OF THE AMERICAN GARDENER'S MAGAZINE. THE AMERICAN GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, circulating as it does throughout the United States, among a great portion of the scientific, practical, and amateur gardeners, offers a valuable medium to Nurserymen, Florists, and Seedsmen, for advertising their various productions. To Booksellers, who have works on Botany, Gardening, Agriculture, and others connected with Domestic and Rural Economy, for sale, it is peculiarly adapted for advertising. Advertisements inserted on the following terms:— Six lines and under, One third of a page, Half a page A page, All advertisements must be sent to the publishers (post paid) on or before the fifteenth of the month. HORTICULTURAL SEED WAREHOUSE. NEW GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS. HOVEY & CO. (Nos. 79 and 81 Cornhill) have just received their general assortment of fresh SEEDS, of every description, of the growth of 1835. Catalogues of the same may be had, on application, gratis. BOXES OF SEEDS put up for retail dealers, in any quantity, to whom will be made a liberal discount. Hovey & Co. are agents for the "Silk Culturist," published at Hartford, and receive subscriptions at their seedstore; 50 cents per year. COBB'S MANUAL, on the growth of the Mulberry tree and manufacture of Silk. 2d edition; 50 cts. 100 pounds white mulberry seed, of the growth of 1835; also 100,000 WHITE MULBERRY TREES, three years old. Just published CHAPTAL'S AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, 1 vol. 12mo. Price $1,25. GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS of every description, including an extensive assortment of the newest and finest varieties. An extensive collection of Books, connected with gardening, botany, &c. viz., Loudon's Hortus Britannicus, Sweet's Hot-house and Greenhouse Manual, Rennie's Alphabets of Gardening, Botany, Insects, Chemistry, &c., Doyle's Flower Garden, McNab on Heaths, Hortus Woburnensis, Harrison on Fruit Trees, Complete Farmer, New American Gardener, American Orchardist, Gardener's Assistant, Florist's Guide, &c. Subscriptions received for the Cultivator, published at Albany, and conducted by Judge Buel, assisted by a committee of the New York State Agricultural Society; price 50 cents, in monthly quarto numbers. NURSERY OF WILLIAM KENRICK, At Nonantum Hill, in Newton, Mass. FRUIT TREES, ORNAMENTAL TREES and PLANTS; CHINESE MULBERRIES, or MORUS MULTICAULIS, for SILK; 50 cts. per single plant, $4 50 per dozen, $25 to $30 per hundred, or by the thousand at reduced prices. Also Common White Mulberries. ORNAMENTAL TREES and ROSES; one thousand varieties of the most beautiful. One thousand varieties ornamental herbaceous plants, including splendid Ponies and Double Dahlias. Address to William Kenrick, Newton, near Boston. Trees packed for distant places in the first style. Transportation to the city without charge. Catalogues gratis. All orders left with Messrs. HOVEY & Co., who are Agents, at their HORTICULTURAL SEED STORE, Nos. 79 and 81 Cornhill, Boston, will meet with prompt attention. Aug. 17, 1835. FRUIT and ORNAMENTAL TREES, &c. FOR SALE at the Nursery of JOHN A. KENRICK, in Newton, five miles from Boston-a large and extensive variety of choice Fruit Trees, Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, consisting of the best varieties of the new foreign and native Pears, Apples, Peaches, Plums, Cherries, Nectarines, Apricots, Quinces, Almonds, Gooseberries, Currants, Strawberries, Raspberries, Grapes, &c. In the selection of fruits, no labor or expense has been spared to procure from the best sources, those which have been proved, on trial, to be of the choicest kinds. The utmost accuracy will be observed, and purchasers may depend on receiving trees true to the kinds they order. Also, the finest collection of herbaceous perennial flowering plants, Poonies, Double Dahlias,—and a splendid collection of hardy and Chinese Roses, selected with great care, both in regard to the beauty of their flowers, and the distinctness of their colors. Also, the MORUS MULTICAULIS, or true Chinese Mulberry, by the 100 or 1000, at a liberal discount.-White Italian do. and other varieties, making a complete assortment for stocking a Mulberry Plantation. All orders promptly executed, and trees will be packed to go safely by land or water, and will be delivered in Boston free of expense. Address JOHN A. KENRICK, Newton, Mass. Or all orders will meet with the same attention if forwarded or left with HovEY & Co., at their Seed Warehouse, Nos. 79 and 81 Cornhill, Boston, who are agents. Catalogues sent gratis, to all applicants. Nov. 1, 1835. GARDENING. WILLIAM SHERIDAN respectfully informs the public that he will devote his time, the coming season, to the laying out of Gardens, pruning grape vines, and any other work in his profession. Grateful for past favors, by his assiduous attention to all work with which he may be entrusted, he hopes to continue to merit the patronage of the public. Orders left with Messrs. Hovey & Co., at their seed warehouse, 79 & 81 Cornhill, will meet with immediate attention. March 1, 1836. WORKS ON AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, BOTANY, &c., FOR SALE BY HOVEY & CO. I. THE GREEN-HOUSE COMPANION, comprising a general course of Green-house and Conservatory Practice throughout the year, including all the Plants in Green-house Cultivation, with the Treatment of Flowers in rooms. Third English edition. Price $4 50. II. HORTUS WOBURNENSIS; a Descriptive Catalogue, comprising the generic and specific character and color of the flower, native country, year of introduction, soil and mode of propagation, of upwards of 6000 of the finest Ornamental Plants and Shrubs, both exotic and indigenous; to which is added, Designs for erecting Hot-houses, Green-houses, Pits, &c., and Heating by Hot Water. By JAMES FORBES, C. M. H. S., &c., Gardener at Woburn Abbey. 1 vol. medium 8vo. $7 00. "We would only remark that the mode of heating by hot water, in use at Woburn, is more successful than we ever saw it at any other garden."-Hort. Reg., March, 1834. III. AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING; comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, Landscape Gardening, &c. By J. C. LOUDON, F. L. G. H. and Z. S. New edition, in 1 vol. 8vo. (or 20 Parts, price 2s. 6d. each), containing between 1200 and 1300 pages of letterpress, with nearly 1000 Engravings on Wood. Price $14 50 vellum back. IV. THE AMERICAN FARMER'S LIBRARY; containing the following volumes: 1. THE NEW AMERICAN GARDENER; containing practical directions on the culture of Fruits and Vegetables, including Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Graperies, Silk, Strawberries, &c. By T. G. FESSENDEN. Tenth edition, 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1. 2. NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST; or an account of the most valuable varieties of fruit of all climates, adapted to cultivation in the United States, with their history, modes of culture, management, uses, &c., and the culture of Silk. With an Appendix on vegetables, ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Flowers. By W. KENRICK. Second edition. 1 vol., 12mo. Price $1. 3. THE COMPLETE FARMER, and Rural Economist; containing a compendious epitome of the most important branches of Agriculture and Rural Economy. By T. G. FESSENDEN. Second edition. 1 vol. 12mo. Price $1. V. THE YOUNG GARDENER'S ASSISTANT; containing a Catalogue of Garden and Flower Seeds, with practical directions under each head, for the cultivation of Culinary Vegetables and Flowers. By T. BRidgeman. Fifth edition. 1 vol. 12mo. Price 75 cents. VI. CHEMISTRY APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE. By JOHN ANTHONY CHAPTAL, Count of Chanteloup, Peer of France, &c. First American edition, translated from the second French edition. 1 vol. 12mo. Price $1 25. THE CULTIVATOR; A MONTHLY PUBLICATION, DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH. Published by the New York State Agricultural Society. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF J. BUEL, J. P. BEEKMAN, AND J. D. WASSON. VOL. III COMMENCED MARCH 1st, 1836. In Quarto Numbers.-Price 50 Cents a year, in Advance. THE object of the publication is to disseminate useful information, among the agricultural community in the cheapest practical form; and the success of the undertaking and the character of the paper, are indicated by the fact, that although it has not yet reached the third volume, its subscribers exceed twelve thousand, and comprise residents of twentyone of the United States. The present volume has been so enlarged, that each number will contain as much matter as eighteen pages of the first. It contains many engravings and cuts executed by good artists, illustrative of implements, animals, and operations of industry. Vol. I may be had, stitched in a neat cover, for fifty cents. The postage is but 193 cents to any part of the Union. HOVEY & Co. are agents of the Cultivator for the New England States. VALUABLE PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS. W. H. S. JORDAN Successor to SAMUEL COLMAN, 121 Washington Street, Boston, at Bookstore of Russell, Shattuck & Co. 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SELECT CATALOGUE OF NEW AND SUPERB SPOTTED, SHADED, STRIPED AND SELF-COLORED DAHLIAS, GROWN AND FOR SALE BY HOVEY & CO. 1836. *** Plants of the new and choice kinds to be ready for delivery in April and May. CATALOGUES gratis, ON APPLICATION, post paid. HOVEY & Co. respectfully invite the attention of their friends, and the public generally, to the following Catalogue of SUPERB NEW DOUBLE DAHLIAS for 1836. It includes nearly all the fine kinds exhibited, last season, at the Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania Horticultural Societies' grand Dahlia Shows. Many of them also gained the highest prizes at the various Floricultural displays in England last year. They can confidently recommend them for their variety of color and excellent form. All orders with which they may be entrusted, will meet with immediate attention, and be correctly and promptly executed. Agrippinea, French white, tipped with rosy lilac, Height in feet. Price. 3 3 1 00 fimbriata, fringed white, 5 purpureata, white, shaded and margined with lilac, 4 1 00 Albion (Wells's), white, tinted with rosy lilac, Alicia (Richardson's), white, with pink edge, beautiful, 44 1 Augusta (Douglas's), purple and crimson shaded, 4 Aurantia speciosissima, large orange, Beauty of Salem, white,tinted, and margined with rosy pink, 4 5 1 00 434 1 00 100 Bellonia, crimson, 4 Cassina, scarlet, fine form and profuse flowerer, 5 Cockade Yellow (Brewers'), pale yellow, compact flower, 4 7 Criterion (Douglas's), pure white, tinged with light purple, excellent, Dennisii, fine ruby, minor, fine scarlet (dwarf), Densa, chocolate crimson, Desdemona (Brown's), pure white, edged with rosy pink, 5 1 00 75 75 50 75 50 |