.nk any of our friends sending us the names of persons residing in their neighborhood who would be likely to need 
a supply of good Vegetable Seed, for we should like to send such our Catalogue. 
A NEW BOOK FOR FARMERS AND GARDENERS . 
ILIZERS: Where the Materials come from, where to get them in the Cheapest Form, how to Compound Formulas, etc 
BY JAMES JT. 11. GREGORY, MARBLEHEAD, MASS. 
for more than twenty-live years we have made use of what are known 
Anong farmers as “ fertilizers,” as distinguished from the manure of the 
/oarnvard, using in recent years, mostly in the drill, from thirty to eighty 
/ tons annually. Of late we have compounded these ourselves, purchasing 
the materials and various chemicals where we could find the best articles 
cheapest. We have repeatedly been urged by the agricultural societies, 
before whom we have lectured on the subject of Fertilizers, to publish our 
lectures. To oblige our many friends who have made this request, and as 
a help to many of Jour customers who are seeking help along this dark and 
difficult road, we now do so. In our little work there will be found many 
valuable tables, with many suggestions, and much information on the pur¬ 
chase of materials, the combining of them, and the use of'the fertilizers 
made from them. We believe it will give a good return to any of our cus- 
tomers for their outlay. The treatise makes a book of 116 pages; price, per 
mail, 40 cts.; cloth, 65 cts. 
\ 
Single copies of either of the four following treatises sent by mail for 30 cents, or the five for SI.3d. Seed dealers and booksellers supplied at 
the usual discount. 
^NION RAISING: What Kinds to Raise, and tlie 
Way to Raise Them. By J. J. H. Gregory, Marble¬ 
head, Mass. 
This work, which we issued in 1S65, has been warmly recommended by 
some of the best authorities in the country, and has gone through fifteen 
editions. It treats on Onions raised from seed, Potato Onions, Onion 
Sets, Top Onions, Shallots, and Rareripes, the Onion Maggot, Rust, the 
merits of the different varieties of Onions, instructions in seed raising, 
and how to tell good seed, — beginning with the selecting the ground, and 
carrying the reader along, step by step, through the preparing of the soil, 
manuring, ploughing, planting, hoeing, weeding, gathering the crop, 
storing and marketing it, with a hundred minute details, embracing every 
department of the subject. Illustrated with thirteen engravings of Onions, 
Sowing Machines, and Weeding Machines. 
SQUASHES, AND HOAV TO GROW THEM. By 
J. J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass. 
This treatise is of about the same size and style as our treatise on “Onion 
Raising,” and contains several illustrations, including a section of our 
squash house, with full directions for erecting one. In plan and thorough¬ 
ness it is similar to our Onion treatise; very minute and thorough. Begin¬ 
ning with the selection of soil, it treats of the best way of preparing it; the 
best manures and the way to apply them; planting the seed, protecting 
the vines from bugs and maggots, the cultivation, gathering, storing, and 
marketing of the crops ; giving hundreds of minute details so valuable to 
inexperienced cultivators. We have written this and our other treatises 
on the theory that what the public want is minuteness and thoroughness 
of detail. 
CABBAGES, A ID HOW TO RAISE THEM. By 
J. J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass. 
This treatise gives (all the minute instructions so valuable to the begin¬ 
ner. It begins with the selecting the ground, and carries the reader along, 
step by step, through the preparing of the soil, manuring, ploughing, 
p.anting, hoeing, weeding, gathering the crop, storing and marketing it, 
with a hundred minute details embracing every department of the sub¬ 
ject. 
To prepare ourselves the more thoroughly to write on this work, we ex¬ 
perimented on foreign and native varieties of cabbage for four years, 
raising not far from seventy kinds. The gist of our experience will be 
found in this treatise. It is illustrated by several fine engravings. We 
have added a paragraph on the green worm that is causing so much 
trouble in some localities. 
CARROTS, MANGOLD - WURTZELS, AND 
SUGAR BEETS : What Kinds to Raise, How to 
Grow Them, and How to Feed Them. By J. J. H. 
Gregory, Marblehead, Mass. 
The increased attention given to the raising of roots for feeding to stock, 
particularly the Carrot and Mangold-wurtzel, has led us to write this trea¬ 
tise. We have endeavored to follow the manner presented in our other 
works, and give that minuteness of detail in every step of progress, from 
the seed to the matured crop, that is generally desired by the public. 
'While this work is more particularly intended for persons of limited ex¬ 
perience, yet it gathers up so much of experience and observation, cov¬ 
ering so much ground in the growing and handling of these two standard 
crops, that we should be disappointed if about every grower did not 
find within its covers some facts of more value to him than the cost of 
the book. 
In response to inquiries made for books treating on various subjects of interest to the farmer, we offer the following list of works, all by authors of 
high repute, any of which will be sent, postpaid, to any address in the United States or Canada, on receipt of the price. 
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