1886 . J 
the AMERICAN 
rSIREER’s 
SEEDS 
If HuUin, iii„I 
thp b«NI, nt. Iho low,' !? 
F ERRY’S 
^FOR_ 
1885 
INVALUABLE TO ALLI 
Will be mailed rr O ir r? 
to all applicants r K C, ^,“'9^ 
and to customers oflast year without . 
orderiujfit. It contains illustrations, prices 
descriptions and directions for plantinc'all 
Vegetable and Flower SitElDS, Bums, etc 
D. M. FERRY & 
Mammoth Btissian Sunnoiver Seed ; Small 
packet for 5 stamps. Agents wanted (or my new fast sell¬ 
ing family scale.s. D. L. UonEuis, Royalton, N. Y. 
Seeds Given Away! 
A PACKAGE Mixed Flower Seeds (100 kinds) with 
Park’s Floral Guidb. all for 2 starape. Tell all your 
f riends . G. W. Park, F.annettsbm**:. PA. 
■ Write NOW, This notice will not appear again. 
SIBLEY 
★TESTED' 
S£M> for our 1 L 1 -U<TI{ATEI> and DE- 
SOIUPTIVE CATALOGUE of ^ Cg* (S G=^i © 
TcffCtablci Flower, mid Field 
Ql 1 A MTO FLORISTS’ SUP- 
rlLAIV I O PLIES mid IMPLE 3 IENTS 
of ALL KINDS, moiled FREE on nDplIcatluii. 
HIRAM SIBLEY&iCOi 
liOCliKSTER, N. Y. 
K. aiain SU 
CHICAGO, ILL. 
‘iU 0 >' 2 OG Itnntinliili SI. 
My Annual Priced Catalogue is now ready, and will be 
mailed free to all applicants. It contains all tlie leading 
and most popular sorts of 
VEGET1BLE,FIRM IND FLOWER SEEDS. 
Besides all the desirable novelties of last season, and nearly 
everything else in my line of business. 
37 East 19 th St., New Yo.k 
City, 
dally for those who 
hofceifoVk'argceiii. Maiiareqn^^^ 
^mmend themselves. SinitlPs 
ithselectlistsof Vegetable, Flower and IMeld Seeds, ana 
'Ulbs, also Implements and Garden IteatiisiteB. inn^d to 
lappUoants, FREE. Will. H. SnilTn.tfceds'nW' 
Established 40 Yrs. 188 S 
RELIABLE 
Uegetablc Seeds, 
Flower and Tree Seeds, 
jiiiEotaltti, OiinSelUt 
DEED iiBtT.T.fi^ 0A2DBM OITITIVATOES, Se- 
Catalogue Mailed Free to all. Address 
PLANT SEED 
812 & 814 lil. 4th St., St. Louis, Mo. 
Name this Paper* 
garden. 
39 
SEEDS ! SEEDS!! SEEDS!!! 
J- |VI. Thorburn & Co., 
25 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK, 
Old Established Seed House of New York. 
nr ■’•uuHcd lo iiiiiii free, tholriicw Priced Catalogue for ] 88S. 
' RAWSON’S TESTED SEEDS. 
m^SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 
Seeds by mail a specialty. “©8 
W. W. RAWSON & CO., 
34 SOUTH MARKET ST., BOSTON, MASS. 
]yff/§0| 
^(jaon 
COPYRIGHT, 1884. 
j W. W. RAWSON, Seed Grower and Market Gardener, 
Sl.OO per ounce. I Arling^ton, Mass. 
Electrotypes of this New Celery loaned to Dealers who may 
wish to Catalogue it. 
ia- E "\7V 
DEPARTURE 
SUCCESS TO OUR 
TltE SEED TRADE. Relief for the people. 
Seed, nt IIT uiuni CCAI C DDIPCC <’■' 4 “ •<> totrodoM 
your ^or H I Wtf njJLCOHLC inlULOa this wonderfal potato 
iDt4> 50,000 aomes free of cost, we make tbe followtog nnprecGdcntcd oflTeri 
CHQ cn PTC 1 “ postage stamps or money, we wiU eend by mall a box 
run PU, W I Oa MDtaLnIog, first, 17 packeto, one each, of tbe following 
i—j —-a- • • J Improved Blood 
n^lL^ ImgroTcd 
Self'Blunchiiigr Cclcrr. cxcelient qaaiity, ea^y grown; needs no banking 
op. Early Green ProlUe Cucumber, best as cuenmbera or pickles. Ke 
Plus Ultra Sucar Corn, prodnetiTe, early, tender, and sweet. New Golden 
Ibeading; good THE GREAT IRON CUD 
Ilf A TITD mi Cl fl A 1 ^^Scst, finest, sweetest, best*kce^g watermelon In 
iVAl CnlllkkUll; tbe world. Oranno Cream Miukmelon. ’ 
Isweet, spicy, and delicious. New Silver Ball Italian Onion, beautiful’ 
large, mild; grows S.pound onions from seed. Ruby Ring* Pepper, largest, 
finest, sweetest pepper ever seen. Abbott’s Sn^ar Parsnip, greatly lm« 
proved variety. Onlo Sweet Potato Pumpkin, enormously productive, ez> 
ecllent quality; keeps all winter. French Breakfast Radish, best of all 
early radishes. TVlilto Pineapple Squash, extra quality, good for summer 
orwinter. Now Cardinal Tomato, largest and smoothest of anv. White 
Munich Tnmlp, best for table use. SAM PLE PACKET, OF, 
GOLDEN BEAUTY CORN, most bcnutlftil a nd pr odnctlve of 
aDyinthecountry.Sccond, IViip CTDAVDFAIIXV 
medlum«slzo tuber of I Ht w I llAT DkA U I I) POTATO 
ever yet seen; very prodnctlv e. ex cellent qaalky» beautiful as an oil painnng. 
■f7 packets of seed nnd/;/}-A. TWO collcetlons for FOCK for 
• / Annnliolcnotnto for*'*' *'^*' #2. This Is on offer never made before. 
to gliidlcntho liM?t and brighten the vay of every tiller of the eoll and lover of ihe beantUhl hi ....... . . ... 
thS wg renotr It with a more temnUngpffcr, and herejet ua^aj »e_grov_lhc«j!eed8 hy Uie pound, hy_tlie_ bushel,_and by the 
acre. 
IT EXCELLS 
j IN 
i EABWNESS, 
eakge size 
AND 
(SWEETNESS. 
lip, best for taoio nse. s> A m h* L. I; t'AUr 
JEAUTY CORN* most bcnutlftil a nd pr o 
? tWTHE STRAY BEAUlf .1 
*' it qnalkyt beautiful as an oil painting. 
OUR PROPOSITION 
has met with such unbounded snccess 
ntrtV<h tcmntitiff offcr.'aod here let us say we grow these seeds by the ponnd, by the bushel, and by the 
»er„ 1R p AOKiVs IJlIOIciefsT FLOWBK SEEPS P6R 80 CENTA one cash, of Asters, Balsams. Petunias, 
Pansies. Verbenas,— all finest strain and most beantiftil colors. Largro Double EnxUeh Holly- 
Portulaeca^ Phloxe^l onsie^j_eroi, ^Soublo Zlnnloih bright colere.* One fine omamratal crass. One splenUd 
Ji;SS: 4 Sp&,, 0 -re‘efir'fS‘cS 5 ?rJ“nf"o''ar*'te^^^^^ 
P IERSON’S Eureka Extra Early Sugar Corn. 
® I Have Found It !** 
All Should Have It. 
A ^"ERY Early Sweet Corn, 
WITH A VERY LARGE EaR. 
Stands unrivalled for the market 
or home garden. Only a few days 
later than 
the very 
earliest, 
with ears 
fully as 
large as 
t h e ever¬ 
green (the 
i.>,.A»rA ^0. vDirirds si/e) Very productive, and peculiarly sweet and rich. TheMOST profitable for the market, 
J for the table. It will be found very superior from its delicious sweetness, its large size ears 
rm.Xd wiSuts cxireme earlincss, its moder.Tlc growth oi slalkfor so large a corn, and its productiveness. It combines 
coupled wiin iis cxir . . , | ;| ,1,5 test early corn, il is equally good (or successive sowings. It grows 
in one so to he stalk This corn knows no Norih, no South, no East, no West, but it is 
sboui b feet >>'Eh, w t^ te3jOar^s^io I, is sure lo give satisfaclion. A trial package 
equally good every wlie ■ it. Try it. 15 c. per package (containing seed enough for 50 hills). 8 pack- 
Will convince you It 15 j.vmail for si.OO. Prices for larger quantities on application, all purchasers will 
ages TO ONE ADDRESS, U ' CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, PLANTS. AND GARDEN SUPPLIES OK ALL KINDS 
receive a copy ° t . jjg,g ^,£-,11 best new seeds and plants, and many other valuable novelties. Sent to 
free, conlains cornpUte li|-|f f. fbe ^ 
others on receipt of s^mp^ben^^^^.^^^^ FLORIST A 
AND SEEDSMAN, Tarrytown, New York. 
-Warranted to Crow. 
or order refilled cratis, 1 buve sold vekoctiuie uuu nuwer 
seed to over a million farmers and grardeuers in the 
United States, perhaps some arc your noiglibors, if so ask 
them whether they are reliable. ]ilr. Thomas Uenshall of 
Troy,Kansas,write5 me; “For 26 years I havedeali with 
you. J have lived in Iowa, MissouriiColorado.aiidKnn- 
sas, and no matter what tbe soil or climate, the result 
was always the same, to wit:—rellgiotaly boneit 
and good.” This is the kind of seed 1 raise and sell. The 
' Hubbard and Marblehead Sauash, Marblehead 
Corn, Marblehead Cabbages, OTio Potato, ^lipse 
Beet, are some of the vegetables of which 1 was the original in¬ 
troducer. A Fair with 6500 in premiums. Sccmycatalogue.freetoall. 
^AMES J. Iff* GREGORY, (Seed Grower), Marblehead. Mast 
