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[February, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Rare and Beautiful Flowers 
and Choice Vegetables 
CAN ALWAYS BE OBTAINED BY SOWING 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
23 PARK PLACE & 20 MURRAY ST, N. Y. 
IMPORTERS, GROWERS, AND DEALERS IN 
Garden, Field, and Flower Seeds, 
SMALL FRUITS, 
Horticultural Implements, 
Fertilizers, and Other Requisites for the 
Farm and Garden. 
The Eighteenth Annual Edition of their celebrated Seed 
Catalogue and Amateur’s Guide to the Flower 
and Kitchen Garden is now ready for distribution, 
and will be mailed to their customers of 1871 as rapidly as 
possible, and to all applicants, upon receipt of 35 cents!; 
an edition beautifully bound in cloth, 75 cents. 
This is without exception the largest and best Cata¬ 
logue ever published in this or any other country. It 
contains about 300 pages, including several hundred 
finely executed engravings of favorite flowers and vegeta¬ 
bles, and a beautifully colored cliromo of a 
group of twenty of the most popular flow¬ 
ers in cultivation, and the new Early Egyptian Beet. 
Also a descriptive list of 2,500 species and varieties of flower 
and vegetable seeds, including all the novelties of the past 
season, with full directions for culture. 
Bliss’s Gardener’s Almanac and Abridged Catalogue mail¬ 
ed to all applicants inclosing a three-cent stamp. Address 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
P. O. Box 5,713, New York City, 
Genuine Wethersfield Onion Seed. 
" we have just received a fine stock of the above from one 
of the most reliable growers in Wethersfield, which we ofl'er 
at prices greatly reduced from last year. 
oz. % lb. ft. 
Extra Early Red, very early and productive.25c. $0.75 $2.50 
Wetherilfield Large Red, for main crop.15c. .50 1.50 
Large Red Oval or Globe .SOc. 1.00 3.00 
Yellow Danvers ( True ).25c. .75 2.50 
White Portugal, very mild.SOc. 1.00 3.00 
White Globe, an excellent market sort.40c. 1.25 4.00 
Early Cracker, a flat yellow variety.40c. 1.25 4.00 
The above will be sent, post-paid, to any address upon re¬ 
ceipt of price. Address B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
23 Park Place, and 20 Murray St., New York. 
Moore’s Early Concord Sweet Corn. 
Another year’s trial has proved this to be the best Sweet 
Corn in cultivation. 
Selected ears, 25c. eacli: packet, 25c.; quart, by mail, 00c. 
Address B. K. BLISS & SONS, P. O. Box 5712, New York. 
LATE ROSE POTATO. 
Thi3 valuable Potato, which is now fortlie first time offered 
for sale, differs from all other varieties so far introduced, in¬ 
asmuch as it is not claimed to be a new. seedling, but a sub- 
variety or sport of the well-known Early Rose, which it 
strongly resembles in quality, color, and form—but is three 
weeks later, hardier, and more productive, having yielded 
the past season 250 to 300 bushels to the acre. 
$12.00 per bhl.. $5.00 per bush., $3.00 per H bush., $2.00 per 
peck, 4, lbs., by mail, $1.00. , ,, 
Our Illustrated Potato Catalogue will he mailed to all ap¬ 
plicants. Address B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
23 Park Place, and 20 Murray St., New York. 
The Best Cucumber for Forcing. 
GENERAL GRANT. 
A superior variety, either for forcing or for culture in 
the open ground. It is perfect in form, solid, and crisp, and 
of a most agreeable flavor. Many specimens were grown 
the past season averaging thirty inches in length. After 
a five years’ trial, wc unhesitatingly pronounce it better 
than any other variety for forcing. 
Packets, containing 10 seeds. 25 cents. Five packets for 
$1.60. B. K. BLISS & SONS, 23 Park Place, New York. 
PHESH 
GARDEN SEEDS. 
Our annual descriptive priced Catalogue of Garden, 
Field, and Tree Seeds is ready for mailing free. 
,T. M. TIIORBTTRN & CO., 
15 John St., New York. 
A GREENHOUSE AT YOUR DOOR. 
SAVE EXPRESS CHARGES, AND HAVE YOUR 
BY MAIL. 
5. Our improved method of forwarding plants by mail hav¬ 
ing proved such a decided success during the past two 
years, we have been induced to enter upon it on a much 
more extensive scale. W’e grow our plants for mailing in 
small pots, aud in packing we allow almost the entire hall 
of earth to remain; tire box which we use is light, yet suffi¬ 
ciently strong to prevent them from injury. Plants packed 
in these boxes will be found to arrive in as fine condition as 
though sent by express. 
PLANTS COME FREE 
Achyranthes, 
4 distinct sorts for_ 
....$1.09 
Coleus, Golden, 
6 
do. ‘ _ 
.... 1.00 
Carnations, 
G 
do. 
.... 1.00 
Fuchsias, 
G 
do. _ 
... 1.00 
Geraniums, Double, 
4 
do. _ 
.... 1.00 
do. Zonale, 
G 
do. 
.... 1.00 
do. Ivy, 
4 
do. 
... 1.00 
do. Scented, 
G 
do. _ 
.... 1*00 
Heliotropes, 
G 
do. ... 
Roses, Monthly, 
6 
do. _ 
. . 1.00 
Basket Plants, 
G 
do. .... 
Winter Bloom. Plants, 
G 
do. _ 
.. . 1.00 
Verbenas, 
13 
do. 
.... 1.00 
Entire collection of IS species (one of eacli) for $2. Any 
six of the above collections for $5; or the entire 13 for $10. 
All of the above plants are labeled except Verbenas. 
My Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogne of New and 
Beautiful Plants wil be ready Feb. 1st. Mailed free to all 
my patrons of last year. To all others on application. 
Iowa City, Iowa,) 
March 18th, 1871. $ 
The plants ordered by mail came in 
splendid condition; all are alive, and 
have already forgotten their journey 
of 1,300 miles. I am glad to know of 
so cheap and satisfactory a way to 
supply our wants. 
W. H. HUBBARD. 
Address 
Bennkttville, S. C„) 
March 24th, 1871. ) 
The flowers sent by you were re¬ 
ceived in good time. I was really 
surprised at their size, for I thought, 
as they would be sent by mail, that 
they would be very small. They are 
equally as large as some received 
by express from other Florists. I 
am perfectly delighted with them— 
so many, so beautiful, and in such 
good order. 
Mrs. LAURA. MOORE. 
Sacramento, Cal., ) 
March 17tli, 1871. j 
CHARLES A. 
The plants forwarded by you on 
the 7th, by mail, reached me in 
eight days, in first-rate condition. 
Upon examination, I can discover 
no injury done to them in their 
long journey. 
G. L. SIMMONS, M.D. 
REE§GR, I'lcasantvillc, Pa. 
Fottler’s Improved Brunswick Cabbage. 
This fine Cabbage, originally intro¬ 
duced by our Mr. Schlegel, and per¬ 
fected in size and form by Mr. Fottler, 
father of the junior member of our 
firm, still maintains its superiority 
for general culture over all other cab¬ 
bages at present known. 
The accompanying cut was drawn 
and engraved from a fair average 
specimen of our seed stock crop of 
1871, and is a faithful representation of 
the variety as sold by us. It li a rapid 
grower, and uniformly productive of 
large, handsome, solid heads, on short 
steins, with but few outside leaves. 
Early planted, it is ready for use in 
July and August. Later plancd.lt is 
in use throughout the winter. We 
offer seed of tills fine variiety, and a 
general assortment of ether seeds, in 
quantities suited to the requirements 
of purchasers. 
The specialty of our business is fur¬ 
nishing seeds of extra quality suited 
to the requirements of Market-Garden¬ 
ers and others. Our seeds are grown 
from tlie choicest stocks and in the 
most careful manner, aud we know 
ingly deal in no other. 
Catalogues of varieties 
and prices sent free to 
all who apply for them. 
Address 
SGHLEQEL, EVERETT & CO, 16 S. Market St, Boston, Mass. 
To Farmers and Gardeners. 
I invite all who have been in the habit of buying their 
garden seed from boxes left at the stores to give my seed a 
trial, side by side, and mark the difference in their germin¬ 
ating, and in the purity and quality of the vegetables raised 
from them. I have made it my mission for several years 
past to drive bad seed from the market, and so save farmers 
and gardeners the immense loss they annually suffer from 
the purchase of it. 
The public have well appreciated my efforts, and I have 
now fifty thousand customers in the United States and Can¬ 
adas. I sell no seed I do not warrant, and what is the real 
pith of the matter I stand by my warranty. To enable me 
to do tliis I grow myself a large proportion of the seed I 
sell. Catalogues sent free to any applicant. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
GARDENING MADE EASY 
FOIJ THE MILLION. 
ONLY TEN CENTS! 
Really worth Ten Dollars! Inclose 10c„ and 2c. stamp for 
postage. J. C. THOMPSON, TompkinsviUo, N. Y. 
(Staten Island.) 
eH0IGE*SE*DS« 
BEFORE YOU BUY your Flower ami Vcgctabls 
Seeds for 1872. send for our new and finely illustrated 
Catalogue; now ready to send out. Mailed to any address 
on receipt of stamp. 
Address J. T. SMITH & SONS, Brentwood, N. II. 
CENUINE WETHERSFIELD ONION 
SEED, CARDEN, VEGETABLE, 
and FARM SEEDS, etc. 
H. X>. Hawley’s 
Annual Descriptive Catalogue of the above seeds for 1872, 
containing a complete selection of vegetable and agricul¬ 
tural seeds of superior quality, to meet the requirements of 
Market-Gardeners and others, is just published, aud will be 
sent free to all applicants 
- lAwi 
R. D. HU 
Address 
LEY, 492 and 498 Main St., Hartford, Ct. 
Choice J SEEDS ! 'Tree SEEDS! 
_Selected OTipnO I Fresh 
Flower_ _ 
Annuals, collection 25 choice sorts, $1; 12 sorts, 50b 
Early Concord Corn, pint, 25c. Butter Beans, qt., SOc. 
Wethersfield Onion, ft., $2: V, ft., $1.25; Calycanthus, qt., $1. 
Early Bose Potatoes, bn., $2. 
Peach, bn„ $2; bbl., $4. 
Apple, Osage Orange, bu., $12. 
Seed and Plant Catalogue. 112 pages. Illustrated, 10c. 
F. K. PHOENIX, Bloomington, Illinois. 
FIS.1E1E SEEDS. 
Sample packages of White Probestier, Yellow Latliarian, 
and White Schonen Oats, the best out often varieties tested, 
sent, post-paid, upon receipt of two stamps to pay postage. 
Send stamp for Circular, with list of prices for choice Seed 
Oats, Corn, Potatoes, and other Farm Seeds. Address 
S. B. FANNING, Jnmcsport, N. Y. 
Market-Gardeners & Farmers 
and all others who want, fresh and reliable seeds for the Farm 
or Garden, send for Dreer’s Garden Calendar for 18?2. Full 
lists, with prices (156 pages), mailed on receipt of a stamp. 
HENRY A. DREER, Philadelphia. 
