our personal experience of over twenty years of growing vege¬ 
tables for tlie great market of New York; and though mainly 
written for the market gardener, hundreds of amateurs and 
private gardeners have thanked us for its publication. Since 
the first edition, printed in 1866, upwards of Fifty Thou¬ 
sand Copies have been sold. 
Sent Post-paid, price $1.50. 
By the same Author, 
Practical Floriculture, 
A work descriptive of the modes of Commercial Floriculture, 
as practised in the vicinity of New York. The subjects on 
which it mainly treats are: Landscape Gardening; Designs 
for Flower Gardens; Planting of Flower Gardens; Green¬ 
house Structures; Mode of Healing; Cold Frames; Hot Beds; 
Soils for Potting; Temperature and Moisture; Culture of 
the Rose, Tuberose, Verbena, and Violet; Propagation of 
Plants by Seeds, Cuttings, &c.; Parlor and Window'Garden¬ 
ing; Hanging Baskets; ’'sicking Plants: Plants by Mail; 
Formation of Rock Work; Construction of Bouquets, Bas¬ 
kets, ; Culture of Winter-Flowering Plants; Insects; 
Profits of Floriculture ; Diary of Operations, &c. 
Price by Mail, Post-paid, $ 1.50. 
OUR BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED 
CATALOGUES for 1874, of 
Numbering 
175 pages, and 
containing 2 fine large colored 
plates, are now ready. To our 
patrons, they will be mailed as usual, 
free ; to all others, on receipt of 25c., 
which we return in Seeds or Plants, 
with first order. 
AU purchasers of our Boohs, either 
CSardc’iMiig for B't-ofi4, 
or 3*s'aetic»l K'lojricraltare, 
Price, $1.50 each, (prepaid by mail), 
have their names entered on our 
lists, and will receive above 
Catalogues annually' 3 
free of charge. 
^Jfk/vJ^isruc^eAiddyific^ 
Seedsmen, 35 Cortlandt Street, New York. 
VV HY Utlsnilfili? subscribe for the STAR 
" l ‘ gy 11 W SPANGLED B AN- 
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them therefor. Eight pages splendid reading illus¬ 
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TWO choice genuine Prang Chromos and Paper 
a whole year given for only Jjl. Agents wanted. 
Outfit furnished. Cash paid. Elegant i remiums. 
Send 6 cents for specimens to 
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Hinsdale, PsT. H. 
TRICKS 
AND 
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OP AMERICA. 
The only reliable expo¬ 
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Sent prepaid, only 25 cents; 0 for $1. Address 
HUNTER & CO.. Publishers, 
Hinsdale, N. H 
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A ND 
FOR THE MILLION. Enlarged ~'~Tmume. 
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“Jesus Died to Save Me,” “I Love to 
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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, M, Y, 
FA.SIiIO\H OPENING! 
From Smith’s Illustrated Pattern Bazaar. 
1360— THE EEDINGOTE- 
Famed for beautifying any style of j 
figure. Is a complete costume with | 
any kind of skirt. Double breasted 
and rolling collar. Requires only , 
eight yards of twonty-seven-inch 
goods. All sizes. Price of pattern. I 
with a CLOTH MODEL, 50cts. 
Mailed. 
25 Packages of Flower or Vegetable Seeds Free by 
Mail, for One Dollar. Our beautiful Illustrated 
Catalogue of Plants and Seeds for 1874, free to all. 
Plants by Mail a specialty. 
The Nineteenth Annual Edition of our celebrated 
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 colored Chrom^, with 
a Supplement tor 1874, is now in press, and will be mailed 
to all applicants upon receipt of 25 cents. An edition 
elegantly bound in cloth, S1.00. 
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. * copy will be 
mailed to all applicants inclosing a three-cent stamp. 
Address 
B. K. BLISS & SONS, 
Nos. 23 Park Plate and 20 Murray St., 
NEW YORK, 
Address. GREEN, BEACH & GO., P. O. Box 5712. 
Seedsmen and filorist#. 
[Box 1775] Oil City, Pa i CHOICE SEEDS. 
172— WAIST— Is a 
new and bewitching de¬ 
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just enough to give a 
modest, graceful effect. 
In any material. AU 
sizes. Price of pattern 
and CLOTH MODEL, 
25cts. Mailed. 
We give a perfect CLOTH MODEL with every 1 
pattern, which shows just how to put the garment : 
together after being cut bv the pattern. They arc* I 
PERFECT GUIDES. 
Immense Premiums Given! 
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their selection to the value of One Dollar, 
Free, OR, in place of Patterns, you may j 
choose OEB of the following beautiful Oil' 
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sell readily for from $1.00 to $3.00 each. Send two j 
stamps for Catalogue of Styles. 
PIT TT D —Ohe Chromo Extra will be giv- 
Vj-Li U _D» en to 'he person who sends us three 
subscribers at one time. Two extra for five, &c 
SMITH’S INSTRUCTION BOOK, 
or, Secrets of Dressmaking*, 
in Ladies’ and Children’s Garments. Price, 10 
cents. Mailed. 
A. BURDETTE SMITH, 
P. o. Box 5055. 914 Broadway, 
New York City. 
The HANSON LETTUCE 
The most tender, sweet, and delicious variety 
grown: free from any bitter or unpleasant taste; 
heads large and solid, often weighing 3 pounds. 
Single pkg«. 25 cts. 5 pkgs, ~$1. A Liberal 
Discount to Dealfrs 
Send f<>t- Dreer’s Garden Calendar for 1874, 
168 page^ illustrated. with practical directions. 
Mailed, free to all applicants. 
HENRY A. DREER, 
714 Chestnut St,, Philadelphia, Pa. 
TUBEROSE BULBS 
Lst quality double flowering Tuberose Bulbs, extra 
in size, - - $4.00 per 100, $30.00 per 1,000 
2d do do 3.00 “ 25.00 
3d do do 2.00 “ 15.00 
MILLER & HAYES, 
5774 Germantown Avenue, 
Philadelphia, I’a. 
SEEDS! 
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(Spooner’s Prize Flower Seeds: 
112 varieties splendid Aster 
Seeds, mailed to applicants 
upon receipt of $1.00. New 
Illustrated Seed Catalogue, 
jree. Address Wm. H. Spoon¬ 
er, 4 Beacon St., Boston. 
FOR 1874 
Sent free to our customers, and to all others on re¬ 
ceipt of two 2-cent stamps for the postage. 
HOVEY CO., 
53 North. Market St., Boston, Mass. 
39 3 U OE3DE3R SEWS, 
BRIGGS&BRO.’S 
January Quarterly, 
The finest Floral Work ever issued in this 
country. Published Quarterly- the four numbers 
sent to any address for 25 cents—comprising an Il¬ 
lustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of the Seeds, 
Bulbs, and Plants sold by Briggs & Brother, 
Seedsmen and Florists, Koch ester, Yew York, 
together with elaborate treatises upon the care and 
cultivation of the same. Over 1000 Prem¬ 
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products of BRIGGS & BROTHER’S SEEDS. 
The January number alone will be worth more 
than a $2.00 Book. Customers for $1.00 or up¬ 
ward become subscribers. 
We challenge comparison on prices, reliability of 
Seeds, and size of packets. Address, 
BRIGGS & BROTHER, 
Rochester, RT. Y. 
. My business is to supply, what every good firmer 
is anxious to get, the very best of vegetable seed. J 
grow a hundred and fifty kinds on my four seed 
farms, right under my own eye, making new veget¬ 
ables a specialty, besides importing their choicest 
varieties from European growers. A fine selection 
of flower seed, home-grown and imported, will also 
be found in my Illustrated Catalogue. It will be , 
ready by January, and sejit free to all applicants. | 
My customers of last year will receive it without 
writing for it. 
JAMES J. H. GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. * 
THE 
Binder and Portfolio* 
}for the convenient holding a-t/d preservation on 
file efthe number# of 
LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET, also SHEETS OF MUSIC. 
Drive, $t Sent by JMui'l, p-reptnid. 
This Binder, size Uxl4£, will hold conveniently several years' numbers 
of the Ladies’ Floral a id net, also ynv number of Sheets of Music, and 
is a Capital Portfolio for keeping any Pictorial Papers. Is light, easy to hold. 
Bound in nicely ornamental cloth, with patent rods and fasteners. 
THE BINDER AS A PREMIUM. 
To any one bringing a 1 lub. for the La oiks’ Floral 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, Publisher, 
P. O• Box 2445. 5 Beekraan St., New York. 
N. B.—Club Agents, in fretting 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 on application. 
