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THE CULTIVATOR. 
April 
COMMERCIAL GARDEN AND NURSERY OF 
Parsons & Co., 
Flushing ) near New-York. 
T HE planting season being near at hand, the Proprietors now 
otfer for sale in addition to their usual assortment, many new 
and choice varieties of Apples, Pears, Cherries. Peaches. Plums 
Crapes and other fruits. The}' have also a fine stock of Pears on 
Quince ready for fruiting. By testing the kinds which they culti 
Vate, and giving close personal attention to their propagation, they 
insure the correctness of the Varieties which they send out Their 
assortment of Ornamental Trees and Shrubs includes the standard 
varieties /or the Avenue or Lawn, aswell as many.new and desi 
rable kinds. Their collection of dwarf and tree Roses embrace 
all that is desirable. 
Catalogues furnished gratis on application. 
April 1—It.' 
PROUTY & BARRETT, 
Manufacturers and Wholesale and RetoAl Dealers in 
Agricultural and Horticultural Implements, Garden 
Grass, Field , and Flower Seeds, 194| Market-St. 
O 1 
Philadelphia, 
|FFER for sale an extensive assortment of FARM and GAR 
DEN IMPLEMENTS and SEEDS, consisting in part of the 
following, viz >•— 
Prouty & Mears’ Patent Centre-draught Self-sharpening, Right 
and Left Hand, Subsoil and Side Hill, Wheel and Swing PLOWS, 
with Points and. Shares so strong and thoroughly purified and liar 
dened, that 10U acres of land have often been plowed with a singh 
set. 
These Plows are constructed of the best materials, and of the 
highest finish, and for ease of draught and management, the facility 
with which their poin.s and shares are turned and sharpened, the 
eradication of weeds and the thorough cultivation of the soil, they 
stand unrivalled in the market. They are warranted to work in 
any soil, and to give perfect satisfaction after fair trial, or they may 
be returned, and the money refunded. 
To these Plows were awarded Twenty-Three Premiums at 
Trial Matches, during the past year, proving incontestably their 
great superiority over their numerous competitors. 
( {Improved Cultivators, with steel teeth; Harrows, Revolving 
Horse Rakes, Agricultural Furnaces and Cauldrons, Corn Mills, 
Sugar Mills, Seed Planters, Corn Planters, Cheese Presses, Ox 
Yokes, Hovpy’s Spiral Hay, Straw, and Corn-stalk Cutter ; Corn 
Shellers, Grant’s Patent Fan Mills, and other approved patterns. 
Spain's Improved Barrel Chum —Constructed in such a manner 
that the whole reel or dashers can be removed (whole) from the 
inside ; the Churn is then clear of all impediments in the way of 
removing the Butter, and of a perfect cleaning. 
Cast Steel Hoes, Shovels, Spades, Hay and Manure Forks, 
Scythes, Snaths, Briar Scythes and Hooks. 
AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL AND FLOWER 
SEEDS, in great variety, raised expressly for this establishment by 
careful and experienced seed growers, and warranted. 
Orders solicited. 
Philadelphia, April I, 1848-2t.* 
NEW WORK ON THE ROSE. 
The Rose ; its History , Poetry , Culture , and Classification. 
By S. B. Parsons. New-York: Wiley h. Putnam, pp 
280, royal octavo, with Colored Engravings . 
A HANDSOME.octavo volume, fully redeeming the promise of 
its title-page, which the reader will have noted takes in a wide 
field of practical and classical information. With the practical part 
of his subject, the culture and classification of the Rose, and with 
its history to some extent, we expected to find the author some¬ 
what familiar, seeing that he is a well known and successful culti ¬ 
vator. But even in these respects, he has shown an amount of 
knowledge which we scarcely supposed any individual could have 
brought to their elucidation; while in the literature of the rose, so 
to speak, he has brought together such numerous tributes to its 
beauty, fragrance and emblematical character, as prove no mean 
acquaintance with the best poets. Indeed, his volume is at once 
agreeable, instructive, and curious, a-very pleasant companion to 
the mere reader, while to the amateur and the professed cultiva¬ 
tor of this most beautiful of Flora’s gifts, it will be invaluable.— 
N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. 
Altogether this may be considered the most agreeable and com¬ 
plete work on the rose in the English language. The author has 
not only collected and arranged all of most interest and value that 
has hitherto been written on this subject, but he has interwoven 
through the volume a good deal of interesting information, drawn 
from his own experience and observation, which has not before 
been given to the public. The volume is not simply a practical 
treatise for the rose cultivator, but a pleasant contribution to the 
library of the scholar, or the book-table of the lady’s boudoir. 
The volume contains colored plates of two of the new Roses 
which have elicited most admiration within the last three years— 
La Reine and Chromatella. — Horticulturist. 
We regret that this beautiful and really valuable volume did not 
arrive while we had room for a notice worthy of its claims to pub¬ 
lic favor. All that romance, poetry, and science have endowed 
the Rose with—all that philosophers have found, and lovers .fan¬ 
cied, and ladies felt, about this garner of sweet associations, is 
here set forth, and worthily; while on two shining pages the 
beauty herself appears, fairly mirrored in her most magnificent as 
pect, and seeming only to ask the plucking. We love the book.— 
Union Magazine , by Mrs. Kirtland. April 1—2t. 
T^FIE subscriber, manufacturer and dealer, has constantly on hand 
, an extensive assortment of Agricultural Implements of the la- 
test and most approved patterns. 
Ploivs adapted to every description of soil, embracing a greater 
variety of patterns than call b* found in any other establishment in 
the United States. 
Moore's highest premium Plows. Two and Three Furrow Plows. 
Freeborn & Hitchcock’s do. Side Hill and Double Mold do. 
Minor, Horton & Co’s do. Cultivators with Steel and Cast 
Ruggles, Nourse & Mason’s do. Teeth. 
Prouty & Mear’s do. Harrows.plain and double hinged 
Subsoil do. Garden & Canal Wheelbarrows. 
Single and Double Cora Shellers, price $5 to $10. 
Straw Cutters, Greene’s, Steven’s, Sinclair’s, and othe/ approved 
patterns. 
Mills for grinding Grain. Corn and Cob Crushers. 
Horse Powers and Threshing Machines. 
Fanning Mills, Revolving Hay Rakes, 
Rice do. Hay and Manure Forks, 
Coffee Hullers, Scythes & Snathes, 
Sugar Mills, Ox Yokes and Bows, 
Grain Cradles, Log and Trace Chains, 
Seed Sowers, Spades and Shovels. 
Plow Castings, Castings for Horse Powers, Mill and Gin Geer, 
&c., &c. Also on hand and made to order, every description of 
Brass, Copper and Iron Wire, Cloth, Sieves, Screens, Riddles, &c., 
&c , all of which will be sold as low as they can be purchased at 
any establishment in the country. 
JOHN MOORE, 
Ag. Warehouse, 193, old No. 183 Front-st., New-York. 
April 1—3t 
TWO FARMS FOR SALE, 
UANDSOMELY situated one 
southern part of Cayuga county, each containing seventy-five 
acres of excellent land, in fine condition, with good farm buildings, 
orchards, &c- These farms are divided by the stage road between 
Auburn and Ithaca, equi distant from each. They will be sold sep- 
arately or together. 
Apply to DAVID THOMAS, near Aurora, Cayuga county, or to 
ISAAC JACOBS, on the premises. 3 mo. 7, 1848. 
EMERY’S SEED PLANTER. 
YXTITH this Planter all small seeds are dropped by means of a 
revolving brush inside of the hopper, operating upon p'ates ^ 
with holes in them, which plates are placed in grooves at the bottom 
of the hopper—any size hole being used which is found best 
adapted to the quantity and size of the seed to be sown, thus in¬ 
suring precision and uniformity in the work. When Corn, Beans, 
Peas, or any heavy smooth seeds are to be dropped, the revolving 
brush and plate.are removed, and a cylinder substituted with cups or 
eavilies in it, which fill and empty by the gravity of the seed. 
These cups are made large or small by a simple set screw, which 
is readily turned up or down to receive any quantity of seed or 
none at all, thus enabling the quantity and distance between the 
hills to be regulated at pleasure. The movement of the cylinder is 
ven by a simple small geer, and may, by the different rows of 
cogs on the large wheel, be regulated to give any velocity desired 
for different purposes. The furrower or plow can be placed up or 
down to suit a tall or short person at the handles—can be used by 
hand by one man, or can be drawn by a horse. From six to 
twelve acres of corn have been planted in the best possible man¬ 
ner in a day with them—according to the condition of the land. 
The subscriber has a good assortment of them on hand and for 
sale at the Albany Ag. Warehouse, Nos. 10 & 12 Green-street, Al¬ 
bany. Price when fully rigged for all kinds of work, and strong 
for horse power, $14. 
For further particulars see Catalogue, gratis at store, or by 
mail. H. L. HMERY. 
April 1, 1848. __. 
NORMAN. 
rpHIS celebrated horse will stand the ensuing season at the stable 
A of James Rice, in Germondville, three miles north of the vil¬ 
lage of Lansingburgh. Norman is a beautiful dapple grey, 15| 
hands high, strongly made, and finely proportioned. He combines 
first rate trotting qualities, and great powers of endurance, with un¬ 
surpassed gentleness and docility. His colts are justly celebrated 
for speed, bottom and good temper—are eagerly sought after in the 
market, and command prices ranging from $150 to $500. The 
very high reputation of Norman’s stock as “ road horses,” and the 
extraordinary prices they command, renders him by far the most 
profitable horse to breed from of any in the country. Gentlemen 
sending mares from a distance, may rest assured that they will 
have such attendance and keeping as the owners desire, and upon 
the most reasonable terms The horse will be under the charge of 
his former owner. Terms —$10 the season. Insurance to be agreed 
upon. Communications addressed, I. T. GRANT, P. M., Junc¬ 
tion, Rensselaer county, will receive prompt attention. 
April 1—4t» 
