1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
1 8 1 
CA TALOCUES. 
New Haven Nurseries, New Hawn, 
Mo.—Catalogue of nursery trees and plants. 
W. W, Barnard <S- Co., Chicago, Ill.— 
Catalogue of seeds and farm supplies; 96 
pages. 
S. M. Isbell & Co., Jackson, Mich.— 
Catalogue of northern-grown seeds; 64 
pages; colored cover. A selected collection 
of standard and new varieties. 
J. A. Everett, Indianapolis, Ind.—Cata¬ 
logue of seeds and plants. Quite an exten¬ 
sive list of garden and farm seeds* togeth¬ 
er with some mail specialties. 
F. Barteldes & Co., Lawrence, Kan.--. 
Catalogue of the Kansas Seed House; 80 
pages, colored cover. A well-chosen collec¬ 
tion of garden and farm seeds and requi¬ 
sites. 
Lewis Roesch, Fredonia, N. Y.—Cata¬ 
logue of grapevines and nursery stock; 36 
pages. There is a large and excellent col¬ 
lection of varieties and good cultural direc¬ 
tions. 
Alabama Nursery Co., Huntsville, Ala. 
—Catalogue of fruit trees and plants; 32 
pages. A fine collection of standard and 
new varieties. There is also a section de¬ 
voted to ornamentals. 
Reliance Nursery Co., Geneva, N. Y.— 
Catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees 
and plants; 30 pages, four colored plates 
and many illustrations. A tasteful cata¬ 
logue and excellent collection of varieties. 
D. M. Andrews, Boulder, Col.—Catalogue 
of hardy plant seeds; 24 pages. A rare col¬ 
lection of seeds of Rocky Mountain plants, 
tr€-cs and shrubs. Many species are here 
offered that can scarcely be procured else¬ 
where. 
Thos. J. Grey, Boston, Mass.—Catalogue 
of seeds and garden requisites; 104 pages. 
A neat, careful and conservative cata¬ 
logue. The list of seed varieties is very 
large; 33 pages are devoted to implements 
and garden supplies. 
Royal Palm Nurseries, Oneco, Fla.— 
Catalogue of tropical and other fruits and 
plants; 64 pages, finely illustrated. In¬ 
valuable to those interested in native and 
exotic tropical and half-hardy fruits and 
plants. 
Nortiirup, King & Co., Minneapolis, 
Minn.—Catalogue of Sterling Seeds; 104 
pages. An extensive collection of farm and 
garden seeds. The Peep o’ Day sweet corn 
is claimed to be the earliest, sweetest and 
most productive of its class. 
G. C. Stone, Dansville, N. Y.—Catalogue 
of fruit trees and general nursery stock; 
80 pages, colored plates of Yengennes 
grape and Spiraea aurea. A very extensive 
collection of fruit and ornamental varie¬ 
ties chiefly offered in quantity. 
J. W. Jones & Son, Allen, Md.—Cata¬ 
logue of strawberry plants; 18 pages, illus¬ 
trated. A well-written catalogue listing 45 
varieties of strawberries, including the 
new Climax. This firm is growing a fine 
lot of peach trees for the coming Fall trade 
Francis Brill, Hempstead, N. Y.—Cir¬ 
cular of home-grown cabbage, cauliflower 
and special vegetable seeds. Mr. Brill is 
the pioneer of the Long Island cabbage 
seed industry. An excellent leaflet on cul¬ 
ture of his specialties accompanies the 
circular. 
Slaymaker & Son, Dover, Del.— Cata¬ 
logue of small fruit plants. A taking list 
of new and standard varieties, including 
President, Commonwealth and Challenge 
strawberries. The Ward and Jordan blacks 
berries, Premo and Rogers dewberries are 
also offered. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md.— 
Fruit plants and trees; 36 pages. A large 
and interesting collection of reliable varie¬ 
ties is described. Several very promising 
new peaches, such as Hiley, Frances, Ni¬ 
agara and Gordon are offered. There is a 
very full list of strawberries. 
Joseph Harris Co., Coldwater, N. Y.— 
Harris’ Rural Annual. Farm and garden 
seeds; 64 pages. This catalogue is con¬ 
servatively written, and well-tested varie¬ 
ties only offered. Germination percentage 
calculated from careful tests are marked 
on all larger packages of seeds. 
W. W. Rawson & Co., Boston, Mass.— 
Catalogue of garden and farm seeds and 
flowering plants; 120 pages, handsome em¬ 
bossed cover in colors. A large and com¬ 
plete collection of seeds, decorative plants 
and garden requisites. There are many 
specialties in select market garden and 
glasshouse vegetable seeds. 
Page Seed Co., Greene, N. Y.—Catalogue 
of vegetable, flower and farm seeds; 64 
pages, colored cover. There are many 
specialties besides an excellent general 
collection. The Cuban Giant silage and 
Pharaoh's Dream sweet corns are not of¬ 
fered elsewhere. A new barley from Ba¬ 
varia is claimed to be very resistant to 
drought. 
From the Atlantic to the Pacific 
Burpee’s FORDHOOK FARMS are famous 
As the largest Trial Grounds in America 
You need nor rafce our word for the 
truth of this statement (although 
we never knowingly exaggerate), but can read 
below the entirely unsolicited opinions of 
two leading experts. There is not money 
enough, even in all the territory “ from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific,” to purchase such testi¬ 
mony from either of these well-known Horti¬ 
culturists 1 They know whereof they speak 
and do not hesitate to tell freely the plain 
truth,—as learned from their own inspection. 
From the 
Atlant ic 
Professor Johnson, of The 
American Agriculturist , per¬ 
formed a similar office on 
behalf of the members of the 
agricultural and horticultural 
press present. Mr. Johnson 
said that the day had been 
one rare treat. ... In 
speaking of the immensity of 
the Trial Grounds at Ford- 
hook, Professor. Johnson 
stated that those present 
would take home a lesson 
which would be remembered 
for many years. There was 
not an experiment station 
in the United States, sup¬ 
ported by State or national 
legislation, that had any¬ 
thing like the variety of 
tests that were conducted 
on the Fordhook Farms. 
He said this in all fairness to 
the splendid work of the 
Experiment Stations. . . . 
—Extract front an Editorial 
account of “A Field Day 
at Fordhook,” which ap¬ 
peared hi The Florists’ 
Exchange, New York , July 
4, *9<>J. 
From the 
Pacific 
A careful seedsman’s ex¬ 
periment grounds, like yours, 
it seems to me, are far more 
useful than any of the colleges 
or public experiment stations, 
as it is all practical work. 
Your Fordhook Trial 
Grounds were the best of 
all my Eastern object- 
lessons, and I had many 
of them. I had no idea of 
their extent and value, not 
only to yourself, but to 
every one of your cus¬ 
tomers, and eventually to 
every one who cultivates 
the soil. — Thus wrote 
Luther Burbank, “ The 
Wizard of Horticulture ,” 
from Santa Rosa , California, 
October 20, 1900, upon his 
return from an extended 
eastern trip. 
The BURPEE QUALITY 
in Seeds is quite different 
from that of usual commercial 
grades. Burpee's Seeds cost 
a little more, but they are 
worth much more 1 
Intelligent planters every¬ 
where are learning to appre¬ 
ciate the difference, — that 
always “ the best is the cheap¬ 
est,”—to such an extent that 
we have been obliged not 
only to grow larger areas, but 
also to make still further im¬ 
provements in our system of 
handling orders to meet the 
increasing demand. 
As heretofore, we do not 
attempt to compete merely in 
price. Our aim is to excel 
in quality, and the fact that 
in spite of fierce competition 
we still maintain the largest 
mail-order seed trade in the 
world is indisputable evi¬ 
dence that BURPEE’S SEEDS 
forget our full address, please 
Eight Elegant New Sweet Peas 
For 25 Cts. 
we will mail, postpaid, one regular retail 
packet each of the following “ Eight Best” new 
Sweet Peas: BURPEE’S DAINTY, the larg 
flowers are beautifully formed and uniquely marked, “ white with a pink edge,"— 
LORD ROSEBERRY, richly colored, deep rose-carmine flowers,gracefully hooded 
see illustration , —JANET SCOTT, “ the best pink sweet pea," flowers of large 
size, three on a stem,— LADY GRISEL HAMILTON, largest and best light 
lavender, —THE HON. MRS. E. KENYON, beautiful primrose-colored flowers 
of truly enormous size,— COCC1NEA, a new color in Sweet Peas, a bright cherry- 
red, — JEANIE GORDON, charming bright rose, shaded primrose, and a large 
packet of the unequaled new BURPEE’S BEST MIXED FOR 1904. ■flfS'Tne 
Seven Superb Separate Sorts are shown painted from nature, while the 
Special Mixture is described on page 108 of our new Catalogue for 1904 . 
C buys ail the above Eight Elegant New Tall Sweet 
V-'lo* Peas, and in each collection we enclose 
our New Leaflet on Culture for 1904. 
Seven Nasturtiums . For , 25 , „ 
we mail one full - size 
packet each of all seven distinct types : The beautiful 
Dwarf Liliput in best mixture,—the unequaled mixture, 
Burpee’s “Gorgeous” New Tom Thumb,— the interesting 
small-leaved Tom Pouce, —the brightly colored Lobb’s 
Finest Mixed, —the superbly brilliant new and unequaled 
mixture of Burpee’s Hotspur Harlequin, —the gracefully 
artistic Ivy-Leaved, and the finest Burpee’s New Superb 
Giant-flowered Nasturtiums. In the large bag nclosing 
each collection is included our New Leaflet on culture. 
Burpee’s GEM Collection. 
For 25 Cts. 
we mail one packet each of all the 
Little Gem SWEET ALYSSUM, carpets 
ground with a mass of white, — Fordhook 
Favorites amon 
Defiance BALS 
Dwarf Marguerite 
flowered NASTURTIUMS, in unequaled mixture,— Royai Prize PANSIES, 
both free-flowering and giant varieties,— Largest-flowering PHLOX DRUM- 
MONDII, as grown by ourselves,— Fordhook Fairy POPPIES, most graceful 
double flowers, in many colors,—a large packet of Burpee’s New Grand Tall 
SWEET PEAS, as specially prepared for 1904 , and a small packet of the most 
beautiful New PLUMED CELOSIAS. This novelty is likely to give such rare 
delight to all flower lovers as to be alone worth the quarter paid for all ten packets ! 
Vegetables! 
For 25 Cts. 
"FIVE FINEST” FORDHOOK 
FAMOUS NEW VEGETABLES. 
we will mail, postpaid, one full-size packet 
(such as we sell separately at ten cents per packet) 
each of the following : Fordhook Famous Cucum¬ 
ber, the largest, most handsome, and finest flavored of all cucumbers,— Buri’KE’s 
Brittle-Ice Lettuce, the popular New “ Nameless ” Lettuce distributed for ad¬ 
vance trials last season,— Burpee’s New Halbert Honey Water¬ 
melon, sweetest and best for home use,— Burpee’s New Golden 
Globe Onion, earliest and handsomest of globe-shaped onions, and 
Chalk’s Early Jewel Tomato, largest of all extreme-earlies. 
\ Tvf-vvz** rj V /* are all shown, painted from 
HUUVc HIVC nature, on the cover or plates 
in our Catalogue. Perhaps there are named above 
one or two vegetables that you do not care for. Therefore 
you may omit any of the above, and instead select a packet 
of either the New Danish Roundhead Cabbage, —the un¬ 
equaled Chinese Giant Pepper,— the earliest Hailstone 
Radish, —the delicious Fordhook Bush Squash, or the New 
Quarter-Century Strain of Burpee’s Bush Lima Bean. 
For One Dollar 
we will mail all the 
seeds advertised— ten 
New Vegetables and twenty-five packets Choicest New Sweet 
Peas, Nasturtiums and other Flowers—in all thirty-five 
full-size packets for ONE DOLLAR 1 
£ 3 “ Everyone of these varieties is entitled to be marked 
with a bull’s-eye [Ol,—as absolutely 
the best of its type. 
Or For One Dollar 
ou can have ANY FIVE COLLEC- 
IONS, and mailed to separate addresses 
if so requested. 43“ Be sure to ask for 
Burpee’s Farm Annual for 1904 
when ordering. Write TO-DAY4 
¥ 
Farm Annual for 1904. 
LEADING AMERICAN SEED CATALOGUE. 
ITOirir *11 Who want the Best Seeds! 
l’lJUICQ r IVLL IO all An elegant new book of 178 
pages, with hundreds of illustrations and six superb colored 
plates, it is now brighter and better than ever before. Many 
new features for 1904 ,—including valu- 
able RARE NOVELTIES not to be had 
elsewhere. You can send your address 
on a postal card. Write TO-DAY 1 
W. ATLEE BUHPEE CO.. 
Burpee Building, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
RS: 1?! S31 11 Headquarters in PHILADELPHIA of 
THE WORLD’S LARGEST MAIL-ORDER SEED BUSINESS 
OROW and are the BEST THAT GROW I 43-Should you 
remember that letters reach us saf :ly if addressed simply 
BUR.PEE, Philadelphia.. 
EARLY CHAMPION. J W 
; The earliest large sweet corn 
inexistence. Sweet, tender and ‘ 
full of milk. Its pure white 
ears, two to three to the stalk, are ten 
inches long and ready for 
Roasting Ears 
In 65 Days After Germination. 
Equally valuable for early or late planting. 
Prices postpaid, pt. 15c, qt. 25c, By express 
or freight, purchaser paying charges, pk. 
$1.16, bu. $4.00. Write for beautiful large free cata¬ 
log of Northern Grown Vegetable and Flower Seed*. 
S.M. ISBELL & CO., Dept. B, Jackson,Mich. 1 
IOiOOO Plants for 16c 
More gardens and farms are planted to 
Salzer’s Seeds than any other In 
. America. There is reason for this. —_ 
TVe own and operate over 5000 acres for' 
the production of our warranted seeds. 
In order to induce you to try them, we 
make you the following unpre-J 
_ cedented offer: 
For 16 Cents Postpaid 
. 1000 Karly, Medium and Late Cabbage*, 
I 2000 Delicious, Carrots, 
I 2000 Blanching Celerr, 
U 2000 Rich Nutty Lettuce, 
1000 Splendid Onions, 
1000 Hare Luscious ltadlshcs, 
1000 Gloriously Brilliant Flowers. 
Above seven packages contain suffi¬ 
cient seed to grow 10,000 plants, fur¬ 
nishing bushels of brilliant llowers 
and lots and lots of choice vegeta¬ 
bles,together with our great catalog, ( 
telling all about Flowers, Roses, 
Small Fruits, etc., all for 16c in 
8 tamps and this notice. Mam¬ 
moth 140-page catalog alone, 4c. 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO.. 
La Crosse, Wis. 
HARRIS 7 high - class SEEDS. 
W E ARE seed growers (not mere dealers) and raise seeds on our own farms, and by careful 
selection keep them up to the highest standard of qualitv. Yet we a-e able to sell them at 
prices lower than many others charge for seeds not so carefully raised. Our specialties are 
choice Vegetable Seeds, Seed Potatoes, Selected Seed Corn, New and Improved Oats and 
other farm seeds. Everyone who wants a good garden and profitable crops should give our seeds 
a trial. Catalogue free, It will pay you to see it. 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO., Moreton Farm, COLDWATER, N. Y. 
HOLMES’ SEEDS 
produce prize vegetables. Every Holmes variety is from tested 
dstock. Your garden will be better for the help you can get from our catalogue 
for 1904. It is the finest seed book of the season and will be sent to you Free If you 
mention this paper. Contains 80 pages. Full of illustrations direct from photographs. 
> send for this book. 
, It is time to plan for spring planting and now is the time to i 
HOLMES SEED CO., Harrisburg, Pa. 
A CUCUMBER 
Here’s one worth talking about. We wish to acquaint you with 
Rawion’i White Spine for greenhouse, hot bed or out-door planting. 
T his is a superb variety of forcing cuoumber. Perfect in color, form 
and size. It pays to buy from the growers. Our valuable 1904 catalogue 
of Arlington Tested Seeds mailed FIIEE on request Write for a copy. 
W. W. RAWSON &. CO., Seedsmen and Market Gardeners 
12 and 13 Fanenil Hall Square, Boston, Mass. 
Do You Keep Bees? 
If so, why 
not make 
the Bees 
keep you ? 
The AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL tells HOW. 44th year; weekly; $1.00. Sample 
Copy Free. Experts make their Bees Pay. Read, and be an expert. It’s easy. 
Women succeed, too. “ Sisters ” dept, in Am. Bee Journal. “ Honey as a Health- 
Food,” 16-p. pamphlet for 2c stamp. Tells value of Honey In Cooking and as a 
Remedy. I kadress, George \V. York.& Co., 144 Erie St., Chicago, 111. 
