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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 7 
CATALOGUE REVIEWS. 
(CONTINUED.) 
The Storks & Harrison Company, 
Painesville, O.—One of the best cata 
logues published, and one of the most 
trustworthy firms. The catalogue com¬ 
prises 170 pages with colored covers of 
roses and fruits, and a colored page of 
the Gault Perpetual (blackcap) rasp¬ 
berry. Fifty-six pages are given to vege¬ 
table and flower seeds, 44 pages to a 
general collection of house and bedding 
plants, 22 to roses, a specialty with this 
firm, and the rest to fruits, large and 
small, and ornamental shrubs and trees. 
Note what is said about the Logan Rasp¬ 
berry-blackberry, the Strawberry-rasp¬ 
berry. Of the Borgeat quince, which 
we are trying, it says that the tree sur¬ 
passes all others in vigor of growth, 
yielding immense crops, even in nursery 
rows, at the age of three or four years. 
The quinces keep well, it is claimed, 
until February. The firm offers special 
collections of fruit trees, small fruits, 
grapes, etc., at very low prices. The 
popular palms are offered for from 35 
cents each upwards. Twenty large 
greenhouses are devoted to the growing 
of roses alone. This firm owns and cul¬ 
tivates over 1,200 acres of land in the 
home farms, and employs from 150 to 
300 hands to do the work. They are the 
introducers of the first hybrid Rugosa 
rose ever produced—the Agnes Emily 
Carman, aDd control the new Carman 
gooseberry which they are propagating 
for introduction—we hope, at an early 
day. 
Joseph Breck & Sons, 51 and 52 North 
Market Street, Boston, Mass.—Estab¬ 
lished in 1822. A first-class catalogue 
(144 pages) of seeds of all kinds, plants, 
garden and farm implements, etc. 
Breck’s “ Chance ” potato is a sport from 
the Pearl of Savoy, which this firm in¬ 
troduced about 10 years ago. The Chance 
is as early as the Pearl, a larger yielder, 
a better keeper, and of better quality. 
In quality, they are said to be unsur¬ 
passed. The Harvard sweet pea, of a 
deep crimson color, has become a great 
favorite. “ It excels all others in color, 
fragrance and quantity of blooms.” 
Breck’s New Life pea is of the Strata¬ 
gem type, a wrinkled, green-seeded vari¬ 
ety of vigorous growth, the vines grow¬ 
ing to a height of two feet. Attention 
is called to the complete list of insecti¬ 
cides and fungicides, with a spraying 
calendar that covers the experience of 
the experiment stations throughout the 
country. Attention is further called to 
the firm’s offer, “We Double It,” a propo¬ 
sition to duplicate all first premiums 
offered this year by horticultural or agri¬ 
cultural societies in this country, under 
conditions set forth. The firm will send 
this excellent catalogue to those of our 
readers who apply for it. 
Pike & Ellsworth, Jessamine, Pasco 
County, Florida.—Here we have an illus- 
The introduction of the newer varie¬ 
ties of Japan Plums bids fair to revolu¬ 
tionize plum growing, inasmuch as they 
withstand the attacks of the curculio to 
a greater extent than the older cultivated 
sorts. The President of the Michigan 
State Horticultural Society, who is up- 
to-date in fruit culture, says of them : 
“ The Abundance and Burbank Plums 
have done well this season. They stood 
the many freezings better than Peaches, 
and produced enormously on three-year- 
old trees. The Burbank is the grandest 
Plum I have ever seen.” Similar reports 
of the great productiveness of these and 
other Japan sorts have been received from 
various sources. They appear to thrive 
from the Lakes to the Gulf, even where 
the European sorts fail. For home use 
and market they are equally valuable. 
The Storrs & Harrison Company, Paines¬ 
ville, Ohio, who advertise with us, are 
large growers of these Plums, as well as 
other new and rare trees, plants and 
seeds. They offer to send their valuable 
catalogue free. Send for it.— Adv. 
trated catalogue of Florida flowers and 
fruits, tropical, semi-tropical and some 
hardy plants which will surely interest 
many of our readers. Most of these 
plants are offered at surprisingly low 
prices. For instance, small plants of the 
popular palm, Cycas revoluta, are mailed 
for 35 cents each. So, too, the well- 
known palms, Phoenix reclinata, Latania 
Borbonica, Kentia Fosteriana, Areca 
lutescens, etc., are offered for from 15 to 
25 cents each. Banana plants are priced 
at 20 cents each, figs at 25 cents, Rhodo¬ 
dendron maximum, 20 cents each, cacti, 
15 cents, Eulalias, 15 cents, the Hardy 
Orange (Trifoliata), 15 cents each, etc. 
IN writing to advertisers, please always mention 
Tub Rural New-Yorker. 
Strong 
Muscles, steady nerves, pood appetite, result 
from blood made pure by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 
This is proved by what thousands say about 
Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla 
The One True Blood Purifier. $1; six for $5. 
Hood’s Pills 
are the only pills to take 
■with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 
)OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC 
Our new 1890 Seed C 
Catalogue is a mar-C 
, vel of careful work ,' 
'and the most beauti-* 
.fully illustrated Seed* 
Catalopue published. 1 
'Sent free if you are* 
,a seed buyer. 
'Our new Poultry Sup- ( 
ply Catalogue innio»t< 
complete and has care-( 
'fully revised Prices. You? 
i need it if you only keep 3 
I five Hens. With GIIIGK i 
HANNA yon can savev 
w every chick hatched. C 
\ JOHNSON & STOKES, 8 , Ph*Hdeiphi«, k p t af t '’? 
50000 ooooooooooooc 
; CARDEN 
) AND 
> FLOWER 
I SEEDS 
:POULTRY 
[SUPPLIES 
Catalogue Free. 
SP-^ATr = = i^ivE - = 
SEEDS 
FROM GROWER 
TO PLANTER^*** 
New and Wonderful Varieties sold at 
lowest growing prices. I give you mid¬ 
dleman’s profit and Seeds that Crow. 
Novelty Presents free with orders. My 
New Heed and Plant Book FREE. Write 
now before they are gone. 
H. W. BUCKBEE, 
Rockford Seed Farms, 
P. O. Box 645. ROCKFORD, ILLS. I 
FERRYS 
bSEEDSi 
igar Perfect seeds grow 
jgpr paying crops. Perfect seeds^H 
Mare not grown by chance. Noth^ 
f ing isever left to chance in grow-’ 
ing Ferry’s Seeds. Dealerssel! 
them everywhere. Write for 
for 1S96. Brimful of valuable 
informationaboutbestand new* J 
Lest seeds. Free by mail. A 
D. M. FERRY & CO., 
Detroit, Mich, 
IF YOU WANT J 
THE 
- BEST GARDEN 
in your neighborhood this season 
PLANT OUR FAMOUS 
all of which are described and illus¬ 
trated in our beautiful and entirely 
New Catalogue for 1896. A new 
feature this season is the Free de¬ 
livery of Seeds at Catalogue prices to 
any Post Office. This “ New Cata= 
logue” we will mail on receipt of a 
2-cent stamp, or to those who will state 
where they saw this advertisement, the 
Catalogue will be mailed Free ! 
PETER HENDERSON & GO. 
1 35 Sc 37 Cortlandt St., New York. 
15 SWEET PEAS 
We offer fifteen of the newer varieties, viz.:— 
Blushing Beauty, Butterfly, Countess of Radnor, 
Emily Henderson, Firefly, Gaiety, Her Majesty, 
Lady Beaconsfield, Lady Penzance, Lemon Queen, 
.ottie Eckford, Miss Hunt, Orange Prince, Prin¬ 
cess Beatrice and.Splendor, one package each; also 
l a package of the new Comet Aster, with one pack¬ 
age of our Boston strain of Pansy, large flowering, 
FOR FIFTY CENTS 
or two collections for 75 cents. The retail cata¬ 
logue price of above is Si.ao. To introduce these 
famous Arlington Seeds to new customers, we make 
^.his special offer to all mentioning this paper. 
Sent anywhere, postpaid, together with a copy 
of our 1890 Catalogue, which is specially interest¬ 
ing this season. 
W. W. RAWSON & CO., 
BOSTON, MASS. 
a©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©© 
A BARCAIN COLLECTION OF g 
FLOWER SEEDS 
10 Choice Annuals. 
(everybody’s favorites), all 
new, fresh seeds, sure to 
grow and bloom this season. 
Pansy, 40 colors and 
markings; PhlOX, 20colors; 
Verbena JScolors; Pinks 
10colors; Petunia, 10col- jJ 
ors; Asters, 12colors; Bal- S' 
sam, 8 colors; Sweets 
Peas, 12colors; Migno- xj 
nette and Sweet Alyssum. v 
rnn lO HENTC and the name and ad- fh 
lUil I h vbll lw dress of two of your J? 
friends who grow flowers, I will send, postpaid, 
the complete collection, one pkt. each of the ten V 
varieties (enough for any ordinary garden.) J ins 
is n BONAFIDE offer, made to introduce my © 
home grown flower seeds to new customers and 0 
which 1 guarantee to please you or the amount Jk 
paid refunded and the seeds given as a present. 5. 
Miss C. H. LIPPINCOTT. ^ 
319 and 323 Sixth St. So., Minneapolis, Minn, g 
NEW IMPERIAL TOMATO 
C OLE’S Early Water Melon and Cincinnati 
Market Kadish, three leading Vegetable 
Novelties, l pkt. each for only lOcts. Or three 
Flower Novelties—Pansy Large German, Cosmos 
Giant Perfection, and Zinnia New Giant, 1 pkt. 
ea. for only 10c, or the two collections together 
with a pkt. of CUPID, the new dwarf Sweet 
Pea, for 30e. prepaid, worth G()c. Our Hand¬ 
some Carden Annual Free. Write for it. 
COLE’S SEED STORE, - PELLA, IOWA. 
FRENCH CANNAS CHEAP! 
We have a large stock of all the choicest varie-l 
ties of the New Dwarf French Gannas at prices' 
as low as Geraniums can be bought for. As a t 
sample we will send a fine plant of the magnifi- < 
cent Ganna .Mad. Oozy (one of the grandest^ 
of all the Dwarf Frenctl Gannas), and a copy of our , 
catalogue, uhirh describes over HO other rare sorts, posL i 
paid to any address for only 15 cents. 
PALM CHEAP! 
Palms are considered the ' 
rich man’s plant, because so i 
high-priced at the North.' 
We grow them at a mini- 4 
mum of cost, and to intro- . 
duce them to the general, 
public, we will mail a fine, , 
healthy plant— ami a copy of 
our catalogue, whi'h tells just * 
how to manage Palms in the 
window —postpaid to any ad - 1 
dress for only 20 cts. Or ' 
I for only 25 cents we will send both the I 
1 I*alm and Canna—and si catalogue—to 1 
; any address. FREE! Our 68 -page Cata-| 
' logue of Rare Florida Flowers and • 
I Fruits for 1896, with fine colored plate of Red, 
, and Blue Water Lilies, mailed free to applicants. , 
iPIKE & ELLSWORTH, Jessamine, Fla.. 
BRIDGEMANS 
New Catalogue of 
GARDEN SEEDS 
ONION SEEDS. 
We are selling True SOUTHPORT GLOBE ONION 
SEED: Red and Yellow. $1 perpound; White, $2 per 
pound. We have the best stock this year ever offered. 
CALIFORNIA RED GLOBE ONION SEED, at 60c. 
per pound, mailed free. Send postal for our Catalogue. 
WHEELER & CO., Bridgeport, Conn. 
Conover's Colossal Asparagus 
Two-year Plants. 60 cents per 100; $2.50 per 1.000; 
or $2 in 5,000 lots. A. R. NORTON, Selden, L. I., N. V. 
is the best fodder crop that grows. The stalks and leaves 
are as good as green Corn fodder AND WILL REMAIN 
EVERGREEN through the dryest summer and fall. 
Other Valuable Forage Crops; ESSEX RAPE VETCHES, 
SANDVETCH, etc. We mail 1 Pkt. each, 4 kinds with our 
116 page complete Seed Catalogue for 14c-7, 2 cent stamps. 
VAUGHAN’S SEED STORE, 
26 BARCLAY ST., 84 & 86 RANDOLPH ST., 
NEW YORK. CHICAGO. 
Now Ready. Send for it. 
37 East 19th Street, New York. 
ESTABLISHED 1824. 
GOLD COIN 
That’s the name of our VINELESS Gold 
Coin prolific Sweet Potato. Its the greatest 
Sweet Potnto on earth. You will want it— 
everybody wants it, and we are the only 
firm that has it. Takes less than half the 
ground, half the labor and half the expense 
of any other sweet potato. You can’t AFFORD 
to be without it. Our book on Sweet Potato 
Culture GIVEN FREE with each order— 
contains the knowledge of a lifetime. Yon 
will miss it if you don’t get it SEND AT 
ONCE for our handsome catalogue, which 
tells all about them and the BEST SEEDS 
in America at LOW PRICES. Address, 
T« HUNTINGTON SEED CO • IN ihoi i ana. lis 
Seed Potatoes 
Small Fruits 
Seed Oats 
Carman No. 1, $3.00 per barrel, Carman No. 3, 
$6.00 per barrel. Other varieties of potatoes 
much cheaper. Three to six plants of the 
Wonderful Columbian Raspberry Free, to pur¬ 
chasers, or sold at 30c. each, $2.75 per doz., de¬ 
livered. Write for my catalogue, it is Free, 
and will save you money. 
E, H. VICK, - - ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
85 Packages 
EARLIEST 
VEGETABLE 
SEEDS. 
Postpaid, SI*OO. 
■t T zv r -y Have often seer need come up poor and sickly, without 
Y J 1 I I sufficient vitality to produce a crop—that was an object 
V J l J lesson that poor seeds produce poor crops—but when 
you plant Sulzcr’s Northern Grown Seeds, for garden or 
farm, the scene eliungcs ns If by magic. Instead of poor yields you at once 
get rousing crops, crops that will gladden your heart and fill your purse, 
for Sulzer’s Seeds are full of life, full of vigor, full of producing gualltles- 
8 400.00 IN GOLD PRIZES. 
Wo pav this an Oats, Barley and Corn. 209 bushels Silver- 
tnine (Nameless Beauty) Oats grown on one acre in I 895. You 
ran beat that! It is the greatest Oats of the century. No more 
hard times if you sow a plenty of Salzer’s Barley, Oats, Pota¬ 
toes, Grass and Glovers! Have you tried Teosinte, Saealine, 
Giant Spiirrv and Giant Quick-Growing German Glover ? 
Catalogue tells all about these marvelously wonderful Fodder 
Plants! 
SPLENDID VEGETABLES. 
Large selections, lnuny splendid sorts. Everything cheap. Onion Seed 
at 90c. per lb; lOpkts. Flower Seed, !i5e. 1,000,000 Roses, Plant* and Small 
Fruits, nardy ns Oaks. Send 2c. for Mnrket Gnrdctier’s Wholesale List. Our 
great Seed and Plant Kook, 148 pp., with 10 pkgs. Grasses and Grains, In¬ 
cluding above Prize Outs, lturley and Corn, Is sent upon reeelptof 10c. post¬ 
age. Catalog alone, 5c. Catalog and one pkg. Pumpkin Yellow Melon, 12c. 
