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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 4 , 
CATALOGUES 
R. E. Allen, Paw Paw, Mich.—Price list 
of berry plants; 10 pages. 
J. M. Phillips’ Sons, Pittsburgh, Pa.—• 
Seed Annual, GO pages, colored cover. De¬ 
voted to farm and garden seeds. 
North Star Plant Farms, Cokato, Minn. 
—Catalogue of strawberry plants, 20 pages, 
Illustrated. Over 100 varieties are listed. 
.Tas. A. Bauer, Judsonia, Ark.—Catalogue 
of strawberry plants, 22 pages, illustrated. 
The Almo Is offered as especially productive. 
It is of the Wilson type. 
Coles Seed Store, Pella, Iowa.—Coles’ 
Garden Manual; 82 pages, illustrated, colored 
cover. Reliable varieties of garden and farm 
seeds are listed. 
C. E. Whitten Nurseries, Bridgman, 
Mich.—Strawberry Plants that Grow; 40 
pages, illustrated. Strawberry and small 
fruit plants. A fine list with good cultural 
directions. 
Reasoner Bros., Oneco, Fla.—Catalogue of 
Royal Palm Nurseries, 66 pages, illustrated. 
A very extensive offering of tropical, sem.i- 
tropical and temperate ornamental and 
fruiting trees and plants. 
Elbridge E. Wheeler, Bridgeport, Conn. 
—Catalogue of field, flower and garden seeds, 
and flowering plants, 98 pages, illustrated, 
colored cover and colored plates. A hand¬ 
some catalogue offering a good collection. 
Arthur Cowee, Berlin, N. Y.—Catalogue 
of hybrid Gladioli; 32 pages beautifully 
printed and illustrated. The strains of 
Gladioli herein offered captured the Grand 
Prize at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 
St. Louis, Mo., 1904, and medals at previous 
exhibitions. 
Joseph Harris Co., Coldwater, N. Y.— 
Harris’ Rural Annual; 68 pages, illustrated. 
Garden and farm seeds. A conservative col¬ 
lection of dependable varieties. Harris’ 
Snowball potato is a new variety offered as 
blight and rot proof. 
J. B. Armstrong & Sons, Shenandoah, 
Iowa.—A 26-page Illustrated catalogue of 
seed corn and farm and garden seeds. Many 
fine varieties of field corn are described, and 
a specialty made of selected fire-dried corn 
in the ear for seed purposes. 
Ratekin’s Seed House, Shenandoah, 
Iowa.—Garden and Farm Annual; 74 pages, 
colored cover showing vegetable varieties. 
There is a good list of garden seeds, but the 
great specialties are seed corn and potatoes. 
Some exclusive varieties are offered. 
The Geo. W. P. Jerrard Co., Caribou, 
Me.—Jerrard’s Seed Potatoes; 24 pages, il¬ 
lustrated. Many good potatoes and a selec¬ 
tion of vegetable seeds suitable for the North 
are listed. The Early Surprise potato, first 
offered two years ago, Is strongly commended. 
E. C. Green & Son, Medina, O.—Catalogue 
of garden and flower seeds, 18 pages. A 
short but well selected list of good varieties. 
The Nuevo tomato Is a dwarf variety, early 
and prolific, having the curious color changes 
characteristic of “Honor Bright", one of its 
parents. 
John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. 
—Catalogue of farm and garden seeds; 140 
pages. Many illustrations, colored cover and 
several dim and ineffective colored plates. 
The general tone of this publication is that 
of screaming exaggeration but the firm is 
known to be a responsible dealer in good seeds 
and supplies. 
L. L. Olds Seed Co., Clinton, Wis.— 
Catalogue of seed potatoes, farm and garden 
seeds; 82 pages, illustrated. A very com¬ 
prehensive collection of potatoes and farm 
seeds. Nearly all useful varieties are offered, 
including latest novelties. The specialty of 
the year is the White Victor potato, claimed 
to be a particularly vigorous and productive 
sport of the popular Blue Victor. 
Jos. H. Buck, Son & Co., Hightstown, N. 
J.—Catalogue of fruit trees and plants and 
ornamentals, 50 pages, illustrated, colored 
cover. A large and judicious offering of suc¬ 
cessful varieties . The collections of straw¬ 
berries and peaches are especially full. The 
Elma is offered as the newest and 
latest-ripening seedling strawberry. The 
Ward blackberry and Miss Lola peach are 
new kinds of the highest merit. 
T. C. Kevitt, Athenia, N. J.—Catalogue 
of strawberry plants; 18 pages, finely Illus¬ 
trated. Mr. Kevitt offers a fine assortment 
of practical varieties. Glen Mary is con¬ 
sidered most profitable. Gen. De Wet Is 
claimed to be a most desirable late-blooming 
or frost-proof variety. Some very taking 
collections of new varieties, by mail and ex¬ 
press, are offered at very moderate prices. 
W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, O.—Every¬ 
thing for the Fruit Grower; 42 pages, illus¬ 
trated, colored plates’ A catalogue of fruit 
trees and plants listing many excellent vari¬ 
eties. The Pineapple strawberry Is made a 
special feature, and the Brilliant red rasp¬ 
berry is offered for the first time. 
John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. V. 
— Catalogue of seeds, flowering plants and 
fruits; 148 pages, colored cover and colored 
plates of new flowers and fruits. A large 
and brilliant publication, listing an extensive 
collection. The rare pink Calla, Richardia 
Rehmanni, is offered at a moderate price. 
Several new fruits are described as the ear¬ 
liest of their kinds. 
Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa.— 
Dreer’s Garden Book, 226 pages, finely illus¬ 
trated, colored embossed cover and colored 
plates of novelties In flowering plants and 
vegetables. This handsome and extensive 
catalogue is as fine as ever. In all depart¬ 
ments the offerings are unusually full; 32 
pages are devoted to hardy garden plants 
alone. There are many novelties in seeds 
and plants of home and roreign origin. 
Funk Bros. Seed Co., Bloomington, III. 
—Catalogue of high-bred seed corn, farm 
seeds and purebred live stock; 28 pages, 
illustrated. This firm has had 81 years’ 
experience in corn-growing in Illinois. Of¬ 
ferings are made of varieties of corn for gen¬ 
eral culture and special requirements, such 
as specially bred chemical corns, containing 
as high as 12.65 per cent protein and 5.35 
per cent oil. 
The Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa. 
New Floral Guide, 136 pages, illustrated, 
colored plates of rose novelties and colored 
cover, showing Philadelphia Rambler rose 
and the new scarlet giant Canna Louisiana, 
that received the Grand Prize at the St. 
Louis World’s Fair. We have grown Louis¬ 
iana two years on the Rural grounds, and 
think it is the finest of its class. A bewild¬ 
ering collection of the choicest roses and Can- 
nas, many varieties of their own production, 
are offered, together with a large assortment 
of flower seeds and rare flowering plants. 
W. F. Allen, Salisbury, Md.—SLawberry 
catalogue; 30 pages, attractive colored plate 
of New Home strawberry. Although termed 
a strawberry catalogue there is in addition 
to an excellent list of commercial strawber¬ 
ries a careful selection of market garden and 
farm seeds. The New Home strawberry is 
described as the best keeping and shipping 
variety yet offered. It is as large and late 
as Gandy, bright red and especially produc¬ 
tive. It keeps so well that it only need be 
picked three times a week, thus overcoming 
one of the greatest difficulties in strawberry 
culture. Its eating quality is not mentioned. 
Vaughan’s Seed Store. Chicago and New 
York.—Catalogue of seeds, flowering plants 
and gardeners’ supplies; 130 pages, illus¬ 
trated, artistic cover, with fine colored plates 
of King Humbert Canna and “Baby Ram¬ 
bler” rose. One of the most complete col¬ 
lections offered in America. All staple va¬ 
rieties and scores of choice novelties are 
listed. The Malakoff sweet corn is offered 
as the earliest true sweet variety, being 
ready for the table July 4 when planted May 
22. It comes from Russia. The Munich 
radish from Germany is said to be the finest 
of all in quality. Three great specialties 
among ornamental plants are King Humbert 
Canna, Baby Rambler rose and Princeps 
Gladiolus, in all of which this firm controls 
the main stocks of the country. The rose is a 
dwarf constant-blooming seedling of Crim¬ 
son Rambler destined for the widest pop¬ 
ularity. The Canna is the best bronze-leaved 
variety with large flowers and the Gladi¬ 
olus the finest variety in existence. All re¬ 
ceived gold medals at the St. Louis World's 
Fair. Other meritorious novelties are Mag¬ 
num Dulce pepper and a new hybrid Nico- 
tiana “White Wonder” which originated on 
the Rural Grounds. 
GENUINE IRISH COBBLER POTATOES 
Considering earliness, productiveness, -eating and 
keepingqualities. this is the greatest potato on earth. 
Our seed Is from the original stock and we guarantee 
every bbl. to be genuine. Our stock is limited, but 
we are booking orders as far as it goes. 
EDWARD RIGG, Jr., Burlington, N. J. 
fiBACC cccn Timothy and all kinds of Clover 
wfcfcl* Seed, Blue Grass,Red Top, Orchard 
Grass, BIG 4 Seed Oats. Enquiries pleasure to 
answer. Let me hear from you and your wants 
Address U. J. COVER, Mt. Gilead, Ohio. 
i nnn nnn asparagus roots-T he 
lyUUUlUUU Most Profitable Crop grown. 
Seven of the best varieties described in our 100-page 
Catalogue. It is FREE to those who mention Rural 
New-Yorker. MOORE & SIMON, 
Seed Growers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
O ATS AND CORN —For seed. New and im¬ 
mense yielding varieties. Write for circular. 
THEO. BURT & SONS, Box E, Melrose, Ohio. 
Dibble’s New Seed Potatoes 
Early Manistee and Ionia Seedling (late) are the best and most valuable potatoes introduced in the past 
20 years. Sent out last year they have proven winners wherever planted. 00 of our customers'letters are 
printed In our catalog and these farmers say. “ Manistee and Ionias beat all other kinds two and three to 
one, yielding in many cases 300,400 and 450 bushels per acre without blight or rot, while other sorts turned 
out 100 and 200 bushels, blighting and rotting badly.” The best on earth, but no fancy prices (.while they 
last >. Barrel, $3.00; 10 barrel lots, $25.00. 
We are headquarters for Seed Potatoes, using the product of over 1.000 acres annually. All Northern 
grown, mostly on virgin soil. All the standard kinds, Cobblers, Bovees, Rose, Ohios, Queens, Fortune, 
Mountains, Maines, Raleighs, Carmans, etc., $2.00 and $2.50 per barrel. Special prices on quantities some ns 
low as $1.50 per barrel. H W. Colllngwood, Editor Rural New Yorker, uses Dibble's Seed Potatoes on Hope 
Farm. Last year his yield was over 300 bushels per acre Mr. Collingwood’s testimonial letter published In 
full In our new catalog, the best farm seed book published showing Manistees and Ionias in colors. 
SEND FOR IT NOW. IT Sc FREE. 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE, Seedgrower, 
HONEOYE FALLS, - - NEW YORK 
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TO ALL 
who will write for them. 
To prove that our seeds 
are superior to all others 
we will send 50 VARIETIES 
OF VEGETABLE SEEDS AND 1000 
FLOWER SEEDS — enough 
for Ten Thousand Plants 
—together with 120-page 
illustrated catalog for 
14 cents, postpaid. Write 
quick—this offer won’t 
last long. 
Wernlch Seed Co., 
si WlwaukM. Wit. 
Corn g| 
I the great corn for cattle feeders Ears a foot L. 
I long, rich in oil. easily broken or crushed. || 
| An enormous yielder. Made 118 bu. per acre Bl 
I on my trial grounds, outyieldlng all of the SI 
84 other varieties except the White Elephant. B! 
If you want corn that will outyield every- 5 ! 
thing in the neighborhood try these two. ■! 
Samples free for the asking. I will also send II 
you my new catalog of seed corn, seed ■■ 
potatoes, garden seeds, and in fact all r 
kinds of seeds but the poor kinds. >»| 
HENBT FIELO, Sndtman 
Boi 26 Shinindosh. la. 
"The ear seed com man." 
Try the New 
Majestic Tomato 
The greatest vegetable novelty of the sea¬ 
son. By all odds the largest, finest flavored 
and most productive in existence. Thou¬ 
sands of our customers who received small 
trial packages last spring wrote us in the 
fall that it surpassed a!> other sorts and 
produced 100 lbs. to 147 lbs. of fruit to 
' the plant. Many reported single toma. 
toes, weighing 3 lbs. to Ids. each. 
Just think what this kind of a crop would 
mean on an acre of ground. The fruits 
arc not coarse grained and poor like 
other large sorts, but are smooth,solid, 
have few seeds, and are unsurpassed in 
quality.Of fine shape and lieautiful color. 
Last year the seed sold at 40c per packet 
lOOseeds, but this season, we have 
reduced priteto lBcts, and in ad¬ 
dition to this we are offering 
$100.00 in Cash 
prizes this year for the 
largest tomato grown. 
Our large illustrated cata¬ 
logue describing the above 
and many other choloe novel* 
ties will be sent free If yoa 
mention this paper. 
IOWA SEED CO. t 
Des Moines, Iowa. 
The 
most careful farmers 
and gardeners everywhere 
place confidence .n Ferry’s 
Seeds—the kind that never fall. 
• 
have been the standard for 49 years. 
They are not an experiment, 
bold by all dealers. 1905 Reed 
Animal free for the asking. 
M. FERRY & CO.. 
Detroit, Mich. 
DREER’S 
SEEDS have been 
the standard for sixty- 
six years, and are known 
• the world over for their high 
quality and reliability. Our 
present great stock-of fresh 
seeds, plants, bulbs, etc., is 
fully described In our 
Garden Book 
for 1905 
Goui*'' Bo0k: 
A beautiful catalogue of 224 
pages, profusely illustrated. 
Gives complete cultural di¬ 
rections for successful gar¬ 
dening. Mailed free to old 
customers without request. 
Sent to any one on receipt 
of 10 cents, which amount 
may be deducted from 
first order. 
HENRY A. DR 
\\ 714 Chestnut 
Philadalphi, 
005 
I have been growing plump seeds and 
seliingthem on the square. My custom¬ 
ers stick. Nobody else sells my quality of seeds 
at my prices. 1 cent a pkt. and up. Onion seed 
50c per lb. All other seeds equally low. 
A Large Lot of Extra Packages Pre¬ 
sented FREE with Every Order. 
I want to fill a trial order, large or small, for you. 
You’ll come again. Send your own and neigh¬ 
bor’s name and address for big FREE catalogue. 
R. H. SHUMWAY, Rockford, Ills, 
GRISWOLD’S SEEDS 
AT 
WHOLESALE PRICES 
We are Seed Growers and we give the 
Seed Planter more value for his money 
than any other firm In the business. Send 
for Catalogue. 
Free Premiums 
Thos. Griswold A Co., 
38 Maple Ave., So. Wethersfield, Conn. 
Business Established 1845 
Pure 
Seed 
If other seeds have failed you, try 
GREGORY’S 
We mall many small fruits, 12 to I6o 
each. Catalogue free, 
J. i. H. GREGORY A 80S, BarbUhetd, Bail. 
MAINE SEED POTATOES. 
Prices given on any quantity delivered in New 
York. Catalogue. CARTER & COREY, Preaque 
Isle, Aroostook Co.. Maine. Over fifty varieties. 
SEED oonw 
Hulst’s Improved Eight Rowed Yellow 
This seed has been taken for the last four years 
from stalks having two good matured ears, and the 
best ears taken; was cut up and well matured long 
before the first frost. Stouts in the best part of the 
field yielded at the rate of 110 bushels shelled corn 
per acre. Seed from carefully selected ears, and tips 
shelled off by hand; price $1.50 per half bushel. $3.00 
per bushel of 56 lbs,: bags free. Address 
PETER D. HULST, Billings, Dutchess Co., N. Y, 
SECOND CROP SEED POTATOES 
Mature earlier, stand drought better, yield more large 
potatoes than any other seed Catalogue free. 
ALF A WHITTINGTON. Marion Station, Md. 
Carman Seed Potatoes 
Carefu'ly selected L. I. stock; 5 bu lots, @1.50, 
10 bu. lots. @1.40, 25 bu. lots. @1.30. 50 bu. lots, 
@1.25. For larger lots, prices on application. 
J. D. BROWN, Box 115, Bridgehampton, L 1., N.Y. 
SEEDS 
THEILMANN’S—The Seedmen—carry a full line of Garden 
and Field Seeds. Onion Seed a specialty. Write to-day for 
their catalog and Special PriceB. 
IHJi THKILMANN SEED CO,, - Erie, Pa. 
Peep o’ Day Sweet Corn 
1 1 he earliest and sweetest corn ever introduced. A good 
money-maker. Wonderfully productive Can be planted 
close and yields two to five ears to the stalk 
By mail postpaid, | 5c pkt; 25c pint; 45c quart. 
Ps ew varieties of beets, celery, potatoes, muskmelonsand 
watermelons and also shown by actual photographs in our 
“Garden and Farm Manual”—Free 
Get our Illustrated Poultry Supply Book, too. 
JOHNSON & STOKES Dept R 
“ Seedsmen to th-J Money-Makers " 
217-219 nark* Street, Philadelphia 
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