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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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RARE VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
T HE subscribers, in addition. to their usual regular supplies of 
all descriptions of Garden, Field and Flower Seeds, have re¬ 
ceived from tlie first sources in England, the following NeW and 
Valuable Vegetable Garden Seeds, which will be found an 
acquisition to any collection, and worthy of trial. 
PEAS. 
Waite's Queen cf Dwarf s —Very dwarf, and ready for table 20th 
May. Price $1.50 per quart. Price in London, 5s. sterling. 
j Early Wonder Peas —‘Dwarf and very early; full podded. $1 
per quart. 
Fairbeard's Early Surprise .—Very early and uniform bearers. 
$1.50 per quart. Height three feet. 
Flack's Victory .—Large blue peas; finer than Dwarf Imperials. 
50 cents oer quart. Height three feet. 
Dancer's Monastery .—Very fine. Height three feet. 60 cents 
per quart. 
Carmack's British Queen.—Very large, shrivelled pea; superior 
to the famous Knight’s Marrow, extra fine. Pleight four feet. $1.50 
per quart. 
Champion of England Marrow —Extra fine, and prodigious 
bearers. Height four feet. $2 per quart. This is the most rare 
pea in England. 
Banksian Marrow.—Great bearers. Height four feet. 50 cents 
per quart. 
Shilling's Grotto .—Height four feet—fine. 50 cents per quart. 
Improved London Dwarf Marrow.-* Fine. 37| cents per quart. 
EARLY CABBAGES* 
Superfine Early Dwarf '.—25 cents per ounce 
Early Sprotsboro. —Large, and very early. 25 cents per ounce. 
Waite's New Early Dwarf .—50 cents per ounce. 
Atkin's Early Dwarf Matchless .—50 cents per ounce. 
Shilling's Early Queen .—50 cents per ounce. 
Also, superior London Early York—25 cents per ounce. 
BROCCOLI. 
Early Walcheren ■—Very superior. $1 per ounce. 
Late Walcheren .—Extra fine. $1 per ounce. 
New October White Cape .—$1 per ounce. 
Lake's Superior White .—50 cents per ounce. 
Late Close Headed Purple .—50 cents per ounce. 
Field's Superb White .—50 cents per ounce. 
CAULIFLOWER. 
Fitche's New Large Late .—Extra fine. $1.50 per ounce. 
Early Walcheren .—Extra fine. $1 per ounce. 
Late Walcheren .—Extra fine. $1 per ounce. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Shepherd's New Giant Pink Celery , 25 cents per packet— Sey¬ 
mour's New Red , 25 cents per packet —Early Prize Fighter Cucum¬ 
ber ,, 25 cents per packet— Ady's New Coss Lettuce , 50 cents per 
ounce —Pink Edged Union Lettuce , 25 cents per ounce.— Myatt's 
Garnishing Parsley , 25 cents per ounce. 
Also, an extensive assortment of valuable AGRICULTURAL 
SEEDS, among which are Skirving's New and Improved Ruta 
Baga, to which has been awarded several premiums by the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England, $1.50 per lb— Dickson's Improved 
Ruta Baga, $1.25 per lh.—Best stock Mangel Wurtzel—Silesia 
Sugar Beet—White Field. Be'gian Carrot—Spring Tares or Vetches, 
a valuable and nutritious soiling feed for horses and cows. Also, 
White Lupins , for soiling —Italian (annual) and Pacey's Perennial 
Ray Grass—Sweet Vernal Grass—Herds and Blue Grass—Fine 
Mixed English Lawn Grass, 50 cwt.— White Dutch Honeysuckle 
Clover—Lucerne or French Clover—Yellow and Scarlet Trefoil- 
Clean Potato Seed, 25 cents per packet. 
Buckthorn Seed—Maclura or Osage Orange , and Honey Locust, 
or Gleditschia, for Hedging, the last forming an impenetrable fence. 
Yellow Ship Locust —with every thing new and good procureable 
from both Hemispheres, whether for the Field, Garden or Parterre. 
All the above are of the growth of 1847. and warranted genuine. 
JAMES M. THORBURN & CO., 
^ No 15 John-Street, near Broadway, New York. 
O 3 ” Catalogues gratis, on application. For new Flower Seeds, 
&c-, see future advertisement. _April 1, 1848—It 
ROCK SALT. 
T HIS Salt is hard as alum, and is the best known for stock, and 
is the cheapest and most economical—as it may be laid upon 
the ground, or in racks and mangers, where the cattle lick it as 
they may desire, without getting an excess, or suffering injury from 
its use. For sale in any quantity at the Albany Ag. Warehouse, 
Nos. 10 & 12, Green-st. _ ' 5 
VERY DESIRABLE AND VALUABLE FARM 
FOR SALE. 
TYHE subscriber offers for sale his farm, pleasantly situated on the 
A Union Turnpike, within half a mile northeast of the city of 
Hudson, Columbia county, N. Y., containing 70 acres of good land, 
under a good state of cultivation, and well watered. & About 30 
acres of which are good plow land, six acres of wood, the remain¬ 
der is loam, suitable for plow or meadow land. There is a sub¬ 
stantial Brick House, a Work Shop, Barn, and necessary out¬ 
buildings. Likewise a Cottage on the premises. 
This property was formerly owned' and improved by the late 
Elisha Williams, Esq. The subscriber considers it the most desira¬ 
ble property in the neighborhood. To any person wishing to en¬ 
gage m the Milk, Nursery or Gardening business, it offers oreat 
advantages. Title indisputable. ° 
Enquire of MILLER & McKINSTRY, Solictors, Hudson, or 
the subscriber on the premises. T. H PERI PR 
April 1, 1848—It* 
W. St B. DOUGLAS’ IMPROVED PREMIUM 
HYDRAULIC RAM. 
A PERFECTLY simple and effective machine for forcing a 
portion of a brook or spring to any required distance or eleva¬ 
tion, where a proportionate fall can be applied. 
A SILVER MEDAL was awarded to the subscribers on their 
Improved Hydraulic Ram by the American Institute, at the Fair 
held in the city of New-York, in October, 1847. A PREMIUM 
was also awarded on the same by the Middlesex County Agricul** 
tural Society, at their Fair held in this city in October, 1847. 
The various uses of the Ram are at once obvious, viz : for the 
purposes of irrigating Lands, and supplying Dwellings, Gardens, 
Farms, Factories, Villages, Engines, Railroad Stations, &c., with 
running water. 
The simplicity of the operation of this machine, together with its 
effectiveness and very apparent durability, renders it decidedly the 
most important and valuable apparatus yet developed in Hydrau¬ 
lics, for forcing a portion of a running stream of water to any dis¬ 
tance and elevation, proportioned to the fall obtained. 
It is perfectly applicable where no more than 18 inches fall can 
be obtained, yet the greater the fall applied, the higher may the 
water be conveyed, the quantity raised varying in proportion’to the 
height with a given fall. It will raise say one-eleventh of the 
water ten times the height of the fall to which it is applied. Thus 
if applied under a fall of five feet, with a supply of eleven gallons 
per minute, it will force up and discharge at an elevation of fifty 
feet from machine, one gallon per minute; and under the same 
head or fall it will of course raise and discharge a larger quantity 
of water in proportion as the height to which it is conveyed is di¬ 
minished, and so a less quantity a greater height. 
This ram is constructed with an Adjuster, which renders it de¬ 
cidedly superior to any thing of the kind yet invented, as by this 
improvement the same machine may be conveniently varied ill 
capacity, and at once adapted to various sized streams! 
They are composed of metal, and are a very neat, compact and 
portable article—No. 4, the ordinary size, weighing but about 35 
lbs., and occupying only about a cubic foot of space. 
The subscribers, manufacturers of the Ram, offer the same in 
any quantity and of various sizes, to merchants, dealers, and all in 
want, at prices, that cannot fail to please. 
In all cases the article is warranted complete and perfect, so as 
to give the best satisfaction, or it may be returned. 
Orders respectfully solicited, to which prompt attention will be 
given. W. & B. DOUGLAS,' 
Machinists and Iron Founders, Manufacturers of Pumps, Hydraulic 
Rams, Friction Rolls, Sheaves, Arbor Cranks, &c. 
Middletown, Conn., April 1,1848. 
For sale at the Albany Ag. Warehouse, by H. L. EMERY, 
Nos. 10 & 12 Green-st—in Troy, at H. WARREN’S Ag. Ware¬ 
house, 315 River-st.; and by the Hardware and other traders in 
the principal cities of the United States. 
PATENT RIGHT SECURED. 
N. B.—The following certificates have been very kindly tendered 
us by gentlemen who have our rams in use:— 
CERTIFICATES. 
This is to certify, that I have purchased and put in use one of 
W. & B. Douglas’ Improved Hydraulic Rams on my farm, and I 
am perfectly satisfied and well pleased with the operation of the 
article, and would recommend its use to all who are desirous of 
raising water from any spring or other running stream about their 
premises. The spring to which I have applied the ram is 50 rods 
from my house, and 75 feet below a level of peint where I dis¬ 
charge the water in my dwelling. The size of the drive pipe ap¬ 
plied to my ram is inch calibre, and 40 feet long, and has a fall 
in running from spring to ram of 16 feet. The discharge pipe, 
(leading from ram to house) is £ inch calibre, and 50 rods in length, 
and runs up an elevation of 85 feet, and the water discharges from 
the same, in my house, a perfectly steady and handsome stream 
without any interruption whatever. And I would invite all, who 
wish to become acquainted with this new and truly useful inven¬ 
tion, to call at my house in Durham and witness its operations. 
Durham, Ct., Sept. 25th, 1847. Samuel G. Tibbals. 
This is to certify that I have in use on my farm, one of Messrs. 
W. & B Douglas’ Improved Hydraulic Rams, and can most cheer¬ 
fully recommend it as being an article of the utmost value and util¬ 
ity to all who are desirous of raising a supply of water to their 
premises. 
My spring is some 30 rods distant, and 35 feet below a level of 
the point where the water is discharged by the ram jn my yard. 
The water is applied to the machine with but 3.) ft. head or fall, and 
thus a portion of it is raised 10 feet high to every foot of fall ap¬ 
plied. The size of the drive or.supply pipe, from spring to ram, is 
1£ inch, and the machine forces up and discharges a constant stream 
of water in my yard of say half an inch, conveying it up the above 
named elevation of 35 feet, and a distance of 30 rods. 
Upper Middletown, Ct., Jan. 5,1848. Charles Mather. 
THE GENUINE MORGAN HORSE, 
/GENERAL GIFFORD, will stand the ensuing season on Mon- 
^ days, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, at the stable of George A. 
Mason, two miles northeast of Jordan; Thursdays, Fridays and 
Saturdays at the stable of D. A. Munro, Camillus.’ 
Terms —$10 the season. Insurance to be agreed upon. Pastur¬ 
age furnished by either of the subscribers at reasonable prices. 
Escapes and accidents at the risk of owners. General Gifford was 
sired by Gifford Morgan. His dam a pure Morgan. Breeders of 
«-ood'horses are invited to call and see him. 
April 1,1848—3t. MUNRO & MASON# 
