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head eit if MAY, 1889. f A. |. ROOT’S CATALOGUE OF

SEEDS FOR THE GREENHOUSE, GARDEN, AND FARM,

* AND ESPECIALLY FOR. BEE-KEEPERS: &

EIGHTH EDITION.

PRICE 5 CTS. PER PAPER; 10 PAPERS, 40 CTS.; 100 PAPERS, $3.50.

Seeds of new or rare vegetables and novelties, we include ai the uniforn price of & cents

per pacrage: but, of cowrse, we are obliged to puta smaller number of seeds into such packages. This will be noticed with the White-Plume Celery and Snowball Cauliflower, etc. ow, these 5-ct. papers wre all sent by mail postpaid; but when you order seeds BY THE OZ.,07 LB., you must ay 9 cls. extra for postage and packing on each and every pound of seeds. ordered. Peas and cans by the pint and quart, must also have 8c per pint, or 15¢ per quart, added for postage ; on

corn, add 12¢ per quart for postage. One-fourth lb., lb., or peck will be sold at lb. or peck rates.

ASPARACUS. Conover’s Colossal. Oz. 5c; |b. 35c. Asparagus, Palmetto. Oz. 10c; Ib. $1.50. Ve have given this new variety a trial beside the Colossal, and it is certainly a stronger and more robust plant. Asparagus Roots. Palmetto, 10 for l0c; Tse per 100; $6.00 per 1000. By mail, add 5e for 10, or 20¢e

per 100. BEANS. Dwarf German Wax, or Butter Beans. Pt. 0c; pk. $1.50. The earliest snap-short variety. Golden Wax. Pt. 10c; pk. $1.50. A staple snap-short bean. Kidney Wax Bean. See Novelties.

White Kidney, Large. Pt. 10c; pk. $1.00. Bu., $3.25. One of the best to use shelled, when green or ripe. We sell bushels of these at 15¢ a pint, shelled green. e market them in new pint strawberry-boxes.

POLE BEANS.

Extra-Early Lima Beans. These are fully equul to the old Lima beans, and are fully as pro- ductive, and from ten days to two weeks earlier. We consider it an acquisition. Price 20c per pint, or $2 50 a peck.

King of the Garden Lima. peck, $2 76. ,

These are fully as good as the comniin lima, but the pods are considerably larger, saving time in picking and shelling, as well as increasing the yield. We get 20 cents per pint for these, When green, shelled. See White Kidney bean abvve. The above beans hae furnished in5-eent packages ;

but where they are to go by mail, postpaid, of course the above packages will have to he quite &mall. If wanted by mail, add 8e per pint or 15¢ per quart for postage.

¥% pt. 15e; qt. 50¢;

Henderson’s New Bush Lima Bean. For de- scription, see Novelties.

BEETS. Eclipse. Oz. 5c; |b. 60c.

These have given us the b satisfaction of any thing we ever raised in the way of ts. They areavery quick rrower, of excellent quality, and the appearance of the bright smooth scarlet bulbs is fully equal to any thing that has been pictured in the colored plates of our catalogues. In order to get afancy price for them, start them in the zreenhouse, and gransplant when of the size of peas, ora ittle larger. They bear transplanting well, and are exceed- ingly hardy.

Philadelphia Turnip. Oz. 5c; lb. 50c.

This is alittle later and larger than the above, and isa novy- elty because of its alternate rings of dark and light pink.

Lane’s Improved Sugar. 07. 5c; |b. 35c.

The best variety for stock-feeding. It showed a larger per cent of sugar at the Experiment Station than any other an- alyzed. It is so sweet, that, when small, they are nice to eat raw. Has yielded as high as 20 tons to the acre.

Long Red Mangel. Oz. 5c; lb. 30c.

Yields enormously, but not so sweet as Lane’s improved.

CABBAGE.

Select, Very Early Jersey Wakefield. Oz. 2e; lb. $2.50.

Our cabbage seed this year is raised b Bay, near Evged Sound, Washington Territory. Thousands of sample packages were sent out by us in 1888, and friend March’s seeds ought to be pretty well known. The Early Jersey Wakefield, of the best selected strain, is fully as early as any other cabbage known, and greatly papenes in quality. We have sold single heads at retail at 30c each, raised from plants started in the greenhouse in February.

Henderson’s Early Summer. 07. lic; |b. $2.00. _ This comes next to the Jersey Wakefield; and altlough it is an early cabbage, under very favorable conditions it pro- duces large heads of most excellent quality.

. H. A. March, Fidalgo

U. 8, Department of Agriculture.

~—~——-One of the standard:-sor

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Winningstadt. Oz. 10c; lb. $1.50.

Much like the Jersey Wakefield, but later and larger. The heads are round, and some of them are s@ hard as to seem al- most like bullets. Our customers, many of them, greatly prefer these and Henderson’s Early Summer cabbage to the later flat cabbages.

Louisville Drumhead. Oz. 10c; |b. $1.50. One of the most uniform and surest-heading sorts tried at the Ohio Experiment Station. Itis a little earlier than Flat Dutch, hence may be planted later; just the kind to plant

after early crops. **Newark”®? Flat Dutch. Oz. 10c; lb. $1.50. This is an improvement on the old standard Flat Dutch,

and earlier. Pronounced by Brill ‘extra fine.”

Perfection Drumhead Savoy. Oz. 10c; lb. $1.50.

The Savoy cabbage is handsome in appearance, and_ richer

and finer in quality, than any of the other varieties. In taste it nearly approaches the cauliflower.

Large Red Drumhead. Oz. 10c; |b. $1.50. This is a red cabbage for pickling. The bright red, by way of contrast, will make a load or lot of cabbages attract at- tention, and there is always more or less demand for red cab-

bage for pickles. CARROTS.

Early French Forcing. Oz. 10c; |b. $1.00.

These are small, but very early, and often bring a good price, because they are the first that make their appearance in the market. Bunched up with early radishes, they are very taking in appearance.

Orange Danvers, HMalf=-Long. Oz. 5c; |b. 60c.

Yields well, and is easy to dig. The best sort known.

CAULIFLOWER. Henderson's Early Snowball. A. March. 4% oz. 7d5ce; oz. $2.50. Nice specimens of early cauliflower often bring extravagant prices, and it pays well to start them in the greenhouse, and use hand-glasses to forward them before the hot weather

comes on. CELERY.

Henderson’s White Plume. Ib., $4.50.

We place this at the head of the list, and especially for ear- ly celery. During the past season we had fine stalks on the market in July, and it sold readily at 10¢ each. We are plan- ning to have celery this year in the market in the month of June. The seed was started in the greenhouse about the middle of January. On account of its self-bleaching quali- ties it is better fitted for early celery than any other.

Golden Self-Blanching. See Novelties, p. 4.—

Golden Dwarf. Oz. 15c; lb. $2.00.

foralater crop. The golden tint of the head stalks makes it a very handsome vegetable.

Boston Market. Oz. 10c; lb. $1.50.

An old standard variety in and around Boston, and raised largely throughout the land.

CORN (FOR TABLE USE).

Ford’s Early Sweet.

Excellent in quality, and exceedingly early. Cory’s Extra Early.

Corey’s corn this season has not only proved to be the earliest by ten days or two weeks, but the ears are surprising- ly large and fine; and the quality, if cooked at once, as soon as picked, is almost equal to any sweet corn we have. Itis quite an acquisition.

Crosby’s Extra Early.

This is a great yielder, with soil suitable, although it comes

a little later than Ford’s. @ Late Mammoth Sugar.

This is excellent in quality, and gives ears of mammoth size, andis a wonderful yielder. Our trade has been very large in this kind of corn for eight or ten years past.

Corn we sell at 5 cents for a half-pint package; but at this price purchasers must pay the postage, which is 3 cents for each half-pint. If wanted in larger quantities the price will be $1.00 per peck, or $3.50 per bushel.

Raised by H.

Y% oz. 10¢; Oz. 35.

CRESS, OR PEPPER GRASS. Extra Curled. Oz. 5c; Ib. 50c.

CUCUMBER.

Early Frame. Oz. 5c; |b. £0e.

The earliest cucumber.

Rawson’s Improved Early Oz. 25e; lb. $3.50.

This is the kind he uses for raising in his greenhouse. and the cucumbers bring 50 to 75 cents each. even where he raises them by the thousands. Fine specimens are wonderfully handsome and taking,and they sometimes grow to a great size without getting yellow.

Nichol’s Wedium Greem. Oz. 5c; |b. 60c. Thisisis the kind generally used for raising pickles for

market. KOHLRABI.

White Vienna. (z. 10c; Ib. $1.25.

This is a quick-growmg vegetable, half way between tur- nip and CaUbaee! If the plants are started in the greenhouse, the vegetable may be put on the market at the same time with the very earliest cabbages; and where people once get

White Spine.

| stal

| not keep them over winter.

a taste of it, it is pretty sure to meet with a rapid sale at good

prices. LETTUCE. Grand Rapids Lettuce. \% oz.,10c; ounce, 33c; pound, $4.50. : This is a new variety, developed in the vicinity of Grand Rapids, specially for greenhouse culture. It has been de- veloped from the Black-seeded Simpson, by somethin, like fifteen years of careful selection. 1t is superior aia beautiful in appearance, a strong grower, very tender and crisp, and,so far as known, free from rot, and will keep from wilting longer while exposed for sale than any other variety known. At least fifty large greenhouses are now en- gaged in raising this kind or lettuce for market, in the neigh- borhood of Grand Rapids. Mich. For further particulars, see our new book, ‘*What to Do,” ete.

Boston Market. Oz. 10c: 1b. $1.00. The best variety of HEAD lettuce for greenhouse culture, as the heads are small, but compact and handsome. ; Landreth’s Woreing. Oz. lhc; lb. $2.50. Excellent for hot-beds and cold-frames; exceedingly early. The heads are small, and may be sent to the table in their en-

tire form, on the root. Henderson’s New Work. Oz. 15c; |b. $2.00. We consider this the best head lettuce for outdoor culture known. Even the chickens have discovered that it is of ~ superior quality. They will 1un over our beds and pick out every head of New York lettuce, without paying any atten- tion to any other kind.

Hanson. Oz. 10e: |b. $1.00.

An old standard variety, producing heads that sometimes weigh as inuch as 2 Ibs.

MELONS, MUSK. Extra Early Citrom. O7. 10c; lb. $1.00. Always profitable because of its extreme earliness. Casaba, or Persian Muskmelonm. Oz. 5 cts.; ae ee variety. Montreal Nutmeg. Oz ic; lh. 60c.

Large size, beautiful looking, very small cavity for seeds, and one of the very best. Pine Apple. 0z. ic; |b. 60. Excellent in quality, and only medium in size. Banana. O02z. 5c; |b. 75e.

I consider this one of the best muskmelons it has been my fortune to taste. judging from specimens we had last season. They are long likea rail, or like a banana, if you choose; but the color is strikingly like a banana, and. what is more won- derful still, it has an odor also like the banana.

MELONS, WATER. Phinney’; Early. 0z. 5c; Ib. 60. The quality is very good, but the size is not very large. Landreth’s Boss. 02. 5c; |b. 60.

A melon that seems to combine more of the good qualities for a large late watermelon than any other.

ONION. Mammoth Silver King Onion. 20c; 1b., $2.50.

We first procured this sced from William Henry Maule, To get the onions early. the seeds are started ina boxina greenhouse. When about two inches high they are planted out as you would plant out cabbage or celery. During Aug- ust and September we had onions larger than anybody else had ever seen or heard of, grown in our locality; and as we sold them by the pound, many of them brought 10 cts. each. We regard them as an acquisition.

Extra Early Red. 0z. 5c; |b. $2.00.

Medium size, ved, and an excellent keeper.

Sas or White Portugal. 02. 25c; lb.

IPictie OCs OZt,

A standard variety for pickles, or for handsome bunch onions. Better flavored than the dark-skinned. i

Yellow Globe Danvers. 2, 15c; Ib. 31.75; 5 lbs.. $1.50 per Ib ; lu Ths , $140. : Astandard yellow yariety. The best of all to grow from seed. It makes a wonderful difference, however, how the seed is grown. Some strains will give nearly double the crop that others will. Our seed for this year was grown by a near neighbor, the 1ather of W.J.Green of the Bxperiment Sta-

tion, Columbus, Ohio.

ONION SETS.

We have those of Yellow Danvers and Silverskim.

Prices, of yellow, 10¢e per pint; $1.25 per peck, $4.00 per bushel. Silverskin, one-half more than above prices. Large-size sets (often used fur pickles), one- half the above prices. By mail, § c. per gt. added. Winter, or HWeyptian Onion Sets. Prices sume

ysabove,

This onion does not produce a bulb at all, or at least only a very inferior one. All it 1s raised fur is its long succulent :, with a sort of root, or small bulb, on the lower end. It has such an inveterate habitpof growmeg that if grows any time when in the ground or out of the ground; and, in fact the only plave to keep itis IN the ground, During August and September the sets may Le gathered and sown; but you can The sets grow in the form of lit- tle onions, on the top of the stalk, like the old-fashioned onion-sets we used to see when we were children, We gather

: S$ soon as Ane are ripe, say about the middle of Augu then we sprinkle them in a drill, about as we would peas, say from three to five inches apart.

PRICE 5 CENTS PER PAPER; 10 PAPERS, 40 CENTS; 100 PAPERS,$3.50..

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PARSNIP. Bloomsdale. 02z. 5c; lb. 40c; 10 lbs., $3.00.

This is the only kind we have, but we cofsider it equal to

S PARSLEY. Fine Curled or Double. 02z. 5c; Ib. 50e.

PEAS: , Landreth’s' Extra Early. % pt. 5c; pk. $1.50.

We consider this equal to any for the first peas of the sea- son. It yields its cropina very short time. Not equali quality to the American Wonder.

Alaska Peas. '% pt. 5c; peck, $1.50.

This isthe favorite early pea of the Rural New Yorker, and is with many taking the place of any other early pea. American Wonder. % pt. l(c; pk. $2.00.

This is a cross between the Champion and the Little Gem. The vine grows from 6 to 8 inches high. It is the first to rip- en among the green wrinkled sorts. On account of its dwarf habits it can be grown very easily under glass.

Stratagem. Pt. 20c; % pt. 10c; pk. $2.50.

This has made its way rapidly in public favor. It is not on- ly of rare excellence in guality, but the pods and peas are so large and fine looking they cail attention at once from any ehig) else in the market. It has given us excellent satisfac- pion.

Champion of England. Pint, lic; pk. $1.50: bushel, $5.50.

So well known as to need no recommend here.

Marrowfat. '% pt.5c; pk. 75¢e; bu. $2.50. One of the most desirable and well-known late sorts.

Peas by mail will be at same rate of beams for postage.

‘ PEPPERS. Spanish Pepper. 2. 25c.; lb. $3.00.

Anew variety, so large that the natives of warm climates slice them up and fry, as an article of food.

Bullnose. 02. 25c; Ib. $3.00. A larger variety than the above, but in every otherrespect the same.

Cayenne Pepper 0z. 25c; lb. $3.00.

Much called for, for seasoning soups, pickles, ete.

POTATOES. Early Ohio.

_ The Experiment Station, Columbus, O., says there is noth ing earlier. Early Pearl.

The Experiment Station finds this about as early as the Early Ohio, and perhaps yields a little better.

Lee’s Favorite.

This is a few days later than the foregoing, but yields better still. In our loeality during the past season it has given enormous yields of extra fine potatoes. Prices, same as Early Ohio.

Empire State.

This. the Experiment Station considers as good a late or medium late potato as any before the public. They decide that the above four varieties are the cream of the list.

Beauty of Hebron.

This is preferred by Terry because it gives as good, or bet- ter yield than any other, and comes off early enough to admit of getting in wheat in good time. It is a standard early sort.

Any of the above potatoes sold as follows: 1 Ib., by mail, 15 ets.; 31bs., 40 ets.; 1 lb., by express or freight. Te; 1 peck by express or freight, 35 cts.; 1 bushel}, $1.00. y

PUMPKIN.

anecticut Field. ‘% pint,5c; quart, 15sec; peck, : bushel, $2.00... If wanted by mail, add at the rate of 1l6e per quart for postage.

‘RADISHES. Early Scarlet Globe. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10¢c; lb. $1.00.

This is the radish that Vick gives such a beautiful chromo of in his catalogue for 1888; and for forcing in the green- house, it is ahead of any other in the way of forcing rad- ishes. They begin to form a bulb almost aS soon as the second leaves come out. They are very hardy, and of exceedingly rapid growth.

White-tipped Scarlet Turnip. 02z. 5c; lb. 60c A faney variety of the scarlet bulb with white bottom; very showy. Lady Finger. Oz. l0c.; lb. $1.25. Ove of the standard long radishes. Sometimes it grows as large as a parsnip, and yet is of excellent quality. .

EBeckert*s Chartier Radish. 0z. 5c.; |b. 50c.

A novelty, and one that has given us the greatest satisfac- tion; of rapid growth and good size, both at the bottom and top. In favorable soil it will grow to a large size, and still be excellent in quality. They are remarkably certain to make

a good bulb. e , RHUBARB.

Either Victoria or Linnzeus. Oz., 10c; 1b., $1.50.

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SALSIFY, OR OYSTER PLANT.

A vegetable that is sure to be called for, where it: is once introduced. Oz. 10¢c.; lb. $1.50. k New Mammoth. See Novelties.

PINACH. Bloomsdale Extra Curled. 02. 5c; lb. 35c.

It combines as many of the good qualities as any other.

SQUASH.

SUMMER VARIETIES. Early White Bush, or Patty Pan. 02. 5c.; Ib. 60e.

Not surpassed by the Golden Summer Crookneck. One of the old staples.

Golden Summer Crookneck. 02z. 5c; Ib. 50c. The standard summer squash,

WINTER VARIETIES. Perfect Gem. 02. 5c; |b. 50c.

A round squash, about 6 inches in diameter. The quality is excellent, and it will keep till spring.

Hubbard. Oz. 5c; Ib. 60c.

Too well known to need comment.

Boston Marrow. 02. 5c; lb. 60c. Anold standard staple, especially in and around Boston.

TOMATO. Dwarf Champion. See Novelties. Golden Queen Tomato. Pkt., 5c; 0z., 25c; Ib., $3.00.

This is no special novelty, that I know of, over other to- matoes, except its beautiful golden yellow color; but at the same time the tomato is good-sized, and remarkably smooth and regular. The quality is equal to any. Many specimens of the fruit have a rosy tint toward the blossom end, giving it something the appearance of a beautiful yellow peach with a slight blush of red.

Ignotum Tomato. For description, see Novel- ties. Mikado. 02. 25c; |b. $3.00.

We still give the Mikado the preference for an ALL-PURPOSE tomato, You can prepare them quicker for the table or can- ning, and get more bushels of nice tomatoes than from any other kind. We marketed BUSHELS of them that weighed from one pound to a pound and a half apiece.

Acme. Oz. 2c; Ib. $2.00c.

Too well known to need comment. Trophy. 02. 20c; lb. $2.00. »A companion to the Acme.

Livingston’s Beauty. 02. 25c; lb. $3.00.

This is a production of the same Livingston who brought out the Acme, Trophy, Favorite, and Perfection; but he pro- nounces this superior to them all. They are better shaped and smoother, than the Mikado, but not so large.

Pear-Shaped Tomatoes. Oz. 20c; $3.00. These are handsome for pickles and preserves. We have them of two colors—red and yellow. They are immense dearers, and of good quality.

TURNIP. Extra-Early Turnips.

We, have tested some of these which are advertised in the diffefent seed catalogues; and while we find them as repre- sented, much earlier than the staple turnips, they are, so far as we have tested them, inferior in quabiy, very strong in taste, and sometimes bitter. Last season we had beautiful tur- nips in June, on our market-wagon. They were Bloomsdale Early; but noone who bought them wanted any the second time. It seems the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station at Columbus have had the same experience. Below is a letter from Prof. Green: =

Mr. Roor:—EKarly Milan and Early Purple Top Munich were the earliest purple-top turnips that we tested, but both were of very poor quality. Ido not know a good variety of this de- scription better than the common Purple Top Strap Leaf. White Egg from Gregory was the best early variety that we had, and Karly White Flat Dutch ranked next. White egg is as early as any, and the quality is excellent. W. J. GREEN.

Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Columbus, Dec. 31, ’88.

In view of the above we have omitted from our price list all early turnips; but if any of our readers have an early turnip of good quality, we shall be glad to receive some of the seeds for trial, and you may also send a specimen to friend Gr as above. Our experience is, that the White Egg and Pur Top Globe are both quite early, and excellent in quality. ney may be, perhaps, ten days or two weeks later than some of the extra early.

White Fgg. 02: 5c; lb. 40c.

Very showy and handsome, as well as quite early.

Yellow Aberdeen. 2. 5c; Ib. 40c.

We consider this the best table turnip grown. When cook. ed it is so yellow that it will sometimes be mistaken for squash. €

Purple-top. White-globe Turnip. 02.5 c¢.; lb. 40 ec.

This turnip has given us the best results of any thing we tried; the quality seems to be unusually fine for table use, es- peony. when they are about as large as fair-sized apples.

hey probably grow as quick as any turnip known, and are very handsome. When washed they are almost as white as an egg, with a beautiful purple around the top. They are smooth and round.

Bloomsdale Swede. 2. 5c; |b. 50c. Perhaps the best of the Rutabaga varieties.

sf PRICE 6 CENTS PER PAPER; 10 PAPERS, # CENTS; 100 PAPERS, $3.50.

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NOVELTIES FOR 1889.

Henderson’s New Bush Lima Bean.

The most important novelty for the year 1889, in the whole business of vegetable gardening, is Henderson’s New Bush Lima bean. For years people have asked, “‘Does anybody know of a lima bean that grows on bushes, and does not need poles?” But until the present time no one has been able to answer. On account of the trouble of procuring poles and making beans run up them,a good many have decided that lima beans are too much bother; but after a year or two, when the neighbors had a supply of this delicious vegetable, and they hadn’t, they have gone back to the poles again. Now, however, Peter Henderson all of a sudden astonishes us by announcing a genuine lima bean that not only shows no tendency to run, but bears immense crops; and, more wonder- ful than all. they are a great deal earlier than the pole lima beans. During the year 1888 he took good care to have them tested by many prominent men; and although we have never yet tried them on our own ground, there is no question but that they are all he has claimed for them. The only thing TI can discover wherein the pole beans have the advantage is the smallness in size of the New Bush. and more labor in consequence, in shelling. We have made a purchase of 1000 packages; and while we have been obliged to sign a contract not to sell them for less than the established price, 25 cents a package, we are at liberty to offer them as premiums for sub- scriptions to our journal. Every one who sends us a new sub-

| the United States, and probably in the world. We do not offer

scription to GLEANINGS can have a 25-cent packet of the new |

lima beans free. a subscriber. just send us the cash for GLEANINGS for yourself for a year, after your present subscription expires. Or we are at liberty to send you one packet for 25 cents; five packets for $1.00, or twelve packets for $2.00. Peter Henderson says that ““twelve packages will plant five rows fifty feet long, which is “ample for a family.’ Now let me whisper in your ear, that the demand for these lima beans next year will probably be enor- mous, and we expect to plant every one of the 1000 packets that are not disposed of by June1. Do you know how many made a big investment on the new Japanese buckwheat when it first came out? We shall, without doubt, have the same thing re-

If you do not want to be bothered to hunt up |

peated, but probably on a larger scale, with the New Bush |

lima beans. 75 ets. in Grand Rapids lettuce seed, and received from us $50.00 in cash for the crop of seed he secured from his investment of 75 cents.

Ignotum Tomato.

During the past year we have explained several times that the Ignotum tomato was selected by the Michigan Agricultu- ral college, from over 100 different varieties. It was an acci- dental sport from a package of seed received from a foreign country. A few seeds were furnished us to try.and from these we have the first lgnotum tomato seed ever offered for sale in

We might mention here the friend who invested |

this seed for sale, but we will send a packet, containing about

| 25 seeds, to every subscriber to our journal, GLEANINGS IN BEE

CULTURE. Dwarf Champion. Oz. 50c; lh. $6.00.

This is a great acquisition for an EARLY tomato. It is not only very early, but the shape is equal to any of our best kinds, and it stands up without staking, on account of its strong stalk. They are smooth and handsome, and ripen all over nicely, quite a little ahead of the Mikado.

Tomato Seed Saved from the First Speci- mens to Ripen.

For two years back we have been saving seed from the first and largest good-shaned tomatoes that ripened, and will now offer such seed, so saved, from the Mikado and Dwarf Champi- on (see description of these above and on page 3), at 5 cts. per packet of about 25 seeds to any who may want them. This will enable you to grow a few plants from our FIRST and BEST selection for a comparatively small outlay. -

Kidney Wax Bean.

This is an improvement on the ‘ordinary Golden Wax Bean, in giving us larger pods, more perfectly free from rust; and last, but not least, if you can not sell all of them for snap-short beans you haveashell bean that is fully equal in size and quality to the larger white kidney bean; and if yon do not sell them all shelled, you have a good cron of dry White Kid ney beans. We consider it quite an acquisition. Price 10 cents per 44 pint; $2.00 per peck.

Golden Self-Blanching Celery. oz.. 50e;lb., $7.00.

This celery was raised by us for the first time during the past season. It is different from all ofhers we have seen, in being not only more dwarf—i. e., shorter, but it is also thick- er; infact. the plant, when fully matured, is so thick and stumpy as to create surprise. The variety is also excellent, and the labor of banking up is not more than that of the White Plume. As to the keeping qualities, our experi- ence indicates that it is a rather early celery, and should be used soon after approaching maturity. We shall test it this year side by side with the White Plume for our very earliest.

Salsify, New Mammoth. 0Oz., 10 cts.; lb., $2.50.

We have grown this side by side during the past season with the common salsify. and we find the roots larger, better shap- ed, and equally good in other respects; they are, therefore, without question animprovement. A very littleimprovement in such a matter is worthy; of adoption; for when we once start with the improved kind it is just as easy to use it as the old oripferior kind. This was introduced from the Sandwich

Islands.

% oz., 15 cts.;

VEGETABLE PLANTS.

These are one of our great specialties, and we are prepared to furnish “cabbage and lettuce plants from the first of Februart till the first of August; celery-plants from the first of March till the first of Septem- ber; tomato-plants from the first of April till the first of August.

PRICES AND VARIETIES.

ASPARAGUS PLANTS. HENDERSON’S PALMETTO plants, 1 year old, 10c for 10; 75e per 100, or $6.00 per 1000. CABBAGE-PLANTS. e We keep instock during the months of Feb., March, April, May, June, and July. varieties as below: SELECT VERY EARLY JERSEY WAKEFIELD, HENDERSON’S EARLY SUMMER, and WINNINGSTADT. 5c perg0; 100, 40c: 1000, $3.00; 10.000. $25.00. During May, June, and July, FLAT DUTCH. LOUISVILLE DRUMHEAD, prices same as above. PERFECTION DRUMHEAD SAVOY CABBAGE. and

LARGE RED DRUMHEAD ready in May, June, and July, |

8e per 10: 60c per 100, or $5.00 per 1000.

Extra-strong. twice-transplanted plants, double above prices. If these are to be shipped by express, the expressage will be extra, on account of the great weight of the large plants.

COLD-FRAME CABBAGE-PLANTS.

When we haye these they will be double the price of the plants vaised in the greenhouse. During the

«present season we have only one kind of cold- frame cabbage-plants; viz., extra selected JERSEY

WAKEFIELD. CAULIFLOWER.

We have confined our attention to the one kind— HENDERSON’S EARLY SNOWBALL. Price of plants, 10c for 10; 75e per 100, $6.00 per 1000. These will be ready in March, April, May, and June.

LETTUCE-PLANTS.

We can furnish BOSTON MAREET, GRAND RAPIDS, and HENDERSON’S NEW YORE. Prices, 5 cts. per 10: 40 ets. per 100; $2.50 per 1000, except the Grand Rapids, whick will be double the above prices.

TOMATO-PLANTS.

These will be ready from April first till August first. We have the following varieties:

ACME. LIVINGSTON’S BEAUTY. MIEADO, and DWARF CHAN- PION. The three former will be 10c for 10; Tse per 100; $6.00 per 1000; or $50.00 per 10,0M.

The DWARF CHAMPION will be double the above prices. The difference in foliage readily distin- guishes it from the common tomato.

PEAR-SHAPED TOMATOES. for pickles and preserves. Plants, both red and yellow, 8c for 10; 75e per 100:

or $6.00 per 1000. All the above plants are once transplanted, and

are strong-rooted. CELERY-PLANTS.

We keep in stock HENDERSON'S WHITE PLUME. GOLD- EN DWARF. BOSTON MARKET, and GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING. Prices, 5e per 10; 40c per 100; $3.00 per 1000; or $25.00 per 10,000. :

Extra-strong, twice-transplanted “plants, double above prices. If these are to be shipped by express, the expressage will*be extra, on account of the ereat weight of the large plants.

PEPPER-PLANTS.

Weexpect to keep in stock BULLNOSE. CAYENNE, and SPANISH PEPPER. The price will be 15c for 10; $1.25 per 100, or $12.00 per 1000. :

KOHLRBABI.

During the summer of 1886 we had quite a nice trade in this vegetable, raised from plants started in the greenhouse. They were ready to use fully as soon as the earliest cabbages. and were preferred by many of our customers. The price of plants will be 10c for 10; 75e per 100; or $6.00 per 1000.

We can send plants by mail if enough is added to cover postage and packing, which will be 5e for 10, or 25e per 100. %

Any of the above plants will be taken directly from the seed-bed, without having been transplant. ed at all, at half the above prices.

PRICE 5 CENTS PER PAPER 10 PAPERS, 0 CENTS; 100 PAPERS, $3.50,

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STRAYVBERRIES:

May be you will think I am a little queer, friends, but there are only three strawberries to which I feel like giving very much prominence. ‘The first is our old friend the SHARPLESS. The second is the JERSEY QUEEN, introduced by Peter Henderson. This is the latest strawberry we have ever had any caperience with. Wecansend you nice young plants of either variety, from the first of March until the first of December, inclusive, at 10 cts. for 10; 75 cts. per 100, or $5.00 per L000.

Last but not least I would recommend, is the new JESSIE. ‘This is nearly as large as the Sharp- less, much better in shape and color, and the fruit stands higher up on thestalk, out of the dirt. Besides, the plant is a wonderfully healthy, strong grower. Prices for Jessic, same as ubove. If wanted by mail, add 3c for 10, or 15 e per 100 for postage. ’

We can furnish strawberry plants, from March ist until Dec. 1st, inclusive.

SEEDS OF HONEY-PLANTS.

I nave for years had dreams of a honey farm, with acres of flowers of different colors, blooming at different seasons, and keeping the bees away from the stores and groceries when we have a dry spell in the fall. The dream has been partially realized with the Simpson honey-plant, Mollie O. Large’s spider plant, and the seven-top turnip, but [ am pretty well satisfied it will not pay to cultivate these for honey alone. Mignonnette, catnip, motherwort, borage, melilot, and some others, I have tested, but I am sure that none of them have ever paid, just for the honey.

tS” For Alsike Clover, Buckwheat, White Dutch | food. Price, $1.75 per bushel; $1.00 per half-bushel; Clover, and Rape seeds, see our regular price list of | 60e per peck, packages included; per Ib., 10c; by bee-supplies, mailed on application. - | mail, 10c extra. A bushel weighs about 30 Ibs. BEE-BALM, OK MELISSA.— During the year 1887 HORSEMINT, the celebrated honey-plant of Texas. this plant called forth considerabie attention, not | Per oz. 20c; per lb., $2.00; postage, 1Uc per lb. extra. only for the amount of honey it produces, but for CG=RULEA, bee clover. This latter blossoms in the enormous number of blossoms found on a sin- | about six weeks after sowing, and bears a small blue gle stalk. The introducer claims, in fact, that the | flower. large number of thirty thousand seeds have been Price of seed, 10c per oz., or 75c per |b.; if wanted counted on one stalk. Itis also so prolific in seed | by mail, add 10c for bag and postage. that the introducer claims to have received a bushel Lippi1A NODIFLORA.—For description see Dec. ’79 of seed from 2100 plants. Wecan supply the seed. |; GLEANINGS. Per oz., $1.00. Per pkt.,5c. Give hot- Per packet, 5 cts.; per ounce, 15 cts.; per pound, | bed treatment. $2.00. For further description, see GLEANINGS for MIGNONNETTE.—This is a great favorite with the November, 1887. ‘ bees, and also with those who are raising plants for BORAGE.—A strong, hardy, rapidly growing plant, | their bees; but, although we have sold considerable bearing a profusion of blue flowers. It may be sown | of the seed for bee pasturage, I am not sure that any any time, but will, perhaps, succeed best, at about | one has ever made it pay in dollars and cents, for corn planting time. As it grows tall, and branches | the honey alone. It may pay to raise the seed, espe- out considerably, it should have plenty of room. | cially if the price keeps near what it isnow. The [ know that bees are very busy on it, all the day | tall varieties seem best suited to the bees, but are long, from July until Nov., but Ido not know how | not as fragrant. It should be sown in the spring, much honey an acre of it wouid furnish. It is easily | and as the seed is small, it should have fine clean tried, because it grows so readily, andif sowed on | soil, and be covered lightly. This plant seems to the ground after early potatoes are dug, you will | havea rare capacity for standing frost, and bees get a nice crop of fall bloom. Sow broad cast, orin | may often be seen busy upon it clear into October. hills like corn. Borage is also used as a salad, or The seed is 10c per oz., or $1.00 per lb. If wanted cooked as spinach. Price 10c per oz., or 75e per lb. | by mail, add 10e for postage. If wanted by mail, add l0c per lb. for postage. MOTHERWORT.—This 1s a near relative of the cat- CatTnip.—This has been very much talked about, | nip and is probably equally valuable as a honey and we have record of some experiments with an | plant. Prices of the seed, same as for catnip. Sow acre or more, but if [am correct, no one has ever | any time. yet seen a barrel of catnip honey. If you wish to MustTARD.—The honey from this is said to be very try, we can furnish you good seed, that we have | light, equal to any in flavor, and to command tested ourselves, for10c per oz., or $1.00 per lb.; 10c | the highest price in the market. We can furnish

per lb. extra. if wanted by mail. Sow in the fall. the common, (either white or black) for lUc per oz.,

CHAPMAN HONEY-PLANT.—This is called, in Eu- | or 25c perlb. Add 10c per lb., if to be sent by mail. ropean countries, ‘globe thistle.” It was intro- PORTULACA.— Best mixed; A bed of -portulaca, duced by Mr. H. C. Chapman, of Versailles, N. Y., | say a rod square, will show more bees in the work-

who cultivates it extensively for honey, and claims | ing season, for the area, than any other plant | that itis a paying investment. His seed has been , know of; furthermore, a bed of mixed portulacas, turned over to the government, and may be obtain- equivalent to a square rod, makes one of the hand- ed free by any bee-keeper. Where it is more con- somest, if not the handsomest sights. when in full venient to get it of us, however, we can furnishit | bloom, the whole floral kingdom affords. It does in 5-cent packages, or at 25c per oz., or $3.00 perlb. | notseem to me that any bee-keeper ought to be

DANDELIONS.—I presume every body can get without a bed; and | might also say, no lover of dandelion seeds and roots without buying them, flowers can well afford to forego the gorgeous spec- but for all that, | have much faith in an acre of tacle of a bed of mixed portulacas, especially when cultivated dandelions. French thick-leaved, is su- | the seed is only 5 cts. a paper. One paper will cover perior for “greens,’’ and by the way our bees take asquare rod of ground nicelf¥. You cun have the to our “‘patch” of it, [think it must be superior for .square rod laid out in artistic beds and walks, if honey. Price of seed, 5c per package, or 50 c. per oz. | you choose.

FIGWORT, OR SIMPSON HONEY-PLANT.—This is a RASPBERRY.—A pretty good honey-plant, too well queer tall weed that grows in fields and woods, and | known to need description. The Red Kaspberries bears little cups full of honey. It has pro- | are thought to yield most honey, and of these the duced so much honey under cultivation on our Turner and Cuthbert varieties are said to be best. honey farm during the past two years, that Iam _ Price of plants, per ten, 40c; per hundred, $2.50. If much inclined to place it at the head of the list of | wanted by mail, 3c each extra. honey-plants. It bears honey all the day long from RocKy MOUNTAIN BEE PLANT (Cleome integrifo- July to October. Very hardy; blooms first year, | lia).—Is closely connected with the noted Spider and after that shoots up from the root every year, Plant (C. pungens), these two being the onlv species but needs planting anew, about every three years. | of the Cleome. With us, it is much inferior to the The seed sometimes lies inthe groundmany months | Spider Plant as a honey producer. We have'reports before germinating. If sprinkled on the top of | from some localities of its yielding large quantities damp leaf-mold, packed hard in a box, and rolled | of honey, hence, quite a demand for the seed is the hard, being kept dark and damp in a warm place, | result. Price per lb., $1.25, postage 10c. extra. Per they will sprout in a week ortwo. Thengive all the | ounee, 15e. light and air possible, but not too much water. Price SAGE, WHITE (Salvia argentea).—Is called the hon- of seed, from cultivated plants, 20c per oz., $2.00 | ey plant of California, and belongs to the Labiatze per lb. If by mail, 10c per lb. extra, for postage. or Mint family, the same as Rosemary, Balm, Hoar-

Honey PgA.—This is the stock pea of the South, | hound, &c. Price per ounce, 35c, per lb., $4.00. and often yields much honey, It is also used for SWEET CLOVER (Melilotus alba, or Melilot).—This

PRICE 5 CENTS PER PAPER; 10 PAPERS, 40 OE NTS; 100 PAPERS, $3,50,

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has some valuable traits, as standing frost and drouth, but many times and seasons, the bees will hardly notice it at all. The statement has been made that an acre will support 20 colonies of bees, and afford from 500 to 1000 i. of honey. Such state- ments, although they may be honestly given, I think should be received with due allowance; about four pounds of seed are needed foran acre; sow like Alsike. 1t will grow on almost any barren hillside, but itis a bad weed to exterminate; if, however, it

is mown down to prevent seeding, the roots will | soon die out. Sowin spring or fall. In the vicinity | of Salt Lake, Utah, Sweet clover is the main honey |

plant. and the quality of the honey is equal, in my opinion, to any honey in the world. The plant lives through the dry summers in Utah.

Common Sweet Clover, per lb., 18¢c; 10 Ibs., $1.50;

equal to the spider plant and Simpson honey plant, is entitled to a place next to them, because it bears

| its crop of honey in the spring, between fruit blos-

100 lbs., $12.00; if wanted by mail, add 10c for bag |

and postage. This is sold with the hulls on; the Bokhara is hulled. Bokhara clover; 10c per oz., or 35c per lb.; 10 lbs., $3.00; 100 1bs., $25.00. If by mail, add 10c per lb. SUNFLOWER.—This plant is visited by the bees in great numbers in some seasons, while, in others, it

soms and clover. It should be sown in Aug. and Sept. It bears no root like the ordinary turnip, but only foliage that is used for greens. Price of seed, 10c per oz., or 50c. per lb. If wanted by mail, 10 c. per lb. extra.

Any of the above seeds will be sent in 5¢ packages, to those who would like just a few to try.

OTHER HONEY PLANTS.

The following are recommended as honey plants, but I have not thought them worthy of a more ex- tended notice for cultivation. Some of them have been tried on our grounds but either yielded no honey at all, or very little, and I have thought best to put them in here until we could give them a more extended trial. We keep the seed for sale in 5c. packages; if larger quantities are wanted, we will

| give prices on application.

is scarcely noticed; but, as the seeds usually pay all |

expenses of cultivation, it holds its place as a honey plant. The mammoth Russian bears by far the largest blossoms, as well as the largest seeds. Price of seed 5e per oz. or 10c per .; 10 1bs. or over, 8c; 100 lbs., 744¢c. if wanted by mail, add 10c for bag and postage.

SPIDER PLANT.—This plant, under favorable cir-

cumstances, yields more honey than anything that ever before came under my observation.

In Oct., 1879, each floweret yielded drops so large that a bee had to make two or more journeys to get

it all, and I succeeded in dipping the honey from |

the plant with a spoon, until I half filled a bottle with it, for experiment. As itonly yields this honey

CLOVERS, foreign.

ALFALFA, grown principally in the Pacific States. (This is virtually the same as Lucerne). Price per lb. 20e; peck, $2.75; % bush., $5.25; bushel, $10.00.

ITALIAN OR SCARLET (T. incarnatum), introduced

from Italy and France. The flowers are most beautiful, much resembling a large luscious strawberrv. Blossoms first year.

LUCERNE OR FRENCH. (Medicago sativa), best for sandy soils.

YELLOW TREFOIL (Medicago lupulina), a weed or pasture plant, in dry or sandy fields.

ERYStmMumM (False Wall Flower).—Relongs to the

| Cruciferze or Mustard family, and comprises but

early in the morning, and late in the evening, it will |

go nicely with the Simpson honey plant.

I should |

think it quite probable that 5 acres of each of these |

plants would keep 100 colonies busy enough to be out of mischief during a dry fall, when bees are so apt to be robbing. For particulars concerning both plants, see ABC of Bee Culture.

The Spider plant is an annual, and should be sown every year.

It grows most quickly with hotbed |

treatment, but will blossom in August-if sown in |

the open ground in May. Price of seed — per package, 5 ¢.; per oz., 20 ¢.; per lb., $2.00. Postage 10c per lb. extra.

SEVEN-TOP TURNIP.— This plant, although not)

three species.

FULLER’S TEASEL (Dipsacus fullonum).—A variety of teasel, usually cultivated; is valuable for carding woolen cloth, as well as for honey.—See A BC.

MOLLIE HEATH honey plant, a species of acacia, having a most beautiful ornamental foliage, and called a very valuable honey-plant. We have got it

| to blossom here only by wintering overin the green-

house, but the beauty of the plant pays for all trou- ble and expense.

SPRING VETCHES OR TARES (Vicia sativa)._Seems to be a cross between the Pea and Clover, partaking of the peculiarities of each, and belongs to the same family, Leguminosze. Does not yield honey with us.

MISCELLANEOUS IMPLEMENTS FOR GARDENERS, FARMERS, Etc.

TRANSPLANTING-BOXES FOR SEEDLINGS. i

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EMPTY SEED-BOX FOR EARLY PLANTS.

To give drainage and strength, we have the bot- |

tom made of slats only three or four inches wide,

and only 4 inch thick. They are nailed on crosswise, |

as you will notice. Such light stuff would not be

strong enough if put on lengthwise of the box. The |

sides of the box are1% x %inch. These are very easy to carry about, and answer just as well for small plants. spring of 1886, got 7500 celery-plants.

first leaf had formed they were taken up and plant- ed into similar boxes, as shown below:

A BOX OF WHITE-PLUME CELERY-PLANTS AS IT APPEARS WHEN FIRST TRANSPLANTED,

From one of these boxes, we, in the | After the |

Price of seed- boxes, as shown, made com- plete, 15e each. Price of stuff in the flat, in lots of 10, 85e; 100 in the flat, $8.00.

You will observe that there are 10 rows of plants, and 30 plants in a row, so it took 25 boxes, with 300 plants to a box, to contain just what grew in one Single seed-box.

TRANSPLANTING-FRAME.

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The above is made by stretching a piece of poul- try-netting over an iron frame. This is then laid over one of the plant-boxes shown above, and the plants are put in the center of each mesh. Celery- plant seedlings we put two in each mesh—a plant in each sharp corner. This spaces them properly, without any effort, and lays out the work so that even a child may learn to transplant seedlings, and do it well and rapidly. Price of transplanting- frame, suitable for the above boxes, 25 cts.

We start cabbage, cauliflower, and celery plants, in the fore part of February; tomato-plants from the middle to the latter part. If they get too large

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before the weather is suitable to set them out, shear off the tops and let them grow out again. This will have the cflect of making a strong root.

TRANSPLANTING-TUEES.

A NEW THING IN MARKET GARDENING.

These tubes are used for trans- planting all kinds of vegetable plants and their use answers as a substi- tute for potting plants in transplant- ing strawberries. They are made of heavy tin. Fora full explanation of the way in which they ure used see our seed catalogue tor 1888. Price of transplanting-tubes: 25 cts. for 10; $2.25 per 100; $20.00 per 1000. If shipped before the seam is locked together, they will pack in much smaller compass. In this shape we ean send them for $2.00 per 100, or TIN TUBE FOR $15 0 per 1000. These transplanting- TRANSPLANT- tubes are also excellent for trans-

ING. planting single stalks of melons, cu- cumbers, or squashes, where cut-worms have de- stroyed an oceusional hill.

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NEST OF TRANSPLATING-TUBES, MADE OF GALVAN- IZED IRON.

Where you wish to move a whole hill of melons, cucumbers, or squashes, or other_large plants, transplanting-tubes made of galvanized iron, large enough to go arouud a whole hill, are used. To prevent the soil from dropping out, slip a spade or shovel under them while the hillis being moved. We can furnish a nest of these, comprising five different sizes, as shown above, for 50 cts.

PAPER SEED-BAGS.

Large size, to hold ounces, $1.50 per 1000, or 20 cts. per 100. Medium size, to hold ordinary packets, $1.35 per 1000, or 18 cts. per 100. Small size, for very expensive seeds, $1.15 per 1000, or 15 cts. per 100. If wanted by mail, add for postage, 5, 8, and 10 cts. per 100 respectively. The same printed to order (not to exceed 50 words), 25 cts. per 100, or $1.00 per 1000.

LABELING STAKES FOR THE GARDEN.

Now, the above-mentioned seed-bags, which are the same as we use for all our seeds, are stout wa- ter-proof manilla paper, and we find them the very best thing for labeling the seeds you have planted, that we have ever got hold of. Tack them ontoa pine stake, like the one figured below; and after standing out all winter in the snow and rain, the print can be reud just as easily as when first put on.

These stakes, as you observe, are made tapering, and thick enough at the large end so that, if you blunder over them, they may be kicked out of the ground, but can not be broken off. Price of stakes, one cent each; 10 for § cts.; per 100.75 cts. These are too heavy to be sent by mail, unless you want justasample. In that case,the postage will be 3 ets. extra.

BOXES FOR STARTING SQUASHES, MELONS, CUCUMBERS, ETC.

: During my visit to Ar- lington, in July, 1886, I no- ticed that the squash-grow- ers had a plan for getting Boston Marrow squashes on the market very early. It is by means of the boxes shown in the adjoining cut. These, as you notice, are made so as to nest one in the other, occupying but little room when stored

away, Or drawa out on the wagon. An 8X10 glass slides in the tep. These boxes can be used for put- ting over hiils of early potatoes in March and April; and when the potatoes are out of danger the boxes will do good service in forwarding sauashes, | melons, and cucumbers. After all danger eof-trost is past, the glass inay bc drawn out, but the box is left on, as a protéction against. bugs. If the bugs are very bad, however, you will have to tack on cheese cloth. The striped bug will erawl through mosquito bar. As the glass is to move loosely, it is not a very long job to slide them all back when the weather is mild, and close them up again at night, when frost comes. If the earth is banked around the lower edges, it makes quite a miniature cold frame. 1 was astonished while at Arlington to see squash-vines fully a month ahead of the usual time; but ] was told these boxes were the explaination of it. Don’t fail to have a big lot of good manure under every box (see our little book, “Gregory on Squashes’’). Prices of these little boxes without glass, in the flat, 10 cts. each: 85 cts. for 10, $7.50 per 100. Glass to match. $2.50 per box of 50 square feet. There are about 90 lights in a box.

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WIRE THE BUG-PROTECTOR, AND HOW TO MAKE IT.

After the season of frost is passed, we prefer, for a bug-protector, the wire-cloth basket shown above. They are made of pieces of wire-cloth 18 inches square, and the wooden form on the left of the cut shows how they are made. We can furnish these made up, for 5 cts. each; 48 cts for 10; $4.50 per 100. Smaller sizes, for single plants, 4 cts. each; 38 Cts. for 10; or $3.50 per 100. Small ones can be sent by mail in lots of 10, at 25 cts. for postage on the 10.

POTATO-BOXES. (TERRY'S).

These are made of basswood, bound with galvanized iron. The galvanized iron gives strength, and _ the basswood strength and lightness. These hold exactly a bushel when level full, and may be piled one on top of another. Al- though they are made especially for potatoes, they ean be used for fruit, vegetables, picking up stones on the farm, and a thousand other purposes. When piled one above the other, they protect the contents from the sun and rain; and from their shape & great many more bushels can be set into a wagon than where baskets are used. They are also much more substantial than baskets.

_ Price 25 c each; 10, $2.25; 100, $20.00. In the flat, including nails and galvanized iron, $1.75 for 10; 100, $16.50; 1000, $150.

A CHEAPER POTATO-BOX MADE OF SLATS.

AS the pieces of which the above are made _ are } mostly from rem- nants of basswood used in making sections. we can furnish them nail- ed up for20 cents; 10 boxes, nailed up, for $1.85: 100 nailed up, $16.00. Material in the flat, including nails, in packages uf 12 boxes each, at $150 per package, and each package includes two of the twelve boxes nailed up, complete.

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= $4 Daisy Wheelbarrow

Stroigest and neates! barrow izade

for garden- ers, bee-keep- ers, mereijants’ delivery, and general use. Has steel wheel, axle, and legs; steel springs with adjustable bearings. El- egantly painted and var- 3 t nished. Will carry 500 lbs.

Two sizes, weighing 35 and 40 lbs. each. Price $4 and $4.25.

PYRETHRUM ROSEUM. (Persian Insect-Powder.)

This is not only a pretty plant for the flower- garden, but the flowers, gathered and dried when in full bloom, and then finely powdered, furnish us the Persian insect-powder. of which so much has beensaid. This powder sells at from 50 ects. to $1.00 a pound, and even then is often largely adulterated. With us it has been the surest thing to kill all sorts of small insects, laying them out dead in even a few minutes, of any thing we have ever got hold of. When used in the insect-powder bellows, shown below, but a very little of the powder is required.

INSECT-POWDER BELLOWS; PRICE $1.00; SIZE 6x18 INCHES. :

With the above instrument you can kill every fly in any room of the house, within an hour. Of course, the doors and windows of the room should all be closed; but where it is not practicable to do this, you can tumble the flies on their backs, even then; but you will have to use more of the powder. In painting new houses in the summer time, when flies are troublesome, the instrument is worth more than it costs, for this alone. It will kill even the green fly in our lettuce-greenhouses; for with the above bellows you ean fill the room with sucha dust that every insect of every description has got to die; and the strangest and best part of it all is, that it is not at all poisonous Or injurious to human beings. It may make you sneeze right smart, but that is not half as unpleasant as it is to endure the flies. In the summer time the instrument and powder serve an excellent purpose in our type-room by laying out the flies that bother the printers by getting on their hands.

Price of the powder, all ready for use, half ounce, 5 cts.; % lb., 25 cts.; 1 lb., 75 cts.; 10 lbs., $7.00. Price of the seeds, one packet, 5 cts.; one ounce, 75 ets.; 11b., $7.00.

SLUG SHOT.

We have used this for several seasons, and find it a pretty good remedy for cabbage-worms. It is also recommended particularly for potato-beetles, and every other kind of worm or insect. One pound, 6e; 5 lbs., 25e; 10 lbs., 45e; per barrel of 285 Ibs. shipped from factory, 2%c per lb. The insect pow- der bellows is the best thing to apply it.

GOODS ESPECIALLY FOR POULTRY RAISERS. PURE BONE MEAL.

Coarsely ground, expressly for poultry. Per Ib., 5-ets.; 5 lbs., 3 cts. per lb.; 10 lbs., 294 cts. per Ib.3 1u0 lbs., 2% cts. per lb; by the barrel, Shipped from factory, 2 cts. per lb. Fowls will eat this almost as greedily as corn; and it not only furnishes material for egg-shell, but it gives them considerable animal matter besides. Excellent for laying hens. It is sure cure for thin-shell eggs.

Bone meal ground fine, for gardening purposes, same price as the above. s ,

Ground oyster-shells for poultry, half above price.

NEST-EGGS. 3 kinds, white glass, china. and pol- ished wood, each 3 cts.; 10, 28 ets.; 100, $2.50. The china is too heavy to send by mail. Postage on the oth- ers is 3 cents each. Sunflower Seed, Mammoth Russian, per b., 10c.; 10 lbs., 80e; 100 lbs., 7.50. Smaller variety—just as good for poultry, one- half the above prices.

BOOKS ON GARDENING, HORTICULTURE, FARMING, ETC.

I have indicated my opinion of the books by characters as follows: Books that I approve I have marked with a*; those I especially approve, **.

0} | AUB C of Carp Cultures **= . 2 ieyseee ss see 35

3| A BC of Potato Culture, Terry**.......... 35 This is T. B. Terry’s first and most masterly work. The book has had an enormous sale, and has been reprinted in foreign languages. When we are thoroughly conversant with friend eee system of raising potatoes, we shall be ready to han- ate pun Ost any farm crop successfully. It has 48 pages and 22 illustrations,

3 | An Egg Farm, Stoddard** ...... Foccswosaace, ab

No matter ARNE VO raise eggs on a large scale or a small scale, you can not afford to miss reading friend Stoddard’s book. I do not know that I ever got hold of any piece of fic- tion—not even Robinson Crusoe, that so PROuaTenie fascinated me as these chapters in regard to raising poultry on a large seale. The work ha; 9% pages and 42 illustrations.

6 | Cranberry Culture, White’s ................. 115 10 Weilens Grape) Cultunisit a. eee eaeeeeeeeer 140 This is, perhaps, the most systematic, comprehensive, and

thorough work on FLA culture now in print; in fact, friend Fuller here tells us how, by easy steps, to make any grapevine come into the work, and make a pleasant, orderly appearance: and he makes it as attractive as a piece of fic- tion; and the best part of it is, that you get great crops of beautiful grapes during almost any kind of season. We have tested the system, and know whereof we speak.

10 (Sans FOrsBOyS? eit. seceeiias coe Sor Gae c 115

This is one of Joseph Harris’ happiest productions, and it seems to me that it ought to make farm-life fascinating to any boy who has any sort of taste for gardening.

10 | Gardening for Pleasure, Henderson*...... 1 40 ile “‘ Gardening for Profit” is written with a view of mak- ing gardening Pay, it touches a good deal on the pleasure part; and ‘‘ Gardening for Pleasure” takes up this matter of beauti

fying your homes and improving your grounds, without ihe specia] point in view of making money out of it. I think miost of you will need this if you get “ Gardening for Profit.” ‘Chis work has 216 pages and 134 illustrations.

12 | Gardening for Profit, new edition**......... 1 8

This is a late revision of Peter Henderson’s celebrated work. Nothing that has ever before been put in print has done so much toward making market-gardening a science and a fasci- nating industry. Peter Henderson stands at the head, without question, although we have many other books on these rural employments. If you can get but one book, let it be tle above. 1t has 376 pages and 138 cuts.

10 | Garden and Farm Topics, Henderson**.... 75

pGardening for Young and Old, Harris**... 1 25 This is Joseph Harris’ best and Dapplest effort. Although it goes over the same ground occupied by Peter Henderson, it particularly emphasizes thorough cultivation of the soil in preparing yous ground; and this matter of adapting it to young people as well as to old is brought out in a most happy vein. If your children have any sort of fancy for yardening it will pay you to make them a present of this book. It has 187 pages and 46 engravings.

5 | Gregory on Cabbages; paper*... 25 5 | Gregory on Squashes; paper*... : 25 5 | Gregory on Onions; paper* fe See

The above three books, by our friend Grego: ‘are all val- uable. The book on squashes especially is good reading for almost anybody, whether they raise squashes ornot. It strikes

at the very foundation of success in almost any kind of business. ; 10 | Success in Market-Gardening*........ eae al)

This is new book by a real, live, enterprising, successful inar- ket-gardener who lives in Arlington, a suburb of Boston, Mass. Friend Rawson has been one of the foremost to make iriga- tion a practical success, and he now irrigates his grounds by means of a windmill and steam-engine whenever 9 drought threatens to injure the crops. The book has 208 pages,and is nicely illustrated with 110 engravings.

10 | Irrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Or- Chard) |Stewart®: 72. clpeeese sea eee 1 49

This book, so far as] am informed, is almost the only work on this matter that is attracting so much interest, especially recently. Using water from springs, brooks, or windmills, to take the place of rain, during our great droughts, is the great

problem before us at the present day. The book has 274 pages and 142 cuts. ‘ 2 | Injurious Insects, Cook..-:. .... ....--.+.... 25 8! What to Do, and How to be Happy While Doing It,) by A. TROOU aware senna 75

The above book is intended to solve the problem of finding occupation for those scattered all over our land, out of em- ployment. The suggestions are pee about finding em- ployment around your own homes. The book is principally upon market-gardening, fruit culture, poultry-raising, etc. I think it will be well worth the price, not only to those out of employment, but to any one who loves home and rural indus- tries. Price in paper covers, 50 cts. Eight cents extra by mail.

A. I. ROOT. Medina, O.

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