1886 .] 
WB BRING GOOD LUOK 
To all of The American Garden 
family of readers. Good 
Kruit, good flowers, good 
vegetables, good gardens 
good lawns, good health’ 
good proflts and good 
pleasure to all who read 
and act intelligently. 
the A MERICAN GARDEN. 
The American Garden. 
SvLToscxiptiom. Teri-xxs. 
To any address in United States and 
Canada, postpaid, one year, §1.00 
Six months 00 cts., three months .30 
To any foreign country in the Uni¬ 
versal Postal Union and all British Col¬ 
onies, postpaid, one year, §i.2-t 
For §5.00 we send 6 copies one year. 
For §7.50 we send 10 copies one year. 
Subscriptions may begin at any time. 
The magazine is not sent after subscrip¬ 
tion expires unless by special arrangement. 
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subsobiptions oome w slowly, 
'ye arc Horru lo Cori/CHS. 
ill u ^ ‘‘ I’^'^hive inoreaso 
1.0 number of Tntc A.UKmcAN 
on do for KSSS. We know that the great de- 
•lys in western mails liave effected our re- 
'■urns, and expect a little Hood of orders 
when the hloekadc is raised. 
The former publishers of Tiik A.mkkican 
Gaiiiikx lost many thousand dollars on this 
publication, chiclly, we suppose, because 
ol the a])parcnt self-advertising motive of 
the enterprise at that time. 
Now we believe our readers are anxious 
to promote the cause of horticulture and 
iiual life, and that you will gladly speak 
a good word for our work to your friends, 
for their sake as well as ours. 
Please ncitc our olfei's on this p.ige, by 
which \ve show our appreciation of any 
pod words spoken and good work done for 
Tiiio A.UEUICAN Gakdkx. 
OHOIOE SEEDS 
FEUIT TEEES AND PLANTS 
FOE ONLY 
THE AMEEIOAN OABDEN SDBSOEIBEES. 
For Good ]\^ords Spoken in a Good Cause. 
So general has been the response to our 
FOIi A TRIAL TRIP. 
WE WILL GIVE 
100 Marlboro Raspberry Plants 
To the person (a subscriber) who will send 
us, during Jlarcli, the largest number of 
three-month subscribers to the A.mkuican 
Gauijux at 30 cents each, every one of the 
subscribers also to have a Marlboro Raspber¬ 
ry plaut,(thc lowest retail priceof whichis35 
cents). Don’t YOU want to get a plantation 
of this now famous Raspberry, and get one 
also for each of your neighboi's, and help 
The A.meiucax Gajioex at same time ? 
For the second largest club of three-month 
subscribers, as above, we will give four strong 
2-years-old Niagara \7hite Grape vines and a 
JIarlboro Raspberry plant to each subscriber 
ill the club. Don’t YOU want to start a 
vineyard of this valuable grape ? 
THE PLANT AND SEED FEEMI0M8. 
Will be sent in due lime for use. 
The plants in spring after danger of 
frost is past, unless otherwise ordered, and 
the seeds in ample season for planting at 
their proper dates. This is in answer to 
many questions. 
If you will send us a club of three month 
subscriptions during March, you may win an 
offer on this page of 100 Marlboro Raspberry 
Plants, or 4 Niagara Grape Vines. 
. MANY THANKS, KIND FEIENDS. 
Those very-much-in-earnest friends of pro¬ 
gressive Horticulture who have shown their 
interest by sending clubs of subscriptions for 
The Ajueeican Gakden, we have written 
down in our red-letter book of memory,with 
the check mark of Goon Luck opposite 
their names, which we shall help them to by 
every means in our power. 
THOSE SITBSOEIFTION BLANKS . 
Are not Duns. 
Some subscription blanks got enclos¬ 
ed in a portion of our February edition 
by inadvertence, and sent to subscribers who 
had renewed their subscriptions, but which 
were intended only for those who had not al¬ 
ready subscribed for 1885. Please paidon 
the oversight. If any reader who has re¬ 
ceived that blank will kindly pass it to some 
non-subscriber, it may help him to make up 
his mind to join our Good Ldck family. 
THIETY-TWO PAGES. 
Again a Rush. 
Keen-sighted, wise, honorable, high-class 
advertisers of horticultural wares, seeking 
the attention of the intelligent and piogies 
sive Good Luck family of The A,MEnicAN 
Gaiuien readers, compels a still furthei in 
crease ini size, this time to thirty-two pages, 
or with the cover thirty-six pages. By 
means we give our readers nearly twenty 
three pages of valuable reading mattei in 
stead of the usual fourteen pages, a.u 
about twelve pages of as good and ® 
a directory of dealers in farm and gai 
supplies as can be found anywhere. ^ , f 
We know that our readers, the fnenc s 
The Ameeican Gakden and of 
Horticulture, will rejoice with us in u 
signs of prosperity. 
great seed and plant offer of last moutli, that 
wo now extend the limit of time to 30 days 
longer. You see that we meet you more than 
half way ! Now if you will just secure the 
subscriptions of one, two, or more, of your 
neighbors or friends we will send to you in 
return for your kindness: 
Offer open for 30 days. 
LIST 1 . 
For one iktm subscriber at Ji.oo each, your choice of 
Sl.OO worth of seeUs, f.om the catalogue of any 
seedsman who advertises in the AiMekican Gar¬ 
den ; except “special offers ” of tile dealers. Two 
subscriptions will give you $2.00 worth; five sub¬ 
scriptions |?5.QO worth, and so on. 
OE 
FIVE YEAE SOBSCEIFTIONS. 
Any person who desires to try the JIarl¬ 
boro Raspberry, or the Niagara Grape, can 
get three dozen strong JIarlboro plants (the 
lowest retail price of wliicli is §1.50 per 
dozen), or two strong 2-year plants of the 
Niagara, by sending a five year’s subscrip¬ 
tion to The Amekicax Gakhex, and §5.00. 
In the one case he gets the magazine for 
five years for only 50 cents, and in the other 
for only §1.00. On this offer the subscrip¬ 
tion of any present subscriber would simply 
be extended for five years. 
THE NIAQAEA WHITE GEAPE 
AND 
THE MAELBOEO EASPBEEEY. 
For one nno subscriber at $1.00, one dozen strong 
plants of the famous Marlboro Kaspberry, 
(pricesI soperdoz.) Ora strong plant of the fa¬ 
mous Niagara JVliite Grape Or any fom- of 
the items mentioned under Dist 3 . 
ForUvo uau subscribers at $1.00 eoch. two strong pbnts 
of the Niagara JVlute Grape (retail at S2.00 
each). Or two dozen plants of the Marlboro 
Raspberry. Or any ten of the items mentioned 
under JList 
Olv 
you can take your choice of any of the presents offered in 
List 3 . 
is ONLY KOK OUR SUKSCBIBK 15 S, 
not a subscriber who wishes to take advantage of 
above liberal offers has only to add his or her 
n name to the number required, and select a 
sent for himself from list 3. 
subscriber at Si.oo has the privilege of our seed 
I olant offers in liist 
,fl-er is necessarily limited to SO days 
ite of receiving tliis number of the 
le by our subscribers, 
p Get the Seeds. Send to a seedsman 
•atalogue. Select the seeds wanted. 
:SsciStio«s enough among your 
, pQual the amount of seeds 
‘\tiTni ns the list of seeds and 
• fnns We will order the seeds 
for them ourselves, and entei the 
. . nilT books. 
Our unequalled offers of these famous 
new fruits are this month more liberal than 
ever by reason of the recent reduction in 
price of the JIarlboro Raspberry by the par¬ 
ties controlling its sale. 
Just think of it! A §2.00 Niagara Grape 
vine. No. 1 in quality, under seal of the 
Niagara White Grape Co., in return for only 
the few words required to get one new sub¬ 
scription from a neighbor for The Ameri¬ 
can Garden ! 
Or one dozen strong plants of the JIarlboro 
Raspberry direct from the originator for 
only one new subscription! 
Please read the otters, and then please 
treat yourself to these valuable plants. 
CHINESE YAM. 
Many people would like to try this veiy 
old but little known, though much written of 
vegetable. Dr. Hexainer, the editor, giw 
a few of them l-ist year which he wishes to 
distribute among The American Garden 
family. We therefore offer to any one who 
will send us a subscription (at §1.00) other 
than his own, 50 good bulblets of the Chi¬ 
nese Yam, sent postpaid; or 200 for 3 sub¬ 
scriptions. (Cost at I'etail §1.50 pei 100.) 
The American Garden three months and a 
Marlboro Raspberry for 30 cents. 
