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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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SEEDS, SEEDS 
OUR HEW DESCKIPTITE 
Priced Catalope of Seeds, iucMii VeptaWe, Field, Pieter & Tree Seeds, 
WILL I£E MAILED FREE TO ALL APPLICANTS. 
J. M. T1I4M1I58JR.M Sc €©.. 1*1 John Street, New York. 
Weclaim our SEEDS are unsurpassed in tbe world, and 
desire that a 1 shall give thorn a trial to test their great superi¬ 
ority, feeling sure of making a permanent customer of 
every purchaser, and to introduce them into thousands of 
new homes, we will send pifflll El ASr amounting at our 
free by mail on receipt cf l/Bu LRU) ILLfrtil regular prices to 
S2.55, KT-OUK. SPECIAL INTllODUCTION BOX 
OF SEEDS, making a Complete Family Vegetable Gar¬ 
den, containing large size packets of all 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, Siceet Icing —Water, 
and Golden Gem— Musk; 2 Superior New Onions, Southport Yellow 
Globe, Extra Early Fed ; New Perfect GemSquash ; WonderfulNew 
Tomato, Early May-flower; Earnest known Sweet Corn, Marble- 
head * A — it T >— . r- nr. *> tyl -•> _ j »-* -*-i 
; Golden Globe Summer Radish; California Mammoth Winter Radish; Improved Long Orange Carrot, 
\Sugar Parsnip ; Mammoth Tours Pumpkin ; Improved Green Prolific Cucumber; Dong While Salsify; New 
\Thick Leaved Spinach; Earliest Snow Rail Turnip. IP?" Send a jgl BII.X, or postage stamps in an 
(ordinary letter, and you will receive the box by return mail, and if not satisfied, we will return yourl 
[money. 3 Complete Boxes mailed for only S2.50. With each Box we 6end a PRESENT ofl 
|(lower seeds for your wife, mother, or daughter. This unparalleled cli'er should be taken advantage 
|of at once, as we make it solely to extend our trade. Our seeds speak their own praise. We sup- 
[plied last year over 15,000 New Customers, ard have received hundreds of unsolicited letters,! 
(saying they were the best ever planted. Our newlllustrated Catalogue sent free to any address 1 
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[anting, «.... _ _ 
iveral thousand varieties, FREE, 
HIRAti® SSBLEY&CO. Rochester, N.Y., Chicago, 
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---licads which 
are"shown in the accompanying engraving* 
It is. of course, rather premature to assume 
that from its.great earliness, the Etampcs 
will take a leading place as an early variety 
foi market purposes, but from what we have 
seen of it we belicv4ffliat.it.will proveunost 
valuable ami desirable. 
I»kt. 1)5c.; Oz. 75c.; 1-4 lb. »g.50. 
able feature, 
however. Is 
that. It will 
withstana'drouth and hcat7ana remain' Ion- 
r e r in head, than any other variety. This 
ias fully proven during the unexampled .dry 
seasons of 1881-82/ 
jUit-jOc., Oz. 3a..t81.S5. 
ATI wTio wereTortunate enough to taste this 
variety at. our place the past summer. 
-e.in pronouncing it of most, delicious 
flavor.' It .is an early sort, very productive, 
and at good size, while the flesh is> very 
t'.iick, sweet and juicy, and oCuasurpasscd 
flavor*, Pocket, 50 cente* 
KKW EWAU1- I‘EA, ** A31EU1CANIVOKDEB." 
"A large supply of this enables us to o flier It 
this year at as low prices as many of the 
older varieties are sold at. American Won¬ 
der is one of the-earliest wrinkled peas In 
cultivation, of tire finest quality, and exceed¬ 
ingly productive. Jt is very compact and 
PERFECT GEM SQUASH. 
Equally desirable,as - a summer or winter 
variety—yield very'large, as many as 24 
squashes being produced on a single vine. 
The squashes arc from 4 to 6 inches jn diam. 
eter, of a creamy white, and witn a thin, 
smoothed 1*. The flesh cookedi* dry, sweet. 
And rich in 
flavor, and 
f r e‘c from 
strong taste 
peculiar to 
£omc sorts. 
'A splendid 
'keeper in a 
c 001, dry 
room, free 
from ..frost 
they niay be 
had .until 
EW, 
Or.’ 80c.; 
^ 1.41b. *1. 
Extra Early PEUPLE TOl’ Jll'KlUI TCU.VIP. 
From ourexpericncc with it for two seasons 
we think that it must take the same place 
among turnips, that the Egyptian variety 
docs among the beet family; that of being 
the earliest of all. Wc have seen whole fields 
of-the Munich Turnip, that have been fit to 
poll at too weeks bctaic any- ci'.ier 
,So:t. ' The 
variety lias 
A purplish 
fcp, flesh 
snow white 
att'ai ns a 
|and is of 
excellent * 
flavor.? 
very tough, thin rind, will make it roost 
valuable for shipping purposes. 
Pit* 15c; Or. GOc.; 1.41b. ff l.HO. 
HE IF EXTRA EARLY 
TEA* u HENDERSON! 1 } 
FIESTL OF ALU’* 
A most valuable pe.l 
for the market or fam¬ 
ily garden* comparative! 
trials having shown it to» 
be earlier than* Jic Phila¬ 
delphia Extra- Early; 
Caractacus,. and, other 
varieties of. this: class.- 
pods of good size, well 
filled with peas of excel¬ 
lent flavor.’ A prodigous! 
hearer, and, ripens up * 
thoroughly as not to re¬ 
quire more than two pick— 
ings to clean off the crop. 
In this and in itscarli- 
ncss Cbnsists its great 
value. .Packet* loe.; 
Q’J3rt.?0c. fPoHtpnid 
Iff)®*' Any of tMie above Novelties sent free TiyTHait on receipt of price, or ONE PACKET of :] 
^ EACH of the COLLECTION OF “12 NEW AND SCARCE VEGETABLES,” MAILED M 
| FOR. Sx. 50 . For other New and Fine VEGETABLES, FLOWERS and FRUITS, see our Catalogue 
! of •* EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN/* sent free ’ on application. When possible 
make remittances from, this advertisement, *■ tsy Post ©dice Order m QS* 3Lcs,latetCll 
although small amounts may be Bent in postage stamps. 
PETER HENDERSON &CO., 35 ©ortlandt St. 
Hound Copies of Volume 41, (for 1882), are 
now ready. They are in the uniform style, cloth, with 
gilt backs. Price at the office, 82. If sent by mail, 
82.30. We can usually supply, at the same rate, any of 
the 26 previous volumes, or from volume 16 to 41, in¬ 
clusive. Any ten or more volumes, in one lot, will be 
supplied at the office for $1.75 each; or be forwarded by 
mail or express, carriage prepaid, for £2 each. 
Clubs can at any time be increased by remitting for 
eacli addition, the price paid by the original members; 
cr a small club may be made a larger one at reduced rates, 
thus: One having sent 5 subscribers ail'd $6, may after¬ 
wards send 5 names more and $4, making 10 subscribers 
for $10.00; and so for any of the other club rates. 
A Cotton Exhibition.— In the United States 
Senate, a Bill is pending to encourage the holding of an 
exhibition in 18S4, to be called ” The World’s Industrial 
and Cotton Centennial Exposition.” It is proposed to 
bring together samples of the cotton growth of the world. 
It will be a grand opportunity for the United States to 
exhibit its supremacy in the production of this plant. 
Poor Tea. —There enters into the importations of 
tea to this country a large amount of adulterated, ex¬ 
hausted, and otherwise impoverished materia). English 
law strictly prohibits the introduction of such tea into 
Great Britain, and in 18S1, more than 44,000 packages, 
forbidden entry there, were exported, the most of then* 
to the United States. Among these bogus teas are those 
that have been already steeped and used, and then 
worked over for a second use. This is a matter of great 
interest to all lea drinkers, a legion among the farmers, 
and they will approve the legislation proposed in Con¬ 
gress to exclude those abominable combinations. , 
Sowing Flower Seeds in tlie House.— 
“ W. M. B.,” South Pittsburgh, Pa., sends us the follow¬ 
ing timely directions: If one wishes to raise greenhouse 
seeds, such as fuchsia, Chinese primrose, carnation, cin¬ 
eraria, pelargonium, and even calceolaria, into green¬ 
house seedlings, and has no greenhouse, he may sow 
them in a box, say three inches deep, and as large as 
required, prepared as follows: First, fill the box an 
inch deep with gravel, or coarse lumps sifted from fiuer 
soil; on this place a mixture of washed sand with half 
as much leaf mould. Press the surface smooth, water, 
and sow the seed as thinly as possible. Cut a piece of 
old flannel to fit the inside of the box, and wring it out 
of water, and place it over the seeds and soil. Place a 
pane of glass over the top of the box, and stand the 
whole under the kitchen stove. When the plants are 
up, thin with a sharp-pointed pair of scissors, and, when 
large enough to handle, transplant them to another box. 
The soil in this box should consist of sand, mould, and 
manure, in equal parts; the manure should be so old and. 
rotten as to have lost all fibre. Put the plants an inch 
apart, and treat according to their various habits. To 
grow canna seeds, pour over them water that is really 
boiling, and sow in a warm hill in the ground; they will 
come up like corn. 
Trapping tlie Squash-bug. — “ S. B. H.,” 
East Bridgewater, Mass., writes us that the best remedy 
he has employed for Squash-bugs is shingles. He places 
a shingle flat upon the soil near the plant, squash, 
melon, etc., and examines it early in the morning. At 
first he has found from 10 to 30 squash-bugs under each 
shingle. After a few days scarcely a hug could be found. 
E. S. Coins—Composition and Weight.— 
Our gold and silver coinsare just nine-tenths pure metal, 
with ten per cent of alloy, to make them harder and 
more durable. The alloy in gold coin is partly silver and 
partly copper. One-tenth of silver coins is copper. A 
gold dollar weighs 25 s /i 0 grains. The eagle (J10) weighs 
25) grains, or about 40 grains less than a half-ounce,, 
avoirdupois. The ” trade dollar ” (silver), weighs 420 
grains, or 17$ grains less than an ounce. Half and 
quarter dollars and dimes weigh proportionally less to 
prevent their being melted. Half-dollars weigh 192 
grains; quarter dollars, 96 grains; climes, about 384 
grains. The new legal tender dollar, well called the' 
“ buzzard dollar,” weighs only 4121 grains. Nickel Sand 
3-ceut pieces are one part nickel and three parts copper. 
The 5-cent nickel weighs 77 grains ; the 3-cent nickel, 
30 grains. The small copper cents weigh 48 grains; they 
contain 5 per cent of tin and zinc. 
