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The Floral Instructor. 
IPTTIR/IDY’S 
RecorderiCottage Gardener. 
The real value of all publications, especially ag¬ 
ricultural and horticultural, is in proportion to the 
practical information of the publisher and editor. 
If he is a practical fruit-grower and farmer, his 
writings will be practical. The Fruit Recorder 
and Cottage Gardener is one of this class; while 
published at Rochester, N. Y., the center of one of 
the best fruit sections in the country, the editor 
and manager, A. M. Purdy, lives on his large fruit 
and floral farm, near Palmyra, N. Y. For twenty- 
five years he has grown fruit—sending off some 
years as high as one thousand bushels of straw¬ 
berries, and other small fruit in prodortion. Mr. 
Purdy now has a fruit farm near Palmyra of about 
200 acres, on which is now growing 8,000 peach 
trees, 1,200 apple trees, 1,200 standard pear trees, 
500 dwarf pears, 500 plum trees, and 500 orange 
quince, besides over 100 acres in strawberries, rasp¬ 
berries, blackberries, grapes, etc., and a large and 
extensive greenhouse, hot-beds, etc., etc. His 
“ Walks and Jottings ” over his fruit farm, “ Meat 
from the Shell,” in which he extracts the pith 
from his large exchange list, with “ Questions and 
Answers,” and valuable list of correspondents, 
saying nothing of his own practical editorials, all 
“ filling up to the brim ” sixteen pages monthly, 
makes the Recorder an exceedingly valuable pa¬ 
per for both fruit-grower and florist, and well 
worth the low price of $1.00 per year. A single 
specimen, which Mr. Purdy sends free to all, will 
satisfy any person of its great value. 
2tf Address, A. M. PURDY, Palmyra, N. Y. 
NEW SMALL FRUITS. 
The ideal strawberry, Legal Tender, Mr. Fel¬ 
ton’s best and most successful seedling, will be of¬ 
fered by subscription. Orient and Satin Gloss 
strawberries a grand success the past season. 
Potted plants now ready. Early Prolific and 
Reliance raspberries still ahead. W T e have 20 
acres now in bearing. All the newest and best 
varieties of small fruit plants. Prentiss and oth¬ 
er choice grape vines; trees, &c., &c., at low prices. 
List free. J. C. GIBSON, 
3yl Woodbury, N. J. 
THE FINEST ! THE OLDEST! THE BEST 
THE FANCIERS’ FAVORITE! 
THE PET STOCK, PIGEON 
— AND — 
Poultry Bulletin ! 
The Bulletin is a large, beautifully illustrated, 
monthly magazine, published in New York city. 
It is devoted to the breeding and management of 
thoroughbred stock. It is the oldest journal of 
its class in the world. It believes in new ideas, 
and aims to give its subscribers what they pay for 
—good, live, interesting, valuable reading. 
NEW ATTRACTIONS ARE CONSTANTLY APPEARING. 
If you take any paper of the sort you want The 
Bulletin. If you keep poultry or pet stock of 
any kind vou want The Bulletin. It costs but 
a small sum. 
$1.25 PER YEAR, POST-PAID. 
Address, POULTRY BULLETIN. 
3tS 62 Courtlandt street, New York. 
BEES and HOSTST, 
The Bee Journal was started in 1861, as a 
monthly, and upon its twentieth birthday, Janua¬ 
ry, 1881, it was changed to a weekly, and has not 
only fully sustained its former excellent reputa- 
, tion. but it has even exceeded the expectations of 
its most sanguine admirers, by advancing new and 
progressive ideas upon the various topics of Bee 
culture. It is the best and most thoroughly prac¬ 
tical publication on Bees and Honey in the world, 
and all those who keep bees will do themselves a 
lasting benefit by sending $2.00 for the weekly Bee? 
Journal for 1882. It is edited and published by 
Thomas G. Newman, whose reputation as a bee< 
master is world-wide. Send for a sample copy; 
Address, American Bee Journal, Chicago, Ill. 
