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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[January, 
A practical farmer says of tlie “ACME” 
Pulverizing Harrow, Clod Crusher & Leveler, 
“Have worked the ‘ACME’ Pulverizing 
Harrow, Clod Crusher & Leveler on flat 
ground plowed last fall, which had not been 
' plowed for thirty years. Going over it both 
ways, the ‘ACME’ cut it up like an ash- 
heap.” (See page 37 this paper.) 
For 1883 is an Elegant Book of 150 Pages, 3 
Colored Plates ofFlowers and Vegetables, and 
more than 1000 Illustrations of the choicest 
Flowers, Plants, and Vegetables, and Directions for grow¬ 
ing. It is handsome enough for the Center Table ora Holi¬ 
day Present. Send on your name and Post-Office address, 
with 10 cents, and I will send you a copy, postage paid. This 
is not a quarter of its cost. It is printed in both English and 
German. If you afterwards order seeds deduct the 10 cents. 
Vick’s Seeds are tlie Best in tlie World ! 
The Floral Guide will tell how to get and grow them. 
Vick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden, 175 
Pages, 0 Colored Plates, 50) Engravings. For 50 cents in 
paper covers; $1.00 in elegant cloth. In German or English. 
Vick’s Illustrated Monthly Magnzine— 32 Pages, 
a Colored Plate in every number and many tine Engravings. 
Price $1.25 a year; Five Copies for $5.00. Specimen Numbers 
sent for 10 cents; 3 trial copies for 25 cents. 
James Vick, * 
ROCHESTER, N. T. 
SEEDS 
msmm northern grown mmm 
forwarded to any part of the United States, duty paid. 
My Illustrated Catalogue for 1883, of 
==■ FIELD, GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS — 
■will be mailed free to all intending purchasers upon appli¬ 
cation. The attention of Stock-raisers and Dairymen is 
directed to my mixed CLOVERS and GRASSES for 
PERMANENT PASTURE. 
WM. RENNIE, Seedsman, Toronto, Canada. 
THE GOLDEN P00KLIM0T0H GRAPE. 
•other varieties. Warranted true to name. 1 have 
not the largest Stock in America, hut while they last 
they will be sold low. Orders to be sent by mail receive 
strict attention. Also Wholesale Orders. Price Lists free. 
EVERETT BROWN, BluffiPoint P. O., Yates Co., N. Y. 
SPLENDID POT PLANTS, specially prepared for 
’House Culture and Winter Bloom- Delivered safely 
bv mall, postpaid, at all post offices 5 splendid varieties, your 
•Choice, all labeled, for si; |2for$2; 19 for S3: 26forS4; 
3S for S5; 75 for SIO; IOO for SI3. "eClVEa Hand¬ 
some Present of Choice and Valuable ROSES Free, 
with every order. Our NEW CUIDE, a complete Treatise 
cm the Hose, 70 pp. elegantly illustrated—free to all. 
„ THE DINCEE & CONARD CO. „ „ 
■Rcre 0 rowers, west Grove, Chester Co.,Pa, 
AA AAA PLANTS, James Vick, Big Bob. Man- 
yUU.UUU Chester, Bidwell, 20 other kinds; Han9ell 
■-Superb "and other Raspberries ; Early Harvest and other 
Blackberries, Trees, &c. &c. Stock well packed. True to 
name, Price Low. Catalogue free. J. W. HALL, Marion,Md. 
DESCRIPTIVE ILLUSTRATED NUR¬ 
SERY CATALOGUE, and Guide for the Fruit 
and Ornamental Planter, sent to all applicants. 
WM. H. MOON, Morrisville, Pa. 
A 
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umson Nurseries. 
100,000 Peach Trees 
Grown from Tennessee Natural Seed and 
worked with Best Sorts.-Choice Small 
Fruits.—75 Acres of Ornnmental Trees 
and Shrubs, including Rhododendrons, 
Azalias, Kalmia, Japanese Maples, etc. 
etc. Catalogues Free. 
B. B. HANCE, Agent, Red Bank, N.J. 
P EACH TREES a specialty. Apple, Plum, Small 
Fruits, &c. Price List free. Mention this paper. 
R. S. JOHNSTON, Stockley, Del. 
i, Keene, I 
f you love Rare Flowers, 
.hoicest only , address ELLIS 
. It will astonish and please. Free. 
$2.70 FOR $1.00. 
BUIST’S PRIZE-MEDAL SEEDS. 
For fifty-five years we have been growers of Garden Seeds, and the name of 
,BIJIST has become a guarantee of reliability. Our seeds stand unrivalled for their 
great purity, superior growth and quality. To still further increase their popularity 
and to place them in the hands of every owner of a t-■- 1 -—-- - 
are not sold, We Will !' 
BUIST’S PRIZE ~ 
Bean (stringless). New Golucu crioue xnpon ana new wmte King Onion 
(very large, of mild flavor). New Golden Perfection aDd Apple-flavor Radish 
Buist's Improved Late Fiat Dutch, and Drumhead Cabbage ifinest, and 
largest leading varieties in the world). Early Jersey, Wakefield, and Winning- 
stadt Cabbage [finest early sorts>. New German Citron and Cuban Queen 
Watermelon. Buist’s Extra Early Red Turnip and Egyptian Beet. Black- 
seeded Simpson and Early Cabbage-head Lettuce. Perfection White Spine 
Cucumber, New Red-top Globe Turnip. Buist’s New Mammoth Salsify and 
Dwarf Okra, Mammoth White Solid Celery, Danver’s Half-long Carrots, and 
Extra Curled Spinach. * 
We Guarantee These Assortments will Reach You. 
We Guarantee Their Quality will Please You. 
FLOWER SEEDS.— Choice Collection of 10 Beautiful Summer-blooming Varieties,mailed on receipt of 30 cents 
Stamps taken as cash. r 
Buist’s Garden Manual, a valuable work of 192 pages, on the Cultivation of Vegetables and Flowers, with prices by the 
ounce, pound, or bushel, mailed free to all purenasers. Wholesale prices mailed dealers on application. Address 
_ ROB E RT BU IST, JR„ SEED GROWER, Philadelphia, Pa. 
ly Pea (earliest ever produced). Dwarf Ivory-pod 
New Golden Globe Tripoli and New White King O 
a'j.TT A n A -V’T'f? B’ that every one who plants seeds or cultivates the soil shall be interested in our 
** -St *-1 H ‘ description of the Planet Jr. Farm and Garden Implements, and 
Chapter on the proper cultivation of crops. Send us your address and ten neighbors'most interested in Farming and 
Gardening, and we will send it free. Contains 32 pages and 41 Illustrations. 
S. L. ALLEN & CO., 127 and 129 Catharine St., Philadelphia. 
S2.35 for Sf.Bfl 
We claim our Seeds are Unsurpassed in the World, and desire 
that every reader of the American Agriculturist shall give them a trial, to 
test their great superiority, feeling sure of making a permanent 
customer of every purchaser, and to introduce them into thousands 
_of new homes, we will send free by mail, on receipt of 81.00 [about 
cost of growing and papering), and amounting at our regular prices to 
82.35, our Special Introduction Rox of Seeds, makiug a Complete Family Vegetable Garden, 
containing large size packets of ail the best, new, and standard varieties, as follows: 3 remarkable new 
Cabbages, Royal German Drumhead , Earliest Favorite Savoy, Early Cannon Ball; 3 Delicious New Melons, 
Cuban Queen, Sweet Icing Water, Golden Gem Musk; 2 Superior Cnions, Southport Yellow Globe, Extra Early 
Red ; New Squa9h, Perfect Gem; Wonderful New Tomato, Early Mayflower; Farliest Known Sweet Corn, 
Marblehead; American Wonder Pea, Cream Wax Bean, Phila. Prize Lettuce, Bastian’s Extra Early Blood 
Turnip Beet, Champion Moss Curled Parsley, Early French Breakfast Badish, Golden Globe Summer Radish, 
California Mammoth Winter Badish, Improved Long Oranae Carrot, Sugar Parsnip, Mammoth Tours Pump¬ 
kin, Improved Early White Spine Cucumber, Earliest Snow Ball Turnip. This unparalleled offer should be 
taken advantage of at once. Send $1.00 bill or postage stamps in an ordinary letter, and vou will receive the 
Box by return mail, and if not satisfactory, we will return your money. What can be fairer? Our Flower 
Collection, comprising 10 packets of the choicest Flower Seeds, sent post-paid on receipt of 25c. 5 Collec¬ 
tions, $1.00. 
We warrant all our Seeds strictly fresh and genuine. We supplied, the past year, over 15,000 new Cus¬ 
tomers with Seeds, and have received hundreds of unsolicited letters saying they were the best ever planted. 
Our new handsomely illustrated Catalogue, containing much useful information, sent free. 
JOHNSON & STOKES, Seed Growers, 
1114 market Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
S TABLE FOREMAN WANTED.- One accus¬ 
tomed to handling men and taking care of horses. 
Must be temperate and competent to superintend. 
Eighty horses kept. Address, with references and salary 
expected, E. W. RATHBUN, Oswego, N. Y. 
F ARM MANAGER.-For 200 Acres; to be run on 
business principles. Want to develop Shorthorn and 
Jersey Cattle—also Market Gardening. Good location 
in Central Canada. Good place for reliable, competent 
man. Address E. W. RATHBUN, Oswego, N. Y. 
The best Broadcast Seed Sower In the market. A common-sense, labor-saving machine. Sows 
Perfectly all kinds of Grains, Grass Seeds, Plaster, Lime, Snlt, Gunno. Ashes, all the various 
Phosphates—in tnct, everything requiring Broadcasting. Is quickly attached to any Farm Wagon. 
A team walking one mile sows four acres of wheat. 
Read the following from one of the largest wheat farms in Minnesota. 
Minneapolis. August 17th, 1882.—C. W. DORR,-- Dear Sie The Seeder you sent to E. W. Roberts, superintendent of 
my farm, Benson, Minnesota, was tested in sowing grain and grass seeds and in all cases worked perfectly. It Is strongly 
built, and is a very valuable machine on any farm where seeds of any kind are sown broadcast. I wish to add here, that 
the seeds which came from your house were the best we have ever had from any quarter, and we have bought from 
most of the large Seedsmen. Yours Truly, A. G. WILCOX. 
We have hundreds of other equally as good testimonials from all parts of the country from practical farmers, who 
have tested our Seeder. Price 825.00, delivered on board the cars, ready for shipment. 
Manufactured by THE DES MOINES MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 
Mention Agriculturist C. W. DORR. Secretary, Des Moines, Iowa. 
