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the business in such a manner as to please all that may 
intrust him with their orders. 
Shaker Seed Company, Mount Lebanon, N. Y. De¬ 
scriptive and Illustrated Catalogue and Amateur’s Guide 
to the flower and vegetable garden. The “ Shaker 
Seeds ” are well-known all over the country as this 
establishment has been engaged in seed growing for 
nearly one hundred years, and probably more seeds of 
their own production are sold at retail from this place 
than from any other in the country. 
R. G. Chase & Co., Geneva, Philadelphia and Boston. 
Catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubbery, &c. 
W. W. Johnson, Snowflake, Mich. General trade 
catalogue of tree seedlings, tree seeds, cuttings, &c. 
The Rose is a specialty with the Dingee & Conard 
Company, West Grove, Pa., and there it has found a 
congenial home. More Roses are grown there than in 
any other locality in this country, and nowhere are they 
grown better. Although the Rose is their chief produc¬ 
tion, they also offer hardy flowering shrubs, climbing 
vines, Gladioli Lilies, and a few other choice plants. 
Their catalogue is beautifully illustrated, and is invalu¬ 
able to all who wish to grow the Rose successfully. 
Hale Brothers, South Glastonbury. Conn. Catalogue 
of small fruit plants. Of their business, a good idea can 
be formed by the following from their catalogue : 
“Fully appreciating the importance of pedigree in 
plants as well as in animals, we have for years made a 
most careful selection of all stock for propagation, and 
we now offer for sale a stock of plants which we believe 
to be equal, if not superior, in health, vigor and produc¬ 
tiveness to any in the country. This is a subject which 
every fruit-grower would do well to consider before pur¬ 
chasing cheap stock.” 
A. D. Cowan & Co., 114 Chambers street, New York, 
send us a comprehensive catalogue of vegetable and flower 
seeds, garden requisites, &c., &c. This firm make a spe¬ 
cialty of the market gardener’s trade, and whoever can 
satisfy that class of customers, can easily satisfy all others, 
as they are r more exacting in their demands, and willing to 
pay a much higher price for seeds than any other buyers. 
“ The Best Only,” is the motto of this firm, the best only 
is what their customers will accept. 
Arthur Bryant, Princeton, Ill. Price list of Bryant’s 
nurseries. 
Pansies a Specialty. — It is a rare thing to start a 
seed store and only sell one kind of seed. But then, 
this is an age of surprises, and we must expect to find 
them cropping out everywhere. The last is a catalogue 
of Pansies, issued by Albert Benz, Douglaston, N. Y. 
This is a move in the right direction, because when a man 
devotes his whole attention to a single article he is sure to- 
obtain the best possible results. That Mr. Benz has done 
this, we know very well, having seen his Pansies on exhi¬ 
bition for the past five years, and know them to be strictly 
first-class. 
Z. De Forest, Ely & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Garden 
almanac and seed manual. 
Warren W. Rawson, 34 South Market street, Boston, 
Mass., furnishes a catalogue that we delight to look over. 
It is neat, systematic and complete. As a specimen of 
typographical work it is absolutely perfect. As a guide to 
the kitchen or the flower garden it is safe to follow. 
Everything listed is accurately described, and the cultural 
instructions are concise and plain. Mr. Rawson has been 
a prominent and successful market gardener at Arlington 
for many years, and has done much in the way of selec¬ 
tion, to raise the standard of many of our choicest vege¬ 
tables. 
Young & Elliott, 18 Cortlandt street, New York. 
Wholesale catalogue of vegetable and flower seeds, 
bulbs and florists’ supplies. 
Michel Plant and Seed Company, 708 Olive street, St. 
Louis, Mo. Illustrated descriptive catalogue of garden 
and flower seeds, summer flowering bulbs, greenhouse, 
stove and bedding plants, Roses, herbaceous plants, &c„ 
&c. This is one of the most extensive and best known 
floral and seed establishments in the West, and, as such, 
is entitled to the confidence and patronage of all our 
Western friends. 
THE SALVIA. 
T HIS genus belongs to the natural order Labiata — 
Labiatis, or lip-flowered plants—which has refer¬ 
ence to the peculiar pendents attached to the blooms, and 
which in the form of a lip lend to them such peculiar 
beauty. The genus includes some of our most valued 
border plants, the most useful being the well-known S. 
splendens, which is also used with good effect as a green¬ 
house or conservatory plant. This species was intro¬ 
duced from Mexico about fifty years ago, and justly 
maintains its proud position in the flower garden. It is 
readily propagated by cuttings or from seed, which, if 
sown in the hotbed in March will make splendid flower¬ 
ing plants for autumn. If plants are desired for the 
window garden, they can be taken from the border about 
the middle of September,'and potted in good rich soil, 
using a pot only large enough to accommodate the roots 
without crowding; shade the plants for a few days, then 
remove to a sunny window, where they will bloom pro¬ 
fusely for two or three months. After flowering, the 
plants may be kept in a partially dormant state until 
about March 1, when they should be started into growth 
to furnish young shoots for cuttings, which root freely in 
sand, and make plants sufficiently large for planting out 
in about two months. The old plants may be grown on 
until they get so large as to become unmanageable. We 
always prefer young plants, either from cuttings or from 
seed, as they make more vigorous growth, and produce 
larger racemes of flowers. It is well, however, to keep- 
a few old plants over for seed purposes, as the young 
ones, particularly the seedlings, rarely produce seed. 
S. patens is an exquisite blue-flowered variety. We 
have nothing in our gardens to equal it for blue flowers. 
