AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
91 
1883.] 
Airienltnral Implements 
AND FERTILISERS 
In great variety for the 
FARM AND GARDEN. 
Send for catalogue. Address, 
R. H. ALliEN & CO- 
(Established 1848.) P. O. Box 376, New York City. 
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SPECIAL PRICE LIST, 
Free to Market Gardeners only. Our annual Illustrated 
General Catalogue of Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, Tools, etc., 
Free. 
A. D. COWAN ife CO., Seedsmen, 
114 Chambers St., N. Y. 
RELIABLE SEEDS 
•of the very best strains for MARKET GARDENERS, 
FARMERS, FLORISTS, and FAMILY GARDENS. Seeds 
.sent by mail all over the country, and guaranteed to reach 
purchasers. Catalogues free on application. 
HOVEY & COMPANY, 
Importers and Wholesale and Retail Dealers In 
GARDEN, FLOWER, AND AGRICULTURAL SEEDS, 
16 South Market St., Boston, Mass. 
For 1883 is an Elegant Book of 150 Pages, 3 
Colored Plates ot Flowers 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 or a 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 Florae Guide will tell how to get and grow them. 
Vick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden, 175 
Pages, 6 Colored Plates, 50 1 Engravings. For 50 cents in 
paper covers; $1.00 in elegant cloth. In German or English. 
Vick’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine—32 Pages, 
•a Colored Plate in every number and many fine Engravings. 
Price $1.25 a year; Five Copies for $5.00. Specimen Numbers 
.sent for 10 cents; 3 trial copies for 25 cents. 
James Tick, 
Rochester, N.Y. 
RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER, heads 10 to 15 inches In di¬ 
ameter* excellent food for poultry, package 15e 0 HI» 
WASSEE CORN, the largest grain, smallest cob, and 
most productive variety in the world, Pkg. 25c. 
MAMMOTH CABBAGE,20 to 50 lbs. each, Pkg. 25c. 
I MAMMOTH PUMPKIN, have been grown to weigh 
150 lbs., Package, 25c. SNAKE CUCUMBER,'2 to 
J 0 feet in length, coils up like a snake, Pkg. 25c= 
I SANGUINEUS, a tropical-looking plant, 8 ft. high, 
] covered with bright red fruit, Pkg. 25c. CHOICE 
GARDEN SEEDS, 10c. per package. Asparagus {Con- 
j over's Colossal ), Beet ( Early Blood), Bean ( Golden 
I Wax), Sweet Corn {Triumph), Carrot ( Long Orange), 
I Cress {Curled), Cucumber, ( Green Cluster), Lettuce 
j {Silesia), Musk Melon {Nutmeg), Watermelon {Mt. 
Sweet), Pepper {Sweet Spanish ), Parsnip {Long 
White), Radish (Scarlet), Spinach ( Round Leaved), 
Tomato {Acme), Turnip {White Dutch). SELECT 
FLOWER SEEDS, 10c. per packages Petunia, Japan 
Coxcomb, Perilla Sweet William, Portulacca, Phlox 
Drummond!, Flowering Peas, Gilia, Fragrant Candy- 
I tuft, Aeroclimum, Marigold, and Double Sinaia. 
A SPLENDID OFFER! _ 
, I will send the above superb collection (34 pkgs. re- 
I tail price $4.20). New, choice seeds that WILL GROW, 
I and the Practical Farm Journal, a neat 8-page pub- 
| liration, for one year, all for $1 § club of four $3. This 
j is the largest and choicest collection of seeds ever put 
I up in thi3 country for the money, the postage costing 
I 15c. Orders filled promptly. Remit by Registered 
I Letter, or P. 0. Order on Lyons, N. ¥. Be sure and 
I mention this paper. Address at once, 
1 FRANK FINCH, Clyde, Wayne Co., N. Y. 
“Mr. Finch is perfectly reliable.” 
“All who favor him with their orders will be honest' 
r and fairly dealt with.”—J. W. Briggs , P„ M. 
MATTHEWS’ fl.ll 
The Standard of America. 
Admitted by leading Seedsmen | 
and Market Gardeners every¬ 
where to he the most perfect and 
reliable drill in use. Send for 
.circular. Manufactured only by 
EVERETT & SMALL., Boston, Mass. 
FRUIT TREES. ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
SHAPE VINES. PLANTS AND BULBS. 
SMALL FRUITS. SHRUBS AMO ROSES. 
An immense stock. Splendid Assortment. Warranted true. Remarkably cheap—40 CHOICE 
j jjg. .g Send for Catalogue free. 28th year. 400 Acres. 18 Greenhouses. Address 
THE STORKS <fc MARK ISON CO.. Painesville,Lake Co..06 
alt , w „«»c. srstE( 
The best Broadcast Seed Sower in the market. A common-sense, labor-saving machine. Sows 
perfectly all kinds of Grains, Grass Seeds, Plaster, Lime, Salt, Guano. Ashes, all tlie various 
Phosphates—in tact, 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 Sir 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, ana 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 hoard the cars, ready for shipment, 
Manufactured by THE OES MQSNES MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 
Mention Agriculturist. C. W. DORR, Secretary, Des Moines, Iowa, 
Forthe MERCHANT on our New Plan 
For the MARKET GARDENER 
For the PRIVATE FAMILY 
CrOWn foy onrcalupg on our ow n Farms 
SEEDS 
SEEDS 
Handsome Illustrated Catalogue and Rural Register FREE TO ALL. 
MERCHANTS, SEND US YOUR BUSINESS CAROS FOR TRADE LIST. 
DAVID LANDRETH&SONS.SEED GROWERS, PHILADELPHIA 
Great Northern and Southern Nursery. 
Catalogues gratis.— Showing how and what to plant, 
with much valuable information. My stock is full and un¬ 
usually fine. A full line of Peaches and extra long keeping 
Apples, Kelfer and Leconte Fears, Japan Persimmons, 
Reas' Mammoth and Champion Quince, Small Fruits, Orna¬ 
mental Trees, and ail stock usually found in a first-class 
Nursery. Prices low for reliable stock. 
RANDOLPH PETERS, Wilmington, Delaware. 
FOR SPRING, 1883. 
A general assortment of Nursery Stock, Evergreens, 50 
varieties of Peach, Small Fruits, Tuberose Bulbs, Aspara¬ 
gus Roots, Eulalia, Japan, and Zebrina, and Erianthus Ra- 
vennoe. Send for circular. 
H. M. ENGLE tfc SON, Nurserymen, 
Marietta, Pa. 
FOR 
75,000 
40,000 
100,000 
SALE. 
SOUHEGAJV RASPBERRY 
PLANTS, 
MANCHESTER STRAWBERRY 
PLANTS. 
PEACH TREES, and a gen¬ 
eral assortment of other fine 
Nursery Stock. Special rates of¬ 
fered. Address, STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS, 
New Canaan, Ct. 
TgnmsQccnQ 
^nmottUo 
For Home Gardens. Our Il¬ 
lustrated Garden Manual is 
,a beautiful book given away to all. 
Send for it and examine our 
prices and premium list . MAR" 
BCET GARDINERS write 
at once for our wholesale 
price-list. Sent FREEa 
' «I. B. ROOT «fe CO., 
ROCKFORD, ILl*’ 
Plants of Best Quality. 
Warranted true to name. 
Lowest Priees,and 
iLargest Assortment of 
old and new varieties. At 
dozen rates, free by mall. 
Special attention called 
to Promising Novelties* Send for Price-List. Address, 
BUSH & SON MEISSNER, 
BUSHBERG, Jefferson Co., Mo. 
GRAPES 
E.P. ROE’S 
SMALL FRUITS. GRAPE VINES. 
Illustrated Descrip¬ 
tive Catalogue is 
now ready. One of 
the largest and fin¬ 
est stocks ever 
grown in this coun¬ 
try. Prices very 
reasonable. All the leading novelties a specialty. Cata¬ 
logue free. Address, 
E. P. ROE, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
500,000 MANCHESTER 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS, 
BY THE ORIGINATOR, 
at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES for spring of 
’83. BUY at FOUNTAIN HEAD, and get tho 
PURE. Averages twice as large as tlie Wilson, and 
yields twice as many quarts per acre. Is an excellent ship¬ 
per, very ATTRACTIVE In appearance, of EXCEL¬ 
LENT flavor, and retains its color and flavor to a remark¬ 
able degree after being picked. Circulars free. 
J. BATTEY, Manchester, N. J. 
MALLFRUITS 
CARNATIONS 
ROSESand PANSIES 
My catalogne gives full instructions for 
culture, describes the new varieties, offers Plants at 
reasonable prices G.S.WALES Rochester 
and is free to all. I 
t NewYork. 
SMALL FRUITS. 
Good plants, well packed, promptly delivered. We 
ask a trial order to compare our stock and method of 
doing business with other firms. 
COMBINED CATALOGUE. 
Fruits, Flowers, Bulbs and Seeds. 
Our stock is complete. Combines all the novelties 
advertised as specialties by the different dealers. It 
will pay .to get our catalogue before ordering. 
V. H. HALL0CK, SON & THORPE, Queens, N. Y. 
PEAR SEEDLINGS 
For prices, inquire of C. H. D ARROW, Geneva, N. Y. 
