
strong, vigorous and straight body, with 
branches that run straight up like an 
apple, and average from five to eight 
feet at two years. It is a much stronger 
grower than the Champion. The fruit is 
very large to largest, among quinces, 
and is a full golden color and unusually 
handsome.” The Bismarck apple is, with 
this firm, a specialty. In their nursery, 
the three-year grafts, less than three 
feet high in 1807, were fully loaded with 
fruit, which kept, with them, until 
April, and in February and March were 
in prime condition. We have never 
eaten the Bismarck except in November 
—too early entirely to judge of its 
quality. 
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"One Swallow Does 
Not Make a Spring. ” 
Myriads of birds welcome bright Spring 
days. They teach us a lesson, to set our 
human house in order by thoroughly cleans¬ 
ing our blood, making it new, pure and 
bright. To do this, take Hood’s Sarsapa¬ 
rilla, America’s greatest Spring Medicine. 
,7/co t/ji. 
J. H. H. BOYD, GAGE, TENN. 
Tree and Shrub Seeds, Seedlings, etc. 
Send for Price-List. 
OASIS NURSERY COMPANY, 
WKSTBURY, L. I., N. Y. 
Sa'e of entire Nursery Stock, including Herbaceous 
Plants GREAT BARGAINS. 
Catalogue on application 
ABOUT GLADIOLUS BULBS. 
Many persons who appreciate beautiful Mowers can 
hardly afford to spend a dollar for 100 first size bulbs 
and then pay another dollar to get them delivered. 
Why not grow your own bulbs just as you do your 
onions? I have been growing millions of bulbs dur¬ 
ing the last 30 years, and it lias troubled me to see 
people pay out so much for carrying what they might 
just as well raise at home. Here is my proposition: 
Send me 25 cents in stamps, and I will mail llK) small 
bulbs, gladiolus sets, which may be planted In one 
rod of a row, two Inches deep, and will make 100 Mrst 
size bulbs next fall. Or better yet, get four of your 
neighbors to buy 100 each, send me the dollar and I 
will mail to each member of the club 100, and 200 to 
you. Each 100 will contain over 80 varieties. I will 
send 1,000 (over 800 kinds) for $1.50. If you want 
100,(K10 write for prices. 
M. CRAWFORD, Cuyahoga Falls, O. 
The Popular CAROLINA POPLAR. 
,Tii«l the tree Tor city planting—Thrives where others fall —Itmints 
•moke anil g». a» the salamander docs lire. Tli.OOO of them, beautiful trees 
6 to 8, 8 to 10,10 to 12 and 12 to 15 feet. Immense stock of all other Shade Trees, Shrubs and 
Roses. Hundreds of thousands of Fruit Trees. Small Krult«, Orape Vine*, 
Plants, Heeds. Valuable Catalogue free. Correspondence solicited. Write us your 
wants if you would procure the best at bottom prices. 
45th YEAR. 44 GREENHOUSES. 1,000 ACRES. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO., Box543 PAINESVILLE, OHIO. 
Dreer’s Garden Calendar.Si 
An up-to-date Catalogue of the best new and rare, as well as 
the cream of the standard varieties of 
Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, 
A handsome book of 168 pages, profusely Illustrated, mailed FREE to 
those who state where they saw this advertisement. 
HENRY A. DREER. 714 Chestnut St., Phila., Pa. 
Send for our Catalogue for [899 
CONTA IN TNG THE CHOICEST SELECTIONS IN 
Seeds and Plants. 
We issue annually a large and handsomely illustrated catalogue with covt r 
embossed in blue and gold. This handsome catalogue costs us 15 cents, but we will 
be pleased to send it free on application to all readers of The Rural New-Yorker 
We offer ALL THE LATEST INTRODUCTIONS in Cannas, Carnations, 
Dahlias, Chrysanthemums, Roses, Palms and Other Decorative Plants, 
New and Rare Ornamental Shrubs and Trees, etc. We have particularly 
fine stocks of Rhododendrons, hardy Azaleas, Japanese Maples, Tree Pmonies, 
latest importations of New Japanese Iris, New Evergreen Roses—and numerous 
other introductions of the season. 
We recommend particularly our 
Emerald Green Lawn Grass Seed. 
The Best Mixture Made for Lawns, Lawn Tennis Courts, 
Golf Links, Grass Plots, etc Price, $3 per bushel 
FERTILIZERS FOR LAWNS, LAWN MOWERS, ETC. 
When writing for catalogue, please mention The Rural New-Yorker. 
F. R. PIERSON CO., Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
DWARF JAPANESE MAPLES. 
Japan ese Nove lties. 
DWARF JAPANESE MAPLES. 
Exceedingly attractive little foliage 
plants for high-class decoration indoors 
or out. They are dwarfed and twisted. 
The foliage is a picture—hundreds of 
colors are represented; yellow, green, 
pink, scarlet, brown, and hundreds of 
variegations. Many different forms of 
leaves. First-class window plant. Fine, 
hardy, imported plants. 
I have selected five of the most desira¬ 
ble sorts both for hardiness, beauty and 
suitability for this climate, and offer 
them at 35 cents each, or the set of five 
for $1.50 postpaid. Seed of fine mixed 
sorts, 10 cents. 
JAPANESE 
MADUSA. 
(Acalypha Sanderi). 
This is the novelty of novelties. 
A great curiosity and a beauti¬ 
ful plant. 
It is exciting more wonder and 
praise than any introduction for 
many years. 
A very effective decorative plant 
both for bloom and foliage. 
The flowers are long spike i, 
one and often two feet long, 
of bright velvety crimson, 
drooping gracefully among 
the beautiful leaves produc¬ 
ing a particularly bright and 
curious effect. 
I am able to offer this in fine 
young plants at $4 00 per doz.; 
40 cents each by mail. 
One Japanese Maple and one 
Acalypha by mail for 70 cents. 
Send for Catalogue. 
ACALYPHA SANDERI. 
OLIVER H. 
DREW, 
HIBERNIA, 
Dutchess Co.,-New York. 
