. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. A French invention for sho-srering plants with insect-killing liquids, or clear water, operating the same way as th
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. A French invention for sho-srering plants with insect-killing liquids, or clear water, operating the same way as the well-known perfume sprinkler of the drug stores, and the atomizer, or spray producer, of the surgeons. The liquid to he used is put into the hrass globe and the heUows worked; a fine-spray issues in such a copious stream that it is easy to reach every part of the plant and hedew it with whatever insect- killing liquid may he desirable. One great advantage of this apparatus is its economy. In the ordinary methods of treating plants with liquid insecticides, a very large share is wasted, while with this only so much as is needed to just moisten the leaves and stems, need he used. Carbolic Soap, and other preparations of Carbolic Acid, Whale Oil Soap, Tobacco Water, infusions of Quassia, Camomile, and Pyrethrum (Persian Insect Powder), and solutions of Salt, Carbonate of Ammonia, and Aloes, or whatever may be found useful against any particular insect, may be employed. It will also be found a most useful implement for shower- ing the foliage of house plants with tepid water during Winter, to cleanse them from dust and keep the foliage in a healthy condition. Price, $ each. FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF •iNSECTS, Etc. HORACE'S TOBACCO AXD HEIiliEBORE INSECTICIDE. In JPatcnt Bellows Box, for Rose Bugs, Apliis, and Plant-Infcctincj Insects. HORACE'S PERSIAN INSECT POWDER. In Patent Bellows Box, for Ants, Croton Bugs, Bed-Bugs, Fleas, and Lice on Animals and Household Bests. These Po
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