Title: B.K. Bliss & Sons' abridged catalogue and gardeners' almanac for 1874 : containing a list of the best known and most polular varieties of garden, field and flower seeds, selected from out large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties, with brief directions for their culture
Identifier: bkblisssonsabrid1874bkbl (find matches)
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: B. K. Bliss & Sons; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs
Publisher: New York, N. Y. : B. K. Bliss & Sons
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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repaid, even in a family vegetable garden. Holds one quart, though working well with a fraction of an ounce; hoes from 5 to 14 inches wide; cast steel blades; no gearing, light, durable, and artistic. We can not show in the engraving the different com- binations, but complete directions accom- pany each machine. Send for circular, with testimonials. Price. — Planet Combined 3Iachine, SI0.50; Planet Double Wlieel Koe, SS.oO ; Planet Drill, No. 2, 812.50 ; Planet Drill, No. 3, S16.75 ; Planet Double Wbeel Hoe, complete witb subsoilers and extra boes, SIO.OO. Comstock^s IsTew Gardening Implements. Comstock's Hand Cultivator and Onion Weeder Combined.—In the cultiva- tion of Onions, Carrots, Beets, Parsnips. Ruta Baga. Rice, Spinach. Strawberries, Nursery Stocks, and other small drill crops, this implement.^^the invention of Wm. G. Comstock, for many years a large Seed Grower in Wethersfield. Conn., will do the work of six mex with hoes. It is the only implement thnt pulls the iceeds and thoroughly pulverizes the soil; runs close to the rows, and takes out all the weeds not directly in line with the plants, without covering them, however small, and throws the earth up to or away from the rows. It is readily adjusted to clean the space between rows from 6 to 15 inches apart at one passage. Comstock's Hand Cultivator and Onion Weeder Combined. Price, 89.25. Comstock's Seed Sower. Price, 810.35. Comstock's Seed Sower, Hand Cultivator and TVeeder Combined.—This is a new and perfect small Seed Sower, combined with the Cultivator and Weeder, and can be separated or attached in five minutes. It sows Beet, Parsnip, and other ditncult seeds which can be sown with any Seeder, with the greatest regularity, without waste or clogging, tind is especially adapted to sowing Onion at the rate of four, five or six pounds to the acre. It has a click and slide motion with a circular plate perforated with ten graduated holes, attached to the slide and agitator. By revolving the disk, which is held in place by a spring, it can be changed instantly to sow thick or thin, without removing the seed from the hopper. Price, 815 35. Comstock's Strawberry Kunner Cutter, witli tbe Cultivator and Weeder ! Combined.—A sharp steel wheel and knife, to be fixed to the Cultivator and Weeder. for re- moving Strawberry Runners, cultivating between the rows at the same time. Price, 812.25. Camstock's Seed Sower, Strawberry Cutter, Cultivator and Weeder Com- bined. Price, 818.35. DESCBIPTIYE CIBCULAKS MAILED TO ALL APPLICANTS. > » ♦ Ladies and Children's Garden Tools.
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These are made of the very best cast steel, about ten inches in lencrth, wi^h hard wood handb-s beautifully polished and neatly put up in boxes. They wid be found very useful in working and loosening the soil and removing weeds from among flowers and young vegetables, jl No. 1, extra polished, .^1.25 per set of four; by mail, postpaid, - - Sl-50 No. 2, painted and polished, SI.00 per set of four ; by mail, postpaid, - 1.25

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