In this Priced Catalogue will be found almost every variety of Seeds and Bulbs worthy 
•of culture, and of the very choicest quality. These we keep on hand, and can supply them to 
our customers at all seasonable times. The prices are as low as good, reliable articles can be 
furnished by any one, while the quality of what we furnish we feel quite sure will gratify 
all. We do not propose to sound our own praise, as our customers and their gardens do this 
more effectually than we could do, had we the disposition to engage in this unnecessary and 
ungracious work. All that we desire to say is that we have spared neither time, nor expense, nor 
labor, either of body or mind, to obtain the best the world produces. The different CLASSES 
of Flowers are arranged under appropriate headings, such as Annuals, Perennials, Ever¬ 
lastings, Climbers, Vegetables, &c., so that there will be no difficulty in finding anything 
that may be desired. The descriptions and directions for culture have been made very brief, or 
the work would have been too large; but those who desire to be more fully informed respecting 
the history, character or culture of any plants can find all the information they desire in 
VICK’S FLOWER AND VEGETABLE GARDEN, 
where full descriptions are given and modes of culture explained. The Flower and Vege¬ 
table Garden is the most useful and beautiful and popular work on this subject in the world, 
and at the same time the cheapest — 50 cents in paper covers, and $ 1.00 in elegant cloth covers. 
In addition to the valuable matter of this work it contains Hundreds of Illustrations and Six 
Colored Plates, a group of Annuals , bouquets of Perennials , Hardy Bulbs, Tender Bulbs, 
Holland Bulbs, and a collection of Vegetables. 
In these two works, our Illustrated Priced Catalogue and our Flower and Vege¬ 
table Garden, we furnish all the information necessary to make a successful gardener of any 
one who will read, and practise what he learns, but questions continually arise that cannot be 
anticipated or answered in a book. Something fails to grow in a very unaccountable manner, 
destructive and unknown insects appear in a very unexpected season, and at a very unseasonable 
time; information is needed at once by some inexperienced cultivator, and, of course, there is no 
time for delay — so we publish a Monthly Magazine, in which we answer all these questions. 
We call it 
VICK’S ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE, 
and furnish it to subscribers at $ 1.25 a year. Each number will contain thirty-two pages 
of reading matter, fine wood-cut illustratio?is , and one colored plate. It is printed on the 
finest paper, and is in all respects a beautiful Floral or Garden Magazine, giving the fullest 
and simplest directions for the culture of Flowers and Vegetables. It is designed to spread a 
taste for the beautiful all over the land, and to encourage the culture of Flowers by insuring 
success, as much as it is possible to do so, by printed instructions. 
To reach the whole people we have placed the price very low — $ 1.25 a year, and Five 
Copies for Five Dollars, so that those who cannot pay may secure a copy by acting as Agents, 
and obtaining four subscribers among their neighbors. Thus the young people and children, 
who have not the money to spare, can get our Magazine by taking a little trouble. When 
persons already take the Magazine, or may not need it, having a copy already in the family, 
for the Four Subscribers sent with Five Dollars, we will forward as a premium, one of our $1.50 
Floral Chromos, postage or expressage prepaid, or the same sum in any seeds they may desire, 
•selected from our priced catalogue. 
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