If any of my friends will send me the names of persons residing in their neighborhood who would be likely to need a supply of Good Vegetable Seed, I shall be happy to send such my Catalogue.^ ,i^Ey> 4g V Unnual Circular AND RETAIL CATALOGUE OF GROWTH AT5TT) SOLD BY MARBLEHEAD, MASS. BOOIECS FOR ZFJLIR/IMIEIR/S -A-IESTO OTHERS. In response to inquiries made for books treating on various subjects of interest to the fanner, 1 publish the following list of work* of which will be sent, post-paid, to any address in the United States or Territories, on receipt of the price. Allen's (R. L. & L. F. ) New American Farm Book Allen's (It. L.) Diseases of Domestic Animals American Bird Fancier Amateur Trap Makers' and Trappers' Guide. Paper, 50 cts.; Cloth American Cattle, by L. F. Allen American Rose Culturist American Weeds and Useful 1 'lants Barry's Fruit Garden Bemeut's Kabbit Fancier Bommer's Method of Making Manures Breck's New Book of Flowers Broom Corn and Brooms Buruham's New Poultry Book Buell's Cider Maker's Manual Canary Birds '. Paper, 50 cts. ; Cloth Ghorltou's Grape Grower's Guide Cobbett's American Gardener Cole's (S. W. > American Fruit Book. Cole's Veterinarian Cranberry Culture, by Joseph .7. White Dadd's (George H.) Modern Horse Doctor Dadd's American Cattle Doctor Dana's Muck Manual Eastwood on Cranberry Ferns in Their Homes and Ours Field's ( Thomas W. ) Pear Culture Field, Cover and Trap Shooting. Bogardus Flax Culture Flint (Charles L. ) on Grasses and Forage Plants Fuller's Grape Culturist Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist. Fuller's Strawberry Culturist Greylin's Poultry Breeding Gregory on Carrots and Mangolds Gregory on Squashes ■ Gregory on Cabbages Gregory on Onions Guenou on Milch Cows Harris's Insects Injurious to Vegetation. Ex. Clo Harris on the Pig. By Joseph Harris Harris's Talks on Manures. (New) Henderson's Gardening for Pleasure Henderson's Gardening for Profit Hop Culture Horse Training Made Easy. (Jennings) . How I Made S:i,50 per year by my Bees How Crops Feed, by Prof. S. W. Johnson How to Make Candy 2 50 1 (.0 50 2 00 75 1 25 1 50 1 50 1 25 75 1 50 1 25 2 00 30 2 50 J 50 1 50 20 4 no 1 50 2 00 50 .du- al Chi Hunter and Trapper : Herbert's Hints to Horse Keepers Jennings on Cattle Jennings on Sheep, Swine and 1*0 Jennings on the Horse and His Disi Johnson's How Crops Grow Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry. Johnston's Elements of Agricultn Lcuchar's How to Build Hot Houses. . Miles on the Horse's Foot My Vineyard at Lakeview ; Mrs. Cornelius's Young Housekeeper's Friend. Murray's The Perfect Horse Norris's Fish Culture Our Farm of Four Acres Paper, 30 cts. : Cloth Pardee on Strawberry Culture .... Pedder's Land Measurer Phin's How to Use the Microscope Practical Floriculture, by P. Henderson Peach Culture ( Fulton ) Quinn's Pear Culture for Profit Quinn's Money in the Garden Quinbv's Mysteries of Bee Keeping (Juincy (Hon. Josiah) on Soiling Cattle '. Randall's Sheep Husbandry Richardson on the Dog Paper, SO cts. ; Cloth Saunders' Domestic Poultry : Paper, 40 cts.; Cloth Skillful Housewife Shooting on the Wing. Stoddard's American Egg Farm Paper, 50 cts. ; Cloth The Horse (Stonehenge). Am. edition The Art of Swimming. Capt. Webb The Modern Archer ('...<;. .■ Tim Bunker Papers Tobacco Culture Turner's Cotton Planter's Manual Twenty-five-Cent Dinners for Families of Six Waring's Draining for Profit and Health Waring' s Earth Closets Warder's American Pomology Warder's Hedges and Evergreens White's Gardening for the South Youatt and Spooner on the Horse Youatt and Martin on Cattle Youatt on the Hog Youatt on Sheep Ville's High Fanning without Manure Ville's Chemical Manures 1 50 1 50 1 50 4 00 00 75 1 50 1 50 1 00 1 50 1 50 1 25 1 50 GO 2 00 50 25 1 50 25 1 50 25 1 50 50 .-. 00 1 50 2 00 1 50 1 50 1 00 1 00 25 50 Cold Frame and Hot Bed. Early tomato plants in a small way may be raised in flower pots or boxes in a warm kitchen window; so also may egg plants and peppers. When raising them in the house, the pot or box containing the seed should be placed quite near the stove for a few days, and the soil be kept well moistened until the plants begin to break ground, when they may be removed to a warm window. It is best, if practicable, to have but one plant in each pot, that they may grow short andstocky. If the seed are not planted earlier than the first of April for out-of-door cul- livation a cold frame will answer. Cold frames are extensively used by market gardeners to carry lettuce and cabbage plants through the winter. Select the locality in the fall, choosing a warm location on a southern slope, protected by a fence or building on the north and north- west. Set postsin the ground, nail two boards to these parallel to each other, one about a foot in height and the other towards the south about four inches narrower; tins will give the sashes resting on them the right slope to shed the rain and receive as much heat as possible from the sun. Have these boards at a distance apart equal to the length of the sash, winch may beany common window sash for a small bed, or the length of a usual gardener's sash. If common window sash is used, cut channels in the cross liars to let the water run off. Dig the ground thoroughly, (it is best to cover it in the fall with litter to keep the frost out,) and rake out all stones or clods; then slide in the sash and let it remain closed three or four days that the soil may be warmed by the sun's rays. The two end boards should rise as high as the sash to pre- vent the heat escaping, and the bottom board of a small frame should have a strip nailed inside to rest the sash on. Next rake thoroughly in guano or phosphate or finely pulverized hen manure, and plant in rows three to six inches apart, depending on whether the plants are to be al- lowed to remain or are to be transplanted; if the latter, then three in- ches will be sufficient distance. Thin out the tomato plants when quite small, but allow peppers to remain rather thick at first by reason of dan- gerfrom depredations of the cut worm. As the season' advances, raise the sashes an inch or two in the middle of the day and water freely at evening with water that is nearly of the temperature of the earth in the frame. As the heat of the season increases whitewash the glass, and keep them more and more open until, at about the close of May, just before the more tender varieties are set in open ground, allow the glass to remain entirely off both day and night, unless there should be a cold rain. This will' harden them so that they will not be apt to be injured by the cabbage beetle, as well as chilled and put back by the change. If the tomato plants have been well hardened, the stalks will be of a red color. Should the plants be getting too large before the sea- son for transplanting, they should he checked by drawing a sharp knife within a couple of inches of the stalk. If it is desirable to dwarf the tomatoes and thus force them into a compact growth, transplant into another cold frame, allowing each plant double the distance it be- fore occupied. The structure and management of a Hot Bed is much the same as that of a Cold Frame, with the exception that being started earlier the requisite temperature has to be kept up by artificial means, fermenting manure being relied upon for the purpose, and the loss of this heat has to be checked more carefully by straw matting, and in the far North by shutters aLso. The front and back are also made higher than in a cold frame. Horse manure with plenty of litter and about quarter its bulk in leaves, if attainable, all having been well mixed together is thrown into a pile, and left for a few days until steam escapes, when the mass is again thrown over and left 'for two or three days more, after which it is thrown in the pit (or it may he placed directly on the surface) from eighteen inches to two feet in depth, when it is beaten down withafork and trodden well together. The sashes are now put on and kept there until heat is developed. The first intense heat must be allowed to pass off, which will be in about three days after the high temperature is reached. Now throw on six inches of fine soil, in which mix a very lib- eral supply of well rotted manure free from all straw, or rake in thor- oughly superphosphate or guano, at the rate of 2000 pounds to the acre and plant the seed as in cold frame. Keepday temperature 70 to 80 de- grees and don't allow it to fall below 55 degrees at night. If the tem- perature exceed 75 degrees the plants are liable to grow spindling and weak. Do not move the sashes to give air immediately atter removing he mats in the morning, lest the young plants damp off. Tjgf* PLEASE NOTICE. My customers will please notice that this season, for the first time, that I have given my rates for quarter-pounds, pounds, pecks and bushels in the body of my catalogue in connection with the ounce and package quotations, and not on two separate pages as formerly. I have done this for the convenience of my customers and to gain some much needed space for the catalogue. My prices are by mail postpaid by mc, or by express or freight at purchaser's expense. When not ordered by mail it is desirable that customers should indicate whether they wish their seed sent by express or freight ; when no preference is given I will use my best judgment in their behalf. 1 make no charge for boxes used in packing. ,_jg| j£f= When comparing my rates with other dealers, my customers will please remember: — 1st, That cdl orders, (with the exception of Peas and Beans, by the peck and bushel, and Dancers Onion seed) to the amount of fee dollars and upwards are sub- ject to a cash discount as stated below ; 2d, That I grow o«e» half the varieties of the seed I sell ; 3d, My three warrants.^^ JAMES J. H. GEEGOBY'S Annual Seed Catalogue for 188#« The past season has been a very unfavorable one for the ripening of "Beans and Peas. Onion seed is also more scarce than usual, and this is especially true of the Early Danvers variety, of -which, it is safe to say, there is not enough of good seed to supply the average demand. My own crop is short and I would advise my customers to order early. fgST" My seed growing facilities now include five farms, located in three towns, carried on directly under my own supervision, with about one hundred and twenty-five acres in annual tillage. With these advanta- ges for complete isolation I grow about a hundred and fifty varieties of the vegetable seed contained in this catalogue. ^gj All roots, bulbs, &c, intended for seed purposes, are selected with the utmost care. The Thuee Warrants. All seed sent out from my establishment are sold under three warrants; viz. : 1st, That my seed shall be what it pur- ports to be, so far as that I hold myself ready to refill the order anew, gratis, in other seed, should it prove defective in any respect. 2d, That all money sent for seed shall reach me, with the single proviso, that all sums to the amount of one. dollar and upwards be sent in the form of a Post Office Order on Marblehead, Pegistered Letter, Draft, or Cashier's Check. 3d, That the seed ordered shall reach every one of my customers. Thus I warrant everything but the crop. There happens occasionally an instance, where 1 have complaint against the vitality of seed, in which the seed was grown by myself that season, and thousands of customers were supplied from the same lot to their satisfaction. Such cases are very obviously of the class where the cause of the trouble was owing to the season, or soil, or manner of plant- ing ; in short to some cause utterly beyond my control and consequent responsibility. It is my labor and my anxiety to send out none but just such seed as I would he willing to plant myself, and the thousands of cheering letters that I open are very pleasant testimony to the success of my undertaking With all care that it is possible to exercise, mis- takes will occasionally, (though very rarely), occur ; these my custom- ers will always find me ready to rectify in accordance with the promise of my three warrants. Payment for Seed. All sums to the amount of one dollar or up- wards should be sent in Cashier's Checks on New York or Boston, Drafts, Money Orders on Marblehead or in Pegistered' Letters. When the value of seed ordered is less than one dollar, the siam sent is at my own risk, and when the value is greater than one dollar, the amount re- mitted will also be at my risk, provided it be sent by Post Office Order. Draft, Cashier's Check, or Pegistered Letter. When in making change it is necessary to enclose Postage Stamps, be sure not to moisten ihnn in the least ; the higher denominations, such as tens and upwards, would be preferred. Money Orders, when of the value of one dollar and upwards, may he purchased at my expense, the cost being deducted from the amount remitted. If Money Orders are not for sale at your office, they can oftentimes be procured at a neighboring town. Cash must accom- pany all orders. When necessary to send specie, wrap it securely in a bit of paper, to prevent it from getting loose and cutting through the envelope. I would advise my customers not to order their seed by Express C. O. D., particularly when the orders are small, as I have to add the cost of collection and return charges to the cost of the seed to make myself whole. Advantages of Buying Seed Directly froji the Grower. — But few seed dealers grow any of the seed they sell, — the business of seed growing and that of seed selling being almost entirely distinct. Hence, as a general rule, seed dealers know only what is told them of the careful selection of seed stock and of the freshness and purity of their seed ; now if the person of whom they purchase should be careless, ignorant or dishonest, you who plant have to suffer, as the dealer can only reaffirm what is told him. On the other hand, if the seed dealer grows his own seed, he is able to affirm what he himself knoios as to its freshness and purity ; and thus you who purchase have the invaluable guarantee from his own knowledge. It is that I may be able to (/ive this guarantee that I raise so many varieties, some of them at double the, cost at which I could purchase them. The public will thus understand how greatly it is for their advantage to sustain me in this effort to combine the business of seed grower and seed dealer. Prom what I have said let it not be inferred that I raise all the varie- ties of seed I sell ; I do not ; many choice varieties 1 import from England, Prance and Germany, some of which cannot be raised in this latitude, others I purchase of reliable dealers, or have grown for me by careful men, whom I supply with stock seed of my own raising. (JSP* When writing that seed have failed to reach you, always repeat your first order, or send for the same value in other kinds of seed. S3?" Be Careful to Write your Adtjress in full, giving the State as well as the town, for a toirn of the same name will oftentimes be found in a dozen States. I find by my record that in one seasoyi 218 of my customers forgot to sign their names to their letters. Before closing your orders be sure that you have given your address in full, your name, especially, being written very distinctly. Please be particular in this matter. The Postage Law. It matters not how many varieties are sent in the same package, provided the weight of the entire lot does not exceed four pounds. If a larger lot is wanted, it may be divided into lots of four pounds each. This law, in effect, brings my seed establishment to every man's door. Large Orders from Market Gardeners, Dealers, Clubs, and Granges of Husbandry. Five per cent, discount allowed on all orders for seed to the amount of five dollars and upwards, (excepting Peas and Beans by the peck and bushel, and Onion seed, for discount on which latter see page 32) whether the order be for packages, ounces, pounds or quarts, either separately or combined ; eight per cent, when the amount ordered is as high as ten dollars and under twenty-five ; ten per cent, when twenty-five and under forty dollars ; and twelve and a half on orders to the amount of forty dollars and upwards, For special discounts on Flower seeds see page 5.3. Terms to Dealers, Clubs and Granges of Husbandry on application. I do not send out seed to be sold on commission. JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. Early Bleichfield Cabbage. This new Cabbage is well worthy the attention of farmers and market gardeners. It is of German origin and comes high- ly recommended. I raised it last season on a large scale as an improvement on Early Quintal, and am much pleased with it. I find it to be the earliest of the large hard heading drumheads. maturing earlier than the Fottler's Brunswick. The heads are large, very solid, tender when cooked and of excellent flavor. Stump short. It is as reliable for heading as any cabbage I" have ever grown. The above engraving I have had made from a photograph of a specimen grown on my grounds. The Bleichfield appears to hold a place distinctly by itself among the early drumheads raised in the United States. Price per package, 10 cts; per ounce, 50 cents; per pound, by mail, $5.00. Gerry Island Cauliflower. I would advise my customers to test this Cauliflower for ear- liness side by side with any variety in the market. If it de- ports itself in other localities as it has in my experimental ground for the past two seasons, it will excel all other varieties in earliness, while in reliability for heading it will be excelled by none. Per package, 30 cents ; per ounce, .§3.00. Chinese Bean. Among the various vegetable seed sent over here to our Cen- tennial by the inhabitants of the " Great Flowery Kingdom,'' as our brethren of the vast Chinese Empire love to call them- selves, there were two or three varieties, the merits of which I find are worthy tobe examinedinto by us "Outside Barbarians.'' One of them is a singular species of bean, of which the above is an engraving which I have had copied from a photograph of an average sample of a lot grown on one of my farms. I counted eighty pods on the vine containing from six to ten beans each. The beans themselves are quite small, of a light drab color, and in shape half way between a pea and a bean. Though the individual beans are quite small, (I think in the en- graving they appear to be larger than they really are) yet the vines crop so enormously they yielded with me at the rate of forty bushels to the acre. In quality this bean reminds me of the " Calavanser." What place it may occupy in the economy of the agriculture of the country is yet a matter of experi- ment. Per package, 15 cents. Bay View Melon. This new sort received first prize at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania State xigricultural Society, as a new variety su- perior to the old sort. Green fleshed, sweet and spicy ; it has been grown to weigh seven- teen pounds. It is hardy, very vigorous and productive. Ri- pens a few days after Jenny Lind. Per ounce, 30 cts.; per package 15 cts. JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. ROSE BEAN. A new bush bean, remarkably prolific and vigorous. It is exceedingly productive and the beans are exceptionally large. The vines are the stoutest and the leaves the largest of any bean I have ever raised. One of my workmen reports an extraor- dinary yield of the new bean in his garden. The color of the bean is of a rich dark rose. It is entirely distinct from the va- licty known as the Chili or Red Kidney. Per package, 15 cents ; per quart, 45 cents by express, 75 cents by mail. ti MM 1 <■ * i'V^A*. W Nfc TOMATO, TURK'S TURBAN, SCARLET- This new Tomato is particularly early and prolific, pro- ducing rarely less than ted to fifteen fruits in a cluster. A great peculiarity of the sort is that each fruit contains only a few seeds and these lie close to the outer surface, so that the whole of the rest of the fruit, and notably the centre, is fleshy and in consequence fit for use. It is of delicious flavour, and though small in size, excellent for preserving. The plants are small-foliaged and of robust growth. In a bearing state they are very showy, and may be utilized for decorative pur- poses. Per package, 20 cents. ALPHA TOMATO. Every season I plant many new varieties of tomato adver- tised, with many new sorts or strains 'that are' not advertised, sent me,for trial by my friends in various parts of the United States and Canada. These are planted in my experimental grounds, side by side with standard sorts, under precisely the same conditions, my object being to determine whether or not any of the new sorts are superior to the old. Occasionally a new comer will exceed the old standards' in some one charac- teristic, taken all in all be no better, if as good as they are. Still more rarely a new variety will be developed, which taken as a whole (and earliness counts very high) will really prove to be an acquisition. This season in a trial test, which was every way fair, I found one real acquisition in the " Alpha." Passing over the experi- mental plot, note book in hand, I was most agreea- bly surprised to find ,one variety decidedly ahead of the others in ripeness. Turning to my note book I found that this was the J' Alpha." This new to- mato is of a roundish shape, smooth and sym- metrical. It grows to a good market size, ripens capitally around the stem, ALPHA TOMATO. and does not crack when, after a rain, some other kinds shows a decided weakness in that direction. This tomato is solid, rich colored, very sym- metrical, and taken altogether, about as handsome, a variety as is carried to market. My customers could not do better than try the new comer on their grounds, for if it does as well with them as it has with me, they will find they have a most decided acquisition. Per package, 20 cents ; per oz., $1.50. Extra selection, per package, 25 cents ; per oz , $2.00. ^ WHITE GERMAN CUCUMBER. As will be seen by the engraving, this is an enormously large and exceedingly handsome cucumber, indeed, some of my workmen vote it to be the handsomest variety we have ever grown. The white color is peculiarly clear and s trong. It sur- passes most of the foreign varieties in vigor and productiveness. To those who have the English fancy for a cucumber having but few seed, and to all who desire to raise the handsomest possible variety for exhibition purposes, I know of no sort which can give greater satisfaction than the White German. Per package, 25 cents. ESSEX HYBRID SQUASH. This is a cross between the Turban and the Hub- hard, having the shape of the former and the shell of the latter, It appears to combine the qualities of the two parents. The char- acteristics are said to bis permanent and the squasli itself to be earlier than either the Hubbard or Turban. Should this be so it will be a decided ac- I quisition to our list of squashes. Not having; as yet cultivated this variety, I am not able to speak from j, experience. Per package, m 15 cents ; peruz., 4n cents; W per lb., ,$3.00. JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. MARBLEHEAD EARLY SWEET CORN. Last season I raised thirty-eight varieties of corn, includin all the early sweet varieties, my principal ob- ject being to compare them for earliness with a new variety which I grew for the first time the season previous. To my surprise and great pleasure the new variety, when tested side by side with such standards as Early Min- nesota and iNTarragansett, proved to be a week earlier than any of them. A similar test this season with the Tom Thumb, Dolly Duttou, and other early varieties, gave the same re- sult. I have named this new variety the " Marblehead Early." In all its character- istics except earliness it bears a close resem- blance to the Narragansett. The stalk is dwarf in its habit of growth, and sets its ears very low down. I send out the Marblehead Early Corn as the earliest variety of sweet corn cultivated. It is of fair market size and very sweet, For prices see page 22. EARLY AMBER SUGAR CANE. This new variety of sugar cane is making quite a sensation among the fanners of Minnesota, from the perfect success which they have met with in the manufacture of both syrup and sugar. Over 200,000 gallons of syrup were made from it in Minnesota in 1878, and this season a single firm has sent to market 43,000 lbs. of sugar. It has been experimented with- in Massa- chusetts on a large scale, and the results have been most satisfactory; so I think it may now safely be said that after many years experiment and hosts of failures, with several varieties of Sorghum or Im- phee, in the Early Amber,which is the most improved form of Otaheitan, a grand success has been reached at last. Having been grown with such success in Lat. 44.30, it can be success- fully raised in almost every portion of the northern states. The yield per acre of syrup is from 140 to 280 gallons, and the produce of sugar is about 0 lbs. to the gallon of syrup. My seed has been specially se- lected for purity. Says the St. Paul Pioneer : Mr. Miller actually raised 900 pounds of excellent cooking su- gar from each acre of ground. Besides tins there is left some five or six pounds of syrup from each gallon. Alt that we have seen is thick with sugar, and sells for 90 cents per gallon. The cultivation required is the same as for corn. &= With every package of seed I will send a SAMPLE OF THE SUGAR MADE FROM THIS NEW SUGAR Cane. My seed is selected with special care for purity. Per lb. by mail, postage paid by me, 40 cents; per qr. lb., 15 cents ; per package, 10 cents. The standard work of Mr. I. A. Hodge, giving full instructions for the manufacture of sugar, sent to any address for .f 1.00. CRAWFORD'S HALF DWARF CELERY. This vari- per package, 10 cts FERRY'S PEERLESS WATERMELON. Of medium size, thin rind, mottled green, flesh bright scarlet, solid to centre, very sweet, very prolific. An excellent sort for garden cultivation. Per package, 6 cts.; per oz., 15 cts : per lb., by mail, $1.25 ; by express, §1.10. JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. WHITE RUSSIAN SPRING WHEAT. The White Russian Wheat is a bald white chaff wheat, of a much light- er red color than most varieties of spring wheat, and has proved itself to be the best spring wheat ever grown in Wisconsin. No wheat ever tried in this country has received a more unanimous commendation, from those who tried it. The White Russian Wheat has astonished all who sowed it. Such long, strong, healthy yellow straw, standing straight several days alter ripening, and bearing large long white chaf heads, well tilled with plump kernels, weigh- ing oftentimes from 00 to 02 lbs. to the measured bushel, while the wheat produces 5 to 10 bushels more per acre than other once well thought of varieties. The White Russian Wheat, stands well after be ing-ripe, and is not liable to lodge or rust when green; it is decidedly healthy and has in many cases produced a full average crop, where other varieties along side of it have failed. The following statements were received from parties who tried the wheat last year. From Henry Cameron, Pilot Grove, Grayson Co. Texas. •• 1 purchased and sowed 4 lbs. of the White Russian Wheat last March, from which I threshed two bushels. There were heads in |my paten eight inches long. The grain is very line and large, ily neighbors would like to buy." From A. G. Quin, Humphrey, Plat. Co. Neb. "Of the White Russian Wheat I sowed 1-4 of an acre, and harvested 11 1-2 bus. at the rate of 40 bus. per acre. I shall sow all I raised." From Myron Turrell, Bay View, Wis. "The twelve bushels of White Russian Wheat I pur- chased was divided among five of ' my neighbors, reserving :s bushels for myself, from which I harvested sri bushels of No. 1 wheat, or 40 bushels per acre. My neighbors had equally good crops as mine. It is the best wheat ever raised in this vicinity, and yielded twice as much as fife wheat." From George W. Abbott, Harvard, Clay Co , Ne- braska, Nov. loth, 1877:— I sowed one bushel of White Russia Wheat from which I threshed -19 3-4 bushels of very goud wheat. Other wheats in this vicinity yielded 10 to 20 bushels per acre. From ,Tas. M. Williams, Monroe, Iowa, Oct. 12th, 1877: — I sowed two bushels on one acre and har- vested 42 1-2 bushels. I sowed two other variet ies, and 1 think the White Russian produced double that of any sown on my farm. From Daniel Pulver, Delhi, Iowa, Oct. 30th. 1877:— I sowed two bushels of the White Russian Wheat by the side of two bushels of the " Lost Nation " Wheat, which I sent to Minnesota for, and find in comparing them, that the White Rus- sian is far in advance, both in quality and quan- tity, besides it is about a week earlier and does not lodge down. From Ed. Mayon. Stewartville, Minn., Oct. 13th, 1877:— The half bushel of White Russian Wheat I sowed on half an acre, from which 1 harvested 22 bushels of good plump wheat. From J. E. Johnston, Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 14, 1877:— The two bushels of White Russian Wheat I sowed on a little more than one and a fourth acres, and harvested 41 bushels of nice plump wheat. I think it will yield -it) bushels to the acre in a good wheat season. It beats all other spring wheats in this vicinity. I will save all I raised for seed. I wish 1 had sent, for 10 bushels last spring, which would have f urn ished me with enough seed for my next year's crop. Prices.— 3 lbs by Mail 00 cts.; half bushel, $1.50; 1 bushel including bag 2.05; 10 bushels including bags, $2.45 per bushel. pair of cattle for twenty-four hours. la the extreme South, Teosinte would be a perennial. In the north a single seed will make from 12 to 16 stalks, when planted in the open ground, anil from 25 to 30 if first started in a hot bed, attaining to the height of rive and six feet with a vast mass of long broad leaves. Mr. S. A. Cook, of Georgia, who grew Teosinte last season, writes me as follows : " It surpasses either Corn or Sorghum as a soiling or fodder plant. I counted 85 stalks from one seed. They grew eleven feet in height, and but for excessive dry weather would have been much taller. Cows are extravagantly fond of them. Per ounce, 50 cents ; per package, 15 cents. TEOSINTE (Reana lusurians.) This gigantic grammrea is perennial in hot climates. It somewhat resembles Indian Corn in aspect and habit of growth, but- the leaves are much longer and broader and the stock is filled with sweeter sap, and is likely .to prove of value for the production of sugar. In its perfection it produces a great number of shoots, growing three or four yards high, very thickly covered with leaves, yielding such an abundance of forage that one plant is estimated to be stiincient to feed a THE WHITE EGG TURNIP. Last season I experimented with every variety of the early tur- nips found in the catalogue of the most extensive seed grower of England (twenty-three in number) to determine whether this turnip claimed to be a new American variety really was such. After a careful comparison with all these foreign varieties I am satisfied that it is a new variety, as distinct from ; any of the sorts tested as they are from each other. The en- graving gives a very correct idea of its shape. It is per- fectly smooth, of a pure clear white, growing half but of ground, and at times to the size of a ruta baga, a very choice kind for table use, of excellent flavor, sweet and mild. It pulls clean from the ground, and with its thin, snow white skin looks almost. as attractive as a basket of eggs. It is a first rate keeper for winter use. In both ap- pearance and quality it holds a very high rank and must be considered as quite an addi- tion to our Fall Turnips. Comes to size for use just after Early Red Top. Per lb. by mail $1.00; half pound, 60 cts.; per oz., 15 cts. ; package, 10 cts. JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. EGYPTIAN SWEET CORN. I find after testing this new corn on a large scale that it is deserving every word of praise Mr. Hyde has bestowed upon it. I don't think I ever ate a white variety of sweet corn so sweet and ;-o tender as this. I present herewith an engraving made from a photograph of stalk grown in my garden. It is very tall and very late, coming in about the time of Stowell's Ever- green, butsurpass- es that variety in sweetness. Mr. Hyde, who introduced this va- riety, says — " The ears grow very large and very pro- lific. Last season .and this I put the price down to $3 per hundred , wholesale, and. could not | supply the demand, .and I have orders now for next summer for all that I can sell in a green state at $3.00 per hundred. I receiv- ed first premium for this corn at all County Fairs that I sent it to for ex- hibition in this state. It has a sweet, rich, delic- ious flavor that I have never found in any other vari- ety, and is exceed- ingly tender. For canning I think it far superior to any other variety, hav- ing sold all I put up at $2.50 a dozen cans, which is more than any other canned corn will bring in America." For price, see page 22. My customers writes me of this new corn as follows: Mr. E. K. Ogier of Maine, writes :— "My Egyptian Sweet Corn had from three to five ears on a stalk, and was the sweetest corn I ever tasted." Mr. Hardin G. Back of Mass., writes. :— "It was the tenderest and .sweetest corn I ever saw: and as for yield I never saw anything beat it. I have now what grew from one. kernel, and there are nine ears on the main stock and six on the suckers, making fifteen in all, seven of them well filled out. I keep it for a show." "The yield was enormous, giving me on an average three and in many instances five per/eetlii developed ears to a stalk! 1 the sweetest and by far tin testimony of my neighbors \ your catalogue." Mass. tende ho tried it. Think you'll: .vliich is also the underrated it in S. V. I looMBS. PRICKLY COMFREY. This new forage plant is extensively grown in Europe for the feeding of stock. It is a deep rooted plant, and even in the hottest seasons will yield several cuttings of forage. It comes in earlier and lasts longer than almost any forage crop. The method of propagation is by roots only. The cultivation is very simple. In well ploughed and well manured ground plant the cuttings three feet apart each way, giving them a lib e r a i dressing of manure the first winter, and no further ■■■x- pense is needed. Cuttings by mail, 40 cents a dozen ; $2.50 a hundred. Booted plants by "express or freight, $1.25 per lb. The Butman Squash. &y In the essay which received the premium of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the Butman for quality, is put at the head of all varieties of winter squashes. „jgl This new squash is the only one of our running varieties known to hare originated in the United States. Externally, it is very distinct in color from any other kind in existence, being a bright grass green intermixed with white. In size and productiveness it resembles the Hubbard ; it has a thick shell and is thick meated. The color of the flesh is quite striking, being of a lemon color. It is exceptionally fine-grained, in this respect surpassing every other variety, and is very smooth to the palate. It is remarkably dry, sweet and delicious, with a flavor different from the Hubbard, Marblehcad or Turban, being entirely free from the pumpkin-like flavor occasionally found in the Hubbard. I am inclined to the opinion that the period when the Butman Squash is in its prime is from October to January, though as a keeper it is equal to the. Hub- bard. For price, see page L9. [From Editor of American Ai/riatiUurist.] Xew York, December, IST-l. Mr. Gregory, Dear Sir .-—The Butman Squash was duly received and has been test- ed. 1 can say no more than that it seems to me that every good quality of every good squash is in this, concentrated and combined. When you get any better squash, please send it to Truly Yours, GrEOBGE Tin i-.hkk. JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. Oocoanut Squash. A magnificent little squash for table use, very prolific, yielding from six to a dozen to the vine. In beauty it excels every variety of the Sqjiash family ; indeed, wherever grown, specimens very naturally find a 'place on the mantel piece as ornaments to the par- lor—not being surpassed in beauty by any of the gourd family. The color is'an admixture .of cream, and orange, the latter color pre- dominating in the depressions between the ribs : while the bottom over a circle of two or three inches in diameter is of a rich grass green. The flesh is fine-grained, very solid, (the squash being re- markably heavy for its size), and inequality excellent, closely re- sembling Canada Crookneck, but in every way much superior. Per pkg. 10 cts.; per oz. 30 els.; per lb. by mail, $2.50. The Marblehead Squash. This squash, as a rule, is characterized by a shell of a more 'flinty hardness than the Hubbard. It is usually thicker and flatter at the top. It has a greater specific gravity. The flesh is of rather a lighter color than the Hubbard, while its combination, in good specimens, of sweetness, dryness and delicious flavor is something really remarkable. ' Its outer color is a light blue. For price, see page 29. t I add extracts from letters received from various farmers and gardeners : — " The Marblehead Squash seed 1 had of you produced a very fine crop of the first quality of fruit. I had Vim) pounds from 13 rods of ground, which was quite satisfactory." J. M. Merrich. Wilbraham, Mass. ' • "The Marblehead Squash did the best of anything I ever tried to grow ; the neighbors all pronounced them first rate, and I think them better than any sweet potato I ever saw." Robert Stewart. Paulton, Westmoreland Co., Pa. "The Marblehead is the best squash that I ever had. I raised sixty- three from the package — nice ones they were too. "We cut the last on the 23d of March; it was so hard that' I had to cut it with an axe. I recommend them to all." S. B. Greenwood. Wales, Me. "The 'Marblehead* Squash. Some weeks aso we received from Mr. James J. H, Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass.. the introducer of the Hubbard, specimens of a new squash. The squash was tried by .several, and unanimously pronounced to be of the vecv highest quality." — American Agriculturist. Henderson's Early Summer Cabbage. This new Cab- bage is much larger than the Early Wakefield, though not quite as early. This has a great and growing popular- ity among mar- ket gardeners, as a second early. For a large ex- tra earJy variety it is highly rec- ommended. Per pkge. 15 cts.: per oz. 70; per lb, by mail, §7.00; by Exp. $6.85. Paragon Tomato. This fine new tomato for four years in succession took the first prise in its class, at the annual exhibitions of the Mas- sachusetts Horticultural Society — where the critical standard is of the very highest character. It ripens perfectly around the stein, and is the largest round tomato in cultivation. The en- graving making a good presentation of its characteristic shape. It is of good size and remarkably solid. In time of ripening it comes between the early and the late varieties. Per pkge. 10; per oz. 50; per lb. by mail, $4.00. Marblehead Champion Pole Bean. After testing on my experimental grounds for the past ten years almost every variety of pole bean known. I find this new pole bean excels every other variety in earliness. While, as is well known to market gardeners, the pole varieties do not usually begin to blossom until the first picking has been made on the early sorts of bush beans that were planted at the same date, the Marblehead Cham- pion Pole will be found to be so early as to have beans ready to pick or market as early or earlier than, the earliest hush varieties. Per package, 15 cents. JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. Longfellow's Field Corn. This fine field corn I have thought worthy to have its portrait taken. It is the result of careful selection in a family of Massachusetts farmers for forty-five years. The ears are re- markably long, some of them fifteen inches, and oftentimes two or more good specimens grow on one stock. The cob is quite small. It is the largest kerneled variety of yellow field corn that I have ever found it safe to plant in the latitude of Massachusetts. Several of my customers have expressed them- selves cis highly pleased with their crop's of the Longfellow Corn. The seed I offer this season is selected from a crop of 220 bushels of ears to the acre. Per package, 10 cts.; per quart, by mail, 55 cts. • by express, 35 cts. ; per peck, $1.00 ; per bush- el, $3.00. * Log-of-Wood Melon. This new melon is a variety of the yellow-fleshed musk melon. It grows to the enormous length of froni two to three feet, the form and general ap- pearance of most of the specimens being very well shown in the above engraving, wbich was taken from a photograph. Early and prolific, in qual- ity nothing extraordinary, hut equal to the common Muskmelon. Per package 15 cts. Vick's Early Watermelon. I think so highly of this melon, particularly as an early variety, that I have had a specimen grown on my grounds, photographed and engraved. Of medium size, oblong, smooth, flesh bright-pink, resembling strongly the southern varie- ties, solid and sweet. I consider this one of the best of the early watermelons I am acquainted with. Per package, 10 cts.; per oz., 20 ; per lb., by mail, $1.25 ; by express, $1.10. Danvers Carrot. In the town of Danvers, Mass., the raising of carrots on an extensive scale has for years been quite a busi- ness—the farmers finding a large market in the neigh- boring cities of Salem,' Lynn and Boston. After years of experimenting they settled upon a variety which originated among tbem, (as did the Danvers Onion) known in their locality as the " Danvers Carrot." It is in form about midway between the Long Orange and Short Horn class, growing generally wit'i a stump root. The great problem in carrot growing is to get the greatest bulk with the. smallest length of root, ami this is what the Danvers growers have at- tained in their carrot. Under their cultivation (see my treatise nn Carrots and Mangolds) they raise from twenty to thirty tons to the acre, and at times even larger crops. This carrot is of a rich dark •orange in color, very smooth and handsome, and from its length is easier to dig than theLong Orange. It is a first class carrot for any soil. The seed I otter is from carefully selected stock ; Per package, _r : ■, I have full faith that the Tur- f . \ ban will soon lie adopted through- / i.i BllSliil out the United States as the best I W\ ■' §11 of all full Squashes. SSJJSa 5jgf° I note that by one or more ! ' BEL of the Philadelphia seed firms the -: ' -- _'_ , Turban Squash is spoken of as a :~.J-., showy variety of lint little value for domestic use. It is very evident _ ■ ■ I ! al I la - lillr eollfciUllded ]],,. \ ■ '',' showy but worthless French Tur- jjsf-; ■: -. '" -'=?*. ban with I he J nnrican Turban - - s.|iia-h.. ;■-.-[ 1 i;ivf extracts from a few letters which show how the American Turban is appreciated. " The seeds received from you last spring gave good satisfaction. Among other seeds received from you was one package of the .Mam- moth Yellow Chili Squash, which grew to the weight of 192 lbs. Was of a handsome shape and of a deep rich orange color." Portsmouth, j¥. II. James 1'.. Pickering. "Igot two seeds of your Mammoth Chili Squash, and from them I raised nine squashes weighing 040 lbs. The largest of them weighed 239 lbs."' David City, Nebraska. " One vine of Mammoth squash fri weighing 164 lbs., another of 145 lbs.. Canaan, Ohio. II. V. IIiemek. vou gave ns one squash ! of 39 to 50 lbs." J. 0 NOTESTEIN. ' From the package of Mammoth Yellow Chili Squash seed bad if vou last spring, I can report several squashes weighing over 100 pounds each, and one weighing two hundred and thirty -eight pounds i'jriSj, this, o, notwithstanding a very cold, wet season." V. Hester. Vanbreter, Iowa. 3t year from seed 1 i;!'H lbs., and "I had good success in raising Mammoth squasln I gotfrom you. Iliad three that weighed 11,-;. 137 several others from To up to 1(14, all from three vines." Farm Hill, Minn. James Arnold M Canada Vsetor Tomato. This remarKaoiy early tomato which I introduced six years ago will be found to excel in the most desirable characteristic gg= in earliness of ripening the great bulk of the crop, ^jgg a trait of great value to the market gardener. The fruit is in nearly all locations of large size, generally symmetrical anil handsome, while in ripening it has no green left around the stem, a great fault with many kinds otherwise good. The fruit is heavy, full moated and rich, between round and oval in shape, and red in color; it is distributed very evenly on the vines. I offer headquarters seed this season by the package, ounce and pound. For seed of my own growing, saved from select- ed specimens — per package, 10 cents ; per ounce, 45 cts. ; per lb. $450. I have again had a special selection of seed stock- made for me, from a crop grown in Canada, by the originator ; a few bushels of the very earliest being selected for seed from a field of some acres. This seed is 15 cents per package, and $1.25 per ounce. Dealers supplied at a discount. What the public have very generally found it to be, will lie pret- ty conclusively shown from the testimonials that follow for which I have to thank my customers,— all free-will offerings. 1 re- gret that want of room will allow mc to publish but few of them. :d good. I had ripe Canada \Y. II. Ryek. " The seeds 1 had of vou last vear all pro Victors the 10th day of June." North Reading, Mass. " I planted seven varieties in mv hot Led at the same time. All had the same treatment, and were transplanted to the open ground on the same dav. All were situated exactly alike in the fmld, law ing the same treatment, t picked the first ripe Tomato on the 12th of July, from the Canada Victors. From that time they began to ripen regularly, and on the 20th of July 1 picked Hi ripe tomatoes of good size from one vine. On the 17th of July I picked the first Trophy, and also the first Hathaway s Excelsior: July 22d, Gen. Grant and Essex Early; July -oth, Boston Market, and July 26th, Aldington. I bad about H00 Victor plants, and about 20110 of ail other varieties. From the time of picking the ln-st tomatpes to the 1st of August, 1 had picked more ripe tomatoes from the Canada Victor MOO plants, than from the 2010 of the six other vane- ties. The Victor thus proved to be beyond all comparison il.e most prof- itable early tomato." Felton, Delaware. R. \V. Hauuadine. JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. "The Canada Victor is fully a week ahead of anything I have tried, and I have tried nearly all kinds. The Early York and Huubards Curled are the earliest with nic, but are fully a week behind Victor. I have tried Orange Field, Mauj Cook's Favorite, Hatha n thought was likely to suoce weighing 00 lbs. to the busl of flavor. Moreover it ha or late in tl: wet weather Superior, Cedar Hill ■ fact, Ex uid, ied. The Victor Toinatc liel, plump weight. 1 is the remarkable qua season ; what 1 mean is, that it is of fair flavor when other vat veyes' Prolific, cry kind that I a-.y 'solid tomato, u-st class in point f keeping its flaV- i ripened in cool, are quite insipid, ■ounted for from i, but keeps sound, our seasons are and almost or quite useless. This, in part, is a< the fact that it seldom cracks open like other tomatoi This is a very valuable feature to us here, wher short, and are troubled with frosty nights, sometimes every month in the summer. If vou wish to make use of any of my statements you are at perfect .iberfcy to do so." S. H. Mitchell. Ontario. ''The Conqueror with us has proved early, smooth, and very produc- • tive, but in size and solidity is inferior to the Canada Victor, which lat- ter, all things considered,' is yet our best early tomato for market or home use."— Tilllnghast Bros., La Plume, Pa. " I tested your Canada Victor Tomato grown from your extra selected seed, with Conqueror and Ke.ves' Prolific "for the first time this year. It was fully a week ahead of Conqueror, and at least 10 days ahead of Prolific. — K. \V. Hargadine, Felton, Kent Co., Del. ' ' I must say a few words about your Canada Victor Tomato. I bought of you two papers and realized over fifty dollars on the. two papers. They are two weeks earlier than any I have ever planted." Keameysville, West Va. Wm. Smagkuder. "Canada Victor. We tried this new tomato last season, and our opinion is that it will occupy the same place as an early variety that the Trophy does as a medium and late sort. ' It is the most uniformly smooth of any of the flat varieties— is very solid and ripens up to the stem without a green spot. We expect to have agood many acres in tomatoes the coming year, and shall plant but two sorts, Canada Victor and Trophy. We are satisfied that we have found the best sorts for our ise, and shall experiment no more."— IF. F. Massey in Am. Farmer. THE HANSON LETTUCE. The above cut represents a sectional view, showing the inside of this truly superior Lettuce, the heads of which grow to a remarkable size and are deliciously sweet, tender and crisp, even to the outer leaves. A single liead is frequently large enough for an ordinary sized family. The color is of a beautiful green Without, and white within. This variety is free from any bitter or unpleasant taste found in some sorts. The heads weigh from 2J- to 3 lbs., and measure to outer leaves 18 to 25 inch- es in diameter. It is not recommended for forcing, but for outdoor cultivation it cannot be excelled, if grown in well manured and cultivated ground. Per package, 15 cents. • "Your seeds give satisfaction, especially the Hanson Lettuce. I had some heads that weighed 3 lbs., trimmed?' Carl A. Bxjsoh. Monee, Hill Co., III. "Myself and neighbors agree that the Hanson Lettuce is the finest we ever saw. One head is plenty for a large family at one meal." Wesley, Tex., May 18, 1874. Gregor C. McLeod. "As to the Hanson Lettuce, you don't half praise it. I raised one head that measured twenty-five and a half inches in diameter. Bloomiiirjdale, N. Y., March, 1875. Mrs. Louise M. Lennon. Tailby's Hybrid Cucumber. Mr. Tailby made this choice new variety by his skill and perseverance in crossing the Early White Spine on one of the largest of the English Frame varieties. These English Frame cucumbers are much larger than our American varieties, some of them growing to thirty inches in length, but they are so tender that they cannot usually be relied upon in open air cultivation in this country. In Tailby's Hybrid however, we have a perfect success in hardiness, as it proves to be equally hardy with our American varieties. In size it is larger than AVhite Spine, while it retains all the smooth beauty of its English parentage. It is literally an enormous cropper, and for size, beauty and number it is a sight to behold. Price, 30 cts. per ounce, 10 cents per package. The editor of the Rural New Yorker who has been testing this with other varieties on his extensive experimental grounds gives the following as the result : "The results of onr cucumber experiments this season, may be summed up in a very few words. We choose Tailby's Hybrid for cucumbers and Green Prolific for pickles." SPANISH MONSTROUS PEPPER. (See page 28.) i HAUDY KILGE, OR PRESCOTT MELON. Probably not one person in a hundred seeing the Hardy Ridge when growing would take.it for a melon. Nevertheless it is a mel- on, and one of the very best quality, too. A very popular variety in the markets of London and Paris, the wonder is it has not be- fore this been introduced into the United States. It is prolific, grows to a very large size, is of splendid quality, — being equal to the best cantaloupes, while it is by Jar the thickest meated of all melons, being in fact, very nearly solid and having but very few seed. Price, 15 cents per package ; per oz., 40 cts. 14 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. Rare, Novel, or Very Desirable. Among the New, Rare or Desirable Vegetables, I would call particular attention to the following. S^™While most of these new and rare vegetables will be found to be of universal value, some may vary in quality with the soil and locality, and the value of others vary with the varying tastes of my customers. As a general rule we are not rendered capable of passing judgment on a new vegetable by the result of a single trial. * Oftentimes' the most we learn from the result of planting one season is what are possibly the mer- its or demerits of it ; a second may develop what are probably its merits or demerits ; and usually a third season will be required to enable us fully to determine its value, and give the new-comer its true place in the vegetable garden. Take Mexican Sweet Corn for an example ; should the first season of experiment be wet and cold at the time it matures for table use, this variety being more sensitive in its habits, than' the- old standard sorts, may be more affected in its quality than they, and not superior to them in sweetness. Now let the next season be a hot and dry one, and the same corn, having a season more congenial to its tropical origin, will develop its full quality and demonstrate its full claim to the rank given it in my catalogue. So with many of the varieties of our Tomatoes ; from an extended cultivation of many kinds, I am fully con- vinced that though some have been overpraised, yet with a majority an.experience of three years would reverse or greatly qualify the hasty opinions often expressed of them, from a trial of but a single season. „^j S&° New Vegetables for 1880. The following are the more rare and valuable vegetables which I in- troduce into my catalogue for the first time this season. For prices per bushel, pound, quart, fyc, please see pages 19-31 inclusive. Defiance Asparagus. Smalley's Extra Early De- fiance Asparagus grown side by side with Conover's Colossal and subject in all respects to the same treat- ment, grew full twice as large besides being a week or two earlier. It is of a rich green color and excels every other variety thus far known in tenderness, and has no superior, in flavor. It will be large enough to cut a year sooner than other varieties. Two-year old roots per hundred. §5.00 Hulless Barley. . (See third page of cover.) Crystal White Wax Beak. A variety of wax bean, prolific, but in my experimental test grew too near the ground to make it desirable. The York Wax and Dwarf Black Wax are better sorts in this respect Golden Butter Bean. A new, French, wax pole, early and prolific. This bean closely resembles the In- dian Chief, but it is a better bearer and the pods are rather longer Yellow Podded White Wax Bean. This is a very superior early pole wax or stringless bean. The pods are as long as Giant Wax, but it surpasses this old variety in earliness and productiveness Dwarf Russian Bean. A new bush bean sent out by Messrs. Vilmorin & Co., of France. It is a sin- gular looking bean, but thus far I have found nothing to note wherein it is superior to our standard sort Chinese Bean. (See page 2.) Rose Bean. (See page 3.) Eclipse Turnip Beet. I imported last season all the varieties of beets grown in Germany, and the Eclipse gives me more satisfaction than any of the others. I think it will prove an acquisition to our American gardener. The top is small ; the beet itself is in form much like Bastian's Early, while the flesh is of a good dark color. On 3 of the early sorts Geery Island Cauliflower, New. (See page 2.) Late Algerian Cauliflower. One of the new, lar^e, French variet ies. Very fine Berlin Dwarf Cauliflower. From a test made side by side with many other varieties the past season, I find that the Berlin Dwarf, for earliness, size and quality, ranks about with the Early Snowball California or Golden Broom Corn. This is superior to the Evergreen for many purposes. It grows a very long brush which never gets crooked, and yields more tons of brush than any other sort Blunt's Prolific Corn. (See page 3.) Early Boyntox Sweet Corn. This ranks very high in the west as a valuable early sweet. Our western friends will find Marblehead Early decidedly ahead of this or any variety I have jet found in earliness Short French Pickling Cucltmber. A new, French variety, closely allied to Green Prolific, making an excellent pickling cucumber Nellis' Perpetual Lettuce. A distinct variety being exceedingly tender and rich It remains fit to eat up to seeding, while it takes the longest time before running to seed of any sort. It does not head, but makes a huge, compact, bushy growth Cabbage Lettuce, (Pelletier). Heads very large, spherical, very solid, and of a fine, tender, taste. Leaves deeply cut and irregularly notched, giving the plant a very decorative appearance May be used for forcing or for out-door cultivation Chicago Nutmeg Melon. This variety grows to a larger size than the Boston Nutmeg, and hence is very popular with those who lay great stress on size for market purposes Persian Muskmelon. One of the deliciouly fla~ vored, salmon-fleshed class. It is rather later* than Ward's Nectar, grows rather larger and is very thick fleshed Essex Hybrid Squash. This is a cross between the Turban and the Hubbard, having the shape of the former and the shell of the latter. It appears to combine the qualities of the two parents. The charac- teristics are said to be permanent and the squash itself to be earlier than either the Hubbard or Turban Should this be so it will be a decided acquisition to our list of squashes. Not having as yet cultivated this va- riety, I am not able to speak from experience. Per oz. 40cts ; per lb., $3.00 , Turk's Turban Tomato, (See engraving, page 3.) Champlain Wheat. A Spring wheat made by a scientific crossing of the Black Sea "and Golden Drop, having the beard of the former and the white chaff of the latter, free from rust and smut, and giving a flavor of superior quality. The straw is strong and vigorous, standing erect and frequently bearing heads 5 to 6 inch- es in length, containing 60 to 75 kernels each. Price per pound by mail, 50 cents ; 3 lbs., §1.00 ; by express or freight at purchaser's expense : per peck, §3.00 ; per bushel, §10.00 Defiance Wheat. Another of Mr. Pringle"s new hybrids. It is a beardless white chaff wheat with long heads closely set, with large, white kernels, frequently numbering 75 to SO to the single head. Early and characterized by great vigor. The straw is stiff, white and erect. Price perlb. by mail, 50 cents ; 3 lbs., §1.00; by express or freight at purchaser's expense ; per peck, $3.00 ; per bushel. §10.00 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 15 Price per P'k'ge Price per P'k'ge- Extra Long Smooth Cucumber. A long, smooth, very straight, frame variety. The frame vari- 1 eties grow much larger than our common garden sorts , . I fg White German Cucumber. (See page 3.) I 25 Long Green Smooth Cucumber from Athens. | This new sort is sent out by a celebrated German seed J firm. It is one of the remarkably long frame varieties, and what is rare wilh all that class does well in the open air in this country is Dandelion. Very double. A new French strain! sent out by Messrs. Vilmorin & Co., and especially rec- ommended to market gardeners 13 The Surprise Muskmelon. This new melon has 1 a thin, cream colored skin and a thick, salmon colored fl-jsh. Early, very productive, and of delicious flavor, j Externally it resembles White Japan, but grows to twice the size. A first class melon J 15 Bay View Melon. New. (See page 2.) j 15 White Zealand Oats. (See 3d page of cover). . , j 10 Dr. McLean's Pea. Our English friends declare j this to be a splendid pea, even superior to Advancer, j A wrinkled variety, large podded, with 8 or 10 peas to I a pod. If it proves to surpass the Advancer it will be | a great acquisition j Alpha Tomato. New. (See page 3.). Triumph Tomato. A large sized, productive, solid sort, ripening well around the stem. With me it grew rather rough this season , but it is said to be generally a very smooth variety Red Chief Tomato. A new variety. A cross be- tween General Grant and Excelsior ; thrifty and pro- ductive ; foliage large and thick ; fruit of good size and regular in shape ; solid and with but few seed ; rather late New Japanese Tomato. A new variety sent out by an eminent German seed firm. My crop this season developed nothing in the earliness or appearance of it that was especially desirable 15 H ■•' Chinese Yam (Dioscorea Batatas). Allied to the potato, but containing more starch ; quite hardy, re- maining in ground over winter without protection. May be boiled or roasted, being quite farinaceous, nu- tritious and valuable for food. A very rapid grower, making a fine, ornamental vine, sometimes called cin- namon vine from the peculiar odor of the blossoms. The tubers increase in size from year to year. Packets of small bulbs The following arc the more rare or choice of the -select varieties of vegetables of former years, with prices per package. Prices per bushel, pound, quart, &c, will be found on pages 19 to 31, inclusive. Alfalfa ok Lucerne. This has until recently been consid- ered too tender to stand our northern winters. Mr. Albert Chapman and Solomon Jewett have each met with line success with it in Vermont, and Mr. C. cut four heavy crops from it in a single season. The success appears to turn on using Ameri- can grown seed and planting it in a deep porous soil. Doubt- less a top dressing with fine manure would serve to help it .through its most tender period the first winter Dwarf Golden Wax, alias Yoek Dwarf Wax Beak- Inthe year 1871 1 introduced this beau to the public, giving it the name of " YotU Dwarf Wax." It proves to be more prolif- ic, and yields larger and broader pods than the common kindsof dwarf wax bean's. It is entirely string-less, threshes out easily, and is also a good shell bean for winter use. ... Yard Long Bean. A curious bean of very dark and glossy foliage. The pods grow two-feet and upwards in length Kentucky Wonder Bean. The most productive variety, that I have ever known. The vines take to the pole exceeding- ly well and the pods grow in clusters of three or four, being remarkably long, round and pulpy, covering the poles from top to bottom. I do not recommend it as a shell beau, hut as a snap bean it is a "Wonder." as every market gardener will find. The pods are nearly a foot long, yielding from eight to ten beans to each pod Lamberson's white Bean. Mr. Lamberson's new bean is remarkably prolific ; pods of good length and snap well. The beans are white in color. A capital sort for marketmen who want a bean that will give an immense crop of good snap beans. Bastian's Early Blood Turnip Beet. A new Beet, ear- lier than Bassano with a beautiful blood-red color when boiled.: Very handsome in shape. This new beet has grown rapidly in popularity with market gardeners, and is generally preferred to the Red Egyptian Crane's Early Wyjlut Cabbage. Market gardeners will find this very solid strain of the Wyman Cabbage an improve- ment in making harder heads than the common sort Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage. For a description plea.se see page 10 Marblehead Dutch Cabbage. My customers will find this an improvement on the common Flat Dutch, in its produ- cing a remarkably symmetrical, round and handsome head; firmer and harder than the ordinary Flat Dutch Yilmorin's Early Flat Dutch Cabbage. This is the French strain of the Early Flat Dutch, the heads being rounder and harder than in the strains of this early cabbage as grown in the United States '. Early Blood Ked Erfurt Cabbage. A new sort from 'Germany. Heads of an intense blood red color, very hard, and weighs from 12 to 14 pounds. The leaves are smaller and spread less than those of the. common varieties of red cabbage Henderson's Early Summer Cabbage. See page 7 Heartwell Early Marrow Cabbagk. A distinct and excellent variety of an early Cabbage, both for the garden and for marketing purposes. The heads are extremely firm, weigh- ing from 4 to (I lbs. , with scarcely any loose outside leaves, the flavor particularly mild and melting Algeirs Cantelope. Allied to the Hardy Ridge — but long- er in shape. Flesh remarkably thick, the melons being nearly solid. In quality superior to the yellow fleshed nmskmelons. . . Extra Early Dwarf Erfurt Cauliflower. (Seed specially selected.) Yery early, hardy, dwarf and compact ; larger than Waleheren. The best for forcing and for general purposes as an early variety. Its compact habits admit of a large number being raised on a given area. I grew some heads for seed stock this season, that measured 18 inches in diameter. Early Snowball Cauliflower. Yery early and very re- liable for heading, besides being very dwarf in its habits of growth, and with short outer leaves, thus allowing planting 20 inches apart each way Crawford's Celery. (See page 4.) Boston Market Celery. This is the short, bushy, com- pact, solid celery, for which Boston Market is so famous Chufas. These very closely resemble in sweetness and richness of flavor a cocoa nut. Very prolific, a single one yield- ing from two to four hundred. Plantone foot by eighteen inches Water Chestnut. To be grown in muddy brooks, The form of the Water Chestnut is very beautiful, and as it can be kept indefinitely it makes an elegant little ornament for the parlor table Prickly Comfrey.. (See page 6.) Bismarck Cucumber, A cross between the White Spine and Long Green, of even color, straight, tender, crisp and of fine flavor Green Prolific Pickling Cucumber, Selected with great care by one of the largest growers 01' pickling cucumbers in the country 16 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. Marblehead Mammoth Sweet Corn. My Mammoth lias taken the first prize at two of the Annual Exhibitions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the ears exhibited weigh- ing, as gathered from the stalk, between two and three pounds each. This is a very sweet corn for family use. It is the earliest, sweetest and largest of all the Mammoth Sweet varieties. 1 offer packages from selected ears Pratt's Early Corn'. One of the earliest of marketable size. It is an acquisition for marketmen as an early variety to come in before Crosby's, or Moore's. The ears are of a fail- market size, well filled Longfellow's Corn. (See panes.) Marblehead Early Sweet Corn. (See page A.) / Russian Netted Cucumber. A native of the Ukraine country and very prolific ; surpasses all others in hardiness; ' middle size, flesh white, and the skin covered with a pretty brown network which imparts to the fruit a peculiar appear- ance Chinese Long Netted Cucumber. It is a fine long vari- ety with attenuated neck a,nrt prettily reticulated skin. Very prolific and luirdy. Flesh thick and firm t . .'. Tailby's Hybrid Cucumber. See page 13 Norbitox Giant. Cucumber. This is one of the frame va- rieties, sent out by the English seedsman as "The finest, long- est and most prolific cucumber cultivated." I have grown them longer than an ordinary flour barrel , Snake Cucumber. A very long variety, (I have raised them six feet in length, ) growing coiled up, having much the appear- ance of a large snake with the head protruding. Fine speci- mens will sometimes bring S5. CO each as curiosities .... Marquis of Lorne Cucumber. Messrs. Carter & Co. de- scribe this new frame cucumber as follows :— "Of great value for exhibition purposes. It has a beautiful short neck, smooth skin, is very straight and prolific. , It has gained many valua- ble awards." Very Early Dwarf Egg Plant. A new French variety of Long Purple. Earliness in the egg plant family is exceed- ingly desirable, and in this new sort we have an acquisition. . . . Bonnet Gourd, Dish Cloth Gourd or Luffa. The pe- culiar lining of the fruit, so tough, elastic and enduring, has given it its name. The vine is very ornamental, having dark green foliage with silvery shade, and large yellow blossoms i n clusters. It requires a frame or support. The seeds should be started in hot bed. As the name indicates it is sometimes used as a dish cloth Ornamental Gourds. The packages contain seeds of Apple. Orange, Pear, Quince, Bottle, Egg, and other varieties Peculiar, attractive and ornamental. Don't manure too high Sugar Trough Gourds. These grow to the capacity of several gallons, and will last years as sap vessels, or for holding All-the-Yeah-Round Lettuce. Very hardy, crisp eating, and compact. May be sown for succession all the year round. Does nut tend to seed Satisfaction Lettuce. A new English variety, large and unusually tender, remaining in head a long time Egyptian Lettuce. A large, spreading summer variety ; color light green tinged with brown ; very handsome. Not in- clined to run to Seed. Quality first rate Stone-head Golden Yellow Lettuce. A new variety from Germany. As early as the White Tennis Ball, with larger heads — quality, first class ; the decision of several experienced gardeners was, that they had never eaten anything of the let- tuce kind that surpassed it Log-of-Wood Melon. (Sec page 8. ) Silver-netted Musk Melon. Very productive, uniform in size and high flavored. Holds a high 'rank in the West. . . . Hardy Bidge Melon.. (Seepage 18.) Sill's Hybrid Muskmelox. This has all the earliness and sweetness of tin. White Japan, but is more spicy and delicious. Very vigorous and productive. The flesh is of salmon color. No garden should be without it Excelsior Melon. (See page 8) Golden Fleshed Watermelon, The flesh of this melon is of a rich honey color and the flavor sweet and rich. Slices al- ternating with those of the scarlet fleshed variety make a pleas- ing show on the table. Shape nearly round. Size above the av- Phinney's Watermelon. This is one of the best early va- rieties I have introduced. Red-fleshed, early and excellent. Those who could not succeed with other kinds of wati rm°lons have succeeded well with this. It stands transportation remark- ably well Sculptured Seeded Cream Fleshed Vi new melon from Japan, which 1 introduced The flesh, which is very sweet, is of a delicate seed are singularly sculptured with marks ret characters '. ATERMELON. A a few years ago. ream color. The einbling oriental Price per P'k'ge Pearl Millet I Penictllaria fipicatu). This new forage plant will not give satisfaction unless planted on warm soil after the ground has become heated by the sun's rays. On warm land, highly manured, yielded per acre last season as follows : At first cutting 45 days after planting, when 7 feethigh, 30 tons of green and lij tons of dry forage. A second cutting 45 days later, when 9 feet high, 05 tons green and 8 tons dry forage. At third cut- ting, Oct. 1st, 10 tons green and 1 J tons dry forage the aggre* gate being 05 tons green or II! tons dry fodder within 135 days. It ranks about with corn fodder, and is readily eaten when either green or dry, by horses and cattle. Two quarts are suf- ficient for an acre in drills, or four wdieu sown broadcast Chinese Hulless Oats. These thresh directly from the straw, as clear as wheat, without a particle of hull or chaff ad- hering, the grain being much larger than common oats when hulled, and weighing as high as fifty-live pounds to the meas- ured bushel. Earlier titan the common varieties. Authorities differ as to their value when compared with the common oat. n is decidedly a very large nd with extra nake a good sized onion inches in diameter by New Queen Onion. I find that this ne the earliest of all varieties. It does not gi size, but sufficiently large to bunch while gr liberal manuring 1 doubt not it will *"■ when dry7. Grown from seed, it was the 15th of July Giant Rocca Onion. This is a Mammoth Onion sent out ! by one of the English seed firms. To get the fullest develop- ment of: size it should be grown for setts the first season, then stored to be planted. for a second season's growth | White Globe Onion. This, when well grown and well I cured, is the handsomest of all onions, bringing at times j double the price of any other sort in the New York market. It j requires a long season in the North, and to keep the color pure white should be pulled as .soon as it begins to dry down and be! cured ill the shade, say in a barn where there is a good draught of air Fern Leaved Parsley. A most beautiful thing. Valu- able as a decorative plant. Resembles a beautiful moss Hancock Early Tea. A new American pea of the first, early class. See notes elsewhere : Laxton's Superlative Pea. Messrs. Carter, the English seedsmen, speak of this new pea as follows :— " The largest and finest podded pea yet raised; indispensable as an exhibition pea ; pods have been grown 7 inches in length and are much larger than the parent pea, Laxton's Supreme, which has taken the first prize for several years." Second early, color and flavor unsurpi Culverwell's Telegraph Pea. Messrs. Carter & Co., the English seedsmen speak of this new Pea as follows : — "This is an extraordinary acquisition, the Peas often being so close together as to appear to be forming a double row in the pod. It is ikelv tp be the forerunner of a new type of this indispensa- ble summer vegetable.". ... Oolden Yellow Summer Turnip Radish. Its shape is that of the Yellow Summer Turnip Badish, but the root is more spherical', its neck is finer and ihe leaves are smaller. Of very rapid growth, it is fit for use from 4 to 0 weeks after having been sown. A novelty of great merit White Egg Teosintk. i White Bus: >ee page ■•■) Wheat. (See page 5.). JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 17 Carter's Challenger Pea. Messrs. Carter & Co., the dis- tinguished seedsmen of England, highly recommend this new pea as being one of the handsomest, most proline, and best fla- vored varieties in cultivation. It is a magnificent exhibition Pea, and will speedily find favor amongst growers for market by reason, of its fine, handsome pods, productiveness and dwarf habit. It is a dwarf, dark-green marrow, growing about two to two and a half feet in length, and the entire haulm is literally covered with- .pods JiEW Golden Pea. The pods of this new Pea are of a cate yellow when sufficiently matured for greeu-shellin the table— the Peas also being of a delicate straw color. cropper. Unique Carter's Little Wonder Pea. Of this new English Pea ■Messrs. Carter & Co. state, "We are satisfied that a trial of this Pea will fully establish its title to be called a Little Wonder, whilst its remarkable qualities will speedily insure its universal cultivation. It is best described as a wrinkled marrow, as early as the Advancer, with pods like the finest type of Veiteh's Perfection. Height 20 to 24 inches, very robust habit, wonder- fully prolific and of fine flavor. We consider it distinct, desira- ble and likely to supersede the Advancer, the seed being larger, and the Pea quite distinct from it." Carter's Commander-in-Chief. A grand Pea for exhibi- tion and general purposes of cultivation. It is a green, wrink- led marrow of exquisite flavor, with fine, slightly curved pods sometimes containing ten large peas. During the past two sea- sons the long and handsome pods of Commander-in-Chief, car- rying a beautiful bloom have been prominent at the principal Vegetable competitions in England Sutton's Emerald Gem Pea. This new first early pea is quite distinct from all others, and is undoubtedly one of the fin- est varieties in cultivation. The peas retain their green color when cooked and are of a delicious marrow-like flavor, much superior to most early sorts Tree Pumpkin or Zappallito fro.m Brazil. This is of a bushy habit of growth and bears its fruit in a cluster near the root of the vine, eight or ten to the plant. Excellent for pies. H resembles the Turban Squash in shape " Megro," or Nantucket Pumpkin. This is the true old- fashioned black-warted shelled pumpkin of old times. The "pumpkin pie " pumpkin of our grandmothers Butman Squash. (See page (i. » Marblehead Squash. (See eng. and description, page 7.) Cambridge Marrow Squash. Earlier than the Boston Mar- row. The skin has a remarkable deep orange color which makes the squash very attractive to the eye. Popular with mar- ket men. Quality hardly up to Boston Marrow Yellow Victor Tomato. A beautiful golden Tomato, in earliness and shape resembling Canada Victor. Per oz. 40 cts. . Little Gem Tomato. A prolific variety and desirable for those who wish a small, nice tomato a little larger than the Plum Tomato Conqueror Tomato. Handsome. Resembling somewhat Canada Victor, but not as large, solid or always early. Vines small Livingston's Acme Tomato. This is a purple variety hav- ing all the fine symmetry and smoothness of the Paragon, dif- fering inde ed from it in color mostly Powell's Tomato. Of good size; round, smooth, solid, and ripens well around the stem, and a first-rate bearer. A good variety for market or family use Vegetable Caterpillars. Large bodied and hairy. These are curious seed-vessels of low growing plants, which strongly suggest the animal caterpillar. Used to decorate side dishes . . . Vegetable Snails. Singular seed-vessels of low growing plants, which have a striking resemblance to the snaps of the" garden Whitloof. A most distinct and entirely new vegetable, somewhat resembling Chickory in habit. It produces a moder- ate-sized and beautiful white heart, in shape similar to Cos Let- tuce; the top, either boiled or eaten as a salad, or the root boiled will be found a valuable acquisition. , AGRICULTURAL TREATISES. A New Treatise. Carrots, Mangold Wurtzels and Sugar Beets; What Kinds to Raise ; How to Grow Them and How to Feed Them. Br J. J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass. The increased attention given to the raising of roots for feed- ing to stock, particularly the Carrot and Mangold Wurtzel, has led me to write this treatise. I have endeavored to follow the manner presented in my other works, and give that minuteness of detail in every step of progress, from the seed to the ma- tured 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 observa- tion, covering so much ground in the growing and handling of these two standard crops, that I 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. Single copies by mail, thirty cents. Cabbages, and How to Raise Them. By James J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass. This treatise gives all the minute instructions so valuable to the beginner. It begins with the selecting the ground, and car- ries 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. To prepare myself the more thoroughly to write on this work I experimented on foreign and native varieties of cabbage for four years, raising not far from seventy kinds. The gist of my experience will be found in this -treatise. It is illustrated by several fine engravings. I have added a page on the green worm that is causing so inuch.trouble in some localities. Price 30 cents. Onion Raising, What Kinds to Raise, and the Way to Raise Them. By J. J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass. This work, which I issued in 1S65, has been warmly recom- mended by some of the best authorities in the country, and lias gone through fourteen editions. It treats on Onions raised from seed. Potato Onions, Onion Setts, Top Onions, Shallots, and Rareripes, the Onion Maggot. Rust, the merits of the dif- ferent varieties of Onions, instructions in seed raising, and how to tell good seed, — beginning with the first step of 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 etnbraeing eveiy department of the subject. Illustrated with thirteen engravings of Onions, Sowing Ma- chines and Weeding Machines. Single copies sent by mail, prepaid, for thirty cents. Seed dealers and booksellers supplied at the usual discount. Squashes and How to Grow Them. By James J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass. This treatise is of about the same size and style as my treatise on "Onion Raising," and contains several illustrations, including a section of my squash house, with full directions for erecting one. In plan and thoroughness it is similar to my Onion treatise, very minute and thorough. Beginning 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 cultivating, gathering, storing and marketing of the crops — giving hun- dreds of minute details so valuable to inexperienced cultivators. I have written this and my other treatises on the theory that what the public -want is minuteness and thoroughness of' detail. The price of this is thirty cents, sent by mail post-paid. ■ Deal- ers supplied at a discount. If after reading either of these works, any person thinks he has not had his;money's worth, let him return them and I will return the money, as I intend that every man shall have his quid pro quo. Covent Garden Radish. Large Dutch Parsnip. Large Red Onion. Red Turnip Radish. Fren^„Svakfast JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 19 "Pounds, Bushels &c, are priced on these pages instead of separate ones as formerly.; Phioes of Seeds. ASPARAGUS. the seed bed late in the fall or in the early spring, as soon as the ground can be worked, i ed about one inch deep. Thin the plants to three inches in the row. The roots may be drills one foot smoved to the two years old. 'in preparing the ground no pains should be spared, as a well established and care in ma lie] il In at when "U'' or t W" vars "hi. I u preparing I m- '^iniiii" it" pains Mi"iuu. ue ap; 'ally cultivated asparagus bed will continue in good condition for twenty-live years Select deep, rich, mellow soil,' and trench th'.i ground two feet deep, using aTliberal quantity of well decomposed manure, with a small admixture of common salt. Set the roots so that the crowns will be three or four inches below the surface of the ground. Apply a dressing of manure in autumn (rotten kelp is excellent), diguing the same into the ground in the spring, taking care not to injure the roots. The bed will produce shoots lit for cutting the second or third year after transplanting. An occasional application of salt will be found beneficial. Defiance (New) See page 14 Conover's Colossal. The largest variety grown BEAN'S. Dwarf, Snap or Bush. Select light, warm soil, and plant when danger from frost is past in the spring, in drills two to two and a half feet apart, dropping the beans a bout two inches apart in the drill, and cover one inch deep. Keep the ground clean and loose by frequent hoeing, but do not draw the earth around the plants. Avoid working among the vines when they are wet, as it will tend to make them rust. Chinese. (New.) See engraving elsewhere package only Dwarf Russian. (New.) See page 14 package only Rose. (New. ) See engraving elsewhere Dwarf Golden Wax or York Dwarf Wax. (New.) See page 15. More prolific, with larger beans and pods than the common sorts Early Fejee. Very early, hardy and prolific ; on moist garden soil will bear more pickings than any other bean Early China, or "Red Eye." An old, popular', early variety Early Valentine. Pod long, round and tender; excellent, standard early bean in Middle States Early Mohawk. Very hardy, early a ml productive Early Yellow Six Week s. Very early and productive ; a standard sort Early Rachel. A long, straight-podded, early kind; grown for the New York market Dwarf Wax. Pods mostly yellow. Early; for a snap bean, superior • Dwarf German Wax. long variety. Considered more productive than the Round variety Dwarf German Wax. Pound. A great acquisition ; white pods, very early, first rate ; beans pure white Dun Cranberry. . One of the very best for stringing ; yield first rate ; early, good either as a green or dry shell bean . . . Refugee, or Thousand to One. A very prolific, bush sort Intermediate Horticultural. A half bush variety, very prolific ; an excellent substitute for the pole Horticultural ; a superior sort for market gardeners • .• Improved Yellow Eye. One of the best varieties for baking. Remarkably vigorous, healthy and prolific. . . Concord Rush. A fine, early, hush variety ' True White Pea Bean. (New.) The only strain of Pea Bean that is really round like a pea in shape; fine for baking ...... Navy or Pea Bean. A small, almost round variety, very productive. A standard sort for field culture White Medium. "White bush variety, largely used by government » White Marrow. A standard sort for field cultivation ; early Red Kidney. A standard red sort Pole, or Running Varieties. Set the poles three by three or four feet apart, and plant six to eight beans, with the eyes downward, around each pole, thin ning to four healthy plants when they are up. They require the same soil and treatment as the dwarf varieties with the execp tionthat they crave stronger soil, and do best in a sheltered location. Golden Butter. (New.) See page 14 Yellow Podded White Wax. (New. ) See page 14 Marblehead Champion. (New.) To be used as it string bean. (See page 7.) package only Early Lima or Sieva; called also Frost Bean. This is two weeks earlier than Large Lima. Requires the entire sea- son in the North : .. Mottled Cranberry. Long podded, very productive ; a very popular bean for garden cultivation London Horticultural, or Wren's Egg. Productive, pods elegantly striped — excellent string or shell Rhode Island Butter. I esteem this bean as one of the very best raised in the North, to eat green-shelled Kentucky Wonder. (New.) See page 15 package only Lamberson's White. (New.) See page 15.. .. .... package only Large Lima. As a shell bean surpasses all in quality; too late for the extreme North Dreer's Improved Lima. Rather later but more prolific than Large Lima Indian Chief or Black Algerian. Always in order for stringing; pods almost transparent, of a yellowish- white Boston Market Pole Cranberry. The Boston marketmen cultivate this as the most prolific Pole Cranberry Bean for market ■_ Concord Bean. This new pole bean takes exceedingly well to the poles," is healthy and very proline; excellent either as string or shell, resembling the Horticultural to which it is related, thoughit takes bettertothe poles than that variety, and is considerably earlier Casekniie. A white pole bean of groat richness either as green shelled or when baked Yard Long, .bee page 15. ) package only Giant Wax. Always a snap bean; a variety that is never stringy at any stage of growth. Pods of a yellowish- white „.,, _ col°r. very long and remarkably tender. An acquisition '. White role Cranberry. A capital late variety, particularly as a string bean. A little tender JPamtea Laay. Lither tor ornament or use package only ENGLISH BEAU'S. Broad Windsor. Large and excellent These thrive best in rich, moist soil and cool situation. Plant in early spring, two or three weeks enrlier than the common beans, in rows two feet apart and six inches apart in the row, covering two inches deep. Pinch off the tops of the plants when the young pods first appear. BEET. Select a deep, rich, sandy loam, and manure with well decomposed compost. Sow in drills fourteen to sixteen inches apart, and cover one inch deep, when the young plants appear, thin to four or live inches apart. For early use, sow as soon as ground can be worked in the spring ; for autumn use, about the middle of May, and for winter use, from the tenth to the twentieth of June, according to variety, the LONG varieties requiring more time to mature than the RotrND, early kinds. "vThen sown late increase the quantity of seed. When young, the plants make excellent " greens ". To preserve during winter, cover with earth to keep from wilting. "When eooking.'boil new beets one hour, and old ones two hours or more. rlthe Mangold VVurtzels are grown principally for stock, and as they grow larger require more room. They should be sown in drills about two feet apart; and be thinned to twelve or fifteen inches in the row. (See my work on Mangold Wurtzels, etc.) Table Varieties. Eclipse. (New.) See page 14 Egyptian. Earlier than Bassano. Tops remarkably small. Excellent for market purposes. I heartily recommend this valuable variety to the attention of market gardeners, who seek above every thitug else, earliness sit. 810 20 JAMES J/ H.' GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 'Pounds, Bushels, &c, are priced on these pages instead of separate ones as formerly. c BEET. Prices of seeds. Early Bassano. One of the earliest ' Bastian's Early Blood Turnip. As early as the Bassano, but o£ a much darker color : excellent every way for early. (See page 15. ) Early Blood Turnip. A standard sort; good for summer or winter Hatch's Early Turnip. Somewhat flat in shape ; quite a favorite with some of the market gardeners around Boston Dewing's Early Blood Turnip. Very symmetrical; free from fibrous roots; dark red This has taken several first premiums at the Massachusetts State Fair Simon's Early Turnip. About as early as Early Bassano, but of a deeper red Popular in the Philadelphia market Yellow Turnip. A very early sort, about as early as Bassano; of a beautiful golden yellow color Bastian's Half Long Blood. A new Philadelphia sort of a fine dark color; a good grower Henderson's Pine Annie. Excellent for family use Long Smooth Dark Blood. Excellent for winter use; smooth skinned; flesh dark red Dell's Ornamental Dwarf. This has leaves of a peculiarly deep, rich red color, and is cultivated in Europe as an ornament in the flower garden; grows partly above ground package only Mangold Wurtzels, Varieties for Feeding Stock and for Sugar Making. Knauer's Improved Imperial. New. A standard German variety for making sugar Improved American Sugar or Lane's. A long white variety of Mangold "Wurtzel, for stock Vilmorin's Improved French White Sugar. This is the variety cultivated by the French for the manufacture of sugar. Of six varieties of beets tested for sugar at the Farm of the Maine Agricultural College last season my seed of this variety gave the highest per cent, of sugar Carter's Orange Globe Mangold Wurtzel. The best variety of Yellow Globe Carter's Mammoth Mangold Wurtzel. Said to excel in size Yellow Ovoid Mangold Wurtzel. The Ovoid Mangolds grow more symmetrical and freer of rootlets than the long sorts. They are heavier, bulk for bulk Red Giant Ovoid Mangold Wurtzel. Very large, oval shape; pulls up very free from dirt Norbiton Giant Mangold Wurtzel. A new English variety which tends less to a hollow neck than the old Long •lied, kind The Globe Mangolds succeed better than the long sorts on sandy soil. All the varieties of Mangolds are excellent food for cows, to increase the flow of milk. Farmers should begin to feed them towards the close of winter and in the spring GO 75 (JO 75 85 1.00 KS'1.00 86 LOO CO 75 Red Globe Mangold Wurtzel. White Sugar. Yellow Globe Mangold Wurtzel. BERBERRY. 40 j 55 1.10 1.25 One of the best shrubs for hedges. Perfectly hardy. Never winter-kills and grows on any soil ; makes a thick, close, impen - etrable hedge that will turn cattle, and promises to become the hedge plant of North America. The berries make excellent pre- serves. As the seeds of the Berberry do best when planted in the berry, I will receive orders and tile them to be filled in the fall, as soon as the fruit is matured, when I will send the berries at prices named above with a page of full directions for making a hedge, and for preserving the fruit. BORAGE „ This is a profuse flowering plant, which is grown principally for bees, or as ornament in the flower garden. Sow in early spring in rich soil, ami thin plants to one foot apart. It readily bears transplanting, and when thus treated flowers more abundantly BRUSSELS SPROUTS A class of plants allied to the Cabbage family, producing great numbers of small heads or sprouts on the main stem of the plant, which are used in the maimer of Cabbages. Plant in rich soil in hills two feet apart each wav, and thin to one plant to the hill. Scrymger's Giant Dwarf. (New.) In habit close headed and compact package only Dwarf Improved Dalmeny Sprouts. A hybrid between Drumhead Savoy and Brussels Sprouts BROCCOLI. The Broccoli are closely allied to the Cauliflower 'family, so nearly so that the Walcheren variety is sometimes classed' with Cauliflower. They require similar cultivation and treatment to Cauliflower. Walcheren White. One of the very best varieties Large White Early French. A standard French variety Knight's Protecting. Dwarf, very hardy ; heads very large for the plants Purple Cape. Late, large, compact Early Purple. Early, excellent ; color deep purple Elletson's Mammoth. A large English variety , CABBAGE. Cabbage will thrive on any good com* land, though the stronger the soil the better they will develop. -New land is preferable. Plough deep and manure very liberally. The early sorts bear planting join eighteen inches to two feet apart in the rows, with the rows from two to two and a half feet apart. The large varieties to be from two to four feet apart in the rows, with the rows from two and a half to four feet apart, the distance varying with the size. The crop should receive as many as three hoeings and three cnltivatings. Cabbage will not usually 'follow cabage or turnips successfully in field culture, unless three or four years have intervened between the crops. For late fall marketing, plant drumhead sorts from June 10th to 20th For full andminute information in every department of Cabbage 'culture, ee my treatise on " Cabbages, and How to grow them." Earliest Varieties. Vilmorins Early Flat Dutch. (New. See page 15.) Heads rounder and harder than the common variety. . . .] 3.85J4.00 Early Bleichfeld Giant. (New. See engraving elsewhere ' 1 4'gg[ g.oo Heartwell Early Marrow. New. (See page 15.) package only Henderson's Early Summer. (New. See engraving elsewhere '. fi.75 7.00 Crane's Early. ( New. ) ( For des. see page* 15. ; 1.50 1.33.1.50 Early Nonpareil. A choice very early sort Carter's Little Pixie Savoy. This variety closely resembles in earliness and size the Little Pixie Wheeler's Cocoanut Cabbage. A new sort, conical in shape, making fine hard heads; one of the best of the English early market varieties Early York. One of the earliest ; an old standard sort Large Yrork. An improvement in size on Early York ; a little later Early Jersey Wakefield. (True.) Resembles Oxheart. A standard early cabbage in Boston and New York markets. Little Pixie. A small, very tender and sweet cabbage, of the pointed heading family. It is earlier than Early York and heads hard, and from its small size a great number can be matured on a small area of land, 2.35 li.50 Sugar Loaf. A popular early variety j < Early Oxheart. An excellent early sort ! ' Early Wyman. This new cabbage was originated by Captain Wyman, of Cambridge, Mass. It is allied to the early j "Wakefield, is about as early but grows to double the size ; very popular with market gardeners as an early market sort ■ 3.851 4.00 4.X5 5.0:i 1.30' 1.50 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 21 Pounds, Bushels, &c, are priced on these pages instead of separate ones as formerly. Pkices of Seeds. .85 4.00 .35 '2.50 2.85 3.00 1.00 CABBAGE. Cannon Ball. The hardest heading of all early sorts Early Ulm Savoy. One of the earliest ; unsurpassed in quality ; capital for family use Second. Early. "Newark" Early Flat Dutch. The best strain of second early variety in the New York market ; heads large, solid, broad and thick Early Blood Red Erfurt. (New. See page 15. ) Heads darker red than common sorts package only Fottler's Improved Early Brunswick. The earliest of the large heading drumheads. This has given great satis- faction in every section of the United States. (See page 10. ) ■ Early Winnigstadt. Heads large, cone-shaped and solid ; one of the very best for all soils targe French Oxheart. Popular as an early cabbage Schweinfurt Quintal. The earliest of all large drumheads ; grows from a foot to eighteen inches in diameter ; does not head very hard, but is remarkably tender. The heads are very handsome, and almost as . rich as the Savoy class Early Red Erfurt. Early, head round and very solid Late Kinds. Marblehead Dutch. (New. See page 15. ) Improved American Savoy, Extra Curled. "Very reliable for heading ; more finely curled than Improved Ameri- can Savoy, which renders it very desirable for market gardeners and for family use St. Dennis Cabbage. A large late drumhead, makes a very solid head. Popular in Canada . Green Glazed. A standard variety in the South XMarblehead Mammoth Drumhead. The largest .-abbage in the world . (SeepagelO.) / Bergen Drumhead. A standard in New York market Stone Mason Drumhead. A standard variety in Boston market. (See page 10. ) Premium Flat Dutch. Large and excellent for winter; very extensively grown Improved American Savoy. An improvement on the old Green Globe Savoy ; very reliable for heading. Very sweet and tender — much esteemed for family use. An excellent sort for market gardeners . . . Drumhead Savoy. A cross between Savoy and Drumhead— ;very large Red Dutch. The old variety for pickling Red Drumhead. Larger than Red Dutch and more profitable ; heads round ; very reliable for heading, very hard un- der high cultivation CARROT. Carrots thrive best in rather a light loam. The ground should be well manured with fine, well rotted or composted manure, I six or eight cords to the acre, and be thoroughly worked quite deep, by two ploughing* made at right angles with eaeli other. Also I cultivate and drag if there are any lumps, ami then rake level, burying all remaining lumps and stones. Plant in rows fourteen inches apart, and thin plants three to live inches in the rows. Plant troin the middle of April to middle of May, to insure crop; though good success is of ten met with if planted as late as 10th of June. As the dry spells which sometimes prevail at that season are apt either to prevent the germination of the seed, or to burn the plants as soon as they appear alwve ground, it is theref. .re advisable to increase the quantity of seed, which under the circumstances will give the crop a better chance. Keep very clean of weeds. (See my work on Mangolds and Carrots, page 17.) Danvers. (New.) (See page 8. ) 1.35 1.50 Early Very Short Scarlet. The earliest and smallest of all varieties ; of special value for forcing ..-..! Early Scarlet Horn. The early short variety for forcing ; excellent for the table ; color very deep orange I .... ! X Short Horn. The standard eaiiy variety; sweeter than Long Orange and more solid. Good to color butter j 1.05 1.20 Improved Long Orange. Of a darker, richer color than Long Orange ' 85, 1.00 Long Orange. The standard field carrot; good for stock j 85j 1.00 Large Altringham. Bright orange' grows a little above ground. A poor cropper 85; 1.00 Large White Belgian. Largest" of all, white and most productive; good for horses; entire crop can be pulled) • by hand I 601 75 Yellow Belgian. Grows partly out of ground. A capital sort for late keeping ! 85' 1.00 CAULIFLOWER. I Pursue the same course as with Cabbage, manuring rather heavier and hoeing oftener. Cauliflowers covet the cool, moist weather of the fall months to perfect themselves Gerry Island. (New.) See engraving elsewhere ....;... . Berlin Dwarf. (New.) See page 14 |- • Late Algerian. (New. ) See page 14 Henderson's Early Snowball. (New.) See page 15. Very dwarf; very early; very reliable. Price per ± oz. 2.50 ' Autumnal Late Giant. (New. ) Very large headed and extremely productive package only Italian Early Giant. Fine, large, white-headed and early Carter's Dwarf Mammoth. A premium English variety' ; very early, with heads remarkably large for so dwarf a variety Dwarf Early La Maitre. A new French sort, making fine large heads Early Paris. A standard early variety Early Erfurt. A choice German variety Extra Early Dwarf Erfurt. Extra choice. Specially selected. (See page 15) Fitch's Early London. The best strain of tins standard English sort Early Dutch. Early Nonpareil. One of the earliest varieties, resembles Improved Early Paris Lenormand's Short-Stemmed Mammoth. Dwarf, large and fine. One of the largest and the most reliable for sen eral cultivation per pound by express $ 1 ."..85 Large White French. Fine, large white Stadtholder. Fine ; large size ; late , , , , , CELERY. Plant seed in hot bed or very early in open ground. Transplant four inches apart, when three inches high, hi rich soil linely pulverized; water and protect until well rooted, then transplant into rows live or six feet apart either on siu .':'.-e or in well manured trenches a foot in depth, half tilled with well rotted manure. Set the plants from eight to twelve inches ap.,rt. To blanch draw earth around the plants from time to time, taking care not to cover the tops of the center shoots. Crawford's Half Dwarf. (New. See page 4.) Sandringham Dwarf White. Most dwarf of all ; very solid ; white White Solid. A standard sort Boston Market. Short, compact and solid — very popular; almost the only variety sold in the Boston market. (See page 15. ) Turnip Rooted. The root of this is eaten ^ Carter's Crimson. Dwarf^solid and crisp; a first class variety Turner's Incomparable Dwarf White Solid. Popular in England, and extensively grown by the New York market men. In dwarf habit next to Sandringham. ' 2.351 2.50 1.30 1.30 0.85 ' $10 4.00 2.50 3.85 4.00 2.85 2.50 i,00 22 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. [Qp Pounds, Bushels, &c, are priced on these pages instead of separate ones as formerly. ^J Prices of Seeds. lb. exclude eXp' CHICKORY. Pursue the same manner of cultivation as tor Carrot. If to be used as a salad.blanch the leaves by covering so as to the light. If raised for its root, dig at about the same time as Carrots, wash the roots and then slice them, either way, and dry thoroughly by artificial heat. Large Coffee Rooted. Used as a substitute for coffee ' CHUPAS, or Earth. Almonds. (See page 15.) COLLARDS or COLEWORTS. True Southern • A class of nlants closely allied to the Cabbage family, which are somewhat extensively used in the South', when small, as creens Sow in e'arlv serine in drills one fo,,t apart, covering the seed half an inch. The young plants are ready tor use as soon as they have attained sull'iearnt size, but if it is desired to keep them in good condition, thin the plants to six or eight inches apart," and pull oil the larger leaves before using. CORK" ' Corn revels in a warm and rich soil. Do not plant before the ground has become warm— nothing is g: cultivation is more proiitable than hill cultivation. The smaller varieties may be planted with the di-ids t« . _.._i,. . .,,: ..l ... ..... i..«l,Qc o^oW-. tlio l'.ropr sow s should have the drills three To lour leet a'o: drills •t, and the stalks thinned to ten inches apart; the larger sorts should have the drills three to four f a foot apart in the rows, and the largest varieties eighteen inches apart Lse some rich manure in the the earth around the roots bv hoe or cultivator, but do not draw it up about, the stalks, l-or a Mi'-cc..,, o , oi to be planted at the same time, I would recommend Marblehead Early, Pratt s, Giosby s, Moore a, Mow „u a , Sweet Varieties for Family use and Marketing in a green state ied by it. Drill and a half faet ;. and the stalks Frequently stir a for family use llgvptian Sweet. 1.50,5.00 1.25 4.50 1.25 4.50 1.2514.50 1.2514.50 1.25 4.50 1.25 4.00 1.25| 4.50 1.50i 1.00 3.00 Early Boynton Sweet. (New.) See page 14 ■ • ■•••■• ■•■•■••••• ■ -,- ■ ■ • : ■ " • 1''"-'v' = Marblehead Early Sweet. The earliest of all : allied to the Narragansett but a week earlier, seepage* F ortyDays^EarUe^thkn'ou? staf darf'earl'y com/and will be found desirable in" Northern latitudes as an extremely! " earlv sort for a flint variety • ■ ; Pratt's Early. Here we have a capital sort for marketmeu who are looking about for an early son,, growing to a fair market size. (See page 10) , ■•■•.• • • ■ •■;-••■ ■ ■ • ■ Early Minnesota Sweet. One of the very earliest sorts of sweet corn, with ears of suitable size lor market purposes. Early Narragansett. One of the earliest; kernels very large: ears large m diameter, and of medium length. ..... Moore's Early Concord Sweet. A new early com, from 12 to 111 rows. Itemarkably handsome; quite popular. Awarded a silver medal by the Mass. Horticultural Society Crosby's New Early Sweet. First rate every way, either for market or family use Mexican Sweet. The sweetest and tenderest for table use of all varieties [ am acquainted with Golden Sweet. The only cross ever made between the sweet and field varieties ; flavor, peculiarly rich. Stowell's Evergreen Sweet. Excellent ; keeps green till cold weather ; ears large ; a standard late variety. Gen. Grant. An acquisition because of its extreme sweetness. Late, comes in after Stowell's. The best for fodder. . . Marblehead Mammoth Sweet. The largest variety grown. (See page 10; • Sweet Fodder Corn. Sweet corn is preferred to the yellow kiuds by our best farmers for fodder Varieties for Field Cultivation and Popping. Blunt's Prolific Field. (New.) See engraving elsewhere Longfellow's Field. (New.) Seepages.) Adams' Early. A favorite in the South. The earliest of all the Dent sorts Improved Early Yellow Canada. A first rate corn where the seasons are short Lamson's Early Yellow Field. An excellent variety for latitude of New England ; ears quite large and well filled out; two hundred and fourteen bushels of ears have been grown on an acre. '...'. Hundred Days Dent. Early ; ears large and well filled. Capital for the Middle and in favorable seasons for South- ern New England states. Will ripen in one hundred days in a good corn season Mammoth Field. A large white gourd seed variety, churned to be the largest kind raised in the Western States Silver Laced Pop. The handsomest of all varieties of pop com, and decidedly a growing favorite Nonpareil, or Pop. The popular variety for parching ; 1-50 Dwarf Golden Pop. Small, but ornamental, and a favorite with the little folks ; excellent for popping \ Egyptian Pop. Tenderer when popped than the common variety ] BROOM CORN. Any good corn land will grow Broom Corn. Plant in rows three feet apart and thin to eight inches in the row. California or Golden. (New.) See page 14 ■ • ■■■■ Improved Evergreen. An improvement on the Evergreen by careful selection of stock for years. Not as tall as Evergreen; brush fine and bright colored CRESS. Plant on rich soil, finely pulverized, in drills six or eight inches apart." That grown in the cool of the season is of the best quality. To be used as salad before the flowers appear. Curled. The best sort Plain or Common Water Cress* To be planted along the borders of shallow water courses. The famous English Cress CUCUMBER. The vines require a warm location. Plant after the ground has become warm, in hills four feet apart for the smaller varie- ties, and live feet for the larger sorts. Manure with ashes, guano, or some well rotted compost, working the manure just under the surface. Sprinkle vines with plaster or air-slacked lime to protect it from bugs. The frame cucumbers can be successfully grown ill the open air in this country by giving them well sheltered location, plenty of manure, and having hills six by six. White German. (New.) See engraving elsewhere. The handsomest frame variety I ever saw package only Extra Long Green Smooth. (New.) See page 1.5. Very long, smooth and straight package only Long Green Smooth from Athens. (New.) See page 15 package only Short French Pickling. (New.) See page 14 Marquis of Lome. (New.) A celebrated frame variety, short neck, smooth skin; very straight and prolific, package only Green Prolific. (New. ) See page 15 Bismarck. (New. ) (See page 15. ) Chinese Long Netted. (New.) See pagelfi.) package only Russian Netted. (New.) (For description see page 1G.) Tailby's Hybrid. (New.) ( For description see page 13.) Rollisson's Telegraph. (New.) One of the most prolific of the forcing varieties package only Norbiton Giant. (See page 10. ) The longest prize frame cucumber known package only English Prize Cucumbers. Carter's Champion; Sion House. These yield but very few seed, and are great favorites in England. Each variety per package Gen. Grant. The hardiest and probably the most prolific of the English Frame varieties. In England the climate is not hot enough to grow cucumbers in the open air Early Russian. The earliest of all varieties; grows about four inches long 1.5(1 1.50 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 23 Pounds, Bushels, &c, are priced on these pages instead of separate ones as formerly. Pkices of Seeds. CUCUMBER. Early Cluster. Bears mostly in clusters; very early and productive Improved White Spine. Great bearer ; excellent for early forcing, or for out door cultivation; standard in Boston market. My stock is from one of the best Boston market gardeners VEarly Frame. Early, short, prolific Long Green. An old standard sort ■ ! Short Green. An old standard - j Improved Long Green Prickly. Excellent variety, growing 18 or 20 inches long; makes a bard brittle pickle West India Gherkin. Avery small, elegant, peculiar sort, for pickles only, prolific to an extraordinary degree. .Somewhat difficult to get the seed to germinate ){ New Jersey Hybrid. The largest of all white spined varieties ' Eight Varieties Mixed j BostOn Pickling. A medium, long variety ; the standard for pickling in Boston market Short Pickling. Very desirable for a short pickle , Early White Japan. A variety recently introduced from Japan, exceedingly productive; resembles White Spine, but turns to a richer creamy white color, and is earlier Snake. I have grown these six feet in length, coiled up like a snake. (See page Hi) package only DANDELION. This vegetable lias become very popular as an early healthful given, ami the roots also are used when dried a* a substitute for coffee, its use in either of these firms is particularly recommended to those who are inclined to any disease of the liver. Sow in May in drills one foot apart, covering the seed half inch deep. A rich soil is preferable, but this plant will thrive any- where New Very Double. New. See page 15 package only Improved Thick Leaved. (New. ) Seven hundred bushels of this sort have been grown on three-fourths of an acre Common 85 1.00 85 1.00 85' 1.00 85; 1.00 1.00 1.351 1,50 50 1.10 1.23 85; 1.00 lily use, in flower pots, i two feet apart each waj a warm window. Ti They require a rich EGG PLANT. Plant the seed in March, in a hot-bed. or, ter weather lias become warm and settled, ii cation for warmth as the garden will afford. Long White China. Avery delicate and beautiful long white variety. Highly esteemed by amateurs. . package only- Very Early Dwarf. A new French variety of Long Purple ; extra early. (See page Kit package only ■ Striped Guadaloupe. Long in shape and elegantly striped ; very ornamental and edible package only|. Black Pekin. A new variety of Bound Purple. Blackish violet leaves; fruit very large ! ■ Long Purple. Earlier and more productive, but smaller than Bound Purple !■ New York Improved Round Purple. An excellent variety, surpassing in size of fruit j ■ Scarlet China. (New. A fine ornamental variety package only- • ENDIVE. For early use sow as soon as the ground can be worked in the spring, in drills fifteen inches apart, and" thin plants to six or \ eight inches in the row. A succession may be obtained by sowing every two or three weeks until midsummer, when it will be ; proper time to plant for fall and whiter use. Any common garden soil will do, but a rather moist situation is preferable. Xo j blanch the leaves gather them carefully together when perfectly dry and tiu with matting or any soft librous material. Another laethod is to invert flower pots over the plants. The leaves are very highly esteemed for use as salads. "London Green Curled. Very popular , Fine Curled Mossy. Very ornamental.- Broad Leaved Batavian. A large summer variety I . GOURDS. The larger varieties require the entire season to mature them, and the ornamental sorts are apt to grow too large if the ground is very rich. Hercules Club. Grows 4 to 0 feet in length package only , Sugar Trough. (See page 16). ; package only Double Bottle. package only . Dipper. Used as its name indicates package only Angora package only . Dish-Cloth Gourd. (Seepagel6.) package only!. Fancy and Ornamental. Mixed varieties. (See page 10. ) package only -GARLICS 4.85 5.00 1.50 3.85 4.00 1.30 Plant the bulbs on exceedingly ricli soil, in rows orinridges fourteen inches apart andsix inches apart in the rows. They are cultivated for their flavor, (which is similar to the onion but more powerful,) andare used in stews, soups. &c: KALE, or BORECOLE. Plant the larger sorts in hills two by three feet apart, and thin to one plant to the hill. Select deep, rich soil, and cultivate as Cabbage. Sonic of the varieties are very ornamental, and scattered singly are attractive in the flower garden, being finely curled and variegated with green, yellowish white, bright red and purple leaves. The tender leaves are used as Cabbage. Frisby's Crested. (New. ) package only Green Curled Tall Scotch. (New. See plate on page 34 ) One of the best varieties , .". '. Sea Kale. The young shoots when blanched are exceedingly delicate, being much superior to Broccoli. ■'. package only Carter's Garnishing. Both ornamental and useful. The seed will produce many varieties of high colored plant- package only Ornamental Kale, four elegant varieties. For ornament or the table package only Dwarf Green Curled, or German Greens. Very hardy ; a standard market sort Cottager's. A new English variety. , Field Kale. For cattle. Can be cut several times dming the season Abergeldie. A new dwarf variety, curled as fine as parsley ; of delicate, mellow flavor KOHL RABI, or TURNIP CABBAGE. Prepare ground as for Cabbage, then plairt about the first pf June in rows two feet apart, thinning plants to twelve inches in the row. To preserve over winter treat as turnips. When young then- flesh is tender and resembles a tine rutabaga with less of a turnip flavor. "When fully matured they are excellent for stock. Early White Vienna. A standard early kiud Large Purple. Very large, hardy and productive ; for stock LEEK, Select good onion soil, manure liberally, and plant in April in drills made six or eight inches deep and eighteen inches apart, and thin to nine inches apart in the drill. Gradually draw the earth around the plants until the drills are tilled level with the surface. Draw for use in October. To be used in soups or boiled as asparagus. targe Musselburg Leek Broad Scotch, or Flag. A large and strong plant ; hardy ; color deeper than Kouen ,.,..,,,.. 24 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. gy Pounds, Bushels, &c, are priced on these pages instead of separate ones as formerly. .^J Pkices or Seeds. Hanson Lettuce. (See page V-J. White Tennis Ball, or Boston LEEK. Very Large Rouen. A new French variety ; best of all for forcing Extra Large Carentan. (New.) A very fine extra large winter variety package only; LETTUCE. Lettuce covets a rich and rather moist soil. The rows should be about twelve inches apart and the plants thinned from eight to twelve inches apart for the heading varieties. When heads are not desired it may be grown ina mass. The more rapid the growth the better the quality. Horn • \ ark lies are peculiarly adapted for early culture, others for summer growth. Nellis' Perpetual. (New) See page 14. ■■■■■:■■■. ■ :'V":v; ..package only Stone Head Golden Yellow. ',N>\\; See page 16. I invite gardeners to test this for quality with the best varie- ty they know of, believing that this will bear the palm Satisfaction. New. (See page Hi. ) • •• ■■ Egyptian. (New. See pare 10.) package only All-the- Year-Bound, Sew. (See page 10.).. ............... {.. ..................... . Black Seeded Tennis Ball. Hardy, excellent tor early crops; earlierthan Silesia ; large beads. My stocks of tins and White Tennis Ball are from one of the first Boston market gardeners. A favoritein Boston market Stock of this very large this season ( White seed. ) The variety so extensively grown by the Boston marketmen dur- g wiuterfor marketing in February and March. A line early sort — small heads, very hardy; used for winter culture Early Curled Simpson. Resembles Silesia, but is more curled and not so early Early Curled Silesia. Very early ; very tender and sweet — a popular variety for hot-beds and early out-door culture. Early Butter Head. An excellent sort — a great favorite True Boston Curled. The most elegant Lettuce of all. Quality good; very popular Drumhead. Very large ; beads crisp and tender. A standard sort Large India. Resembles Drumhead but later ; of fine quality Brown Genoa Cabbage. Of medium size, round head stained with red about the top. One of the best for either summer or winter use Improved Spotted Cabbaging. A fine head variety ; color green shaded with brown ; quality first rate ; one of the finest for the table package only Large Princess Head. A new, very fine German variety, which does finely in the United States Perpignan. Heads sometimes seven inches in diameter. One of the best summer varieties. Notinclinedtogoto seed French Imperial Cabbage. A tine large-headed variety ; one of the very best for family use, as it does not run quick to seed Versailles Cabbage. A fine summer variety ; light green ; makes large heads Bossin. A new French variety ; large ; late ; color dark green Neapolitan Cabbage. A good summer variety Six Choice Varieties. Mixed in one package package only White Paris Cos. Best of all the Cos varieties ICingholm Cos. Stands the summer heat splendidly and heads without tying ; makes fine large heads, .package only Green 'Fat' Cabbage. A fine summer cabbage variety; dark green; does not run to seed early. .. . package only Victoria Cabbage. One of the best English cabbage varieties package only MARTYUIA eh, garden soil, two by three feet apart, leaving only one plant in a place. It produces an abundance of , and the young pods," when sufficiently tender to be easily punctured by the nail, are used for pickles. Plant on any large, showy Howe MELON. Select warm and light soil— a poor light soil is better than a cold and rich one. Thoroughly work the soil, manure with gu- ano, phosphate or a rich compost, having the hills six feet, apart for the musk varieties, and eijdit or nine for water melons. Do not excavate lolls, but work the manure jitst under the surface, as the roots of all vines naturally seek warmth. Pinch the more vigorous vim's from time to time, and work in guano or phosphate between the rows. Plant a dozen or more seetfe in each hill, but ■ ~:~ slacked lime to protect from depredation plants. Sprinkle young plants liberally with plaste Musk Varieties. package only , Persian. (New. ) See page 14 Bay View. (New. ) See engraving elsewhere Chicago Nutmeg. (New.) See page 14 • Surprise. (New) See page 15 • package only Log-of-wood. New (See page 8) package-only Algiers Cantaloupe. (New) See page IS package only Silver Netted. (New See page 10). '■ Christiana. (True) Remarkable for early maturity Improved Cantaloupe. (Newr. ) A very early large round sort ; first rate for market Hardy Ridge. (New) (Seepage 13) A remarkably thick fleshed melon, of good quality. A most vigorous grower . Sill's Hybrid. (True) Salmon-colored, flesh rich, sweet and delicious. (See page 10.) Torrey's. Green fleshed ; large ; earlier than Casaba Shaw's Golden Superb. Though small in size, suberb in quality.— good for family use Skillman's Fine Netted. Of delicious flavor— early Early Nutmeg. Green fleshed, highly scented ; mine is the Boston variety, which is earlier than the Nutmeg grown fur- ther South Long Yellow. Large, sweet, productive ; a well known sort Green CHro;i. Green fleshed ; sweet, melting, and rich flavored Ward's Nectar. Early, exceedingly prolific, "sweet, rich, and delicious ; green fleshed Early Jenny Lind. An early sort ; favorite with gardeners Sew White Japan. Flesh greenish white ; earlyand prolific ; sweet, delicious Pine Apple. Oval shaped, rough netted, thick fleshed, juicy and sweet Casaba. (New.) A very large, long, green-fleshed melon, of delicate flavor, thick fleshed, melting and delicious ; has been grown to weigh 15 lbs. An acquisition Golden Fleshed. Excelsior. ( New. Ferry's Peerless. Watermelon. New. (See page 10) .' See page 8) (New. Seepage 4) Vick's Early. ( New. See page 8j Ice Cream, true, White Seeded. A very early melon of superior quality. Very popular Jackson, or Strawberry. New: delicious A great favorite in the Middle and Southern States Seed: with red. . ; ; Gipsey. Very large and very productive, The principal variety grown in New Jersey- and sent to Northern markets. vhite tipped] pk'g !^P-The specimens of corn are not fancy sketches, but were all engraved from photographs which I had taken from specimens grown on mv farms. No. 1, Marblehead Mammoth Sweet Corn; 2, Moore s Early ( uncord Corn; o, Mexican Sweet Corn; i, Crosby's Early Sweet Corn; 5, Early Narragansett Sweet Corn; 6, Pratt s Early Sweet Corn. Peep Scarlet Olive-Shaped Radish. Boston Market Celery, White Solid Celen Beginning at the left hand, the smallest Cucumber is the Early Russian^ then follow Short Horn, Early Cluster (two specimens i, White Improved Spine, Long Green, and Improved Long Green Prickly . Chinese Rose Winter Radish. Diumheacl Lettuce. Egg Plant. Cayenne Pepper. JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 27 ' Seeds per Express or Freight at purchaser's expense. MELON". Watermelon. Cream Fleshed Sculptured Seeded. (Seepage 11) New ; early, remarkably sweet, with seed singularly marked. . Mountain Sweet. An old standard variety: early, solid, sweet and delicious; one of the best for northern cultivation. Mountain Sprout. Long, striped, scarlet flesh ; an old standard sort. .... .■. Phinney's. For hardiness, vigor, and productiveness, unexcelled ; early,- very reliable, red-fleshed. (See page 1C-). . Citron. For preserves only ; hardy and very productive ,..-.■.- New Orange. Improved in size— the rind will peel like an orange when fully ripe MUSTARD. Sow in drills one foot apart, and cover seed half inch deep. Thrives readily in almost any soil. "Water frequently in dry weather, and for a succession sow every two weeks during the season. Used principally for salads. Chinese. New. A fine sort White or Yellow. For salad or medicinal purposes NASTURTIUM. Plant in May in rows ; the climbing varieties to cover some arbor, or fence, or climb or twine around the house ; the dwarf kind in hills or in rows two feet apart. The leaves are used for salad, and the seeds when soft enough to be easily pene- ' trated by the nail, for pickles. If each plant of the dwarf variety is allowed room to perfect itself the plants grow very symetrieal. Tall. An ornamental climber. : Dwarf. Prices of Seeds. OKRA, or GUMBO. Select warm and rich soil and plant when the ground becomes warm, in rows two feet apart, thinning plants a foot apart in the row. The pods are used to thicken soups, being gathered when young. In the North they require the warmest locations and it is better to start them in a hot-bed. Early Dwarf. White, small and round ; pods smooth Long Green. Later and more productive ONION. In some parts of the country the term " Silver Skin" denotes a white variety— in other parts a yellow variety. Please indicate in your order which you want. The soil should be rather light, and free from large stones. Apply from eight to twelve cords of rich, fine compost, to "the acre. Plough not over five inches deep, and work well with cultivator. Pl'jugh again at right angles with first furrows, and cultivate again. Now rake level and fine, and plant seed in rows fourteen inches apart at rate of tour pounds to the acre. Keep very clean of weeds. When ripe, pull and dry very thoroughly before storing. For full par- ticulars in every department for the cultivation of the Onion, see my work on "Onion Raising." Southpoi t White Globe. Remarkably handsome ; great cropper, but would not advise to raise it north of south em Connecticut. (See page 16) '..'.'.' Marzajole. A silvery white skinned variety, possessing the best qualities desirable for culinary purposes. Yellow Strasburgh, or Large Yellow. A late standard variety. Mammoth Tripoli. One of the largest of the giant foreign varieties ; of mild flavor package only Nasbey's Mammoth. An Italian variety excelling in size and mild flavor .package only Giant Rocca. A new Italian varietv (See page 16) Large Flat White Italian. A mild flavored onion; grown from setts it attains to a very large size '. Early Red Globe. One of the earliest and most productive and handsomest of all the red sorts Earlv Cracker. A decided improvement on Large Yellow, being much earlier ; the kind for a short season White Portugal. Very early; mild flavored, not a good keeper Large Red Wethersfield. An old standard sort. Pleasant flavored, grows very large, keeps well ; hardy Early Flat Red. A capital sort where the seasons are short. A very quick grower Southport Red Globe. A great cropper. Very popular in New York market; is late would not advise to raise north of southern Connecticut New Queen. A new English white onion, the earliest of all varieties (See page 16 ) Dan vers Yellow. (True.) Large, round, earlier than Large Yellow, very profitable ; 1100 bushels have been raised from one acre Potato Onions. The bulbs of these are planted per peck, $1.50; per bush., $5.00; per qt., .25; qt. mail, .45. Onion Setts. From these most of the early onions are raised per qt., .30; qt., mail, .50; per bush., market price. PARSLEY. Select rich soil and sow the seed in drills one foot apart, covering half inoh deep. The seed is usually from fifteen to twenty-five days in vegetating. Thin plants to four inches apart when two inches high. The beauty of the plant maybe in- creased by several successive transplanting*. It is used principally for flavoring soups, &c, and for garnishing in its natural state. Fern Leaved. (New. ) (See page 16.) Dwarf Curled. Finely curled ; good for edging or table ornament Myatt's Garnishing. Double curled Dunnett's Selected. A new English sort .- Carter's Champion. (New. ) Moss curled elegant for garnishing' Carter's Covent Garden Garnishing. Probably the nest of its type '. PARSNIP. Give the richest and deepest soil to the long varieties of Parsnip; the Turnip sort will grow well on shallow soil. Make the soil very fine, and plant the seed early in rows eighteen inches apart, thinning plants to Jive inches in the rows. The seed should be planted half inch deep. To keep well in the ground over winter, draw a little earth over the tops. Sutton's Student. A good English variety Round Early, or Turnip. A new French sort ; excellent for shallow soil, shaped like a turnip Large Dutch. Large and sweet. A standard kind Hollow Crowned, or Guernsey. The hollow crowns are considered superior in quality to the other varieties Abbott's Improved Hollow Crowned. An improved English variety " Maltese Parsnip. Anew, long English variety • PEAS. Of the numbers printed against the Peas, 1 indicates first early class, 2 second eaily and 3 late class. Those marked with a star (* ) are wrinkled varieties, the sweetest of all ; but as they are liable to rot need to be planted thicker than the round sorts. For notes on Peas see elsewhere Very Dwarf. These very low varieties require no sticking. While the tall sort will run too much to vine if liberally manured (it being better to depend on the richness of land that has been previously in good cultivation) the dwarf varieties, on the contrary, will bear pretty liberal manuring. Have the dwarfs, that grow not over fifteen inches high, in rows two feet apart ; those varieties attaining the height of from two to three feet, iu rows three feet apart; and the rows of the tallest sorts, four feet apart. 1 'Carter's Extra Early Premium Gem. A new early dwarf wrinkled pea, sent out by Messrs. Carter & Co., seeds- men,of London, as an improvement on Little Gem. More prolific and longer podded.. . . . 1. Tom Thumb. One of the very earliest ; very productive ; pods well filled. Height of vine ten inches 2. *McLean's Little Gem. A wrinkled pea nearly as early as Tom Thumb ; quality first rate. Twelve inches 1. McLean's Blue Peter. Early ; of fine quality ; pods larger than Tom Thumb, but not so numerous. Ten inches., 1.25 hush exp, 0.00 8.00 S.on 28 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 'Pounds, Bushels, &c, are priced on these pages instead of separate ones as formerly. Prices of Seeds. PEAS, Dwarf. All varieties under this class will do without bushing, but on rich, garden soil they will generally do better when bushgd. Dr. McLean's. (New.) See page 15 3. Carter's Challenger. (New.) (Seepage 17.) package only 2. Carter's Little Wonder. (New. ) (See page 17. ) 1. Hancock. This is a new seedling of American origin. A first early, and, all tilings considered, the test of the early hard peas. See notes elsewhere * 2. Fill-Basket. (New. ) A large, very handsome and productive sort ; very prolific 1. Sutton's Emerald Gem. (New ) (For description see page 17. ) 1. Philadelphia Extra Early. The standard early variety in Philadelphia markets. 1. Carter's First Crop. Earliest of all; pods smaller and more numerous than Dan O'llourke. Two and one-half feet 1. Extra Early Dan O'Rourke. One of the earliest standard market varieties; very productive. Two feet 1. Kentish Invicta. A new English variety, very early and of great promise. Crop ripens all together. Two and one half feet 1. "Laxton's Alpha. The best early wrinkled market pea. In yield it probably surpasses any of the early sorts 1. Caractacus. Messrs. Waite & Co., the English seedsmen, send this out. It is planted largely by the Boston market men as one of the best first early peas. Two feet 1. Dexter. A new American pea, selected as being extra early-- Worthy of a trial by gardeners. Two and one-half feet. . . 2. "McLean's Advancer. A wrinkled pea — about a fortnight earlier than Champion of England, eoual to it in quali- ty, fully as productive, while itgrows but two-thirds as high ; everything considered, the best of the second earlies for market purposes. Two and one-half feet. Very popular both tor the family garden and for market 2, "Hair's Dwarf .Mammoth. One of the best for family use— low and bushy in its habit of growth ; peas -very large, wrinkled and sweet Eighteen inches 2. Brown's Dwarf Marrowfat. The earliest of all marrowfats ; dwarfish habit. A first class American variety. Two feet 3. * Yorkshire Hero. A large late wrinkled dwarf; peas remarkably large and fine; a capital sort for the kitchen gar- den. Two and one-half feet 3. "McLean's Premier. An English wrinkled pea, pods and peas very large ; sent out as being of very superior quality and productiveness. A nice family pea. Two and one-half feet. ..." 2. Dwarf Blue Imperial. An old standard sort ; two feet Tall Varieties. All these need bushing. 3. "Carter's Commander-in-Chief. New. (See page 17.) package only Culverwell's Telegraph. (New.) Seepage 16. Pods are exceptionally large and well-filled packageoniy 0 New Golden. New. (See page 17.), 3. Laxton's Superlative. (New.) (For description see page 16. )... 3. Dwarf Sugar. A string pea ; pods edible. My variety is of half dwarfish habit, with fine large pods 3. Laxton's Supreme. One of the green marrow class yielding remarkably long and well-filled pods. A fine late fain- ily garden pea Five feet 3. "Champion of England. An old favorite; rich flavored and verv productive. Four to five feet I 3. Black Eyed Marrowfat. An old favorite ; large podded ; prolific ; capital for market. Three to four feet 2 • Royal Dwarf Marrowfat. Not so tall as Large White Marrowfat ; earlier than Champion of England 3. Large White Marrowfat. A standard late sort PEPPER. Peppers should he started in a cold frame or hot-bed. Transplant the young plants into the open ground towards the close °t May in a very warm location, bavins the rows eighteen inches apart; thin plants a foot apart in the rows. The ground should be made very nch, either by high manurhig before plants are transplanted, or by liberal application of guano, liquid manures afterward. . Spanish Monstrous. On good soil will grow six inches long and two inches in diameter. See page 13 Chili. Sharply conical, about two inches in length and one-half inch in diameter. Of a brilliant scarlet color when ripe. Long Yellow ;. . Large Bell. A standard sort ...[.]'.['.. :[.][[.[ ...[[..'. .......[.[.........[...[...[.......[[ ... Cayenne. Small, long and tapering ; very hot ; best for seasoning pickles Large Sweet Mountain. Very large and excellent for mangoes Cherry. Small, smooth and round ; a great bearer ' Squash, or Flat. The variety generally planted for family use ; large and thick fleshed ; the best for pickling Long Red, or Sante Fe PUMPKIN. Cultivate as Squash, which see for general directions. Negro. (New) (For description see page 17) Tree. (New) (For description see page 17. ) Large Field. Good for stock : per quart, 50 cents. sugar Pumpkin. Smaller than Large Field, but fine grained, sweeter and very prolific; first rate either for the table or stock Cheese. A variety popular in the Middle States. Cheese-shaped, resembling in character the Crookneck Squash. . . . : .Michigan Mammoth. A soft shelled variety, excellent for stock It grows verv large and is a heavy cropper RADISH. ' " " H -n' lr'ViU ° s"w ■" sprn1-' iis soon as the ground can be worked, in drills six to ten inches apart, covering seed half incli deep. linn plants an ineli apart in the row- As the roots are more succulent and tender when grown quickly, a rich, light sou should bo preferred and frequent watering in dry weather will be found beneficial. For a succession sow every two weeks. J-ho Uhve shaped varieties are more tender, sweeter and earlier than the long kinds, and not so apt to be worm eaten. White Russian Winter. qt. qt. exp.lmail — New. See engraving on page 11 barter's Selected Long Scarlet. Sent out by Messrs. Carter & Co. as the test variety of Long Scarlet. Has proved p. , _ a favorite among market gardeners around Boston t rench lSreakjast. A beautiful variety of the Olive radish, scarlet in the body and white at the extremity wood s t ine Frame. Excellent for cultivation under glass ; very early. A favorite with English market gardeners. ~ In shape between Olive and Long i-ovent Garden. A fine selection of Long Scarlet. This new sort is considered the best of all the Long Scarlet varieties. i.ondon I articular Long Scarlet. Held in high esteem in London market ; fine, long scarlet triA ''c.r,"'let Olive Shaped. Very early and handsome ; quick growth, tender, excellent. A favorite bolder i Yellow Summer Turnip. New. See page 16. Color very rich; very early iiaj t> Olive. Differs from Early Scarlet Olive in color only «Pk- ™nip Roo,ei1- A standard early, very popular in markets of New York White 1 in nip Rooted. For summer and winter use ... . . . Black Spanish. Round variety So 80 75 25 1.00 30 1.00| 30 l.lflll.25 35 85 1.00 30 85 1.001 30 60 75! 30 60) 751 25 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 2'} 'Pounds, Bushels, &c, are priced on these pages instead of separate ones as formerly. „ Pkices of Seeds. RADISH. Yellow Summer Turnip. An early and excellent summer variety Chinese Rose Winter. The best for winter use. Grows large and tender Raphanus Caudatus, or Rat-tailed Radish. Pods grow to a foot or more in length, and are edible, package only California Mammoth White. (New.) A new winter sort, eight to twelve inches long, and two inches in diameter in the largest part. From the Chinese in California. An acquisition RHUBARB. Sow the seed in drills eighteen inches apart and cover one inch deep. Thin the plants to a foot apart. When the plants are one year old prepare the ground for the final bed by trenching two feet deep, mixing a liberal quantity of manure with the soil. Set plants five feet apart each way. Do not cut until the second year; and give a dressing of manure every fall. If it is desired at any time to increase the bed, the roots may be taken up in the spring and divided. The seed will not always give plants like the parent. I.i nnseus. Large, tender, and of excellent flavor. A well-known market variety Mammoth. The largest of all .- SALSIFY, or VEGETABLE OYSTER Sow in early spring on light, rich soil, in drills fourteen inches apart and thin the plants to three inches in the row. The roots will be rea'dy for use in October and will sustain no injury by being left in the ground during the winter. When cooked the flavor somewhat resembles the oyster. SORREL. Large Leaved French Sow in hot-bed early in the spring, and transplant to the open ground, on warm, mellow soil, when the ground ha As the seed is [rather slow to n, setting the plants in rows two teet apart and about sixteen inches apart in the ro rainate, it should be watered liberally in the hot-bed. SPINACH. For summer use sow early in spring, in drills eight inches to one foot apart, covering the seed one inch deep. Select rich soil, and manure liberally. A succession may be obtained by sowing at intervals of two weeks through the season. For very- early spring use sow in August. The plants are sometimes protected through the winter by a thick covering of straw or some similar, light covering. Spinach is used principally as greens for boiling, and is very highly esteemed for this purpose. New Zealand. Makes a very large plant and will endure drought ; best quality. By some this is thought to promise well as a forage plant ... Prickly Seeded. The hardiest variety ; thick leaved — for fall sowing Round Leaved. The popular summer variety Extra Large Round Leaved. (New. 1 SQUASH. All vines delight in warm and rich soil. Prepare the ground by thoroughly pulverizing. Manure at rate of six or eight cords to the acre, working it just under the surface with the cultivator or gang plough. Plant in hills nine to ten feet apart for running varieties, and five or six feet apart for bush sorts ; work some rich, fine manure into each hill. Leave two plants to the hill. Keep well covered with plaster or air-slaked lime in early stages of growth. Cultivate frequently until runnel's are well started. For full particulars in every department, see my work "Squashes and How to grow them." Essex Hybrid. New. " See page 14 '. White Early Bush. The earliest sort Summer Crookneck. Early, fine for summer use Golden Bush. A fine early summer sort Vegetable Marrow. The standard English squash ; a fair summer variety with us ; a heavy cropper ; good for stock. Cambridge Marrow. (New. See page 17.) Boston Marrow. A standard fall squash ; of a rich orange color, and very productive 'X American Turban. Decidedly the best or all fall squashes. (See page 12.) .' "The Butmau." (New. For description see page 6.) Marblehead (New. For full description see page 7.)...... y( Hubbard. A standard winter squash. (See page 12.) Cocoanut. ( See page 7. ) A half -bush variety of small size, but remarkably heavy and very prolific ; fine grained and of a very rich, chestnut-like flavor This squash is worth raising as an ornament for the parlor Yokohama. This squash has the flavor of the crookneck class, but is finer grained and much superior in quality Mammoth Yellow. Has been grown to weigh from 100 to 300 pounds Canada Crookneck. The small, well-known, excellent kind Large Winter Crookneck. The old standard sort, the best of keepers ; cross grained SUNFLOWER. i the row. Mammoth Russian. A fine variety. Valuable for poultry or vegetable oil. Flowers and seed very large SWISS CHARD. Plant and cultivate as Beets. The tops while young are boiled as greens and the center|leaf cooked and served like asparagu: Ornamental Varieties. The leaf veins are white or brilliant scarlet and yellow, and are planted in England scattered through flower plots with fine effect package only Common Chard TOMATO. §3F°°All of the varieties of Tomato seeds are of my own growing from carefully selected stock. Sow the seeds in March or April inthe hot-bed or in pots in a sunny exposure in the house. If it is desired to make very heathy, stocky plants, they may be transplanted or repotted when about two or three inches high,. When five or six inches high, if the ground has become warm, transplant to the open ground, on a rainy or cloudy day if possible, if not, the young plants should be liberally watered and shaded from the hot sun. If it is desirable to have the fruit ripen as early as possible, in preference to a heavy crop, select rather light, poor soil and a sunny location. Trimming off the laterals, training to a stake and propagating by slips, are believed by many to promote earhness. Set the plants four feet apart each way, upon mounds of earth, to allow the foliage to open and let the sun in amongst the fruit. A cheap trellis made by driving three stakes around the plants and encircling them with three or four barrel hoops makes a very nice support for training them on. Alpha. New. See engraving elsewhere. Every gardener should have it Alpha. Extra selected seed from very earliest fruit Red Chief. New. See page 15 package only Triumph. New. See page 15. Of large size, productive and solid package only New Japanese. New. See page 15. I find nothing specially desirable in this; perhaps others may have sharper eyes. Criterion. New. Closelv allied to the peach variety Yellow Victor. New. (See page 17.) Little Gem. (New.) A small variety, claimed to be extra early . - Powells. New. (See page 17.) Foote's Hundred Days. (New. ) Fruit small and irregular : remarkable for its earliness.'. .......... ..\ ...V... '. '. '. '. Conqueror. New. (See page 17.) oz. 12 2.85 Livingston's Acme. (New ) (See page 17.) ........[.[.][ ...[...][[.[[.[[ .[....[ '. .' ." .' '. . ,' .' .' ,..,.' '..'..'.[ '."..'. '. '. * "| 3?85 30 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. Seeds per Express or Freight at purchaser's expense. Prices op' Seeds. TOMATO. Paragon. (New. For description see page 7-) Canada Victor. (New. ) For full description of this fine, new tomato see page 12.) Canada Victor. Extra sclcrtal mrd. (See page 12.) per lb. by express, §11.85 Hathaway's Excelsior. One of the spherical, round tomatoes, being quite early, uniformly round, very solid, of excellent quality and very productive. Skin rather thirj Arlington. (New. ) Of large size, quite smooth and solid ; late Essex Early Round. Very early, round and solid. A capital sort for early market; very popular in eastern Massachusetts Hubbard's Curled Leaf. This tomato so closely resembles Early York that I consider it but a strain of that variety. Trophy. This magnificent variety is particularly valuable in the home garden Gen. Grant. Smooth, symmetrical and solid. A popular market sort around Boston , Orangefield. A new English variety of a rich fruity flavor Early York. Very early, dwarf and productive : somewhat irregular in shape Keyes' Early Prolific. One of the earliest ; bears its fruit in large clusters of medium sized tomatoes Yellow Fig. Pear shaped, and used to preserve as figs package only Cherry. Flavor unsurpassed. Fruit small, but a wonderful cropper package only Mammoth Chihuahua. Grows to weigh as high as two pounds each. More curious than useful package ouly Cook's Favorite. Roundish in shape and quite solid when fully ripe Boston Market. I now have a first rate strain of this variety ; early, large, smooth and solid JVew White Apple. Sweet, with a rich, fruit-like flavor. Highly ornamental for the table package only Large Yellow. Large and of a sweetish and peculiar flavor '. Large Smooth Red. The standard kind ; good for market purposes Tilden. First class on low, rich soil ; of large size, thick meated, smooth and of a high flavor New Mexican. Large, round ; a good variety for the South as the fruit is protected by the leaves Strawberry, or Ground Cherry. (Alkekengi.) Grows enclosed in a husk; excellent for preserves; will keep within husks all winter package only Yellow Plum. Small , elegant. Nice for preserve package only Currant. Very elegant ; resembles long bunches of currants ; for ornament only package only TURNIP. For early use sow the small sorts as soon as the ground can be worked in the spring, in drills fourteen inches apart— the Rutabagas iliirty inches. As the seed is very line it should he covered but slightly, excepting in verv drv weather. Select light, if possible, new soil, and manure with plaster and ashes, or phosphates. Should" the voting plants' be troubled with insects, a sprinkling of the same will be found beneficial. Of the early varieties thin the plants to six inches apart and the Rutabagas to one foot. For fall and winter use the early kinds should be sown from the middle of July to the middle of August, and the Rutabagas from the middle of June to the first of July, using from one to one and a half pounds of seed to the acre. Turnips are very extensively used as winter feed for cattle and sheep. "Swede" and "' Rutabaga " being synonymous terms, the names below, given as they are generally used, will be readily understood. The English varieties are almost exclusively used for early planting for market. English Varieties. White Egg. (New. ) (See page 5.) Large, handsome, early ; keeps first-rate per half pound, GO cents- Carter's Stone or Stubble. Almost as early as White Top or White Dutch, but much thicker; handsome Golden Stone. A fine, oblong, yellow- fleshed variety; very handsome ; an acquisition Pomeranian White Globe. A very fine white globe variety ; round and thick Early White Dutch, or Early Flat Dutch. Allied to the White Top ; of medium size and quick growth 2.85 3.00 3.854.00 Early Red Top. Fine, sweet, mild, rapid grower ; very early and popular Early White Top. Differs from Red Top only in color Improved Yellow Globe. Fine for family use or for field culture. An excellent American variety Orange Jelly. Around, yellow English turnip of finer quality than Golden Ball Yellow Finland. Very elegant ; less eaten by worms than most sorts Long White Cowhorn. Matures quickly, carrot shaped, fine grained and sweet White Tankard. One of the English varieties— in shape resembling a tankard. White-fleshed ; a very heavy cropper. Jersey Navet. A new English variety of white turnip ; an underground turnip ; early, very sweet Green Top Aberdeen. Round, yellow-fleshed and firm ; a good keeper. This variety in earliness and for stock pur- poses is half way between the early varieties and the Rutabaga. It does not succeed in all localities. Swedes, or Rutabagas. Hartley's Swede. One of the largest of Swedes : short-necked : round in shape : very fine : an acquisition Golden Swede. Has a small top, fine root and thin rind and ranks high in England American Rutabaga. Popular among our market gardeners both for table and for feeding stock. Flesh very solid A first-rate keeper Laing's Improved Swede. One of the earliest swedes ; a handsome variety of excellent quality. Yellow fleshed. For the table Large White French or White Swede. A white market rutabaga ......'.'........'...'.'.'.'.....'.'. Sweet German or Russian. White, sweet, excellent— a first rate keeper Skirving's Purple Top Rutabaga. A standard field variety for stock and fine for family use. Yellow fleshed. Shamrock Swede. A popular English sort. Short neck and oblong in shape. Yellow fleshed .' London Purple Top Swede. Short neck and round in shape ; grows to a larger size than Skirving's and has a shorter neck. Yellow fleshed : . . .- Carter's Imperial Swede. Messrs. Carter & Co. rank this as the best of their swede turnips VEGETABLE SNAILS AND CATERPILLARS .package only! "WATER CHESTNUT. (Trapa Natans.) New. To be grown in the mud of a brook; edible. See page 15. package only . WHITLOOF. New. (See page 17. ) : .package only;. SWEET OR POT AND MEDICINAL HERBS. Sage — American seed Thyme, broad leaved English Summer Savory Sweet Marjoram Caraway Hoarhound Saffron White or Opium Poppy ...... lb. mail 2.50 4.00 2.00 3.00 1.00 1.00 £lb. 1.30 Coriander . . . Sweet Basil. Dill Hyssop.. . Rue Lavender Rosemary. . . . Sweet Fennel oz. pk'g 10 fi 15 fi 10 THEE SEEDS. Keep seed of Evergreen in dry sand until time of sowing. Sow these early in spring in well-prepared beds of sandy loam covering to the depth of about the thickness of the seed, pressing the earth firmly over taein. Water frequently but not much at a tune. Keep ; down all grass ana wet. ... an i the first season protect with brush or lathe sereons from the sun's rays. Transplant, into nursery rows when two years old. Ilant seed., d.oidu. c net. ■ drills about, two feet apart. The young plants will'not require shading. Acorns, Chestnuts an.l Walnuts should be plain. •. I mauUuiin cu- be kept from "shrivelling up over winter in sand or moss'. Seeds of Locust, if not planted in autumn, require the action of frost American Elm may he planted as soon as they fall from the tree. The Berberry vegetates best when planted in autumn. them. Seed of the 1 lb. exp. lb- mail Jib. oz. pk'g oz. pk'g oz. pk'g "IF 6 Apple 1 .3.5 2.85 1.10 85 85 60 1.10 00 15 1.50 3.00 1.2,5 1.00 1.00 1.25 75 30 50 1.00 40 30 30 20 35 25 15 30 15 10 10 10 10 10 ti 10 6 6 6 6 6 6 50 20 10 40 50 10 6 6 10 10 10 6 10 6 15 Berberry. See page 20 15 00 10 10 1" It1 riobulus 30 50 30 K 25 40 10 Tulip Tree ....: 25 10 ASPARAGUS AND HORSE-RADISH ROOTS. Defiance two years old. See page 14. Price per 100 $5.00. Conover's one year old. Price per 100, $1.25; per 1,000, $10.00; small roots, per 100 per mail, ©1.60. Conover's two years old. Price per 100, SI. 50; per 1,000, $12.00; the two years roots are too bulky to send by mail. Horse-radish. Per 100, $1.00; per 1,000, $7.00 ; per 100, per mail, $1.50. STRAWBERRY VITVES. Select rather moist soil, dig deep, make fine, manure well with rotted manure, bone or wood ashes. For hill culture plant 15 by lo inches, and pinch off the runners as fast as thev appear; for mat ted growth, plant rows three feet apart, and plains one, toot apart ut tne row, and let runners grow. The hill makes the' largest berries, the matted system gives the greatest crop, and is best for light sou. CRESCENT SEEDLING. New. "Wonderfully productive, equaling or surpassing Wilson. Size above medium SHARPLESS SEEDLING. New. Highly praised; a very vigorous, healthy grower; berries large and of good quality GREAT AMERICAN. (New ) The berries of this variety probably excel in size any of late introduction BELLE. Fruit large ; smooth and handsome ; a good bearer ; ; CAROLINE. Medium early; fruit large, smooth and sweet; handles well; Very prolific; compact habit of vine WILSON'S ALBANY. The great market berry; does well every-where CHARLES DOWNING. Vigorous, hardy and' productive ; fruit uniformly large, juicy and of excellent flavor.... JUCUNDA. Fruit very large and heavy; often commands highest price in the market. Requires rich soil and high cultivation. BLACK DEFIANCE. Very early; large, deep searlet fruit f ■;-'■ GREEN PROLIFIC. A good variety for light soils ; very hardy ; fruit very sweet. K> !Wil 100 mail 2.40 2.40 1.90 1.40 1.40 1.40 1.40 1.40 1:40 1.40 liPRICE LIST OP POTATOES. See Description Elsewhere. Clark's No. 1. New Late Ohio. New Moore's Seedling. New. Clark's No. 2. New.... Mammoth Pearl. New. White Rose. New Bliss' Triumph. New. • bbl. b'sh peck 25 eyes lib. exp. exp. exp. mail mail ,5.01) 2.50 1 00 50 .50 4. .50 2.25 80 50 50 5.00 2.50 1.00 50 50 4.50 2.2,5 75 50 50 4..50 2.2.5 75 50 50 4.00 2.00 75 50 50 .5.00 2.50 1.01 ■50 50 New. 3 lbs mail 1.00 Beauty of Hebron. 1.00 Early Ohio 1.00 Burbank's Seedling. l.OOlDunmore Seedling. 1.00 Extra Early Vermont l.OOBresee's No. 6, or Peerless. 1,00 Early Rose bbl b'sh peck 25 eyes ev>. exp. exp. mail 4WT 42.00 q.88 75 50 3.75 75 50 3.75 1.88 75 50 3 7.5 1 .88 75 50 3.25 1.75 75 50 3.25 1 .75 75 50 3.00 1.50 75 50 albs mail 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 32 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. SUPERIOR ONION SEED. . The stock of Onion Seed is quite short this season, and this Sow in early Spring in drills 14 inches apart, using \ lbs. of seed Is esPecia% true of the Early Bound Yellow Danvers. My to the acre. crop is smaller than usual, and I would therefore advise my fr^g=" My stock of Ouion Seed is raised with pecul- customers t0 orderjhek supply at an early day. iar care, none but the very best and earliest onions being selected for seed stock, and from these I select carefully, by hand, my seed onions. I have the best grounds for believing that not an ounce of seed is sent out from my establishment that is not per- fectly reliable ; and second, exercising such care, I claim for it a quality superior to most of that in the market, which is raised either from very small, refuse onions, from large and coarse onions, or, again, from such onions as the seed grower chances to have on hand — either of which qualities tends to produce poor onions. All the onion seed of my own growing is raised in locations perfectly isolated, and the yellow sorts will be found to be almost entirely free of any mixture with red. There is a good deal of cheap seed in the country again this season, there having been a great quantity of old seed carried over from last sea- son. Such seed experienced gardeners will not purchase at any price. Below I add a few extracts from the many letters received from my customers. Early Round Danvers Yellow Onion. The Danvers Onion excels in earliness, and yields more than the Flat Red or Yellow sorts. Over 1000 bushels have been raised on an acre. It commands in Boston market a readier sale than the Bed sorts, and brings a higher price in the market. Early Flat Red. One of the very earliest, hardy and reliable. A capital sort for the extreme north where other sorts are too late to bottom and ripen well. Early Red Globe, or Danvers Red. This ripens two or three weeks earlier than Bed Wethersfield. Scullions are almost unknown with this onion when grown from most carefully selected seed stock, it being as reliable for bot- toming well as Winnigstadt Cabbage is to make a head. South/port Late Red Globe. This variety of Late Bed is very popular in the markets of New York, where it sells at a higher price per barrel than the common Bed Wethersfield. Being much rounder it measures better, and for this reason also is more profitable for market gardeners to grow. It is quite late, and I therefore do not recommend it for farmers who live north of southern Connecticut. lAThite Globe. As white and handsome as a newly made snow-ball , sells half as high again as other sorts. Too late to grow north of southern Connecticut Should be dried in an airy and shady place. The Early Cracker Onion is the earliest of all my Yellow sorts and an excellent kind to raise where the seasons are short. ONION SEED BY THE POUND. Mail. Exp. White Globe $1 30 $4 00 S3 85 New Queen 130 White Portugal i go Large lied Wethersfield (own growing) 75 Southport Late Red Globe l 30 Early Round Yellow Danvers, my own growing, from hand picked onions.... 150 Extra Early Yellow Cracker, my own growing. . 1 30 Early Red Giobe, (own growing) 1 30 Early Flat Red, my own growing 1 30 4 00 3 85 4 00 3 85 2 25 2 10 4 00 3 85 && PEDIGREE ONION SEED. «^P|g g|*»Sr An observing intelligent farmer claimed that earliness, • reliability for bottoming, smallness of neck can be as thoroughly inbred in an onion, as ca- pacity to transmit her good qualities can be inbred in a cow or in any class of animals. What is possible to attain to in this matter my customers find in my onion seed, as shown in the extracts from letters given below. Those who have never raised onions from seed raised from stock so carefully selected will be equally surprised and pleased at the result. 5X3?* An axiom that every onion grower soon learns, " cheap onion seed is always dear." 5 00 4 85 4 00 3 85 4 00 3 85 4 00 3 85 2®°°* For 5 lb. lots of the above except Early Round Yellow Danvers, my price will be 25 cts. less per lb. SI^The South Can Raise Onions the same year of plant- ing from the black seed. Please observe that several of the recommendations given below are from Southern States; and the onions were matured full sized the first year from my black seed. My customers in Texas have written me that they have grown onions the first year from black seed of my raising, in one instance, three inches in diameter, and in another weighing a pound each. "I Raised Yellow Cracker Onions, 4J inches in diameter, from seed bought of you." Henry R. Dexter. Palestine, Anderson Co., Texas. " I raised Onions, from seed bought of you last year, measuring 41 inches in diameter, from black seed of the Earlv Red Globe Varietv." East Liberty, Pa. ' H. B. Snyder. " The seeds I had of you last year gave good satisfaction. From one ounce of Early Flat Red Onion seed I raised eleven bushels." Pretty Marsh, Hancock Co., Maine. D. G. Bartlett. "The seeds I have purchased of you for three years have given satis- faction in every respect. I gathered over four hundred bushels per acre of Danvers Yellow Onions and of Early Flat Ked. A. Bradley. Texas. " The Onion seed were superior to any I ever had. Where in the gar- den is economy so misdirected as in buying cheap onion seed ?" Mott's Corners, N. Y. S. W. Seaman. "Please send me two pounds of Early Round Yellow Danvers Onion seed. I can get seed in my own neighborhood for two dollars per pound, but prefer yours at four dollars. The seed I got of you last year did well. From three pounds of seed I grew 430 bushels.'' Perry, Ohio. N, P. Watts. " Your Onion seed I think is superior to any in the market. My Yel- low Danvers and Round Red which I raised last year from seed purchas- ed of you, was awarded the first premium at the County Fair, last fall." Hawley, Minn. J. B. Stetson. " The Early Cracker Onion seed I had of you last year did nicely for this part of the State. I raised some that were six inches in diameter, and I think they are just "the sort to raise where the season is as short as it is here." James A. Dodge. Sedgwick, Me, " The seed 1 purchased from you last spring gave entire satisfaction, although the season was a very bad one. I think 1 will make 200 bush- els of nice full grown onions from the four pounds of Early Cracker seed you sent me." John- F. Williams. Bonsacks, Va. I have had extra good luck with all the seeds I have received from you. Onions do remarkably well, your seed being the only seed from which we can raise good onions the 'first year." Ahnepee, Wis. J. M. L. Parker. •' I have raised here from your Danvers Onion seed bulbs averaging three inches in diameter, the first year from seed. Had as good success as I ever had in the best onion growing section of Vermont." Rural Bower, Greensville Co. , Va. Frank M. Gage. " I have bought Danvers Yellow Onion seed from you the last three years, and it has proved true to name every time. I could have bought onion seed last year for from one to two dollars per pound, but I Was afraid of it. My experience is, good seed true to name is cheap at almost any price. Henry Sivers. Oswego, N. T. " I must say that all the seeds purchased of you did extra well, especially the Danvers Onion, -which grew larger from the seed than any onion around here grew from the set6." James McGowan-. Phillipsburg, Warren Co., N. J. " From your Danvers Onion seed planted in February of last year, I grew specimens weighing over one pound each." J. W. Fleming. San Saba, Texas. "Your Danvers Onions grew better than those from the seed I raised on my own farm. It was the largest crop of onions I ever saw grow. I measured off three square rods ot them in which there was not much difference ; one of the pieces had eight bushels, wanting ten pounds, which is ahead of anything I ever saw in line of onions." L, F. Joslin, Frankfort, New Yark. JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 33 Implements for Cultivation of Onions and other Vege- tables. Matthews' Seed Drill, No. 1 $18 00 Euhlman's Improved "Wheel Hoe 5 50 Scuffle Hoe 1 00 Double Wheel Hoe 1 ."0 Tlie prices of these implements are those at which they are retailed at the seed stores in the large cities, at which rates I will superintend with- out charge the purchasing and forwarding of any of these machines to the address of any person ordering them. Matthews' Garden Seed Drill. The new drill was invented by Mr. E. G. Matthews, the inventor and manufacturer of theHoLBRooK " Regulator" Seed Drill, and has beeu remodelled and improved for 1877. Time and experience have en- abled him to improve upon that and produce in this new machine one, which though closely resembling that, is greatly superior to it, or any other drill I am acquainted with. It is tasty in appearance ; simple in principle; may be operated with ease and rapidity ; is thoroughly constructed throughout, and there are no parts subject to unusu- al wear. The Agitator is an ingen- ious and effective device, without springs, cams, gears or belts to get out of order, wherein it surpasses the Holbrook machine. Asimple contrivance gauges the deposit of the seed with mechanical accuracy to the depth required. Its Adjustable Markers answer the double purpose of markers and legs. Full directions for use on the cover of each machine. Price, boxed and delivered at cars or boat, $13 00. Ruhlman's Improved Wheel Hoe. This superior implement embraces the four essential points requisite for a successful Hand Cultivator, viz. : Durability, Simplicity of Con- struction, Thoroughness in work, and Perfection as a plant protector. It is especially adapted to the culture of all garden crops ^par- ticularly onions) and nursery stock that require careful hand cultivation in theearly stagesof their growth. 1 have placed the hoe in the hands of two of my foremen the pastseason, to give it a fair trial. Their repoi t is so favorable that I think it will be decidedly for the interest of my customers to put it in my catalogue. They lay especial stress on hard ground, when it takes hold of the weeds far better than the common wheel hoe, which is too apt to slide over them . I shall order three for my own use, and I notice that several seedsmen and nurserymen have ordered from one to three for. use on their own grounds after a trial of its merits. The Frame and Wheel are made of the best cast iron. The Knives are the best cast,steel. They cut the weeds only on the inside of the Ek-nife, so that any person can run it within one-half inch of the rows without injuring the smallest or tenderest plant. It will do the work of six men with the hand hoe. Boxed and sent to any address, $5 50. Note. — A, The Cast Steel Knife, corrugated and capable of beingset [at any angle desired. B, The grooves in the casting, to adjust the Kuife, .from 7 to 16 inches. C, grooved casting, to raise or lower the handles, to suit the operator. Excelsior Weeder. A handy and efficient tool in the flower and vegetable garden to be used when weeds are small. By express, 30 ets.; mail, 40 cts. Noyes' Hand Weeder. This is an excellent little implement for hand weeding in bed sauce, such as onions, carrots and the like ; it is especially valuable when the ground is hard or baked. It is much preferable to the bent hoop or knives, which are often used. To test its value on my own grounds I sent for a couple and put them in the hands of two of my boys to try ; they liked thein so well I sent for a dozen, and we have had them in use for several years, to our great satisfaction . '1 he price of them sent by express is 40 cents each ; per mail, 50 cents. Gray's Garden Sprinkler. Gray's Sprinkler is an excellent apparatus for distributing Paris Green. It holds over two buckets of water, has metal shelves within, so arranged as to prevent the Paris Green from settling at the bottom, while the motion given when walking will keep it well mixed with the water. Five acres can be gone over in one day with a saving of a pound of Pans Green to the acre. The Sprinkler can be used for common gar- den purposes. Full printed directions sent with each. I use Gray's Sprinkler on my farms and have found it an economical investment. Price cf th tatiou ■Sprinkler boxed ready for transpor- ftO 00 Peerless Corn Sheller. I first saw this neat, little implement at the New England Fair and was struck with its in- genuity, simplicity and cheap- ness. By means of a peculiar mechanical movement it is adapt- ed to the shelling of all kinds of corn without scattering a single kernel ; it cleans every kernel from the cob without injuring the chit, which cannot be said of any other sheller in the market. It is made wholly of iron and will not clog; will shell from 8 to 10 bush- els per hour, and can be operated by a boy twelve years of age. It weighs but thirteen pounds. Price, &5.00. parts This is a valuable article for showering a fine spray of carbolic acid or solution of tobacco on the leaves of plants to destroy injurious insects. It is also used to diffuse perfumes and disinfectants in the sick room, and for inhaling various medicinal preparations. The metal are nickel plated. Price, by mail, postpaid, 90 cts. Glass Cutting and Glazing Tool. Some of my workmen who use this implement find it cuts glass as readily as a glazier's diamond, and for all the purposes of cutting and setting glass is just about equal- ly valuable, though it costs not one-twentieth as much. One I have had in use four years is now as good as ever. Sent postpaid for 40 cents. * < ' / rjf'^^ Laing's Swede Turnip. Brussels Sprouts. TV Turnip Rooted Celery. Beginning at the left band, the smallest carrot is the Scarlet Horn, then follow Short Horn, Long Orange, White Belgian, Altringham, and Improved Long Orange, in their order. The above Tomatoes I have had engraved from photographs taken from speci- mens grown on my own grounds. No. 1 is the Mammoth Chihuahua ; No. 2, Trophy ; No. 3, Essex Early ; No. i, Tilden ; No. 5, Canada Victor ; No. 8, Boston Market ; No. 9, General Grant ; No. 12. Orangefield. Dwarf Curled Green Kale. Maurandia. Ics Plant. Nolana. Nemophila. Delphinium Formosum, Delphinium Candelabrum (Larkspur.) Calceolaria. Convolvulus Minor, Pompon Bouquet Aster. Lantana. Gloxinia. Coleus. BULBOUS PLANTS. Narcissus. Single Tulip. Crocus. Hyacinth. Double Buttercup. Gladiolus. Double Tulip. Japan Lily. JAMES J. II. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 41 SV >[oveltie£ ir\ Siiowefg £ee f^e^ 49 ar( ,en very ■alers on 'ctable seed, s soil, depth .me settled ; sweet peas g tine earth fetation if a small with i its habit of application. AiVNUALS, OR PLANTS THAT BLOOM THE FIRST YEAR AND THEN PERISH. ANNUALS. Abronia Umbellata (See Plate.) Handsome, trailing plants, with clusters of sweet- scented flowers resembling the Verbena. Fine for baskets or for the garden. Sow seed under glass and set the plants eighteen inches apart. Bloom from August until October. Acroclinium. The most beautiful of the everlasting flowers.. For Winter bouquets,cut as soon as they begin to expand. In a garden of more than two hundred varieties of flowers planted at the same time, this was the first to bloom. Half-hardy. Acrolinium Roseum. Bright Bose , Alba. Pure White '■ Adonis Flower , . A haidy plant with very pretty foliage, producing bright red flowers. Set plants one foot apart. Grows about one foot high and blooms for a long time. Agrostemrna, Mixed Very pretty, free-blooming, hardy annuals, growing about one foot high, making a showy bed and fine for cutting. Can be easily transplanted, and should be set five or six inches apart. Ageratum, Mixed Suitable for beds and especially nice for cutting. Grows about one foot high, and continues in bloom all summer. Set six inches apart. Alyssum. Very fragrant, free-flowering, pretty plants for beds, edging or rock-work. Much used for bouquets on account of their delicate, honey-like fragrance. Alyssum, Sweet. While, very sweet, and blooms freely all summer. Hardy. Amaranthus. Ornamental foliaged plants producing a striking effect as centres of flower beds or mixed in with flowers. They are most brilliant on poor soil. Half-hardy. Amaranthus liicolo* Ruber. (New. ) Vera fine ■ the lower half of a leaf a fieri/ red scarlet, the. upper half maroon. It is sometimes tipped with yellow ; said to be unsurpassed by any ornamental leaved plant. ..... , Tricolor, (Joseph's Coat.) Leaves scarlet, yellow and green; beautiful ; two feet , Melancholicu (See Plate.) Blon l-rerl foliage of brilliant beauty when lighted by the ,-un. Fine for rib- boning or grouping. Fjom Japan, one aud a half feet. Amaranthus, Salicifolins. This comparatively new annual is exceedingly beautiful, both in form and col- or. As a foliage plant it is one of the., finest in culti- vation. Plant of a pyramidal form', two or more feet in height. Leaves long, narrow and wavy, changing in color from a bronzy green to a brilliant scarlet, as the plant attains age. . 'From its graceful appearance, this js sometimes called "Fountain Plant." ....,,... ANNUALS. Ammobium Alatum A very desirable wltite Everlasting Flower. Showy for the border and makes very pretty dried flowers. Hardy; two feet. Anagallis, Mixed Beautiful trailing hardy annuals about six inches high, and very desirable for small beds, edging, baskets, &c. Asperula Azurea This is a new flower, of recent introduction. A pro- fuse-flowering, hardy annual of Dwarf habit, with fine foliage and deliciovsly fragrant, bright ska-bine flowers ; continues in bloom till" frost. Well adapted for shady places. ...... Aster. Very beautiful and popular hardy annuals, crowing from ten to eighteen inches high. I'm- profusion of rl own- ers, and richness of display, the A -Vis are. unrivalled. Sow the seed early in the spring under glass or in pots in the house, and transplant into rich soil, about one foot apart. Aster, Coppery Scarlet, Dwarf Chrysantha-flow- ered. JSfevj. (For description see novelties.) , Dwarf Turban. Xew. Very dark nearly black foliage. Flowers very handsome carmine mixed with" white .' — , Trophy. Mixed Varieties. As hardy as the old Globe Asters; profusely branched, t'orminy line self- supporting globular bushes, studded with beautiful symmetrically formed flowers. The bal.it of the plant is extremely handsome, its height about twen- - ty inches and perfectly constant. All the varieties are double, brilliant and true in color , Dwarf Fiery Scarlet. New. A new variety! . .highly recommended for the brilliancy of its color, not before known among Asters — , "Prince of Novelties.1' Nelb; This splendid . novelty is strikingly distiller, and must prove a great acquisition. The miter ring of the n.owm;s is of a bright crimson lake, the inrire rim, splosh, d irremdnr- ly with rose; center,:pure while.. \ '. , Dark Purple-red, Peony Flowered.; magnificent. , Black-Brown, Peony Flowered; very beautiful color :...... -, "Goliath." j ons growth, form and a half feet which -I offer is an blue, ash gr, yonder -, Washington, in . extremely, piu-e iu col -, Washington. Pp. lar and extremely de of extremely is from two t iih e of white, rose, -dork, ers very globular and Flowers very globu- 4. Seed scarce....... 42 FOR NOVELTIES IX FLOWERS SEE PAGES 49 AND 50. ANNUALS. Price per P'k'ge Aster, "The Queen's Cockade." This gem differs in habit from any other kind of Aster. The plant is of robust growth with self-supporting habit, profusely branched, representing a perfect globe of great regu- larity, about one foot high, densely studded with ex- tremely double flowers of a bright deep satiny rose, having a well defined, pure white aenter ^ " The Meteor." A beautiful novelty. The plant is completely studded with small, globular, extremely double flowers, brightcrimson in color. Extreme- ly showy and brilliant. Fine German, Double Quilled and Striped. (See Plate.) Twenty splendid varieties mixed ■: i Globe Flowered, Double German. Twelve splendid varieties mixed. .'. ; Boltze's New Dwarf Bouquet, about eight inch- es high, are very double., rich and free-flowering ; very fine for pots or beds. Six splendid varieties mixed. . . ) Truffaut's French Peony-Flowered Perfection. Very large and splendid. Perfect in form, size and fulness of flower. One of the very best of the Asters. Eighteen splendid varieties mixed | Pyramidal, Large and Double. These are sim- ilar in style to the Peony variety, but more branching, with splendid, large, extra, double flowers. Very showy- Sixteen varieties mixed. . . t Hedgehog, (or Needle), with white centre. Six splendid varieties mixed -, Giant Emperor. A tall, strong grow ing variety, with immense flowers. Flowers few, but very double and often four inches in diameter. Twelve fine va- rieties mixed • -, Dwarf Double. A very desirable variety, of a handsome, compactly branching, bouquet-like form ; the best for dwarf groups. Several varieties mixed. . -, Dwarf Pompon Bouquet. (See Plate.) A beautiful Aster with neat, pompon flowers. Many very flue varieties mixed -, Above varieties mixed Azalea. (Finest varieties mixed. ) One of the most ornamental of greenhouse shrubs and admirably adapted for a window plant. It flowers with great profusion. The roots being very fine, it requires a light soil. The seed, which I send out, I have imported from Germany, from one of the most celebrated of growers. Balloon Vine Ornamental climbing plant, remarkable for an inflated membranous capsule, (lehite in color) from which it de- rives the name of Balloon Vine. Suitable for the green- house or out-door decoration. Half-hardy. Balsams. Most magnificent, and popular half-hardy annuals, from one and one-half to two feet in height. Sow the seed early in frames, and transplant to a well enriched border, one foot apart. Balsams, Double Yellow. (New. ) , Camelia-flowered, Carmine. (Xew.) Splendid new luminous color - , Double Mixed Camelia Flowered , Spotted, Rose-Flowered, Mixed. (See Plate.) Very large flowered, double and with perfectly formed flowers ; from six to eight fine varieties, all spotted with white , Dwarf Camelia Mixed. From eight splendid double varieties; one-half foot Bartonia Aurea - A showy> hardy annual, growing about two feet '. high, bearing very brilliant yellow flowers. Thin plants to ; six inches apart. ; Dell's Ornamental Dwarf Beet Leaves peculiarly rich in color; highly ornamental as a foliaged plant. . , Boceonia fruteseens Beautiful foliaged greenhouse plant, suitable for lawns in Summer, ANNUALS. ! Price 20 Browallia. i Very handsome, profusely blooming plants, covered with j j rich and strikingly beautiful flowers ; grows freely in rich | ! soil. Very desirable grown in beds; one and one half j \ feet. Half-hardy. Browallia, Roezli, New. (For description see novelties.) , Blue, with white centre. Very brilliant and beauti- ful, one and one-half feet * „ \ , Mixed. One-half foot I w Bryonopsis Laciniata. (See Plate.) ' 10 i An elegant climber, with Ivy-like foliage and brilliant j 1 scarlet fruit exquisitely marked with white. Ten feet, 1 Half-hardy. 51 ] Canary Bird Flower. | A highly ornamental creeper, with exceedingly beautiful yellow fringed flowers and finely divided foliage ; a gener- i al favorite. Half-hardy. Candytuft. ' A well known hardy annual, yery useful for bedding and bouquets, and also for pot culture. Candytuft, New Carmine , White , Purple , Crimson , Fragrant Catch-fly. A hardy annual about one foot high : — produces brilliant flowers in great profusion in early summer. Catch-fly, Red , White Centranthus. Exceedingly pretty, free-flowering plants, from six inches to one foot high, and very effective in beds or borders. Centranthus, Rose , White Chrysanthemums. Handsome hardy annuals about two feet high, blooming from July to October. Chrysanthemums, Double White , Double Yellow , Mixed, Cineraria. A well known greenhouse favorite. Remarkable for its free-flowering habit and beauty of foliage. May be had in splendid bloom throughout the greater portion of the year. Cineraria, Fine Mixed - Clarkia. A very pretty, hardy annual, about eighteen inches hig'i —blooming from June to September. Set six inches apart. Clarkia, Rosea ••• - , White • , Purple , Mixed. • Clianthus D ampieri. ' ( Glory Pea. ) One of the most attractive plants in cultivation. A shrubby' climber, with neat foliage and drooping clus- ters of large, rich, scarlet, pea-shaped, flowers, 3 inches in length. Each flower is beautifully marked with a black, cloud-like blotch. It requires a dry, warm soil and should be watered but sparingly. Kemove to the house when ( ol 1 weather comes. Clitoria. Splendid, free-flowering, greenhouse climbers, with large, elegant, pea-shaped flowers. Particularly adapted for tram-i ing on trellisrwork, wire globes, &c. CUtoria, Coelestis, Sky-blue ; from East Indies,, ; . , . , i FOR NOVELTIES IN FLOWERS SEE PAGES 49 AND 50. 43 ANNUALS. Price per_ P'k-JIi' Cobea Scandens. (See Plate.1 A magnificent, climbing plant of rapid growth, produc- ing large, purple, bell-shaped flowers ; adapted for out door growth in Summer, also for the house and green- house. The seeds are apt to rot in the open ground, hence should he started in the house. Place the seed edgewise in planting. Cobea Scandens, , Alba. White flowered variety of that famous climber. Cockscomb. Very singular and attractive hardy annuals, about two feet high. Cockscomb, Japonica alba, New, (For description see novelties. ) , Cristata Variegata. New and beautiful. Gold and Crimson Variegated , New Japan — — , Crimson. Tall, very fine (pure. ) , Dwan Mixed. Very beautiful ■. , Feathered. New and very fine for bouquets Coleus. (New and finest varieties Mixed) (See Plate.) These gorgeous colored plants with their variegated foliage, are deservedly called the most popular plants in cultiva- tion. Their leaf markings are rich and varied. No garden, basket, vase nor collection of flowers is complete without them. Start the seed in a hot bed or pot in the house and transplant when warm weather comes. Collinsia, Mixed Beautiful, hardy annuals, very pretty when grown in a mass. Thin plants to three inches apart. Collomia, Scarlet A very pretty annual, producing heads of bright red flowers. Convolvulus. Beautiful and showy half hardy climbers, producing an abundance of rich colored flowers. Set plants one foot apart. Blooms from July until autumn. Convolvulus, Minor, Dwart Mixed. (See Plate.). . , — , Striped. Blue, beautifully striped with white. . . Convolvulus, Major. (Morning Glory. ) Fine varieties mixed. A well-known, beautiful, climbing annual, suitable for covering arbors, trellises, &c. Blooms from July until autumn-. Coreopsis. (Cailiopsis.) One of the most showy of all annuals, the colors being so striking as seldom to be passed without remark. Coreopsis, Drummonds. Large yellow flowers, with crimson centre , Mixed varieties. Yellow and brown and velvety- brown Cosmidium, Burridge's An elegant annual, growing about two feet high, with rich, brilliantly colored flowers. Cypress Vine. Most beautiful and popular tender climber, with very delicate fern-like foliage and numerous flowers Cypress Vine, Scarlet. Very brilliant — , white ;.;;;. Delphinium. Flowers remarkable for their great beauty, diversity of shades and striking appearance. Hardy. Delphinium Candelabrum. (See Plate.) A new and elegant variety of Larkspur. The branches are beau- tifully curved, (pointing upwards,) diminishing in length as they approach the top of the centre spike, thus giving the plant the appearance of a candelabra. Flowers brilliant and varied Erysimum Peroffskianum. (See plate.) A very showy, hardy annual about eighteen inches high — bearing spikes of deep orange-colored blossoms. Blooms from June to September. Eschseholtzia. A very showy plant about one foot high, bloom- ing from June until September. Produces a brilliant ef- fect at a distance when grown in a mass. Hardy. Eschseholtzia, Mandarin. New. (For description see novelties. ) ANNUAL Price per P'k'go Eschseholtzia, Yellow , White , Teuuifolia , Mixed Eternal Flower. (Helichrymm.) The Eternal Flowers are very ornamental in the garden and very desirable for winter bouquets, as they will retain their form and color for years if gathered and dried when first open. Eternal Flower, Yellow , Mixed Euphorbia, or Snow on the Mountain A very pretty variegated, foliage plant, leaves edged with pure white. Tender. Flax, Crimson. (Linum Grandiflorum.) A beautiful, half-hardy annual, one foot high and very- effective and showy for bedding purposes. Set plants one foot apart. Fuchsia, or "Ladies' Ear Drop." (Finest and newest varieties mixed. ) Elegant flowering plants of easy culture in pots for par- lor decoration or the garden. In the garden they require a slightly shaded situation. Soil should be rich. Gaillardia, Mixed. (See Plate.) Hardy annuals, universally admired for their fine dis- play. Grow about eighteen inches high, and bloom all summer. Gaura. An exceedingly handsome and free-flowering plant, continuing in bloom the whole summer. Of light and graceful habit, bearing spikes of white and red tinted flowers ; a profuse bloomer. Succeeds best in sandy loam. Half-hardy. Gaura, Lindheimeri. White with pink calyx ; from Texas. Two feet Geranium, Fancy, Splendid Mixed Gilia. Early and free-flowering, hardy annuals, growing from six inches to one foot high, and very desirable for planting in masses or detached patehes. Gilia, White , Rose ' , Tricolor Globe Amaranths. (See Plate.) Tender annuals about two feet high, very ornamental in the garden. The flowers will retain their beauty for a long time if gathered and dried as soon as they are open. Start early in hot-bed, and transplant one foot apart in the border when the weather becomes warm. Globe Amaranth, White , Purple , Variegated. . . - , Mixed Gloxinia, (grandiflora) A superb class of greenhouse and in-door plants, pro- ducing, in great profusion, elegant floieers of the richest unci most beautiful colors. The variety I send out is very choice and is oiie of the new varieties, with vigorous foli- age and very large flowers in the best and liveliest colors. Godetia. Very attractive, hardy annuals of easy culture, about one foot high, flowering in July and August. Flowers of satiny texture. Godetia, Lady Albemarle. (New.) Plants' about one foot high, branching from the bottom, and growing in a pyramidal form ; flowers large, frequently meas- uring *3 1-2 to 4 inches across, and of the most intense glowing carmine color. The edges of the petals slightly suffused with delicate lilac. The flower are produced in such wonderful profusion and are of such brilliant color that the plants have the most brilliant appearance. It is perfectly hardy, and if sown out of doors 'in Autumn will bloom early in the following summer , Mixed Grasses, Ornamental. The Ornamental Grasses are most desirable for bouquets both for Summer and "Winter. For "Winter use, cut about the time of flowering, tie up in small bunches and dry in the shade. Grasses, Ornamental, Eragrostis Brown, New. t.For description see novelties. ) 44 FOE NOVELTIES I3ST FLOWERS SEE PAGES 49 AOT) 50. ANNUALS. Grasses, Ornamental, Agrostis Nebulosa. The most delicate, Jim; and featluwy of the Ornamental Grasses. Hardy , , Eragrostis Eiegans, (" Love Grass.") An ex;c£'euihgly pretty and highly ornamental grass. Grows one to two feet. Hardy , , 's Job's Tears."' This well known variety of tropical grass is so called "from the appearance of its shiny, pearl v fruit, which resembles a falling tear. Half-hardy , - — , Quaking Grass. This c/Ulcefid shaking f/rass is very elegant in bouquet's and may ho dried and kept a long time ; perfectly hardy Gyp soph.il a. Elegant free flowering little plants, succeeding in any soil. Well adapted to rockwork and edging. Ladies will find this desirable for ornamenting their hair. - — , JIuralis. lioaulil'ul, dwarf plant, neat and re- markably pretty, with starry pink and white flowers which completely cover the plant. Very fine for hang- ing baskets. Hardy annual, one half-foot Hawkweed, Mixed. ( Crepis. ) A class of attractive hardy annuals, one foot high, of easy culture. Helipterum Sanfordi A new variety of everlasting flowers of great beauty ; of dwarf, tufted' habit, producing large, globular clusters of bright golden yellow flowers, excellent for winter bouquets. Hibiscus Afrieanus A showy and beautiful, hardy annual, eighteen inches high, blooming from June to 'September. Set eighteen inches apart. Hollyhock. Dwarf Chinese. Showy, hardy annual ■variety, two and a half feet* high. Start "early in hot-bed and transplant one foot apart Hyacinth Bean. (Dbliclios.) Tender, climbing annual from the East Indies, produc- ing clusters of brdliant flowers. Ice Plant. (See Plate.) A singular-looking, tender annual with thick, fleshy leaves, that have the appearanc crystals of ice. Ipomea. (See Plate.) Very beautiful and popular elimbers ; deservedly so j from the fine foliage and the brilliant and varied hues of | its many flowers, i'ine for covering old walls, stumps of I Price per :>f being covered with &c Ipomea Atroviolacea, superb , Bona Nox, Ermi This very interest™ . allied ti olet, bordered with pure ichite plant is g Glory,' choosing the evening tor also djlk-i" '■''/<.■'; »■' and very large; Si . '•■ t) eral hours be: t | I mtin , Elegantiss! P ■• One meas ; bill ■ ith i il mse a star, with br lad, pure v , Limbata. Blue, elega , Nil Grandiilora. A Germany , Coccinea. {Star Tpnm tender annual, closely : producing a profusion of Jacobea. A very gay-colored, showy effective' for bedding. Glow Jacobea, Double, White. , Double, Dark Blue. , Double, 5;Iixed Kale, Ornamental. Fj desirable as a Eoliage plai is its na but difi e of bl. indicate from it i e dower is pure white ed in warm water sev- ■st of the Ipo- I in the form of rkeu with white jautifiil variety from aliful, climbing, Morning Glory, • f bardv plants uc foot high. int varieties. Very 146 147 5 1 148 3 5 149 •1 150 ANNUALS. 10 5 144 10 Larkspur. Very beautiful, hardy annuals, producing dense spikes of flowers, which are very decorative either in the garden or when cut for vases. Set ten inches apart. Larkspur, Dwarf Ranunculi-Flowered, Awe (For description see novelties. ) , Tall Double Rocket , Stock-flowered. (See plate.) Eight varieties mixed , Hyacinth-flowered. (See Plate.) A curious and very beautiful variety, strongly resembling a Double Hyacinth. Twelve fine varieties mixed , Tricolor Eiegans. A very double variety of very handsome colors and most beautifully striped. Two and one-half feet These two last named varieties may be considered as great acquisitions to the garden. Leptosiphon. (See Plate.) The most desirable of plants for edgings ; very beauti- ful with their numerous and many colored flowers ; also suitable for rock-work, and nice for pot plants ; succeed in any light, rich soil ; from California. Hardy. Leptosiphon Mixed. Colors dark maroon, orange, lilac, purple, crimson, violet, golden yellow and ichite. Ex- ceedingly pretty Lobelia. Strikingly pretty, profuse - blooming plants ; their deli- cate, drooping habit and the profusion of their charming little flowers render them exceedingly ornamental. Very fine for hanging baskets. Hardy. Lobelia, Pumila Magnifica. (Sew. ) This is by far the finest form of Lobelia in cultiva- tion. The habit of the plant resembles the fine fol- iaged Pumila variety, while the flowers are of im- mense size, and are of the richest ultramarine blue color. , Rosea Oculata. 7?ose, with white eye , Erinoides. Blue , Erinus, Mixed. Blue, white, and blue and white marbled • Lophospermum. An exceedingly elegant and highly ornamental climber with large and* handsome foxglove-like flowers ; very ef- fective for conservatory and garden decoration, and also desirable for hanging baskets ; blooms the first season from seed. Half-hardy. Lophospermum Hendersonii. Flowers of rosy car- mine, fine. Ten feet Love-lies-bleeding, tliifiardnthhs Caudatus.) A hardy annual, three to four feet high, with pendant spikes of 'blood-red flowers, which at a little distance look like streams of "blood. Desirable for grouping on lawns. Love-in-a-mist. (Xigella.) A curious plant about one foot high, with finely cut leaves and singular flowers. Hardy. Malope. Handsome! half-hardy annuals, about two feet high. Set eighteen inches apart AVell adapted to mixed borders. Malope, Mixed Marvel of Peru, Mixed. (Mirabilis.) The old and well-luiown Four o'clock. A fine plant with flowers of various colors, making a fine sum- mer hedge when set one foot apart. Grows two feet high. The roots may he preserved like Dahlias during the winter. Half-hardy Marigold. (Tagctes.) Extremely showy, ha!f-liardy annuals, one to two feet high, well adapted' to garden culture, blooming profusely through the season. Set one foot apart. Marigold, African , Pot. (See Plate.) This variety of marigold is well worth much praise. The tiowers are large, Very I brilliant and double ; m color varying from a deep j orange to a pale lemon and have a dark maroon centre. They begin blooming very early and continue- till after the heavy frosts. They sow their own seed and thus perpetuate themselves , , French - — , -, Gold-striped, new and fine. , Price per P'k'ga FOR HOVELTIES IK FLOWERS SEE PAGES 49 AND 50. 45 ANNUALS. Price per P'k'ge 184 185 Maurandia. (See Plate.) An elegant, half-hardy, climber, well adapted to the conservatory or trellis work in the garden. Start early in pots, transplant when the weather becomes warm. Flowers the first year from the seed and continues to bloom through the season. Desirable for hanging baskets. Maurandia, Barclayana. Bich, violet flowers , Mixed. Violet, white, rose alii pink Mignonette. A hardy annua!, eight inches high. A general favorite on account of its delightful fragrance. Blooms through- out the season. Sow from middle of April to middle of June. Thin to six inches apart. Mignonette is most fragrant on poor soil. Mignonette, Miles' Hybrid Spiral. This variety is far superior to any other in cultivation, the habit being dwarf and branching, with spikes often attaining a length of from 8 to 14 inches. By pinching the side shoots the centre spike attains a length of from 18 to 21 inches. The odor of this variety is superior to any other in cul- tivation. It is much hardier, and well adapted for mar- ket purposes , Sweet per ounce 25 cents. , Grandiflora. An improvement on the old variety in size , Victoria. New. Flowers unusually brilliant Momordica. Trailing plants with ornamental foliage and golden yel- low fruit which, when ripe, opens, disclosing its seeds and brilliant carmine interior. Planted on rock- work or stumps of trees and allowed to ramble, it produces a very striking effect. Half-hardy. Momordica Charentia, or Balsam Pear Morning Glory. (See Convolvulus Major.) Mourning Bride. (Scabiosa.) A class of very pretty annuals, from one to two feet high — suitable for bedding or bouquets. Hardy. Mourning Bride, Mixed , Double. Cherry color. (New) An acquisi- tion , Dwart. Six splendid varieties, mixed Nasturtium. Hardy Annual. Nasturtium, Tall mixed — — Purplish-violet. ( Tom Thumb. ) Netc , " Ruby King" Pure pinlc shaded with carmine. . . , "Spotted King" Bright yellow blotched with choco- late. 187 188 Scheuerianum. Straw colored striped with brown. Very beautiful , Spit-fire. New. Very fine ; hxight fire-red. Flow- ers very freely and makes a strikingly showy appear- ance. • , Dunnett's New. Orange , Atropurpnrea. Dark blood crimson , Coccineum. Brilliant scarlet , Dwart Mixed , Dwarf Scarlet — --, Rose , White. (The pearl. ) , Yellow , King of Tom Thumb's. Deep scarlet blossom, bluish green foliage, new and fine Memophila. (See Plate.) Charming, hardy, low annuals, producing an abundance of extremely delicate and beautiful flowers. Very useful for bedding or for pot culture. Sow early in pots and transplant into a cool, rather moist situation. Nemophila Mixed Nolana. Mixed. (See Plate.) Very pretty, trailing hardy annuals, fine for rock-work, hanging baskets, or for bedding. Select light rich soil. Oxlip, Sweet Scented, Mixed, of beautiful colors Pansy. See Heartsease, in list of Perennials. Parsley. I would recommend Curled Parsley as fine for edgings for the flower garden, fine for vase bouquets, and particu- larly desirable for flowers arranged in flat dishes. Parsley, Dwarf Curled Fern I/eaved. A most beautiful thing. Invalua- ble as a decorative plant. Eesembles a beautiful moss ANNUALS. Price per P'k'ga Perilla Nankinensis A half-hardy annual, with beautiful dark purple foliage forming a delightful contrast with the lively green of the other plants in the garden or conservatory. Phaseolus. (Scarlet Runner Bean. ) A popular climber, with spikes of sho.wy scarlet, white or variegated flowers. Extensively grown to cover arbors and to form screens ; of very vigorous and rapid growth. Phlox. A most brilliant and beautiful hardy annual, about one. foot high, well adapted for bedding, making a dazzling show through the whole season. It succeeds well on almost any soil. Phlox, Drummonds, Alba Oculata Superba, New. (For description see novelties. ) , Victoria, New. (For description see novelties.)... -, Heynholdi Alba. New. The flowers of this beautiful new variety are wholly snow-white. It is, in- deed, the purest white Phlox yet raised, well adapted for pot culture - ■■■ ■ , Drummondi Grandiflora Splendens. (Nl'j. ) Flowers large, handsomely rounded and of great substance; color vivid with a pure white disc; habit of growth free and robust "Fireball." (Neio.) A splendid new dwarf varie- ty. Grows in large robust bushes quite covered with b"rilliant-red Sowers till late in autumn, giving the bush the appearance of a Fireball Phlox, Pnre White , . Bright Scarlet . . Crimson, striped with white, very beautiful, , . Splendid, red with white eye , , All Colors Mixed Pinks. Most beautiful and highly prized.hardy plants, grow- ing from one to two feet high. No garden is complete without them, as they keep up a brilliant display, almost the whole season. Start early in pots, and transplant six to ten inches apart. , Carnation. (See list of Perennials.) , Carnation, Dwarf Fiery Red. (See list of Per.) , Picotee. (See List of Perennials.) , Heddewig's. (See list of Biennials.) , Chinese. (See List of Biennials.) , Laciniatus, Finest Double Mixed. Magnificent, double flowers ; very large and beautifully fringed. Saved only from the finest double flowers and most beautiful colors Poppy, Double Mixed. (Papaver.) Brilliant and showy, hardy annuals, about two feet high, fine for back ground or shrubbery. Portulacca. Very popular ; low growing, plants ; making a most brilliant display in the garden, and very suitable for bor- ders or edging. Sow early, in warm, light soil and thin plants to four inches. Hardy. Portulacca, all colors Mixed , Scarlet , Crimson , White , Yellow .Large flowered Double. (Bernard's Best.) (See Plate.) Ricinus Major. Castor Oil Plant A highly ornamental, half-hardy annual, growing from four to six feet high, presenting quite a tropical appear- ance. Select warm, dry soil, and plant six feet apart. Rodanthe. (See Plate.) A most beautiful and charming everlasting flower. The flowers, when gathered as soon as they are opened, are very desirable for winter bouquets, retaining their bril- liancy for months. Half-hardy annual. Rodanthe, Maculata Salpiglossis, Mixed. (See Plate.) Very beautiful, rich, half-hardy annuals, of varied colors, one to two feet high. Start early in the hot-bed and trans- plant to light, warm, rich soil. Blooms from July to Sep- tember. Salvia. Very ornamental, plants two feet high, producing tall spikes of gay flowers. Sow early in hot bed and tansplant two feet apart. Half-hardy. 46 FOR NOVELTIES m FLOWERS SEE PAGES 49 AND 50. ANNUALS. The foliage is white and rose Price per P'k'ge Salvia, Grandiflora Bicolor. (A validated with white, and the flower: with scarlet tip , Mixed , C'occinea. Splendid scarlet Sanvitalia. (See Plate.) Beautiful, dwarf-growing, free-flowering plants, very suitable for small beds or rock-work. Hardy annuals. Sanvitalia, New, Double. Covered with dense masses of perfectly double flowers. This variety is consid- ered by an experienced grower of rare flowers, as " without doubt the only dwarf, compact plant, of a yellow color, suited to beds and masses of low growth " Schizanthus, Mixed Pretty, tender annuals, one to one and one-half feet high, blooming from August to October. Very pretty for pot culture. Scrophularie Chrysantha, New. For des. see novelties. Scypanthus. A very ornamental, free-flowering climber, with curious yellow flowers, producing a fine effect trained against ver- andahs, trellisses, &c. Half-hardy. Scypanthus, Elegans. Yellow, from Chili Sensitive Plant. (Mimosa Sensitive;) A pretty, curious annual, being so sensitive that the leaves close together by the slightest touch. Tender an- nual. Stocks. Half-hardy annuals, producing splendid spikes of very rich and beautiful flowers of delightful fragrance. For early flowering sow early in spring in pots or in the hot bed, and transplant one foot apart. Bloom from June until November. Stocks, New Perpetual Flowering, Double White. New . For description see novelties , Dwarf German. (Finest Mixed. ) 7. . . : /Ten Weeks, Double Mixed. (See Plate.) Stocks, Dwarf, Large. Flowering-. One of the finest stocks in cultivation. Very double and of a rich dark crimson color Sunflower. (iMkmthus.) The most beautiful and ornamental of this well-known class of plants, growing about four feet high, and pro- ducing very large double flowers. Hardy. Sunflower, Dwarf Double . - 236 237 -. — , Variegated. Flowers and end of stock variegated. — — , Globosus. The finest of all sunflowers for orna- ment. The plant is middling sized, flowers very large, completely double, of a bright golden yellow. . . Swan River Daisy. (Brachycone) .,-.. Very pretty, free-flowering, dwarf -growing annuals, well adapted to edgings, rustic baskets, or for pot culture. Sweet Sultan. Showy, hardy annuals, one to two feet high, succeeding well in any soil. Sweet Sultan, Mixed. (Centaurea.) -, Yellow. Much may be said in praise of this the most beautiful of the Sweet Sultan family. The flowers are remarkably long-lived, which, with its beautiful fragrance and golden color, renders it very desirable for bouquets Sweet Clover. Valuable for its fragrance Sweet Peas. . (Lathyrus Odoratus.) Very ornamental, hardy annuals, desirable for their de- lightful fragrance and beauty. Fine for covering fences or walls, or for growing in little clumps supported by sticks. By picking off the pods as soon as they appear, the blos- soms may be continued the whole season. Sweet Peas, White .'. , Black 238 239 240. 24 L ANNUALS. 256 257 Sweet Peas, Scarlet , Scarlet Striped with White , All Colors Mixed. Per ounce 25 cents Tassel Flower, Scarlet. (Cacaliu.) A beautiful, half-hardy annual, with small, tassel-like flowers, blooming profusely from July to October. Thunbergia. (See Plate.) Price per P'k'ge i!i i Very ornamental, tr nuals, admirably adap the conservatory. A g Start early under glas Thunbergia Coccin of this beautiful free- flowering cliiul , Mixed. Flowers white and salmi roon centres . or climbing, half-hardy an- for trellises or rustic work or for acquisition for hanging baskets. Tender animal. New. A deep scarlet variety n, ith rich ma- aineutal, and easily culti- an abundance of richly :ted from the finest English Tropseolum Mixed Half-hardy annuals, very ori vated as climbers, prodncin? colored flowers. These are selc varieties. Umbilicus Sempervivum. (New.) From Kur- distan, a small unique form of supervivum; the second year it throws up a large umbel of beauriful blood:red flowers; the whole plant changes then from green to red. A capital plant for carpet gardening. The plant is a beauty in its way, and it would he impossible to say too much of it. its hardiness has not yet been tested, but probably it is hardy throughout the Middle States. Sow in boxes or pans, and plant out in the following summer, its flowers attaining a height of six inches Venus Looking-Glass, Mixed A very pretty, hardy, annual succeeding well in any soil. Grows about one foot high, and is well adapted to borders or edgings. Verbenas. Well-known and universally popular bedding plants, blooming all summer. May be treated as half-hardy an- nuals. Sow the seed early under glass and transplant one foot apart. Tender perennials. Verbena, Fine Mixed , Finest Mixed , Virginian Pigmy Stock. Extremely pretty, profuse-flowering, little plants, re- markably effective in small beds, baskets or edgings. Hardy annuals. Virginian Stock, AVhite. One-half foot , New Rose. One-quarter foot. Viscaria, Mixed, or "Pose of Heaven." (See Plate.) Very pretty, profuse-flowering, half-hardy annuals, pro- ducing a fine effect in beds or mixed borders, and growing readily in any soil. Xeranthemum. Very showy, free-flowering everlasting flowers, valuable for winter bouquets. Hardy annuals. Xeranthemum Annum Superbissimum. New. For description see novelties — — , Double, White , , Purple Zinnia. ( See Plate. ) A most splendid class of hardy annuals, succeeding well in any soil and making a very brilliant show. Start early in pots or under glass and transplant one foot apart. The same flowers will retain their beauty for weeks and a pro- fusion will be produced un til frost. Zinnia, Tall. Finest varieties double mixed , Double White — , Haageana. Comparatively New; of dwarf, branch- ing habit; each petal yellow flushed with orange. An exceedingly valuable plant for flower beds, edgings or borders - — , Double Sulphurea Striata New. Sulphur col- ored, striped with scarlet. Very showy and beautiful when distinct in its colors FOR NOVELTIES IN FLOWERS SEE PAGES 49 AND 50. ' 47 BIENNIALS, 'OB PLANTS WHICH LIVE AND GENEEALLY BLOOM TWO YEABS. Ml 2<>2 203 264 200 207 BIENNIALS. Alonsoa. A very ornamental bedding plant ; flowers freely from June till the frost— a half hardy biennial. Alonsoa Grandidoia, (large (lowered,) deep scarlet, two feet high ~ , Warszewiezi, bright crimson, from Chili, one and a half feet high. . . CanterburyBells. "Well known biennials, growing about one foot high, pro- ducing beautiful bell-shaped flowers. Set six inches apart. Canterbury Bells, Blue Single , White Single , Double Mixed Honesty. (Lunaria.) Blooms in May and June. The flowers are succeeded by singular, semi-transparent seed-vessels that are quite ornamental and may be kept for a long time. Humea Elegans A magnificent, showy, half-hardy biennial, four to eight feet high, blooming the second year through the summer and autumn. Very ornamental in the garden. Ipomopsis. Most beautiful plants with spikes of dazzling flowers. Ipoinopsis, orange, from California ; three feet , Elegans, scarlet • • Pinks. Pink, Heddewig's Double Mixed. (See Plate.) Large flowers, three inches in diameter, of beautiful and rich colors, often finely marked and marbled. . , Chinese r Price per P.k'ge No. 270 5 S 5 lj 271 5 272 273 15 274 275 27(i 277 278 10 10 279 10 BIENNIALS. Price per P'k'go Foxglove, Mixed. (Digitalis.) A hardy biennial, growing three to four feet high and very ornamental in the garden or amongst shrubbery, as it produces tall spikes of blue and white, bell-shaped flowers. Heartsease, or Pansy. (See Plate.) A well-known and universal favorite ; properly a bien- nial, but may be propagated by cuttings or by dividing the roots. It blooms early the first season and produces a profusion of brilliant flowers from early spring until winter. It will thrive well anywhere, but prefers a moist, shady situation. Heartsease, or Pansy. International Paris. New. (For description see novelties , Fine mixed , {Pare Yellow, Large Flowered.) The brilliancy and beauty of this Pansy make it a great favorite , (Extra choice mixed.) These varieties are very su perior , (Finest, very large stained. ) , King of the Blacks. - Deep Coal Slack , Pure White.... .■■•• , Odier, or Five Blotched. -A- new and beautiful Prize Pansy, of great variety of color and markings, each petal being most beautifully blotched or marked The seed I send out is from the celebrated Benary and is extra choice and true ■, Emperor William. One of the most valuable of the large growing pansies. Flowers of a rich ultramar- ine, with a well-defined eye. The large blooms are borne well above the foliage PERENNIALS, OB PLANTS WHICH LIVE MOBE THAN TWO YEABS. PERENNIALS. Price per p-kVe Aeonitum. (Monkshood) A hardy perennial, grows well ir when in the shade. any good soil, even Alyssum, Saxatile. dy perennial. . . . Yellow, extremely showy. A bar- 's, with curi- rnd beautiful pipe. Hardy j Aristoloehia, Mixed Highly ornamental and attractive climl ously shaped flowers of the most variei colors. The flowers resemble a Dutchman perennial. Bachelor's Button (C'entaurea.) A showy, hardy annual, about two feet high — succeeding well in any soil. Set six inches apart. Baptisia Australis A handsome plant of the easiest culture ; flowers blue and white. Hardy perennial two feet. Bellis Perennis. (Double Daisy.). .... A favorite perennial for the border or for pot culture. Set plants six inches apart. Calceolaria. Flowers highly decorative ; very desirable, indeed inval- uable, for the house, greenhouse and the garden. Seeds should be started in pots, but not under glass. Half-hardy perennials. Calceolaria, Tigridus. (See Plate.) A new spotted variety, extra fine Callirhoe. Beautiful, free-flowering plants, beginning to bloom when small and continuing throughout the summer and fall ; excellent for beds or masses when sown thick. Har- dy annual. Callirhoe, Pedata. Rich purple crimson, with white eye, two feet .".....- , Involucrata. A trailing variety of great beauty ; large purple crimson flowers ; desirable for hanging . baskets Chelone Barbata A hardy perennial, about three feet high, bearing long spikes of scarlet bells, Flowers from July to 'Sep- tember ; of easy culture, 21)0 PERENNIALS. 5 291 5 292 293 10 294 295 298 297 Cineraria. • A well-known greenhouse perennial. Remarkable for its free-flowering habit and beauty of foliage. May be had in splendid bloom throughout the greater portion of the year. Cineraria, Maritima. Flowers yellow, leaves large and silvery; an ornamental foliaged plant, fit for edgings, in which case it should be kept from flowering. It forms a fine contrast, in ribboning, with Perilla Nankinensis. One and one-half feet Clematis. Beautiful, hardy climbers, unrivalled for covering arbors, fences, verandahs, &c; will succeed in any good garden soil. , Cirrhosa. Perfectly hardy, a very rapid climber, literally covering itself with large bunches of white, sweet-scented flowers. Twenty-five feet , Graveolens. New. (For description see novelties.! , Pitcheri. New. (For description see novelties.) Columbine, (See plate.) A well known, showy, hardy perennial, about two feet high, blooming in May and June. Columbine, Aqiulegia truncata, New. (For descrip- tion see novelties. ) , Mixed -, California. A California species, large and hand- some, the color being of a waxy yellow. Remarka- bly fine Dahlia, Mixed Seeds saved from very fine named sorts mixed, from France. Half-hardy perennial. Datura. (Trumpet Flower.) + A showy, half-hardy perennial, producing large, sweet- scented, trumpet-shaped flowers. The; roots should 1 moved to the cellar in autumn. Tw Price per P'k'ge 298 299 , Datura, Wright's. Flown traordinary size, white bordered , HumiUs Double. Double 11 yello.w, a magnificent, free-flowerin; ety. "..• ■•:... and a half feet. bell-shaped, of ex- ith lilac. Two feet. rers of a rich, golden sweet-scented vari- Delphininm. Flowers remarkable for their great beauty, diversity of shades and striking appearance.' Hardy perennials. 48 FOR NOVELTIES IN FLOWERS SEE PAGES 49 AND 50. PERENNIALS. Delphinium, Formosum. (See Plate.) New, flowers remarkably large and brilliant; color exquisite blue and white; will flower the first season from seed. Two feet. , Chinese. Mixed. Two and a half feet , Elatum. (Bee Larkspur. ) nine, two feet , Hybridum. Tine mixed, splendid Dictanus. ( Fraxinetla. ) Handsome, fragrant, free-flowering, herbaceous plants, suitable for mixed borders. The leaves have a very pleasant smell like lemon peel, when rubbed. The seeds frequently remain dormant for several months. ' Fraxinella, Mixed. Two feet Erythrina or Coral Tree This magnificent half-hardy shrub, with its fine leaves and most brilliant scarlet flowers is a great acquisition; The gorgeous spikes of scarlet flowers from one to two feet long 'with which it covers itself bear a resemblance to Cored. Although a tropical plant, it grows freely out of doors if placed in a warm situation. Cut it down to the ground before frost and protect in a cool, dry cellar during winter. Price per P'k'ge Eupatorium. (Fraserii) Shrubby plants whose flowers are indispensable for bou- quets. The flowers are white, growing in graceful feathery sprays and are admirable for mixing in with bright colored flowers. Evening Primrose A well-known, showy perennial, one and a half feet high, blooming the first year from the seed. Primrose, Hardy. (Xew.) A remarkably pretty and varied strain of these popular flowers, embracing a great variety of colors Feverfew. {Matricaria.) A beautiful, half-hardy perennial, well adapted for beds. Feverfew, Double White. Very fine. One foot .... , Golden Feather. One of the ornamental foliage plants. Very desirable for vases and baskets to mix up with other plants Forget-me-not. (See plate.) A very pretty, little, hardy perennial, about six inches hio-h. Will thrive best in a cool, moist situation, and is well adapted for bedding or rockwork. Geum. Handsome, free-flowering, long-blooming and remarka- bly showy plants. Succeeds best in a sandy loam. Hardy perennials. Geum, Mixed Grasses Ornamental. 7 , Isolepsis Tenalla. One of the grasses which' is a great favorite for boskets, vases, etc. Very graceful '• . , Pampas Grass. The most stately 2nd mag- nificent ornamental grass in cultivation, producing nu- merous long, silken plumes of flowers. When plant- ed on lawn's the effect is very fine,. Flowers the second season ; requires to he carefully covered during the winter, as it is not quite hardy Gypsophila. Gypsophila Paniculata. Remarkably hardy, dwarf plant, covering itself with small white -flowers. Very desirable from their tenacity of life. I have known a cluster of these flowers to live three days without water and without showing signs of wilting. Ladies will, find this very desirable for orndmeftfing their hair, also for button-hole bouquets Hollyhocks. Hollyhocks, English Prize. Very highly recommended. The seed I have was sav».d from one of the finest col- lections in England, and is of twelve prize varieties. ] Tall Double Mixed. A great improvement on the old variety. Showy perennials, four to six feet high, very effective amongst shrubbery , . . , 323 323 325 320 PERENNIALS. Price per P'k'ge garden Lantana. (Fine varieties mixed.) (See Plate.) This showy, greenhouse plant will succeed finely in any garden soil. It forms a small bush, covering itself with pink, yelloic and orange flowers, and also.rfoice/'S of change- able color. Start in the house. Half-hardy Lavender This herb I consider desirable for the flowe from the pleasing fragrance of its leaves. Lupins, Mixed : Showy, hardy plants, two to three feet high, produc- ing tall spikes of attractive flowers. Some species are an- ! nuals, but most of these are perennials. Lychnis. Very handsome and highly ornamental plants of easy culture. Lychnis Fulgens. Bright scarlet, from Siberia. One and one-half feet , Sieboldi. White, fine ; one and one-half feet , Hybrida, mixed. Beautiful, with large flowers varying in color from the brightest scarlet to blood-red, purple, orange and ichite Malva (or Mallow.) Showy and desirable plants with pretty, salver-formed flowers. Malva Minita. Very desirable with its bright scarlet flowers. It blooms freely all the season Mimulus. (Monkey Flower.) A half-hardy plant of the easiest culture, about nine inches high, producing a profusion of very pretty flowers. It is perennial in the greenhouse and may he easily propa- gated by cuttings. Select a moist, rather shaded location. Mimulus, C'ardinalis. Scarlet, from California ; one foot , Hybridus. (See Plate.) yew ; splendidly spotted and marbled in the most varied manner, rivaling the Calceolaria in the variety of its brilliant colors Mimulus, New Double. Spotted, a beautiful variety for pot culture. Flowers double, of a- brdliant yellow, spotted, striped and mottled with crimson. This, aside from its beauty, is very desirable from its remaining in bloom much longer than the single sorts Musk Plant. (Mimulus moschatus. ) Much esteemed for the. strong musk odor of its leaves. It has a yellow bloom. Tender perennial. Ifirembergia. Charming little plants which flower profusely during the whole summer ; exceedingly valuable for hanging baskets . rustic vases and edgings ; from South America. Nirembergia, .Large flowering. A new species from the Andes. It deserves to become a general favorite' both for the open garden in summer and the green- house in winter. ;'. Obeliscaria. Showy plants with novel and rich colored flowers, having curious acorn-like centers ; succeed in any common gar- den soil. From Texas. Obeliscaria Pulcherrima. Fine, rich, velvety crimson edged and tipped with yellow. One-half foot Oxalis. A splendid class of plants with richly colored flowers and dark foliace suitable for hanging pots or rustic baskets. Particularly adapted for the parlor where they bloom in mid-winter. Half-hardy perennials. Oxalis Rosea. Rose colored flowers, blooms abundant- ly. From Chili. One-half foot Tropaeoloides. Deep yellow flowers with brown leaves ; a very interesting variety. One-half foot Passiflora Incarnata. This is the only Passion- flower yet introduced that will stand our climate, re- quiring but a slight protection of leave? in winter. The flowers. are large, jjearly white, wrth a tripple purple and flesh colored crown Pentsemon. \ery ornamental with long and graceful spikes of richly colored tubular flowers. To insure bloom the first year, seed should be started early in March and planted out in May. Pentsemon, Choice varieties mixed ,\ , JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 49 PERENNIALS. Price per l> kg'e PERENNIALS. Price per pkg'o. Petunia. Favorite, half hardy perennials, succeeding well in any rich soil. For the brilliancy and variety of their colors, their abund- ance of flowers, aud the long duration of their blooming period, they are indispensable in any garden, and are also Highly prized for growing in pots for the greenhouse or sitting room. Petunia Hybrida Compacta Elegantissima. (New.) This new variety forms a dense globular bush of about 10 to 12 inches in height,and 14 to 15 inches in diameter, covered thick- ly with flowers of all colors and shades, which are peculiar to the Petunias. As a bedding plant, especially in sunny spots, this sort is unsurpassable and very effective, and it can be further recommended as a window or market plant, on ac- count of its very regular habit and abundance of well shaped flowers , Vilmorins Hybrid large flowering striped. New. (For description see novelties.). , Hybrida Compacta Elegantissima. New , Fringed. Brilliant crimson. (New.) , Fringed. Satiny white, blotched with purplish crimson. , Fringed and Veined. Rose veined with black. Ex- tremely pretty , Fringed. Largest flowered, mixed in great variety. , Fine mixed - — , Extra Choice Mixed , Buchanan's Hybrids. (See plate.) From the finest named flowers ; beautifully blotched, marbled and variegated. Flowers of extra size as well as beauty Pinks. Most beautiful and highly prized, haidy perennials, growing from one to two feet high. No garden is complete without them, as they keep up a brilliant display, almost the whole season. Start early in pots, and transplant six to ten inches apart. Pink, Carnation, Double Mixed , Carnation. Swarf, fiery-red. New. Extremely double. , Picotee. These favorite plants are of great beauty, com- bining the most perfect form with the richest of colors. Tbey have a delicate perfume, bloom profusely aud are easily cul- tivated. The seed I send out is from one of the highly re- nowned growers of Germany, and is of the choicest varieties mixed Polyanthus, Mixed. {Primula.) Showy and profuse-flowering, hardy perennials— about one foot high, blooming in April and May. Potentilla. (See Pit.) Extra fine, double, choice mixed Desirable perennials. Flowers exceedingly brilliant and abundant. Hardy, easy of culture, showy and very ornamental. Primula Auricula. (From Liege. ) (See Plate.) This is the most beautiful and desirable of the primroses, though it has received but little attention in this country. The flower stalk is six to eight inches high and bears a- fine truss or cluster of from five to seven flowers of various colors, each having a clear white or light colored eye which renders their appearance very striking. Finest varieties mixed from named flowers. Tender perennial. Sedum. An exceedingly interesting and pretty little plant, growing freely on rock or rustic work, where, during the summer, it ex- pands its brilliant, star-shaped flowers in the greatest profusion. It is very desirable for hanging baskets. Hardy perennial. Sedum, Cceruleum. Blue ; from Africa Sweet Williams. Well-known, showy aud beautiful, hardy perennials, about one foot high, making a most splendid appearance in May and June. Sweet Williams, Mixed , Double Mixed , Auricula Eyed Tritoma TJvaria, or Red Hot Poker Plant. (See Plate. ) ' No flower excites moTe attention at Horticultural Fairs than this. It is a splendid evergreen perennial, producing flower stems four or five feet in height, surmounted with spikes of red and yellow flowers exceedingly striking. Admirably adapted for forming groups upon lawns or in a flower-bed, also suitable for culture in large pots. Eemove the plants to the cellar .in Autumn. Wallflowers. Very fragrant aud ornamental, tender perennials, suitable for back-ground and amongst shrubbery. - — , Mixed , Double Mixed Wallflower Harbinger. New A. very early flowering variety, which has produced flowers in October from seed sown iii March. It is very hardy, and con- tinues to produce a profusion of bright red flowers throughout the winter months. It is a decided acquisition and deserves to be widely cultivated. Scrophularia Chrysantha A Perennial for decorating purposes, 1 J to 2 feet high. It forms a splendid and regular pyramid. Leaves slightly curled and of a grayish green. The flowers are round, dark red tipped with yellow. They stand in clusters distinct and free from the leaves and are very striking in effect. Smilax There is no climbing plant in cultivation that surpasses this in beauty and grace of habit and foliage. Its cultivation has now become a specialty in every greenhouse, where it is exten- sively employed in all descriptions of floral decorations. When the Smilax turns yellow, it wants rest, it is not dying. Withold water for six or eight weeks that it may rest, repot it in good soil and it will again grow. Snap Dragon. ( Anterrhinum. ) A very showy and hardy perennial, about two feet high and flowering well the first season. Sow the seeds earlv, in pots or under glass, and transplant six inches apart. Desirable Novelties which we offer this season for the first time. the tall vari- Aster, Truffaut's Fiery Scarlet A new very dazzling color, not yet existing cties of asters. Koeleria Berythea . . An extremely handsome dwarf annual grass, very desirable for bor- ders and bouquets. Lobelia, Blue, Double New and true. Fine double flowers, blooming much longer thaii the single ones. Forget-me-not, White New, pure white Forget-me-not, true from seed. Petunia Grandiflora, Conpacta A new and generally admired Petunia, distinguished from other Petunia by its habit of growth, form of the leaves and abundance of flowers. The plants form compact bushes with a luxuriant green undulate foliage completely covered with brilliant red flowers on very short stalks. The general effect is most striking. A very recom- mendable novelty. RumexRoseus ofl This novelty deserves to be highly recommended to every amateur ""^ who loves flowers at all. The plant forms a well-shaped compact bush of li to 2 feet high. The leaves of a fine metallic green are prettily shaped and form a flat rosette out of which rises a bush of flower stalks covered with a multitude of rose-colored (lowers. The plart has also a very beautiful appearance in the Fall. Scabiosa, Gold, or Gold Scabious 20 A fine novelty, glowing in richly branched bushes about a' foot' '" high with golden -yellow leaves, and producing numerous scarlet and dark purple flowe -s, which contrast much with the golden yellow foliage. Verbena Venosa 15 This valuable acquisition does not much resemble the common Ver-' ' bena. Grows about 18 inches high, branches freely and has dark- green serrated foliage. Should be sown in January and kept very moist till the seeds germinate. The quantity of flowers it produce's is astonishing. It is a perpetual purple flowering plant. It does not mildew and is the proper size to contrast with most Geraniums. 50 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. ALSO OTHER IsTZETW &c DESIRABLE FLOWERS. Aster, Coppery Scarlet, Dwarf Chrysantha Flowered. Very fine Acroelinium Atroroseum A very large everlasting flower of a dark rose color. Begonia Res, hybrids, (ornamental leaved plants) My stock of seed embraces about 30 of the most showy varieties obtained frem one of the most celebrated seed growers in Europe, and may be relied upon, producing an endless variety of these most elegant plants ; extra fine quality. Browallia, Roezli A large-flowered bushy species with azure-blue yellow-throated flowers. Peculiar and elegant. Clematis, Gravolens A free-growing hardy variety, with beautiful yellow flowers over one and one-half inches broad. Blooms from July until the middle of November. Remarkably fine. Clematis, Pitchere. Hardy variety of elegant habit, neat foliage and prettily shaped brilliant scarlet flowers. A great acquisition. Cockscomb, Japonica Alba A new white Japanese variety. Said to be very fine. Columbine, Aquilegia Truncata The California red variety elegantly variegated with orange and yellow. Eragrostis, Brown A very nretty new variety of Grass. A valuable acquisition for win- ter bouquets for Florists and others. The panicles produce immense masses of flowers of a reddish-brown color and make a stiking effect. Eschscholtzia, Mandarin In all stages of bloom the color of this flower is wonderfully showy and lustrous. It may without much license to one's imagination be called a Scarbt Exrhsi-liolnin. The inner side of the petals is of a rich orange color, the outer side of a brilliant Scarlet. Ipomea, Scarlet, Ivy-leaved An elegant climber of rapid growth, running from 0 to 10 feet in a few weeks. The leaves are of ivy shape, flowers of a very striking fiery scarlet and produced in great profusion. Most desirable. Larkspur, Dwarf Ranunculi-Flowered The plant rises to a height of 12 to 13 inches and forms a columnar- shaped compact boquet, furnished with exceedingly numerous flower stalks, thickly studded with spikes of shining brown-violet blossoms of a uniform height. Very beautiful when grown in a mass. Nasturtium,' Spit-fire Brown 23 A new variety of the favorite Spit-fire differing from it by the beau- tiful dark brown color of its flowers. Pansy, International Paris 30 A superb strain fomprisiny magnificent varieties. Exhibited in the grounds of the Paris Exhibition tins was selected as being the best of the numerous groups planted out, after a careful personal inspection of the Exhibition. Papaver TJmbrosum 10 A very fine Poppy with flowers of a brillant deep scarlet, marked with 4 large black spots. Petunia, Grandiflora Superbissima Nigra 25 Gorgeous dark red flowers, with large jet black throat. Very fine. Petunia, Grandiflora Supurb Inimitable 23 Very robust inhabit. Large rose-colored, white spotted flow- ers with large white, oftentimes yellow tinged throat. Petunia, Vilmorin's Hybrid Large-flowering Striped. . . Splendid strain of very large-flowering varieties, of excellent shape and habit, specially remarkable for the rich colors and large size of their flowers, which are beautifully striped, variegated and spotted, petals nicely festooned and lacinated on the borders. Cannot be too highly recommended. Phlox Drummondi nana Compacta Punieea This new dwarf growing I'hlox is a first class novelty. The strik- ing brilliancy of its cinnibar-scarlet is unknown in I'hlox till now. The plant forms globular bushes nearly covering itself with flowers: of great value both for pot and out-door culture. Phlox Drummondi Alba Oceulata Superba Flowers in large umbels, pure white with fiery ml eyes. Phlox Drummondi Victoria Flowers dark scarlet, more brilliant than "Fireball." very profuse. in its flowers. Stock, New Perpetual Flowering, Double "White The introducer of this extremely desirable novelty says: "This variety will produce fine spikes of double white flowers from Janu- ary to December; the plants grow about 12 inches high, and if plenty of room is given will grow 3-feet through and produce thousands of bunches of bloom. If sown in the Spring the plant will begin to flower in November and keep in bloom all winter and the following year, out of doors. I gathered a large bunch of the double flowers last Christmas, fro- en hard, and when put in water ^hey opened out quite fresh, the same plants continuing to bloom throughout the year." Xeranthemum Annun Superbissimum The flowers of this variety are as double as those of a Double But- tercup, of gobnlar shape, and entirely free from projectional margi- nal ray florets. It is said to be the finest form of Xeranthemum yet obtained. The flowers will of course be exceedingly useful for per- petual boquets. .30 Collections of Flower Lr^w**^„ BY MAIL, FREE OF POSTAGE. For the convenience of those who are unacquainted with the different varieties of flowers, or who prefer to leave the se- lection to us, we offer the following Collections. They contain new seed and desirable varieties, such as we recommend. Persons thus purchasing can make a great display in their flower beds, and at a much less price than when ordering by separate packages. These Collections are always to be of our own selection, and not subject to any discount from prices given below. Collection A, contains twenty-five choice varieties of Annuals, SI 00 Collection B, contains twelve varieties of extra tine Annuals, including choice French Asters, Double Camelia Balsams, Double German Stocks, and fine Double Zinnias 1 00 Collection C, contains ten extra choice varieties of Annuals and Perennials, embracing many of the most desira- ble ones in cultivation 1 00 Collection D, contains six packets of choice, selected seeds of the finest Large Pansies, finest Carnation and Pic- otee Pinks, choicest Verbenas, Prize Petunias, &c 1 00 Any one remitting $3.00 will receive the four Collections postage free. The following additional collections will also be sent at the prices annexed, free of postage. Collection E, contains fifty varieties of the best Annuals, Biennials, and Perennials S2 50 Collection F, contains one hundred varieties of Annuals, Biennials and Perennials, including some new and desirable sorts ' 5 00 Collection G, contains ten select varieties of Greenhouse seeds 2 00 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE, 51 Purchasers who prefer to make their own selections of Flower Seeds are referred to the following Prices : The seeds will be forwarded by ma of the order. Purchasers remitting $1.00 may select Purchasers remitting 2.00 rnay select Purchasers remitting 3.00 may select Purchasers remitting 4.00 may select Purchasers remitting 5.00 may select Purchasers remitting 10.00 may select Purchasers remitting 20.00 may select Purchasers remitting 30.00 may select No variation whatever will be- madi will be given upon application. U, postpaid to any address in the United States or Canada, on receipt of the amount Seeds, in packets, at Catalogue prices amounting to f 1 10 Seeds, in packets, at Catalogue prices amounting to 2 25 Seeds, in packets, at Catalogue prices amounting to 3 60 Seeds, in packets, at Catalogue prices amounting to 4 75 Seeds, in packets, at Catalogue prices amounting to 6 00 Seeds, in packets, at Catalogue prices amounting to 12 50 Seeds, in packets, at Catalogue prices amounting to 26 00 Seeds, in packets, at Catologue prices amounting to 40 00 j from the above rates. Prices to Dealers whose orders exceed the above amounts BULBS. We this season anhex to our Flower Catalogue a list of Bulbs which we offer to our patrons. We have endeavored to make a judicious selection, offering only such as are most desirable both for their beauty and adaptation to general culture. Unless otherwise specified we will send the bulbs out in September, carefully keeping on file all orders received for them pre- vious to that time. GLADIOLUS BULBS. Ready in April. These showy flowers are very easily raised, and With their tall spikes and brilliant colors of almost every variety, simple and blended, make one of the most magnificent displays of the flower garden. By planting from May till July, a continuous succession of flowers will be secured. In planting have the rows about a foot apart, the bulbs six inches apart in the tow aud two or three inches below the surface. Orders will be put on file as received and filled in April. Beautiful French Hybrid varieties — Splendid Mixtures— including nearly white, rose and crimson colors — per dozen 75 ,' " " " " " ', " per 100 by express 4 00 SPLENDID Adonis, light red Archimedes, light red, lower petals buff. • Aristotle, carnation rose, flecked or blotched with carmine. Berenice, rose and variegated red, with purplish carmine Brenchleyensis, deep scarlet, splendid for dumping . . Celine, , rosy white ground marbled rosy carmine Charles Dickens, a delicate rose striped with a darker rose, very fine. . Clemence, satin rose feathered with bright carmine Don Juan, orange fire-re d, spotted with yellow Edith, carnation rose, with dark stripe Egeria, light orange rose with wide dark stripe Eldorado, clear yellou), lower petals streaked red Emilie, white suffused with rose, brown blotch. . Fulton, velvety Vermillion, light purple blotch Galathea, blush white, carmine blotch , Goliath , light red, striped with carmine Greuze, intense cherry, blotched with white ■ Ida, white ground, flamed with carmine rose NAMED SORTS. Imperatrice, white, tinted blush, bright carmine, rose blotch James Carter, light red, with white blotch John Bull, yellowish white, very fine Laura, orange red, with pure white blotch Marie, pure white, with deep carmine blotch Mars, beautiful scarlet Meteor, brilliant dark red, large pure white blotch Napoleon III., bright scarlet, the centre of the petals white striped. Osiris, purplish violet, white blotch Ophir, dark yellow, purple blotch Pegasus, light salmon, stained with carmine eoid violet Penelope, blush while, streaked carmine Prince Imperial, peach blossom pink, with violet stains. ■ Princess of Wales, irhite, flaked with rosy crimson ; Peine Victoria, purr white, with carmine violet blotch ... . . Romulus, brilliant dark red, with pure white blotch Vesta, pure white, with purplish carmine blotch, on yellow ground. Zenobia, rose, large white blotch, very fine TUBEROSES. (Ready in April.) "We have a fine lot of Tuberoses from France. In planting, remove the small offsets around the main root, and plant a single tuber in a pot five or six inches wide. They should be started in April and afterwards transplanted to the open ground for summer blooming in the garden. Use good loam and leaf mould with good drainage. First quality bulbs 15 cents each ; 81.50 per dozen. Second quality bulbs 10 cents each; $1.00 per dozen. HYACINTHS. DOUBLE REB ANB ROSE, Alida Catherine, deep rose, very early -,..., Bouquet Royale, bluish pink, red eye ■. > . . i . Grootvorst* delicate blush, very double 25 Perruque Royale, rose, large bells 35 (Plant in October and November.) BOUBLE WHITE. A la mode, pink eyed, fine truss Princess Royale, rich crimson, extra 25 Sultan Achmit, large, very double, late La Beesse, white, yellow < Nannette, yellow centre. . Sceptre d'Or, white, orange scented 52 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. DOUBLE BLUE. Belle Mode, bright bine, beautiful Duchess de Normandy, dark blue Pasquin, delicate porcelain, violet eye DOUBLE YELLOW. Bouquet d'Orange, reddish yellow Goethe, bright, very double, tine Ophir d'Or, light yellow, tine, late SINGLE RED. ' Amy, bright carmine, compact truss Emelina, bright rose, fine Madame Hodshon, dark red, striped Norma, delicate pink, large bells. Sultan's Favorite, rich bright rose SINGLE BLUE. Argus, deep blue, white eye Blue Mourant, dark blue, black eye Charles Dickens, bright blue, splendid Grand Lilac, beautiful,' silvery lilac, large Regulus, porcelain, large truss SINGLE WHITE. Blanchard, white, purple eye SO Hannah Moore, pure white 25 Mammoth, white, large bells 25 Queen ol the Netherlands, splendid 30 SINGLE YELLOW. Adonia, lemon yellow, good form 25 Alida Jacoba, rich, canary yellow 25 Heroine, light yellow, tipped with green 25 Rhinoceros, orange yellow 23 Victor Hugo, light orange, yellow 30 Single Hyacinths, Mixed, 12 cts. each ; $1.25 per doz. Double " " 12 cts. each ; $1.25 per doz. JAPAN LILIES. These superb lilies are perfectly hardy, flowers elegant and fragrant, dowering during July and August, and forming one wf the principalfea- tures of the flower garden. Each. Per doz. Lilium Album. Pure "White .' 50 So 00 I. ilium Roseum. "White, spotted with rose 25 2 50 Lilium A malum. Golden-rayed Japan lily 50 5 00 AMARYLLIS-(Red Jacobean Lily). This is always a favorite from the striking elegance of its scarlet velvet flowers. Start in the house in March and plant out in May in rich ground; roots are preserved like Dahlias during the winter. Each 25 1 on 1 50 1 25 1 00 50 1 00 1 00 1 00 50 1 00 1 00 50 1 on 1 00 50 1 00 2 00 1 50 1 00 1 50 TULIPS. (Plant in Oc EARLY DWARF DUC VAN THOLL. Each. Single Red, bordered with yellow .S 10 Single "Yellow, bright yellow. 15 Single Vermilion, very bright 12 Single Gold Striped, rare, beautiful 10 Double Scarlet, bright yellow edge 5 SINGLE EARLY TULIPS. Alida Maria, white and crimson 10 Alba Regalis, white, fine ' 10 Belle Alliance, bright scarlet 10 Bizard Pronkert, yellow and red, striped. 5 Canary Bird, rich yellow, fine cup 10 Cardinalshail, brown 10 Due d'Orange, orange, 5 Globe-de-ltigault, violet and white 10 Grootmeester, white, striped and feathered with scarlet 10 Lac Van Rijn, purple, white edge, 5 Ma Plus Amiable, brown and yellow 10 Marquis de Westrade, gold yellow and red 20 Potter, violet, large flower 15 Princess of Austria, red, golden edge 10 Rachel Ruys, rosy .....'. 15 Rosa Mini di, white, bordered with rose 5 50 Thomas Moore, buff orange, shaded 5 50 DOUBLE TULIPS. Admiral Kingsbergen, yellow, with bronze stripes 5 50 Blauwe Vlag, purple blue, large 5 50 Comtesse de Pompadour, red, edged yellow 10 1 00 Due de York, rose, white bordered 5 50 tober and November.) DOUBLE TULIPS. Each. Per doz. Gloria Solis, bronze, crimson border 10 1 00 Hercules, splendid striped cherry 15 1 50 La Barocque, violet, white edged 10 1 00 La Candeur, pure white, fine, early 10 1 00 Pieony Gold, red and yellow 5 50 Tournesol, scarlet, yellow margined, early 10 100 Velvet Gem, brown velvet 15 1 50 Yellow Rose, golden yellow, very double .10 100 PARROT TULIPS. Admiral of Constantinople, orange and red striped.. 5 50 Mixed Sorts 10 100 Monster Rouge 20 2 00 Perfecta, red striped 5 50 Orange 5 50 OTHER SPECIES OF TULIPS. Cornuta (Ctiinese), scarlet and yellow, very curious 10 1 00 Florentina Odorata, yellow, sweet scented ... 10 1 00 Gesneriana, bright scarlet, tine for bedding. ., 10 1 00 Sun's Eye, red and black 10 100 Persica, orange yellow, dwarf. 10 1 00 Virittiflora, green, with yellow margin 10 1 00 MIXED TULIPS. Per doz. Per 100. Mixed Early Single, beautiful varieties 50 3 00 Mixed Double, very fine 50 3 00 Mixed Parrot Tulips, very showy 50 3 50 In tli. ■ bulbs and pot them for 1 extent. Tubers, each MADEIRA, OR MIGNONETTE VINE— (Ready in April). A beautiful climbing plant of rapid growth, adapted to out-door growth in the summer or the house in the winter. It completely covers itself with long racemes of deliciously fragrant white flowers. Plant the tuber out of doors in the Spring, and it will commence to grow at once, and if in a sheltered place, very i cut off the tops, dig up the tubers and put tl they will keep as well as potatoes— or takeup ti the house, where they will thrive to a wonderi 10 cents. SCARLET ANEMONE. (New.) This splendid variety is almost unknown in horticulture: no plant can compete with it in beauty and brilliancy in the early spring. Flowers large and of a dazzlinr/ Vermillion — in bloom from February to April — very valuable for Tjbuquets. Plant bulbs in open ground in September — during winter give the plants protection with leaves. The root may remain in tin- ground for several years. Per bulb, 10 cts. DOUBLE PERSIAN BUTTERCUPS— (Ranunculus). Splendid mixed varieties. Plant in November. Each, 5 cents ; per doz. , 50 cents. CROCUS. The Crocus is a universal favorite, and, excepting the Snowdrop, is the earliest of all spring flowers, displaying its bright blossoms early in March. Plant in November. All Colors Mixed. Per doz., 25 cents; per 100, $1.25. SMILAX— (Ready in April;. There is no climbing plant in cultivation that surpasses this in beauty and grace, of habit and foliage. Its cultivation has now be- come" a specialty in every greenhouse, where it is extensively em- ployed in all descriptions of floral decorations. Good bulbs, 25 cents; large bulbs, 50 cents. LILY OF THE VALLEY. I Ready in April). A great favorite because of its delicious color and low growth, bearing graceful bows of fairy-like lily bells. Each, 5 cents; per doz., 50cents. CROWN IMPERIALS. An old-fashioned class of plants liked because of their highly orna- mental character and early blooming. Plant in November. Mixed va- rieties. Each 25 cents; per doz., $3.00. NARCISSUS. Remarkably showy-, spring-flowering bulbs, possessing a delightful fragrance. Plant in November. Single Varieties Mixed. Per bulb, 5 cents; per doz., 50 cents. Double Varieties Mixed. Per bulb, 10 cents; per doz., $1.00. JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 53 VARIETIES OF POTATOES. I would advise ouv customers at the South to order potatoes iu the fall, as there is more or less'danger of their heing injured by frost if forwarded between Dec. 1st and March 20th. While, therefore, I will guarantee in filling such orders to use my best judgment, all potatoes ordered to be forwarded between those dates must be at the risk of the purchaser. CLARK'S NO. 1 POTATO. This seedling originated in New Hampshire. It is earlier than the Early Eose and will yield from a quarter to a third more crop. It bears a close resemblance to Early Rose in S\ appearance. It cooks mealy, is of excellent flavor, and is V . ^ every way a capital variety for either the farmer or mar- ket-gardener. Raised on a large scale on my grounds the 'Via Past season, I find in every instance that it surpassed li the Beauty of Hebron in yield — which is saying much in i, B I favor of any sort. This potato was held in such high esti- ■'W mation thai the entire crops of 1S77 and lsTS were purchased by the Government for distribution iu the ■plP^ South and West. . 450 bushels have been raised on an acre, and 22 bushels from one peck of seed. BEAUTY OF HEBRON. Closely resembles Early Rose in shape, but is of a lighter red in color, but few, either of the early or late varieties. Quality excellent. Earlier than Early Rose, it will outyield thai standard variety by from a quarter to a third. Those whc think of planting Early Rose will make more by giving their seed away and thus paying double what is charged for either this or Clark's No. 1, or Ohio, if theii land is strong and rather moist. A Very prolific, being equalled in this respect, by ! CLARK NO. 2. This ranks with the three or four very earliest sorts before the public. It has an exceptionally smooth skin. With me it has proved but a medium cropper, while the eyes being few it don't spend well for seed purposes. Would recommend this rather to the amateur than the market gardener MAMMOTH PEARL. ^~ This new Ohio seedling was selected as the best from over 2500 seedlings. It is of excellent quality for table use, large size, very handsome in appearance, and has thus far proved to be comparatively free from rot. Skin white and flesh very white; eyes few and even with the surface; in shape generally roundish; vines short and thick. In productiveness it is excelled by no potato I have ever raised. ^ illll- '.'"jB BEAUTY OF HEBROW. BLISS' TRIUMPH. I have grown this potato on my own grounds extensively this season. It is round in shape, with few eyes, and of a rich, pinkish red color. It grows to a good market size, is white fleshed and cooks mealy. In earliness it ranks with the Early Ohio, and yields about equal to it on upland. MOORE'S SEEDLING, This is a new seeding from the State of Maine, Perhaps the very best summary of what it is, is given in the fact that Mr. Moore's neighbors paid him two dollars a bushel for all he could spare, to raise potatoes for their own use when Early Rose was selling at 35 cents per bushel. It is a seedling of Early Rose, and very closely resembles it, but grows to a larger size, yields much heavier, and for eating is most excellent, being light, dry and floury all through, while so many sorts if dry at all are so only on the outside. LATE OHIO. This variety was originated by Mr. Reece, the same gentle- man who originated Early Ohio. It has the same excellent characteristics as that choice variety, with the addition of a characteristic vigor, — the comparative difference being just about that which is found between Early Rose and Late Rose. 54 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. THE EARLY OHIO. This first-class potato is tlue first of my own introducing i since I several years ago sent out the Excelsior. The Early! Ohio is one of the numerous seedlings of the Early Rose., ! but while almost all of these are so like their parent as j to be undistinguishable from it, the Early Ohio, while: A f THE EAELY OHIO. in color like the Early Rose is, in shape, distinct, being round-oblong instead of oval-oblong, so that side by side it is readily distinguishable. Eyes about as. numerous as those of the parent, while the brows are rather more prominent. On the largest specimens, the cluster of eyes at the seed end are located slightly one side of the longer axis. Quality ex- cellent Grown side by side with the Early Rose, it proved a ■week earlier, while the yield icas a third greater. To get the best results, plant on rich, rather moist soil. " The Early Ohio Potato I got from you proved to be the best of any I have cultivated. They have three good recommendations— earliness, superior quality and an excellent ciQpper." R. F. Shilling, Rural Dale, Ohio. "Early Ohio is the earliest, handsomest and best early I have ever grown, after 1.5 years' observation and experience— growing few small ones, and making a first class size for table use. If there is any objec- tion, it is that they average too large. They are dry and white when cooked. As an early market potato, it almost literally drives every other out or use. When Early Kose sold at 30c. per bushel, parties would pay 50c. for Early Ohio, and declare that they would rather do it than have the Early Rose at 2.5c. It keeps well into the summer for an early potato. They were planted last year as late as July 10th, and made as large a crop as Early Kose planted early in May. The yield this vear was 33,5 bushels per acre by measure." From W. S. L., in Country Gentleman,' ,, £,l!V Tillixohast, in his new work, writes as follows of the Ohio :— This is, all things considered, the best very early potato we have ever grown. It is of recent introduction. It is a seedling of the Early Eose and is named after the state in which it originated. It is of nearly the some color as its parent, but differs in shape, heing more nearly round. It grows to a large size, is very productive and of first rate quality. A decided acquisition. " "Another season's trial with this splendid early potato more than con- firms my previous good opinion of its excellent merits ; there is not a dissenting voice ; they all say that it is the best early potato they ever little Sioux, Iowa. j. l. Perkins. '"The quality and size of your Early Ohios were excellent. Planted y side with the Early Rose I think I can safely say that they are about a week earlier, Haverhill, Mass. J. R. Nichols, M. D. I obtained from Mr. Gregory, of Marblehead, last spring, some seeds or the Early Ohio. Planted side by side with the Early Eose, the Early Ohms were out of the ground first. They have proved decidedly to ad- vantage. They were good for use, I think, ten days in advance of the fcarly Eose, certainly a week or more. I value them highly. I think they are of better flavor than the Early Eose. A. G. Comings. Strafford Co., K. H. DUNMORE. This new seedling — a while skinned and white fleshed variety, which originated in Vermont, tested in my experiment al plot side by side with over forty varieties, in every re- quisite of a first-class potato ranks but second to the Bur- bank. The public will find that it is far superior in its yield T size of the tubers, their handsome appearance and fine floury quality either boiled or baked, to several of the varieties that have recently become famous. I would recommend all potato fanciers to try the Dunmore. As the same potato varies on different soils, probably on some soils the Dunmore will give greater satisfaction than the Burbank Seedling. Mr. Tillinghast, in bis book speaks as follows of the Dun- more : " This is another valuable new variety of Mr. Gregory's introduction. It is a large, smooth, round, white potato, of beautful appearance, fine quality and enormous yielding propensities. We have grown many specimens weighing two pounds each, and have not yet seen a hollow one. Its general appearance somewhat resembles the Peerless, but it surpasses that well known variety in both yield and quality." "From the peck of Dunmore. (the best potatoes I ever saw in my life,) I got the enormous yield of 27 bushels. I saw they were going to turn out big and I gave very large measure. I think they would weigh out over 27 bushels, and a nicer potatoe for table use I never saw. I would not sell my interest in them and do without them for all the other kinds, raised. I took the first premium on them at the cwunty fair and think I could have taken the same at the state fair had I taken some of them, and I should had I known they were so good at the time. We have had one of the dryest seasons known here. 1 honestly believe I would have had from five to eight bushels more from the peck, had they had rain when it was needed. Some of the farmers think i t is impossible to raise that many from a peck of seed; they were raised on river bottom very rich soil. This statement I am ready to swear to and have the potatoes. to show for themselves. They all wanted to know where I got the seed, and I told them from my old stand, of Mr Gregory. You are at liberty to make use of any part of this letter you wish to in your catalogue and if any one beats this yield, I will see what 1 can do with them in a good season. Some hills had 20 nice big potatoes, all large enough to eat from one eye on a piece, and one piece in a hill." Daniel M. Clute. FortDodrje, Webster Co., Iowa. ' From one pound of your Dunmore late potatoes, I raised eighty-five- inds. I think they are a splendid potato. Winslmo, III. .Mrs. Sarah Eee. " I grew 15 varieties of potatoes this year, but the Dunmore by far ex- celled them all in yield." Yours Kespectfully, Mellersport, Fairfield Co.. Ohio. Matt Milleb. 1101:111 JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 55 Unlike its parent it is white This, like the Early Ohio, is- a seedling of Early Eose, but is of Massachusetts origin, skinned. It has yielded 435 bushels to the acre. Planted side by side with Early Eose, New York Late Rose, Peerless and BrowneJl's Beauty, it has excelled them all in yield. In beauty of form it is unexcelled, the proportions being all that can be desired, and is never hollow hearted. It has the good characteristic of yielding almost no small potatoes; while but five-sixths of the Early Eose, growing side by side, were of market size, of the Burbank forty- nine fiftieths were marketable. It has but few eyes, which are sunk but little below the surface. In quality it is fine grained, of excellent flavor either boiled or baked, is dry and floury, in fine is all that can be desired. It ranks between the very early and very late varieties. The best results have been obtained on the sandy loams of river bottoms. In brief, the argument for sending out the new seedling is as follows : 1st, its exceptionally great productiveness ; 2d, the first class quality of the potato; 3d, the capital trait for market, that it produces almost none of unmarketable size; 4th, its hardy vigor ; 5th, it does not grow hollow hearted even when weighing over a pound to a single potato ; 6th, the proportions and appearance ' are so attractive it will draw the attention of marketmen. In many sections the Burbank has become the standard late potato. BXJKBAjSTIC'S seedling, "Last April I purchased of you one barrel of Bui-bank's Seedling. Considering the dry season the yield was remarkably large. 1 dug 22