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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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SEEDS, SEEDS 
OIJR NEW DESCRIPTIVE 
Priced Catalogue of Seeds, Median VeptaWe, Field, Flower & Tree Seeds, 
WILL. SEE MAILED FREE TO ALL APPLICANTS. 
J. M. THOK«l'K\' & CO., 15 John Street, New York. 
DOUBLE YOUR CROP Eft PLANTING CAREFULLV SELECTED SEED OF THE BEST VARIETIES! 
SEEDftORN 
THE IMPROVED LEAMING. Our improved | 
etrain of this variety is the earliest yellow Dent corn I 
in cultivation, ripening in less than 90 days fromfl 
__ planting, surpassing all other varieties in earliness, productiveness, I 
and^2 ne quality ; ears large and handsome, large grain of deep orange color, and small red cob. Yielded the past season I 
without extra cultivation, 186 bushels to the acre; stalks grow to medium height, and always produce two good I 
ears, husks and shells easily, well adapted to all kinds of soil, pronounced by all who have grown it the BEST in cul-1 
tivation. Quart, by mail postpaid, 50c.; by freight or express, bags included, Peek 75c., Bushel $2.50, Bearn 
(2 bushels) $4.50, ft gj fir^VETD fyi A fyS HyfAYlJ Our stock of this celebrated variety c 
10 Bushels $20. Ullbd I bUs l¥iJ4I9IB9iU I H bUKN has been improved each year by I 
careful and skillful selection of the largest, best, formed and earliest ears from the most productive fields. It yielded, I 
the past season, over 100 bushels to the acre. Ears very large, grain bright yellow, stalks large, producing more I 
. .. . ■ Quart, postpaid, 60c., Bushel $2.25, Bog (2 bushels) $4, 10 Bushels $18. [ 
SURPRISE — best and most productive White field corn. Farmers* Favorite. I 
fodder than any other variet 
MAMMOTH WHITE _ _ 
The best golden Dent, early, productive, and suited to lig ht la nd. Each Quart, postpaid, 50e.. Bushel $2.50, Bag I 
(2 bushels) $4.50, 5 bushelsand over $2 per bushel. Also, YELLOW CANADA,WHITE FLINT, BLUNT’S I 
PROLIFIC, MAMMOTH ENSILAGE, andFODDER SUGAR, at Low Prices. W e are Headquarters “ 
for and make the Selection and Improve* IlfUITP DEI OB AM A AVO The largest and hand* 
ment of FARM SEEDS a SPECIALTY. Will I t BtLbBAIl UA I & eomest in cultivation, 
often weighing 45 lbs. to the bushel, and yielding over 100 bushels to the aere. 1 lb 40c., 3 lbs. $1, 
postpaid; Bushel $1.75, 5 bushels $8, 10 bushels $15. RUSSIAN WHITE OATS, vigorous, pro* 
ductive and handsome. 1 lb. 40c., 3 lbs. $1, postpaid; Bushel $1.25, 5 Bushels, $5.50, 10 Bushels, $10. 
WHITE WASHINGTON, CHALLENGE, PROBSTEIR. SURPRISE, EXCELSIOR. CANADIAN, 
MOLD’S ENNOBLED, each per bushel, $1.10; 10bushels and over, $1.00 per bushel. ORDERNOW. Remit 
by P.O.order, registered letter or draft. Our Illustrated Catalogue of Warranted Garden, 
by P.O.order, registered letter or draft. Our Illustrated Catalogue of Warranted Garden 
JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA, PA, 
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, Field and Flower Seeds sen t Free E 
SEED WAREHOUSE, 
1114 MARKET STREET 
Are used by Hundreds of Thousands of the best Cultivators in the world. They are new, sure to grow if decently 
treated, and produce the most gratifying results. They will make the garden bloom and the owner smile. My 
Floral Guide will tell you how to get and grow them. 
VICK’S FLORAL GUIDE for 18S3, is an elegant book of 150 pages. 3 Colored Plates, and 1,000 
HI n strati on s of the choicest Flowers, Plants and Vegetables, with directions for growing. Sent to any one for 10 
Cents. In English or German. If you afterwards order seeds, deduct the 10 Cents. 
VICK’S FLOWER AND VEGETABLE GARDEN, 175 Pages, ti Colored Plates, and 500 Engrav¬ 
ings. For 50 Cents in paper covers: $l.nO in elegant cloth. In German or English. 
VIC OS ILLVSTKATEO MONTHLY MAGAZINE, 32 Pages, a Colored Plate in every number, 
and many fine Engravings of Flowers and Plants. Price $1.25 a year: five copies for $5.00. Specimen numbers 
gent for 10 cents; 3 trial copies for 25 cents. Address, JAMKS VICK, Rochester, N. V. 
OFF WITH THE TARIFF ON SEEDS, 
THE BEST COLLECTION EVER OFFERED. 
16 PACKETS, OR $1.50 WORTH FOR 50 CTS. 
In order to extend our trade, we make the above remarkable 
liberal offer. Our collection contains one packet each of the 
following: Wilson’s Improved Early Blood Turnip Beet, 
th« earliest and the best; Wilson’s Early Green Cluster Cu¬ 
cumber, none earlier or better; Fotler's Improved Enrlv 
Brunswick Cabbage, good for early or late cabbages; Hanson 
Lettuce; Cuban Qneen, 100 lb. Watermelon, the 
largest, finest, and sweetest watermelon in the world; 
Honey Mew Green Citron, a native of the Sand¬ 
wich Islands, most luscious flavor, and sweeter than 
-“-•-Co-,,—cf’ —r honey • Giant Rocca Onion, grows onions 
from seed first year to weigh 3lbs.; button’s Student Parsnip ; Golden Dawn Mango, the finest, sweetest, 
and most beautiful pepper ever seen; Amencau Wonder Pea, enough seed of this wonderful pea will be sent 
to plant a row 40 feet long, need9 no sticks, comes in 30 days from planting; Improved Earlv Loner Scarlet 
Radish ; Perfect Gem Squash ; Early White Egg Turnip ; New Mayflower Tomato, earliest, 
largest, and best tomato m cultivation ; Japanese Nest Egg Gourd, the most beautiful and useful novelty ever 
introduced, hard shell, makes the best nest eggs ; this alone is worth to any one ten times the price of the whole 
collection: Zinna Darwini, fl. PI., the choicest strain of this popular flower beautiful as the Rose, double as a 
uaniia. r he above 16 packets , each containing seed enough for an ordinarv familv with directions for planting, etc., 
SffJ}® by mai i on the receipt of 50 cts. in postage 'stamps or money. Our Collection of 
Lnoice Flower Seeds, 11 packets or 90 cts, worth for BOcts.. comorising Asters New Victoria , Calliop - 
n ot Double English Hollyhock , Verbena Montana. 12 choice colors mixed ,Phlox Drumundii, Portyr 
taca, finest strain mixed, Sweet Alyssum, Pansies mixed , Celossia Japnnica Ivomoe (Ivy Leaf Cypress Vine), Dahlia 
— 1 1 — Sunflower. Or both Collections, making 27 pack¬ 
ets, amounting at lowest catalogue prices to $2.40, will 
he sent for 75 cts-, accompanied with our illustrated and 
descriptive catalogue of new seeds, giving muen useful in¬ 
formation and acertain remedy for the Cabbage Worm. 
Address, 
SAMUEL WILSON, Seed Grower, 
Mechanicsville, Bucks Co., Pa.j 
SEEDS 
NORTHERN GROW —BBBa 
sent by mail to any part of the United States dutypaid. 
CATALOGUE for l883m f S4V«". 
WIV!. RENNIE, Seedsman, Toronto, Canada. 
Shakers’ Garden Seeds 
TRUE and GENUINE, FRESH and RELIABLE. 
One of the oldest Seed firms in the country. Seeds sent 
by mail.postage free. Special prices and terms to Grangers. 
“ The excellence of the Shakers'Garden Seeds Is gener¬ 
ally admitted.”— Eds. American Aariculturist. 
Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds Free. 
Address, WAT, ANDERSON. 
Mount Lebanon, Coi. Co., N. V. 
Round Copies of Volume 41, (for 18821, are 
now ready. They are in the uniform style, cloth, with, 
gilt backs. Price at the office, $2. If sent by mail, 
$2.30. 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 
each addition, the price paid by the original members ; 
or a small chib may be made a larger one at reduced rales, 
thus: One having sent 5 subscribers and $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. 
Straw With Ensilage. —Prof. Voelcker, 
of England, says that no ordinary green crop can be suc¬ 
cessfully stored there without an admixture of a consid¬ 
erable portion of fine-cut straw, to absorb the superfluous 
moisture, and so retard fermentation and putrefaction. 
As green crops in America are less succulent than those 
of Great Britain, it is not so necessary to mix straw 
with them in our silos; but still, as a precaution, it 
might be advisable to do so, or with hay, when a super¬ 
abundance of these abound. Such a mixture would 
improve the quality of the straw, and if salt or fresh 
water meadow hay were used, that also would be made 
more palatable and digestible, and therefore more pro¬ 
fitable to be fed to stock of all kinds—even to swine. 
Seed. Clubs. —Many ladies like a variety of 
garden flowers, but do not feel able to bny the seeds. 1 
would suggest that they club together in getting their 
seeds. When the seeds come, the packages can be di¬ 
vided among the members. No seods need be wasted, 
as often occurs when one person has a whole package to 
herself. Very few persons care to raise as many plants 
of a kind as oue package of good seed will produce. 
Seeds saved until the next year often fail to come up 
well. It sometimes happens that a person desires two or 
three varieties only of a particular flower. These seed 
clubs can procure packages of distinct colorB or varieties, 
to he divided among the members according to their de¬ 
sires. It is a good plan for neighbors to club together 
when sending for garden seeds, for the reasons given 
above, and for another reason—the larger the order, the 
cheaper the seeds. In sending for seeds, be sure to give 
your orders only to trustworthy dealers. E. E. R. 
To Sow Small Sce«ls and Spores. 
—In sowing tobacco seed, which is among the 
smallest needs, planters mix it with many times its 
bulk of fine sand, and thus make sure of au even distri¬ 
bution. A correspondent, *• W. M. B.,” at East Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa., suggests that petunia seed, and other fine 
flower Beeds, be treated in a similar manner, mixing the 
contents of a seed packet with a teaspoonful of fine 
sand, or fine dry soil, before sowing. For fern spores 
and very minute seeds, he directs the following: “ Old 
turfs in rough lumps are to be placed in a flower-pot. 
Stop the hole in the bottom of the pot with the finger, 
fill the pot with water, and duet the spores or seed upon 
its surface. Allow the water to drain out gradually 
througti the hole below, and the spores will be scattered 
in a satisfactory manner. This was the plan of the late 
Donald Beaton, and I have tried it successfully with 
ferns.'’ 
The Ftic! of (lie Country.— East of 
the Mississipi, wood is the chief fuel in the States south 
of Virginia and Kentucky, as it is in Marne, the northern 
portions of New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, 
Michigan, and Wisconsin. West of the Mississippi, 
wood is still mainly used in Louisiana. Arkansas, part of 
Missouri, in Oregon, and in Washington and Idaho Ter¬ 
ritories. In all the rest of the country, coal is fast be¬ 
coming the chief fuel. In 1S80, less than two-thirds of 
all our population used wood for domestic purposes, and 
j over one-third (35J per cent) used coal. The total con¬ 
sumption of wood in this way was about one hundred 
and fifty million cords, at an estimate average valuation 
of $2.12 per cord, or a little over three hundred and seven 
million dollars. About five million cords of wood were 
used for other purposes, steamboats, railways, mining, 
etc, valued at about $3 per cord. About seventy-five 
million bushels of wood charcoal were also consumed. 
