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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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To open the way for a trial, we make this novel 
offer , and the best yet. For 15 3-Ct. STAMPS 
we will mail the following twelve seed packets of 
mammoth vegetables—the largest and best of 
their class and good for a first premium at any 
Fair, We offer a $35 PRIZE for every success¬ 
ful exhibitor of these vegetables at his State Fair and 
a $10 PRIZE for the same at his County Fair. 
Cuban Queen Water-Melon. handsomest, 
largest (90 lbs) and best ; Giant Roeea Onion, 
have weighed 3^ lbs.; (see Cut); Large Tours 
Pumpkin, has a record of 320 lbs.; Giant 
Bleicli field Cabbage, new. large and certain 
header; Bay View Musk-Melon, mammoth, 
20 to 251bs., but luscious ; Perfection Beet. 
“Simply Perfection "-R. Horticult. Society, Eng. 
Spanish Monstrous Pepper, the largest in 
cultivation; Yard-Long Bean, singularly long 
pocf, 2 to 3 feet; Precursor Tomato, largest, 
first-early ; Stonehend Lettuce, earlier than 
Tennisball ; Giant Stuttgart Radish, large 
radishes in 5 to 8 weeks; Mammoth Squash, im¬ 
mense, have weighed over 200 lbs. —Catalogue 
Price, $1.80; all for 15 8-cent Stamps; 
8 for $1. 
Our Illustrated Catalogue fully describes 
this offer and everything else for the Farm 
or Garden. YOU ought to have it. FREE. 
OTFOur Trial Collection of Ten Packets 
Flower Seeds for 8 3 -CT. STAMPS. 
It is always an agreeable surprise. 
BPfllLA. BROAD-CAST SEEDERS! 
AND FERTILIZERS. 
The No. % hand machine, price, 
$6, sows from 4 to 6 acres per 
hour; No. lj price, $>30 9 from 
10 to 12, at the same time sowing 
far more evenly than by any other 
method; also savea-The Seed. Send for Circular. 
BENSON, MAULE & CO,, 
129 & 131 S. Front St., Phila., Pa. 
—A NEW EARLY POTATO— 
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We take great pleasure in introducing this valuable New 
Extra Early Potato. “EARLY ESSEX.” Circu¬ 
lars giving descriptions and full particulars sent on applica¬ 
tion. (Electrotypes, $2.00 each.) Our ANNUAL CATA¬ 
LOGUE of Garden and Farm Seeds, Agricultural Imple¬ 
ments, etc., ready for mailing January 1st, free to all appli¬ 
cants. New and choice seeds a specialty. Address 
R. I). HAWLEY, Seedsman, 
492 & 498 Main Street, HARTFORD, CT. 
"ttBNB 
II1AL 
. I883.dL—~ 
Will be maUea free to all applicants, and to cus¬ 
tomers of last year without ordering it. It contains 
about 175 pages, 600 illustrations, prices, aeflirato 
descriptions and valuable directions for planting 
1500 varieties of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, 
Plants, Fruit Trees, etc. Invaluable to all, espec¬ 
ially to Market Gardeners. Send for it! 
D. M. FERRY & CO. Detroit Mich. 
JOHN SAUL’S 
CATALOGUE of New, Rare, and Beautiful Plants for 
1883. will be readv in February with a colored plate. 
It is full in really good and beautiful plants, as well as all 
the novelties of merit. 
The rich collection of fine Foliage, and other Greenhouse 
and Hothouse Plants, are well grown, and at low prices. 
Free to all my customers ; to others, 10 cts; or a plain 
copy gratis. Catalogues of Seeds. Roses, Orchids, Fruits, 
etc., gratis. JOHN SAUL, Washington, D .C. 
BURPEE’S 
NOW OFFERED FOR TflE FIRST TIME. 
THE HEAVIEST OATS KNOWN. 
ACTUAL WEIGHT THIS YEAR OVER 
60 POUNDS PER LEVEL BUSHEL. 
Tie Handsomest Oats Eier Seen, 
A REAL BOON TO FARMERS. 
It is with a great deal of pleasure that we invite the attention of all pro¬ 
gressive Farmers and Planters to a new variety of Oats, not simply becausa 
they are new, but because they are of surpassingly fine quality. 
THE WELCOME OATS 
Are by all odds the heaviest, handsomest, and will undoubtedly every¬ 
where prove the most productive variety of Oats known. They are/ar 
ahead of the Belgian, and that is saying a great deal, as there are no other 
Oats we know of that can equal the 'White Belgian. The Welcome Oats now 
in our warehouse are the admiration of all visitors—every one pronouncing 
them the finest Oats ever seen. They weigh over fifty pounds per level 
bushel; the grain is very large and handsome, very plump and full, with 
thin, white, close-fitting husk. In appearance and in handling them, they 
seem more like extra large, plump grains of white wheat. A gentleman of con¬ 
siderable experience, on examining samples of these Oats, said to us that he 
would sooner have one bushel of them for feeding than two bushels of nearly 
any other Oats he had ever seen. For the manufacture of Oatmeal they are 
far superior to all other varieties. The Welcome Oats stool heavily, with 
strong, straight straw, of good height, always standing up well, and crowned 
with long, beautiful branching, well -filled heads; with good cultivation they 
will yield 80 to 135 legal bushels per acre; this may seem almost beyond belief, 
but will be easily understood when it is considered that each measured bushel 
weighs more than one and one- half bushels of any ordinary Outs. 
We have for some years made a specialty of Seed Oats. We are familiar 
with all the newer varieties, and we pronounce the Welcome Oats as the finest 
we have ever seen. We know that every farmer on receipt of a sample will 
endorse our opinion. 
PRICE OF WELCOME OATS.— 25 cts. per packet of two ounces. 
Five 2-oz. pkts. for 81.00, by mail, postpaid, to any address. In each packet 
a card, bearing our fac-simile signature, is enclosed, which entitles the pur¬ 
chaser to compete for 
$155.00 IN CASH PRIZES. 
We have such umlimited confidence in the great superiority of the New 
Welcome Oats over any and all other varieties, that we desire to have 
careful trials made of them in everv section of the country. In order to stimu¬ 
late good cultivation of this splendid new variety of Oats, we offer the following 
liberal cash prizes $100.00 for the largest quantities of Oats 
raised from one package of seed. First prize, $50.00 Cash ; second prize, 
$25.00 Cash ; third prize, $15.00 ; fourth prize, $10.00. 
$55.00 for the Six Largest and Best Heads of Welcome Oats sent to 
us this year:—First Prize, $20.00; Second Prize, $15.00; Third and Fourth 
^Prizes, $10.00each. COMPETITION OPEN TO ALL who purchase 
one or more twenty-five cent packages of the Welcome Oats. Each package 
contains two ounces of seed, and all the p ackages are carefully put up, to insure 
fair competition. All reports and all heads competing for the premiums must 
be received by us not later than October 20th, 1883. The prizes will be paid 
promptly on the first of November, 1883. Of course, those who desire to do so, 
can plant more than one package of the Oats; but in such cases each lot of Seed 
must be kept separately, and one of our Competition Cards returned to us 
with each report. WONDERFUL RESULTS may surely be expected if 
fair treatment is given the Welcome Oats. We shall expect our friends to 
6end us some splendid heads, which wo will have photographed. Aside from 
the money value of the prizes ofFered, we are confident that those who are 
successful in carrying off one or more prizes can justly be proud of the honor 
—as the reports will be published and widely circulated. 
There is sure to be an immense d craand for Seed next year, and for years 
to come. Farmers who get Seed this season will be sure to realize a handsomo 
price for all the Welcome Oats raised for several years, until their neighbors 
get supplied. Every one who sees these Oats will want them. 
A fgp fa H Efe AS? E* IE? RS V Any one who sends us 25 Cts. for 
I"1ff™ i EbDY ■ one package, or $1.00 for five 
packages of Welcome Oats, and does not admit, on examination, that these are 
the best Oats ever seen, can return them and we will refund the price 
paid. The Editor of The American Agriculturist has samples of Bur¬ 
pee’s New Welcome Oats. 
SEND ORDERS EARLY 
AND ASK FOH 
Purpee’s Farm Annual for 1883. 
Nearly 100 pages, beautifully Illustrated and describes the finest stock of 
Field and Garden Seeds, including novelties of real merit. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & 00. 
Kos. 475 & 477 north Fifth Street, and 
nos. 476 & 478 York Avenue, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
