1883.] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
139 
HAVE YOU A 
GARDEN? 
IF YOU HAVE YOU WILL NEED 
SEEDS 
and will wantTHEBEST at the leastmoney. 
Then our Catalogue will surprise you, not 
because it contains 1,500 varieties, embrac¬ 
ing everything good, both old and new (all 
guaranteed as represented) and 300 il¬ 
lustrations, but because no matter where you 
have been dealing it will surely pay to buy 
of us. It costs but the trouble of sending 
us your address on a postal card, and you 
OUGHT TO HAVE IT. “§3® 
BENSON, MAULE & CO. 
129 & 131 South Front St., Philadelphia. 
SAVE YOUR CLOVER SEEdT 
THE PHILADELPHIA 
BROADCAST 
Slip SOWER. 
Sows all Grain and Grass Seeds. 
Witti our hand machine 4 to 6 acres 
...jS can readily be sown by the most Inex- 
perienced man or boy, far more evenly 
than by hand or any other method. 
>Vy Saves time, money, and seed. Price 
only $<». Send fo'r our new Circular. 
'0\ BENSON, IHAULE & CO., 
Sole Manufacturers, 
and 131 South Front St.* 
Philadelphia. * 
• RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER, heads 10 to 15 Inches in dl- 
I anieter, excellent food for poultry, package 15c. III- 
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. 
MAMMOTH PUMPKIN, have been grown to weigh 
150 lbs., Package, 25c. SNAKE CUCUMBER, 2 to 
6 feet In length, coils np like ft snake, Pkg. 25c. 
SANGUINEUS, a tropical-looking plant, 8 ft. high, 
covered with bright red fruit, Pkg. 25c. CHOICE 
GARDEN SEEDS, 10c. per package. Asparagus ( Con¬ 
over's Colossal) , Beet ( Early Blood), Bean ( Golden 
* Wax), Sweet Corn (Triumph), Carrot ( Long Orange ), 
Cress {Curled), Cucumber, ( Green Cluster ), Lettuce 
(Silesia), Musk Melon (Nutmeg), Watermelon (Alt. 
I Sweet), Pepper (Sweet Spanish), Parsnip (Long 
I White), Radish (Scarlet), Spinach (Round Leaved), 
I Tomato (Acme), Turnip (White Butch). SELECT 
| FLOWER SEEDS, 10c. per package: Petunia, Japan 
Coxcomb, Perlllft Sweet William, Portulacca, Phlox 
Drnmmondi, Flowering Peas, Gilia, Fragrant Candy¬ 
tuft, Acroclinium, Marigold, and Double Zinnia. 
A SPLENDID OFFER! 
I will send the above superb collection (34 pkgs. re¬ 
tail price $4.20). New, choice seeds that WILL GROW, 
and Iho Practical Farm Journal, a neat 8-page pub¬ 
lication, for one year, all for $1; club of four $3. This 
is the largest and choicest collection of seeds ever put 
up in this country for the money, the postage costing 
I loc. Orders filled promptly. Remit by Registered 
I Letter, or P. 0. Order on Lyons, N. Y. Be sure and 
I mention this paper. Address at once, 
1 FRANK FINCH, Clyde, Wayne Co., N. Y. 
“Mr. Finch is perfectly reliable." 
" ' 1 who favor him with their orders will be honest- 
l fairly dealt with."— I. W. Briggs, P. M. 
15 Packages (your choice) 60 cts. Paper free, all post-paid. 
SEEDS 
Our Large GARDEN GUIDE 
describing Cole's Reliable Seeds 
is Mailed Free to All. We 
offer the Latest Novelties in 
_SEED POTATOES, Corn, Oats 
and Wheat, and the Best Collection of Vegetable, 
Flower, Grass and Tree SEED. Everything is tested. 
Address COLE &. BRO., Seedsmen, PELLA, IOWA* 
SEEDS 
Reliable and 
"Warranted. 
iTry them. Fill 
undersell any 
firm. I will not be 
beaten. I have the 
largest and best I 
stock and 20,000 custom¬ 
ers to prove it. Ladies and 
Gardeners say they never 
fail. All my life a Seed 
Grower. I defy all competi- 
_ tion. I give more extras 
with orders than some firms sell. 1 have 50,000 
beautiful Illustrated Guides FREE. Hundreds 
of costly engravings. Every one pictured,de¬ 
scribed & priced, many pkts as low as 3c. post¬ 
age paid. Cheap as dirt by the ounce, pound, 1 
&c. My beautiful free Guide and Catalogue is if 
worth many dollars. R, H, SHTJMWAY, Rockford, Ill. 
f, flTLEE BURPEE & CO, 
NOW OFFERED 
FOR THE FIRST TIME 
THE HEAVIEST OATS KNOWN! 
BURPEE’S 
ACTUAL WEICHT THIS YEAR OVER! 
|LBS.™ LEVEL BUSHEL 
I HANDSOMES T OAT S EVER SEEN! 
A REAL BOOM TO FARMERS l[ 
With, great pleasure we invite the attention of progressive Far-| 
mers and Planters to a new variety of Oats, not simply because! 
they are new, but because they are of surpassingly fine quality. § 
THE WELCOME ©ATS . 
I will un-H 
5 variety* 
__ # varehouse are I 
the admiration of all visitors—every one pronouncing them the I 
finest Oats ever seen. They weigh over fifty pounds perl 
level bushel; the grain is very large and nandsome, veryfi 
plump and full, with thin, white, close-fitting husk. In appear-* 
ancoandin handling them, they seem more like extra large,* 
plump grains of white wheat. A gentleman of considerable! 
experience, on examining samples of these Oats, said to us that! 
h3 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 varum 
eties. 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 I 
than one and one-half bushels of any ordinary Oats! 
Wo have for some years made a specialty of Seed Oats. Wei 
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. I 
OE OTC per package of two ounces. Five! 
■ SlBWfc i 0 V I ©■ 2-oz. pkts. for $1* by mail, post-1 
paid, to any address. In each packet a card, bearing our! 
facsimile signature, jAa h am gror | gVi gF\> Jk I * T 
is enclosed, which en- fcP H IhZ. 1111 
to compete for the ©I DP PRIZES! 
We have such unlimited 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 every sec-l 
tion of the country. In order to stimulate good cultivation of I 
this splendid new variety of oats, we offer the following liberal! 
cash prizes:- *--<- ■ 
raised from < 
Second Prize, _ 
Prize, $ 10 Cash. 
§>55 for the 8ix Largest and Best Heads of Welcome I 
Oats sent to us this year:—First Prize, $20; Second Prize,! 
$15; Third and Fourth Prizes, $10each. COMPETX-I 
TION OPEN TO ALE who purchase one or more twenty-f 
five cent packages of the Welcome Oats. Each package con-| 
tains two ounces of seed, and all the packages are carefully put! 
up, to insure fair competition. All reports and all heads com-l 
peting for the premiums must be received by us not later than! 
October 20th, 1883. The prizes will be paid promptly ou the! 
1st of November, 1883. WONDERFUL KESU TS may I 
surely beexpected if fair treatment is given the Welcome Oats. V 
We shall expect our friends to send us some splendid heads,! 
which we will have photographed. Aside from the money I 
value of the prizes offered, we are confident that those whe I 
are successful in carrying off one or mor prizes can iustly be I 
proud of the honor— as the reports will be published and! 
widely circulated. I 
There is sure to be an immense demand for Seed next I 
year, and for years to come. Farmers who get seed this season. I 
will be sure to realize a handsome price for all the Welcome ■ 
Oats raised for several years, until their neighbors get supplied. I 
Every one who sees these Oats will want them. 
A iff JL B O D V -Any one w ^° £ e nds us 25 Cts# for I 
n IIX rr bit n one package, or $1 for five pack-1 
I ages of Welcome Oats, and does not admit, on examination, that these are I 
the best Oats ever seen* can return them and we will refund the price. I 
SEND ORDERS EARLY ^XBURPEE’S FARM ANNUAL 
FOR 1883. B3?”Nearly 100 pages,beautifully illustrated, and describes the finest I 
stock of Field and Garden Seeds, including novelties of real merit* | 
475 «fc 477N. 5tU St. & l 
476 «fc 478 Vork Ave., I 
PHILADELPHIA. Pi 
