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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[February, 
Rare & Beautiful Flowers 
AND 
CHOICE VEGETABLES. 
The Nineteentli Annual Edition of our celebrat¬ 
ed Seed Catalogue and Amateur’s Guide to the 
Flower and Kitchen Garden, containing upwards 
of 200 pages, including several hundred finely executed en¬ 
gravings of favorite Bowers and vegetables, and a bcau- 
ti f nlly colored chromo, with a supplement for 
1874, is now in press, and will be mailed to all applicants 
upon receipt of 25 cents. An edition elegantly bound 
in cloth $1.03. 
BLISS’S GARDENERS’ ALMANAC 
and Abridged Catalogue contains upwards of 100 
pages, and embraces a monthly calendar of operations 
and a price-list of all the leading Garden, Field, and 
Flower Seeds, with brief directions for their culture. 
A copy will be mailed to all applicants inclosing two three- 
cent stamps. 
Bliss’s Illustrated Potato Catalogue free to 
all applicants. Address 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
Nos. 23 Park Place and 20 Murray St., 
P. O. Box 5712. IVew York. 
The Five Best Tomatoes. 
ARLINGTON.—Early, solid, unusually smooth, fine 
flavored, large size, enormously productive, and excellent 
market variety. 25 cts. per packet; five packets for $1.00; 
$2.00 per ounce. 
CANADA VICTOR.—The earliest in cultivation. 
Seed grown from the original stock. 15 cts. per packet; 
$1.50 per ounce. 
TROPHY.—Very large, smooth, solid, and of fine qual¬ 
ity. Seed saved from selected fruit. 10 cts. per packet; 
50 cts. per ounce. 
HATHAWAY’S EXCELSIOR. - Very early, 
smooth,'solid, and an excellent variety in every respect. 
10 cts. per packet; 60 cts. per ounce. 
GRAPE-SHOT.—Fruit orange-scarlet, averaging 1 to 
154 inch In diameter, which is produced in long clusters. 
Very ornamental, as well as useful for tile table or for pick¬ 
ling. 15 cts. per packet; $1.50 per ounce. 
One packet each of the five varieties will he mailed to any 
address upon receipt of 65 cts. Add-ess 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
I’. O. Box 5,712, New York. 
$1,500 irTramnim 
Important to Potato Growers, 
COMPTON’S SURPRISE—Showing Habit of Growth, 
to be divided among tlie six successful 
I QU.UU competitors who shall produce the largest 
quantity of cither of the following varieties of 
Potatoes; EXTRA EARLY VERMONT, 
BROWNELL’S BEAUTY, or COMPTON’S 
SURPRISE, from onc-quartcr of an acre of 
measured ground. $250 for each variety. 
' ,e divided among the six successful 
<5 I UviUw competitors who shall produce the largest 
quantity from ONE POUND of the seed of either 
of the above named varieties. $250 for each 
variety. Subject to conditions named in our Potato Cata¬ 
logue, a copy of which will be mailed to all applicants. 
E£? The Seed In all cases to be purchased Horn us. 
Address 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
S3 Park Place and 30 Murray St., 
P° O, Box 5713. New York. 
B 4 U ORDER SEEDS, 
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BRIGGS & BRO’S 
The finest Floral Work ever issued in this country. 
Published Quarterly—the four numbers sent to any address 
for 25 cents—comprising an Illustrated and Descriptive 
Catalogue of the Seeds, Bulbs, and Plants sold by Briggs 
& Brother, Seedsmen and Florists, Rochester, 
New York, together witli elaborate treatises upon the care 
and culture of the same. Over 1,000 Premiums taken 
in the United States in 1873 upon the products of BRIGGS 
& BROTHER’S SEEDS. 
The January number alone will be worth more than a $2 
book. Parties purchasing $1 worth or upward of Seeds are 
credited with a subscription for the following year. 
We challenge comparison on prices and size of packets. 
Address BRIGGS «Sr BROTHER, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Fottler’s Early Drumhead, 
Farmers and Gardeners, you all need this Cabbage for two 
reasons: 1st, because it is the earliest of all the Drumhead 
varieties; 2d, because every plant on an acre will make a 
large and solid head. Seed of my own growi>ig sent post¬ 
paid by me for 15 cts. per package, 75 cts. per ounce, $8 per 
pound. My Seed Catalogue free to all applicants. 
JAMES J. II. GREGORY, Marblehead , Mass. 
Seed Time Cometh! 
The twenty-first editions of our illustrated FLOWER and 
KITCHEN GARDEN DIRECTORIES for 1871, with a Sup¬ 
plement of Novelties and Selections, embracing a list of 
Seed grown by the best Boston Market Gardeners and also 
by the most famous European growers of flowers and vege¬ 
tables, including many that can rarely be lound elsewhere, 
will lie forwarded about the first of February to all custom¬ 
ers free of charge, and to other applicants inclosing a three- 
cent stamp. D. T. CUK'i IS & CD., 
161 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. 
Successors to Curtis & Cobb. 
Seed for Early Forcing. 
Boston Market Tennis Ball Lettuce—$ oz. 75c.; 15c. $ pkt. 
White Spilled Cucumber, improved— “ 50c.; 15c. “ 
Long Frame Cucumbers, varieties— 25c. “ 
French lireakfast and Olive-shaped Radishes—$ oz. 10c. 
Boston Market Celery—$ oz. 5Uc.; $ pkt. JOc. 
Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage—?* oz. 75c.; $ pkt. 10c. 
CHOICE SEEDS. 
FOR 1874 
Sent free to our customers, and to all others on receipt of 
two 2-cent stamps for the postage. 
HOVEY Ad CO., 
53 North Market St., Boston, Mass. 
CIUPM I A package of CHOICE FLO WE It SEEDS and 
a o, wjj sample of Park's Floral Gazette. Address, 
A W A ¥ I wjtlj stamp, Geo. W. Park, Fanpettsburg, Pa, 
The HANSON LETTUCE. 
The most tender, sweet, and delicious variety grown ; free 
from any hitter or unp easant taste ; heads 1 rge and solid, 
often weighing 3 lbs. Single pl-:gc 2"»> cl'-, 5 pJtgs 
SS. A Liberal Discount to De leps. Send for 
X>reea*’s Garden Calemfar for 1874. 108 panes, 
illustrated , w tli practical direction *. Vailed to 
all applicants. KERRY A. DKEEU, 
7l4 Chestnut St., Plitladcli’lna, Pa« 
^AMATEUB^ 
GUIDE 
) THE FLOWER AND KITCHEN^ 
GARDEN 
Enlarged and Improved. 
Magnificent Colored Plate 
Hundreds of Engravings, beside De¬ 
scriptive Price List of 3000 varieties 
of choice Flower and Vegetable Seeds, 
Kare Gladiolus, Lilies, &c., &c. Full 
directions for culture. Complete in cv- 
s ery respect. Sent free on receipt of two 
stamps. Address 
WASHBURN £ CO., BOSTON, MASS. 
Hawley’s Seed Catalogue. 
NEW CROP GENUINE WETHERSFIELD 
ONION SEED. 
R. 1>. HAWLEY’S 
Annual Illustrated Catalogue of Fresh and Genuine Weth¬ 
ersfield (Conn.) Garden and Farm Seeds for spring of 1874 
will be ready early in January to send free to all applicants. 
U" Choice Stock. Moderate rates. Prompt delivery. 
Address R. D. HAWLEY, 
Seed and Agricultural Warehouse, Hartford, Conn. 
My business is to supply, what every farmer of experiente 
is most anxious to get, perfectly reliable Vegetable and 
Flower Seed. With this object in view, beside - importing 
many varieties from reliable growers in Franco, England, 
and Germany, I grow a hundred and fifty kinds of vegetable 
seed on my four seed farms, light under my own eye. 
Around all of these I throw the protection of the three 
warrants of my Catalogue. Of new vegetables J make a 
specialty, having been the first to introduce the Hubbard 
and Marblehead Squashes, the Marblehead Cabbage:, and a 
score of others. .My Catalogue, containing numerous fine 
engravings, taken from photographs, senr/ree to ail. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
NOW Ready, 
Y Y CKOSMAN EEC’S 
Illustrated CATALOGUE and GUIDE 
to t! e Flower and Vegetable Garden for 1871. beautifully 
illustrated, and containing a magnificent CclcrotT Time 
of seven new and popular flowers. Sent FREE upon 
receint of stamp. Adorcss 
(Esta’d 1840.) C'rosman Bros., Rochester, N.Y. 
TO 
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SEED TRADE. 
TRADE LIST. FOR DEALERS ONLY, 
mailed to applicants. 
J. M. THORBURN & CO., 
13 John. Street, New Yorlt. 
nriSIK SEEI> FAKJTI.- 
BL Send hv Postal-Onrd for my new Spring Catalogue of 
Seeds, Plants, Lilies, Gladiolmt. etc., etc. Special Induce¬ 
ments offered. G. A. l.AW. 
poslindale, near Boston, Hasp, 
