®He $4«,3iEs' iE’lorai ifeamrtet an3 JHdtoriai Home Eomiuxnian,. 
liSAD THIS t 
AND BEFORE YOU ORDER YOUR PLANTS AND SEEDS, 
Enclose a Letter Stamp and. send for our Illustrated Catalogue for 1875. We offer 
12 Choice Ptoses for $2. 12 Choice Carnations, including La Selle, 
for $2. 12 Choice 'Pelargoniums , and one of the finest collec¬ 
tions in the world to select from, for $2. 
BESIDES A 
GENERAL COLLECTION OE CHOICE PLANTS AND SEEDS, 
WHICH ARE FULLY DESCRIBED IN OUR CATALOGUE. 
A. d. dress 
Bellows Wmwmmw 
H. E. CHITTY, Supt. 
PATEBSON, UNT. <T. 
ALFRED BR1DGEMAN, 
876 Broadway JVew York, 
GROWER, IMPORTER AND DEALER IN 
VEGETABLE, FIELD 
AND 
SSSBS. 
Garden Tools and Horticnltnral Books. 
My annual priced Catalogues are now ready, and 
mailed free to all applicants. They contain all the 
leading and most popular sorts of Vegetable, Field 
and Flower Seeds, including all the most desirable 
novelties of the past season. 
Seed Time Cometh! 
Oar Flower and Kitchen Garden Il¬ 
lustrated Directory for 1875 (the twenty- 
second edition), with supp'ement of Novelties 
and Specialties in Seeds and other Garden 
requisites for the Season, is now being sent to all 
customers of last season, and will be sent to others 
Free on application Address D. T. CURTIS & 
CO.. 161 Tiiemont Street, Boston, Mass. 
IR. O S H‘S 
AND 
BEDDING PLANTS BY MAIL. 
A list of our popular $1 Collections of Flowering 
Plants for 1ST5 is now ready for free distribution. 
Also our Descriptive Catalogue of Plants, Seeds, 
and Fruits. We mail plants at any time, cold or 
hot, with uniform success. 
W. F. MASSEY & CO., 
(Late Massey & Hudson,) 
Chestertown, Kent Co., Md. 
FLOWER 
SEEDS. 
VEGETABLE 
SEEDS. 
Spooner’s Prize Flower 
Seeds, 
SPOONER’ * BOSTON 
MARKET 
VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
Descriptive Priced Catalogue 
with over 150 illustrations, mailed 
free to applicant. 
W. H. SPOONER, 
Boston, Mass. 
White Water Lilies. 
I will send the bulb of this beautiful and lragrant 
flower, until the middle of May, by mail, securely 
packed in moss, for 25 cents each, or $2.50 per doz. 
Instructions for growing them in ponds, tubs, or 
aquariums, sent with each package. N. B.—Four 
of these bulbs make a splendid tub of flowers the 
first year. Address F. E. S. Crandall, Rockville, 
Washington Co., R. I 
POSTPAID FOR 1375. 
THE NURSERY. 
A Magazine for Youngest Readers. 
SUPESBLY ILLUSTRATED, 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 
Subscription price for a Year, $1.50 
Postage, - - - - - .10 
A cut postpaid for 
- $1.60 
Payable in advance. A sample number 
will be sent for 10 cents. Address, 
JOHN L. SHOREY, 
36 Bronifield Street, Boston. 
New Roses, New Flowers, &c 
will lie found in the Americau Amateur’s Collec¬ 
tions, which are largely composed of the Newest, 
Rarest and Choicest Premium-Awarded Novelties 
( f Europe. See our Special List of same, which in- 
el udes some choice Seed Novelties. Mailed free to 
all app’icants. Address 
The Grcenbrook > nd Paterson City Nurseries 
Box 837 Paterson, N. J 
ONLY ONE 
COSTS SIMPLE 
YOU 
ONLY 
To make ANY width Hem, from 3-16 of an Inch to 1 Inch. 
r p, ^r^TI/TTT T A "AT H-KMMER DOES THIS, and, as an inducement for you 
1 ne m ■ Ia 1j r\ l^l to give it a trial, send 81 hv mail, and get one of these llem- 
mers, and OWE OOZEW BEST ASSOItTEB NEKDLES for your Machine, all 
sent FREE by return mail. Address, stating the kind of Machine you have, 
F. W. BROWN, 177 Wftst Fourth Street, CINCINNATI, O. 
PRACTICAL 
^SILY OPERATED. 
LADIES 
ONE YEAR’S 
SUPPLY OF 
I Sent safely 2,000 miles. 
1 15 Verbenas, 15 kinds. - - $100 
12 Basket-plants, 12 kinds, - 1 00 
12 Bedding-plants, 12 kinds, 1 00 
8 Roses, 8 kinds. 1 00 
8 Geraniums, 8-kinds, - 10C 
All named sorts, our choice. 
100 other things cheap. 
A premium offered to clubs. 
I A 00-page Catalogue free. 
2lst year. 400 acres, 11 greenhouses. 
STORKS, HARRISON CO. 
Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio, 
FOB SMALL GARDENS. 
UCPC T ADI r O C C n OTA TVV T The best and earliest large White 
K LUL I HULL ULlLIiJ JJijlI/ I . Grape. A pure Concord Seedling, 
^ w ™ w of greatly improved quality. Perfectly healthy, 
hardy, and reliable. Ripens fully two weeks before 
the Concord. Strong one year plants, $1.50 each, 
or $12 per dozen; 2 years. $2 each, $18 per dozen : 
postpaid, if desired; 20.000 Delaware Layers. $50 
to $150 per 1,000. All other valuable varieties of 
Grape-vines cheap. Also, splendid stock of Green¬ 
house and Bedding Plants. 15 Verbenas, $1: 12 
Basket Plants, $1 ; 12 Beddjng Plants. $1; 8 Roses. 
$1; S Geraniums, double and single, $1 ; in assorted 
kinds, all postpaid. Catalogues free. 
GEO. W. < AMPBELL, Delaware, O. 
To those who are not conversant with the differ¬ 
ent varieties of Vegetable Seeds, or may not have 
the time or inclination to make their own selections, 
we offer the following collections, which contain 
only the most approved and desirable kinds in each 
class. They are made up in,the most liberal man¬ 
ner. care having been taken to give a large quantity 
of the best and most useful varieties in each section. 
Collection No. 1, price $6.00 
“ “ 2, “ $12.00 
Collections of Annual Flower Seeds, 
carefully selected so as to give a beautiful succes¬ 
sion of Flowers throughout the ensuing spring and 
summer months. Explicit directions for sowing 
and treatment sent with each'package. 
25 distinct varieties for $1.00. 
50 u “ “ 2.50. 
100 “ “ “ 5.00. 
Any of the above collections sent free, by mail, 
on receipt of price. 
Purchasers of any of the above collection# will 
receive, without extra charge , our Seed and : Plant 
Catalogues for 1875, together with five colored 
%)lates. 
35 Cortlandt Street, New York. 
JgpAlwavs Jrcsh and Rtliable.^jp 
DREER’S GARDEM CATALOGUE, 1875, 
contains descriptive and priced lists of Vegetable, 
Flower and Grass Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, Novelties, 
and every Garden Bequisite. Beautifully il¬ 
lustrated Mailed free. Address HENRY A. 
DREER, Philadelphia, Pa. 
MILLER & HAYES, 
MOMTICUTjTVMISTS. 
ROSES. New Catalogue ROSES. 
Our descriptive ROSE CATALOGUE of 1S75, 
containing over 500 named varieties, grown by us 
on their own roots, embracing all the latest novel¬ 
ties and best old varieties, now ready for distribu¬ 
tion, Copies with colored plate, 10 cents. Plain 
Copies sent on receipt of 3 cent postage stamp. 
MILLER & HAYES, 
Mount Airy Nurseries, 5774 Germantown Aye., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
NEW CATALOGUE, 
We offer for SPRING, '75, an unusually 
large stock of well-grown, thrifty 
Standard"and Dwarf Fruit Trees, 
Grapevines, Small Fruits, 
Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, 
Hew and Rare Fruit and Ornamental 
Trees, 
Evergreens and Bulbous Roots, 
Hew and Rare Green and Hothouse 
Plants. 
Small parcels forwarded by mail when desired. 
Piompt attention given >o all inquiries. 
Descriptive and Illustrated Priced Catalogues 
sent, prepaid , on receipt of stamp g: as follows: 
No. 1—Fruits, lOe. No.'2—Ornamental Trees, 
10c. No. 3—Greenhouse, lOe. No. 4—Whole¬ 
sale, Free. 
Ellwanger & Barry, 
Mount Hope Nurseries, ROCHESTER, 1ST. Y. 
Six Fine Plants 
FOR 
ONLY 50 GENTS. 
We will send any of the following collections of 
plants, post paid, to any point in the United States, 
on receipt of 50 cents. The different varieties will 
be our own selections. 
No. 1.—1 Rose Monthly, 2 Fuchsias, 1 Zonale 
Geranium 1 Double Geranium, 1 Heliotrope. 
No. 2.-6 Fine Plants and Vines for Basket. 
No. 3.—1 Fuchsia C. Holt, 1 Abutilon, 1 Eupa- 
torium, 1 Stevia, 1 Solanum Wheelerii 1 Violet. 
No. 4.—1 Laniana, 1 Begonia, 1 Libonia, 1 Eup. 
Riparium. 1 Carnation, 1 Feverfew Prince Alfred. 
No. 5.—Foliage Plants: 2 Coleus, 2 Achryanthus, 
1 Cineraria Maritima, 1 Canna. 
No. 6.—10 Verbenas, all different colors. 
No. 7.—1 Calceolaria, 1 Penstemon, 1 Carnation, 1 
Pilea 1 Smilax, 1 Fuchsia. 
No. 8.—1 each: Scented, Zonale, Ivy and Double 
Geraniums, 4 Verbenas. 
No. 9.—1 German Ivy, 1 Honeysuckle, 2 Double 
Petunias, 2 Chrysanthemums. 
No. 10.—1 Vinca Harrisonii, 1 Cocoloba, 1 Ver¬ 
onica, 1 Ageratum, 1 Cuphea, 2 Alternanthera. 
FLOWEB SEEDS. 
No. 11.—12 Packets Choice Flower Seeds. 
No. 12.—4 Packets Annuals, 4 Packets Everlast¬ 
ings, 4 Packets Climbers. 
No. 13.—12 Packets Choice Vegetable Seeds. 
Any one sending $2. 0 can select five of the above 
collections. They will he mailed to different ad¬ 
dresses. 
Our Illustrated Catalogue of Plants and Seeds, 
with a Packet each of Petunia and Phlox Seed, sent 
on receipt of 10 cents. Address, 
C. A. BEESEB & CO., 
JEr iey TPa . 
Our illustrated and descriptive CATALOGUE of 
1S75, containing many new, scarce, and valuable : 
BUY J. & P. COATS’ BLACK 
THREAD for pir MACHINE. 
BEAUTIFUL EYFRBLOtMIWG 
ROSE 
Strong Pot Plants 
Suitable for immediate Flowering. Sent safely 
by mail, post paid. Five Splendid Varieties, pur¬ 
chaser's choice, $1; twelve varieties $2. For 10 
cents additional, we send 
Magnificent Premium Rose. 
Our elegant Spring Catalogue for 1875, describing 
more than two hundred finest varieties of Roses, 
and containing full directions for culture, with chap¬ 
ters on Winter Protection, Injurious Insects, etc, 
etc., is now ready, and will be sent toall who apply. 
Tbe Dingee & Conard Co., 
ROSE GROWERS, 
"West Grove, Chester Co., Pa- 
cent StaW 10 c aT XV 
,OGL t U 
tbe GREG. 
S-bJS 
CBEEN-HOUSE & BEDDING PLANTS, Madame Toy’s Corset Skirt Supporter, 
prices lt e4uC toSWO o. 
AgeaW c0 , Woreest-*' 
AS ga^ c ° M> sS ‘ 
and rare and choice NTUBSEBY STOCK, 
is now ready for distribution. Mailed on applica¬ 
tion and receipt of 6 cents postage stamps. 
MILLER & HAYES, 
Mount Airy Nurseries, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
Q'P’P npTJTQ Foi* $1.00 I will send 10 Choice 
-L-LL-Lk) Plants, including Nexv Double 
White Geranium, Aline Sisley. 
H. L. PHELPS, Springfield. Ill. 
T^ARMRRS, Planter- and Everybody, send for a 
1 .Package of the “Florida Onmge Water Melon 
Seeds,” only 30c., two packages 50c. Try them. 
Address, Orange Blossom Farm, 
Box 24, Orlando, Orange Co., Florida. 
For Health , Comfort and Style , 
is acknowledged the best Article 
of the kind ever made Nume¬ 
rous Testimonials in its favor 
are being received from all parts 
of the U. S. For sale by all 
leading Jobbers and Retailers. 
FOY & HARMON, 
Sole Manufacturers. 
New Haven, Conn. 
ARNOLD & BANNING-, 
New York, Agents. 
700 SUPERB VARIETIES OF I 
500 ? 000 Greenhouse Plants. 
Mailing Plants a Specialty. 
Illustrated Catalogue Free. I 
E.Y. TEAS & CO. Richmond, Ind. 
$15(M)oz. Teas, Bourbons, and Noisette 
B loomington nursery, Bloomington, 
Ill.—F. K. PHCENIX. Spring lists free, or 
the set of four catalogues post free for 20 cents. 
