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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
Rare & Beautiful Flowers 
AND 
CHOICE VEGETABLES. 
The Twentieth Annual Edition of our celebrat¬ 
ed Seed Catalogue and Amateur’s Guide to tlie 
Flower and Kitchen Garden, containing upwards 
of 200 pages, including several hundred finely executed en¬ 
gravings of favorite Rowers and vegetables, and a beau¬ 
tifully colored chromo, will be ready early in Janu¬ 
ary, and mailed to all applicants upon receipt of 35 cents. 
An edition elegantly bound in cloth $1.00. 
BLISS’S GARDENER’S 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. 
B. K. BUSS & SONS, 
31 Barclay Street, 
P. O. Box 5713. New York City. 
CHOICE SEEDS. 
Carefully grown from the finest stocks for critical buyers. 
Garden Manual, full ot practical bints and worth ten times 
its cost, sent for two stamps. Ready Dec. 1st. 
Special rates to early buyers. 
J. B. HOOT, Seed Grower, Rockford, Ills. 
GRAPE VINES, 
Grown especially for the Trade, very fine, 
and at low prices. CONCORD, HARTFORD 
PROLIFIC and MARTHA, in large quant ities. 
A. HANCE & SON Nurserymen & Florists, 
ily . 
and FLOWER SEED for 1875, will he sent free 
to all who apply ; customers of last season need not write 
for it. On my several seed farms 1 raise one hundred and 
fifty varieties, and also import from growers in Europe 
their choicest kinds. In my Catalogue will be found several 
valuable new varieties of vegetables, I having made this 
department, a specialty for many years, I would particular¬ 
ly invit.e the patronage of Market Gardeners, and all others 
who are especially desirous to have their seed pure and 
fresh, and of the very best strain. All seeds sent out from 
my establishment are covered by three warrants, as given 
in my Catalogue. 
JAMES J. II. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 
Trees, 
Vines, 
Shrubs, 
Plants, 
Etc. 
500,000 Apple, Pear, etc. 
100,000 Peach Trees. 
100,000 Grape Yincs. 
50,000 Currant Bushes. 
500,000 Sweet Chestnut Trees. 
10,000 Spanish “ “ 
A CHESTNUT CIRCULAR FREE. 
1,000,000 Evergreens, best in 
market. 
300,000 Deciduous Trees and 
Shrubs. 
50,000 Magnolia Accuminati, 
one year, fine. 
10,000 Tulip Trees, 6 to 12 feet. 
3,000 Weeping Mountain Ash. 
50.000 Rose Bushes. 
A new Descriptive Catalogue and 
Wholesale List free. 
21st Year. 401 Acres. 11 Greenhouses. 
Address, STORIIS. HARRISON & CO., 
Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio. 
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An elegant, comprehensive treatise on 
Air, Window and Conservatory 
f ^ l° r ‘ cu 1 1 ure * 200 , different Seed- j 
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