PICTORIAL HOME COMPANION, 
A handsomely ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL, pub- 
lished monthly, devoted to the CULTURE OF 
FLOWERS for ont-door or in-door decoration; 
and PICTORIAL HOME T ITERATURE for all 
members of the Family Circle. 
SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, 1874. 
$1 25 per year, single copies. 
Club Terms. 
5 copies. . $6 00, or $1 20 each. 
10 “ . 11 50, “ 1 15 “ 
15 u . . 16 50, “ 1 10 “ 
20 “ . 22 00, “ 1 10 “ 
Fa'-hsubscriber receiving achromofor 1874, ‘‘Gems 
of the h lower Garden,” size 11 by 14. 
For clubs of 15 and upward, extra copy of paper 
and chromo free to agents. 
Subscriptions at $1 25 begin with October, 1873, 
or January, 1874. 
$1 50 per year includes all three chromos. 
New York City and Canada subscribers will add 
12 cents advance U. S. postage to above terms; 
Terms for Back Numbers. 
$1 00 per year for volume of 1873. 
Subscribers for 1874 not supplied, and desiring 
chromos, will remit following prices, io cover 
expenses and trouble of mailing, mounting, etc.: 
Chromos for 1873, “ Good Night and Good Morn¬ 
ing 25 cents. 
Chromo for 1874, u Gems of the Flower Garden 
25 cents. 
Agents desiring specimens for canvassing will 
also remit same prices. 
Specimen copy of paper sent free on receipt of 
P. O. stamp. 
Premium list free on receipt Of P. O. stamp. 
Agents and canvassers wanted everywhere. 
Newsdealers will receive orders and supply regu¬ 
larly. 
Advertising rates, 50 cents per line. 
Address, 
HENRY T. WILLIAMS, 
Proprietor, 
No. 5 Beckman street, N. Y. 
THIS FIISTE PICTURE 
PUBLISHER’S ANNOUNCE¬ 
MENTS. 
To Old Subscribers. —This number is sent to 
all old subscribers of 1872 and 1873. Look at it; 
admire it. It is a sample of our new form, sent to 
show yon how handsome arc our improvements for 
1S74. If yon like it, renew now before February 1, 
and get your chromo. Return it to us if you do not 
wish to take it next year, or hand it to some one 
who will be likely to subscribe. We have no 
copies to waste. Every number must tell. 
To Renewals. —Those who renew r will please 
state that they have received the January number, 
and thus save our expense and trouble in sending 
another. 
Delivery of Chromos. —Chromo, Gems of the 
Floioer Garden , is to be delivered to subscribers, 
enclosed in their February Cabinet , using a sup¬ 
plement to that number. The two chromos, 
“Good Night” and ‘‘Good Morning,” arc on 
hand, and can he delivered usually the same week 
ordered. 
WHY 
not nm 
subscribe for the STAB 
SPANGLED BAN- 
NEE, and bo able to 
avoid Swindlers, Quacks, and umbugs. This large 
Ledger size paper, twelve years’ established, ex¬ 
poses ali. Swindlers, and is hated and libelled by 
them therefor Eight pages splendid reading illus¬ 
trated, stories, tales, sketches, poems, etc., etc. 
TWO choice genuine Prang Chromos and Paper 
a whole year given for only $1. Agents wanted. 
Outfit furnished. Cash paid. Elegant Premiums. 
Send 6 cents for specimens to 
STAB SPANGLED BANNER, 
Hinsdale, N. H. 
rnTTn P"PTTTTT A T HYMN AND 
IJuLu lUj V l V iill TUNE BOOK 
FOR TILE MILLION. Enlarged. This little 
work contains 96 pages of choice Revival 
Hymns and Tunes for Prayer and Social 
Meetings, Sunday-Schools and Congre¬ 
gations Among the many gems , we mould 
name: “Where is thy Kefuge, Poor Sin¬ 
ner?” “I Will Never Cast Him Out,” 
“ O, Be Saved,” “Almost Persuaded,” 
“Jesus Died to Save Me,” “I Love to 
Tell the Story,” “Save, O Jesus, Save,” 
and “Jesus of Nazareth Passeth by.” 
Price, paper. 20 cents, mailed ; $15 per hun¬ 
dred; boards, 25 cents, mailed; $20 per 
hundred. Publishers. 
HORACE WATERS &. SON, 481 B'way, N. Y. 
AVILUDE; 
Or, Game of Birds. 
THE GEM OE OABD GAMES. 
Of all the games in market, none arc so happily 
adapted to amuse and instruct children at one and 
the same time as Aviludo. In it are thirty-two 
beautiful pictures, and thirty-two scientific descrip 
tions. It is the best possible incentive to the study 
of natural history, and the only game ever pub¬ 
lished in the interest of science. Thousands of 
Children have been made happy and had 
stored up for them a wholo winter of enjoyment 
and instruction by the present of a game of 
Avilude. 
“Aviludc is au admirable conception, thoroughly in sym¬ 
pathy with the most advanced ideas of juvenile instruction. 
* * * These Birds go on a good mission and will find their 
way to the hearts of a host of children.”— Prof. A. H. Davis. 
“ An excellent addition to our home amusements.”— 
Christian Union. 
“ Must have a large sale and deserves it too.” 
Tlarvcr's Weekly. 
For salo by all Stationers and Toy Dealers, or 
sent postpaid, on receipt of seventy-five cents, by 
WEST & LEE, Worcester, Mass. 
EW AND RARE 
200 Pages; 500 Engravings, and Colored 
Plate. Published Quarterly, at 25 Cents a 
Year. First Number for 1874 just issued. A 
German edition at same price. 
Address, JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. 
The following named plants will be sent by mail, 
postpaid, on receipt of $2.00. Our beautiful Illus¬ 
trated Catalogue for 1374, ready January 1st, free to 
all applicants. 
1 Sedum, 
1 Coleus, 
1 Geranium (Rose), 
1 “ (Zonale), 
1 Chrysanthemum, 
2 Begonia (winter blooming), 
1 Ageratum, 
1 Cuphea, 
1 Fuchsia, 
1 Oleander, 
1 E. Ivy, 
1 Solanum. 
New Roses a Specialty. 
We are prepared to supply, in limited quantities’ 
fine young plants, grown in 4 inch pots, and on 
their own roots, from onr importations of nearly 
300 named varieties of all the latest and choicest 
varieties grown in Europe. 
For description of each variety see our Rose 
Catalogue, mailed on application and receipt of P. 
0. stamp. 
MILLER & HAYES, 
Mount Airy Nurseries, 
5774 Germantown Av„ Philadelphia. 
DR. DENNEY’S NEW GERANIUMS, 
Ianthe, Wellington, Haidee, Diana and 
Sir John Moore, fine plants, 50 cents each. 
SMILAX .—Fine young plants, $1.00 per doz., 
$6.00 per 100. 
MILLER & HAYES, 
5774 Germantown Av. Philadelphia, Pa. 
Address, GBEEN, BEACH & CO., 
Seedsmen and Florists, 
[Box 1775] Oil City, Pa. 
TUBEROSE BULBS 
1st qualitv double flowering Tuberose Bulbs, extra 
in size, - - $4.00 per 100, $30.00 per 1,000 
2d do do 3.00 “ 25.00 
8d do do *2.00 ** 15.00 *‘ 
MILLER & HAYES, 
5774 Cermantown Avenue, 
1’mi.ADFLPllrA, Pa. 
A Five Dollar MEZZOTINT ENGRAV¬ 
ING as a Premium to every person 
getting up a Club. 
CHEAPEST A3VD BEST. 
PETERSON’S MAGAZINE has the best Original 
Stories of any of the lady’s books, the best Colored 
Fashion Plates, the best Receipts, the best Steel 
Engravings, &c.. &c. Every family ought to take 
it. It gives more for the money than any in the 
world. ;It. will contain, next year, in its twelve 
numbers— . 
One Thousand Pages. 
Fourteen Splendid Steel Plates. 
Twelve Colored Berlin Patterns. 
Twelve Mammoth Colored Fashions. 
Nine Hundred Wood Cuts. 
Twenty-four Pages of Music. 
It will also give Five Original Copryright Nov¬ 
elets, by Mrs. Ann 8. Stephens, Frank Lee Benedict, 
and others of the best authors in America. Also, 
nearly a hundred shorter stories , all original. 
Its superb 
Mammoth Colored Fashion Plates 
are ahead of all others. These plates are engraved 
on steel, twice the usual size. 
TEEMS, always in advance, $2 A YEAE. 
GREAT REDUCTIONS TO CLUBS. . 
- _ . „ „„ f With a copy of the superb 
— Copies for $3.50 mezzotint (24x16), "Not 
■< Lost but Gone Before to 
jj U tl 4.50 'I'e person getting up the 
I^Club. ; 
4 Copies for $6.50 ( With an extra copy of the 
.. (, /.ft J Magazine for the year 18T4, 
” j as a premium to the person 
10 “ 14.00 ( getting up the Club. 
5 Copies for $8.00 ( ™ tlx L oth a ? extra . ct S y 
q u u iii* J the Magazine and the 
3 \ premium mezzotint to the 
12 u t6 17.00 ( person getting up the Club. 
Address, postpaid. 
CHARLES J. PETERSON, 
306 Chestnut St.> tPhitadetphicCy 
yfNT' Specimens sent gratis if written for. 
The Nineteenth Annual Edition of our cclebra- 
tea Seed Catalogue and Amateur’s 
Cuide to the Flower and Kitchen 
Carden, containing upwards of 200 pages, including 
several hundred finely executed engravings of favorite 
flowers and vegetables, and a beautifully COl - 
©red Chrome, with, a Supplement lor 1374, is 
now in press, and will he mailed to all applicants upon 
receipt 25 cents. An edition elegantly hound in cloth, 
$ 1 . 00 . 
Bliss’ 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 Carden, Field and Flower Seeds, 
with brief directions for their culture. A copy will he 
mailed to all applicants inclosing a thrcc-cent stamp. 
Address 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
Nos. 23 Park Place and 20 Murray St., 
P.O.Box 5712. NEW YORK. 
THE 
For the convenient holding and -preservation on 
' file of the numbers of 
LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET, also SHEETS OF MUSIC. 
Price, $t.S&. Sent by Mail, prepaid. 
This Binder, size 11 xl-lf, will hold conveniently several years’ numbers 
of the Ladies’ Flohal auinet, also anv number of Sheets of Music, and 
is a Capital Portfolio for keeping any Pictorial Papers. Islight, easy to hold. 
Bound in nicely ornamental cloth, with patent rods and fasteners. 
THE BINDER AS A PREMIUM. 
To any one bringing a < tub, for the Ladies’ Fr.op.AT. Cabinet, of ten, at 
$1.25, or fifteen, at $1.10, a copy of the Binder is given to club agent, free. 
For a Club of fifteen, at $1.25, or twenty-five, at $1.10, is given both Binder, 
free, and also extra copy of Paper and Chromo, free to club agent. 
ADDRESS ORDERS TO 
HENRY T. WILLIAMS, Publisiier, 
P. O. Box 2445. 
;“> X?eekmn ti ^t.* New NToxTi:. 
U. B.—Club Agents, in getting up Clubs for the Cabinet, who can procure .orders for* above Binder 
from any of the Club, will receive from us a commission. Special Terms made known uii applicaticni. 
