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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 11, 1899 
There’s a Difference! 
There is a difference between BURPEE’S SEEDS and seeds as usually sold. 
Experience, the best of teachers (although her terms are sometimes high), has 
taught thousands of planters to appreciate the difference. The difference is one 
of quality rather than of price; the highest-priced seeds are not necessarily 
the best, while the lowest-priced seeds are seldom, if ever, the cheapest. 
In order that thousands more may learn, at little expense, just what this 
difference actually is, avc offer— 
Five Popular 25 = CENT Trial Collections. 
Although we originated this plan more than twenty years ago, never before have we been 
able to give such great value for the money. Aside from the knowledge gained as to the 
decided superiority of BURPEE’S BEST Seeds that Grow for 1899, you get in these 
Collections for twenty-five cents seeds that would cost ordinarily several times this amount. 
4 rs» ■» /-v /-.f you can select any two Collections and have FREE as a premium one luilf-size packet 
|®>rOr OVJ (price loots.) of BURPEE’S BUSH SWEET PEA, the greatest novelty of the age. 
Five Fine PANSIES 
Mailed for 25 Cts. 
Next to Sweet Peas, Pansies are the 
most popular of all flowers grown from 
seed. For years we have made a 
Specialty of Pansies, and have not 
only the largest collection but also the 
choicest seed of each,—the best that 
Europe and America can produce. 
This Collection embraces a full-size 
packet of the beautiful gigantic New 
French Pansy, PRESIDENT CAR¬ 
NOT, illustrated herewith; a half-size 
packet of our own novelty, the gigan¬ 
tic PRESIDENT McKINLEY, which 
is a companion flower, having each 
petal beautifully blotched on a gold 
ground instead of on a silver ground,— 
see illustration on page 115 of The 
Farm Annual. It contains also a 
full-size packet each of the delicately 
lieautiful new COQUETTE DE 
POISSY, the brilliant German 
FIRE KING, and an unequaled mix¬ 
ture of the giant-flowered BURPEE’S 
DEFIANCE PANSIES,—in all more 
than four hundred seeds, which, pur¬ 
chased separately, would cost seventy 
cents. 41^ With each Collection we 
send the leaflet telling “ How to Grow 
the Largest and Finest Pansies." 
Seven Superb Vegetables, all of our own 
introduction, mailed for twenty=five cents. 
LONG - KEEPING AUSTRALIAN 
BROWN ONION, a magnificent new 
Onion of beautiful amber-brown skin 
and mild, white flesh. Extremely 
early in ripening and keeps in good 
condition longer than any other.— 
FORDHOOK FANCY IOMATO, 
the most remarkable novelty in toma¬ 
toes ever introduced.—COLUMBIA 
BEET, extra earlv and of finest 
quality.—B U R P E E’S NETTED 
GEM MELON, the variety that has 
made Colorado famous for its “ Rocky 
Ford" Melons. — CALIFORNIA 
CREAM BUTTER LETTUCE, 
splendid large, buttery heads in sum- 
mer.—EARLIEST WHITE RAD¬ 
ISH, crisp, snow-white little radishes 
in only sixteen days.—FORDHOOK 
PICKLING CUCUMBER, the best 
for pickling and line also for slicing; 
very prolific. 
")£ Ptc we will mail all 
rUl ZtJ v> 18. Seven Packets, 
each full size, with illustration and 
directions for culture on each. 
YOUNG PLANTS OF NEW EARLY TOMATO,—FORDHOOK FANCY. 
Six Showy NASTURTIUMS, 
More than two ounces of Seed, 
Mailed for 25 Cts. 
To get their full beauty, Nasturtiums should 
he planted freely. This Collection gives more 
than two ounces of the seed. It contains one 
full-size packet each of our beautiful new 
climbing SUNLIGHT, the brightest and 
largest-flowered Nasturtium; the unique, 
curiously marked French TALL CHAME¬ 
LEON, and the fascinating small-flowered 
new LIU PUT NASTURTIUMS,-all three 
illustrated on page 114 of Thk Farm Annual. 
If contains also one-lialf ounce of the beauti¬ 
ful NEW HYBRIDS OF MADAME GUN¬ 
TER,—one-half ounce of our unequaled, 
gorgeous NEW TOM THUMB MIXED, and 
one-half ounce of FORDHOOK FAVORITE 
Climbing nasturtiums. 
ttrg~ With each Collection we send “ How 
to <Irow both. Tall and Dwarf Nasturtiums." 
Our Dollar Box of Seeds 
contains thirty-eight packets of Best Seeds,— 
actual retail value more than four dollars. 
We have selected the most popular five Collections,— Seven Vegetables of 
Our Own Introduction,—The Seven Superb Sweet Peas,—The Five Fink 
Pansies,—The Six Showy Nasturtiums, and our Gem Collection of Ten 
Popular Annuals, —as any customer can oil the basis of Five for One Dollar. 
To these we have added a full-size packet of Burpee’s Bush Sweet Pea, while 
of the “Fifteen Novelties Free for Trial” we have included the New American 
Carrot and Frame’s Santiago Watermelon. 
These make in all the thirty-eight packets for one dollar, which are 
p;icked neatly in a pasteboard box and sent by mail, postpaid, to any address, 
gfejy By referring to our catalogue, you will find that at prices “per packet” 
these thirty=eight packets would cost four dollars and ten cents. 
Seven New Sweet Peas for 25 Cts. 
Burpee's GEM Collection for 
T7_ „ or we will mail one packet 
ror AD vAS. each of all the following: 
LITTLE GEM SWEET ALYSSUM.—The most 
beautiful, carpet-like variety of the popular 
ever-blooming, white Sweet Alyssum. 
NEW MARGUERITE CENT AURE \ .—See 
illustration. Beautiful plants, hearing large, 
graceful, double flowers of the purest white. 
GOLDEN WEST ESCHSCHOLTZIA.— The New 
“ Giant California Poppy." Large, bright-yellow 
flowers borne profusely all summer. 
DOUBLE GAILLARDIAS.—The showy bright 
Picta Lorenziana type of all colors. 
COVENT GARDEN GYPSOPHILA.—A greatly 
improved strain of the delicately graceful and 
airy Baby's Breath; fine with Sweet Peas. 
FORDHOOK FINE MIXED IPOMGEAS.— 
Manv large-fiowered, showy varieties, including 
the finest new giant Japanese Morning Glories. 
FORDHOOK LARGE-FLOWERING PHLOX. 
—The best selected strain of large-flowered va¬ 
rieties, grown by ourselves at Fordhook Farms. 
CHAMOIS-ROSE POPPY.—A distinct novelty, 
bearing large, fluffy, and perfectly double flowers 
of a clear chamois-rose color; delicately beautiful. 
SALVIA SPLENDENS.—N umerous long spikes 
of the most intensely brilliant scarlet flowers. 
FORDHOOK FAMOUS MAMMOTH VERBE¬ 
NAS. -The largest and finest st rain ever origi¬ 
nated. These are truly mammoth Verbenas. 
COPYRIGHTED 
W.A.B.&CO. 
Our Grand Collection of Seven Superb New Sweet Peas 
for twenty-five cents is a special feature of our business 
eacli year, but never before has the collection contained seeds 
of such value as this year. All are regular-size packets, con¬ 
taining from forty to seventy seeds each, except Prince of 
Wales and Black Knight, of which there are twenty seeds. 
4S” It is an actual fact that last year it would have cost exactly 
two dollars and eighty-five cents to procure the seed 
contained in these Seven Packets sold now for 25 cents. 
Extravagant as this statement may appear, it can be verified 
easily by comparing with the prices in Burpee's Farm Annual 
last year, where it will be seen that three of these “ advance 
novelties ” sold at 25 cents per packet of ten seeds, and three 
others at 15 cents for thirty seeds. 
4®“With each collection we inclose a copy of our new leaflet, telling how we grow Sweet Peas 
at our famous FORDHOOK FARMS, well known as the Largest Trial Grounds in America. 
Thousands of Dollars in Cash Prizes 
and many other New Features of particular interest, presented in 
Burpee’s Farm AnnuaM899 
“The Leading American Seed Catalogue.” 
A handsome new book of 176 pages, —tells the plain truth about 
Burpee’s BEST SEEDS that Grow, including rare Novelties which cannot be 
had elsewhere. Beautiful colored plates and hundreds of illustrations from nature. 
Gives practical information of real value to all who would raise the choicest Vege¬ 
tables and most beautiful Flowers. J5@“MaiIed FREE to any address. 
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BURPEE’S SEEDS are sold in any quan= 
tity, but only under seal. They are always 
GENUINE as dated,—if seal is unbroken. 
TOMS 
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@mHTED 1098 
1899. 
Seeds That Grow. —The “ Farm An¬ 
nual ” issued by Messrs. W. ATLEE 
Burpee & Co., of Philadelphia, bears 
this year a second and most fitting title, 
“ The Plain Truth about Seeds.” Of the 
accuracy of this description of the book 
nobody who has ever dealt with the 
house will entertain the smallest doubt, 
for no establishment of any nature in 
the United States has built up an older 
or better reputation for absolute fair 
dealing. We have been familiar with 
their operations for a pretty big fraction 
of a century now, and know whereof we 
affirm. The Annual is a pamphlet of 
176 octavo pages, closely but very clearly 
printed, and profusely illustrated with 
fine engravings and brilliant colored 
plates. It is mailed free to any address, 
and is decidedly worth sending for.— 
From “The Country Gentleman,” 
Albany , N. Y., January 19, 1899. 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co., whose adver¬ 
tisement appears on another page of this 
issue, are seedsmen of world-wide repu¬ 
tation for integrity and fair dealing.— 
Hon. J. Sterling Morton, ex-Secrelary 
of Agriculture , in his neio paper, The 
Conservative, Nebraska City, Neb., 
January 12, 1899. 
W. Atlee Burpee, of Philadelphia, says that 
advertising is as necessary to a successful busi¬ 
ness as is the payment of rent. One of the rules 
of Mr. Burpee’s establishment is that just as 
much attention must be paid to the careful prep¬ 
aration of the advertising as to the raising of 
the seeds and bulbs. When a boy, the writer of 
this paragraph spent many happy days on Mr. 
Burpee’s Fordhook seed-farm, near Doylestown, 
Penn., and everywhere noticed that attention 
was paid to doing things right and having things 
right. The seeds must all be tested; the tools 
must always lie in place; the premises must 
always look clean and neat. This system of 
working has had its effect in a business that con¬ 
tinually increases and is always up with the 
times. Mr. Burpee’s’99 seed catalogue is out.— 
Editorial in Agricultural Advertising, Chi¬ 
cago, Januat'y, 1899. 
C o fz. f'4-o we ma '' one P ac ket each of LADY 
1 Or 40 Vtb. NINA BALFOUR, Eckford’s new 
light mauve; PRINCE OF WALES, largest flowers of most 
beautiful deep-rose color; BLACK KNIGHT, darkest of 
all Sweet Peas, nearly black; ORIENTAL, most gorgeous 
orange - salmon ; MODESTY, silvery. white, suffused with 
delicate flesh color; SALOPIAN, most brilliant scarlet; and 
BURPEE’S BEST, an absolutely unequaled mixture of all the 
choicest novelties. See beautiful colored plate in catalogue. 
W- ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Seed Growers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
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Speedy work means greater profits. Ail 
Iron Age implements mean more 
speed— especially the Iron Age 
Combined Seed Drill and 
Wheel Hoe. Most com¬ 
plete garden tool ever 
Iron 
Age 
Speed 
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It will plow, levfl^ar¬ 
row, sow, cover, rake, 
cultivate, hoe and hill. 
You can plant more, 
cultivate more, sell 
more at higher prices 
if you use the IRON 
AGE COMBINED 
SEED DRILL AND 
WHEEL HOE. 
Send your name and ad¬ 
dress for the handsome IroQ 
Age book of farm and gar¬ 
den implements for ’99. 
BATEMAN MIG. CO., 
Box 102, Grenloeh, H. J. 
The ARLINGTON SWIVEL PLOW 
with Coulter, Jointer and Ground Wheel. 
They 
are made 
in five 
sizes, for 
1 and 2 horses. 
Light, and easy 
to handle. 
The bent hill-side plotr made. Best for plowing back and 
forth without opening up lands. Specially constructed mold 
board makes it turn nod perfectly. 
The jointer reverses with the mold board, 
and is so constructed that it can’t choke. 
Made with wood or steel beam. Take a 
furrow slice from 8 to 10 inches wide and 4 to 8 
inches deep. Write for special plow circulars. 
THE BELCHER & TAYLOR A. T. CO. 
Box 75, Chicopee Falla, Maas. 
