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Cavanagh, Sandford & Co., Merchant Tailors and Importers, 16 West 23d STREET, Opposite Fifth Ave. Hotel, NEW YORK | MAKERS OF THE © & § SHIRT PAJAMAS AND UNDERWEAR. ==THE FAMOUS==—= SIECAMIE R: L.CREAM.) Guaranteed to cure blutches and pimples, to heal the effects of sun and wind, and render the skin fresh and youthful. ; PRICES, Recamier Cream, $1.50. Recamier Balm, $1.50. Powder, $1.00, RECAMIER BALM AND POWDER, FOR THE COMPLEXION. Prepared from a recipe used for many years by the noted French Beauty, Mme. Recamier, and never before manu- factured for sile, Indorsed by hundreds of well-known women, among them Mrs. James Brown Potter, Mrs. Langtry. Mme. Modjeska, Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wil- cox, and by Professor Stillman, who has analyzed and thoroughly indorses the Recamier ‘Preparations. Send for | circular with copies of these letters. For sale by druggists and dealers in fancy goods everywhere, and by the sole manufacturer and proprietor, at wholesale and retail by HARRIET HUBBARD AYER, 27 Union Square, New York. CROUCH & FITZGERALD MAKE THE MOST RELIABLE. TRUNKS, Bags, &e., &e., 723 SIXTH AVE , below god St. $96 BROADWAY. below Prince St. 1 CORTLANDT ST., cor. B’way. NEW YORK. -REDFERN RIDING HABITS Cut on Improvep SaFeTy PRINCIPLE. FOR PARK OR HUNTING. (210 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. MUSA ENSETE. “THE GREAT ABYSSINIAN BANANA Mr. William Robinson, the great English authority oa gardening, says this is the noblest decorative plant in the world, and the many customers we induced to try it last season confirm thi Mr, Krieger, superintendent of Wheeling Park, writes: *L never had anything in the park that has attracted one-quarter the attent and admiration as these wonderful Bananas, You will remember my buyi fifty of them when at your establishment last spring, at your earnest recos mendation, though I confess 1 was decidedly skeptical of such small pl your glowing description, 1 planted them in an old dahlia bed, and although the soil was very rich already, | piled on the manure ‘thick and heavy,’ and spaded it in. Then | had my men water the bed daily with the hose. ‘The result is astonishing. To-day (C the plants are 13 feet high (actual measurement), and their beauty and majestic are beyond my powers of description.” A member of the Pittsburgh Club, who to plan’ in (ront of the club-house (ia the central part of the city), says: "Te rap their growth astonished me, and [have been bothered not a little trying to tell the 1 inquirers what they are. ‘They are cheap, ridiculously cheap, for | could not have equale: their tro I effectiveness with a couple hundred dollars’ worth of palms.’ ‘The great merits of this banana have long been known to plantsmen and amateurs, but its high price has alway$ prevented its becoming popular. We have succeeded in getting a large stock! which we cas offer at about one-aizth the usoal prices. In the latitude of New York they should not be planted until the 2oth or asth of May. In some of the Southern States and California they are entirely hardy. PRICES + socts, 75 cts $1.00. $t-s0, $2.00, and $1.00 each » $5.00, $8.00, $10.00, $1 $20.00, and $30.00 per dozen, according to size ; a few extra-large plants at $5.00 and §: each. ' The smallest-sized plants will make fine specimens (from 6 to 12 feet bigh) the first 23a) season if soil is very rich and freely watered. We will send the smallest size, post-paid, by 1, carefully packed, for 75 cts. each. ‘The large sizes are not mailable. a 1 BOUK.—Our work, “A Few Flowers Worthy of General Culture,” was published (at first for free distribution) to call serious attention to the great advantage of gardening with hardy lowers; but its attractiveness created such a great desnand for it, and {rom many who were not plant buyers, that it was a serious tax on us, and we are compelled to make a nominal charge for it. The fourth and enlarged edition, now ready, is certainly the most beautiful and original book on flowers yet published—can be had bound in handsome durable cover, for so cents, or in leather for 75 cents, and FIFTY CENTS will be ALLowkD ON THE FIRST OKDER SENT amounting to two dollars or more; or an order for two dollars or more will secure a copy free, but not a second copy if one has already been received, , OUR DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE, containing a complete list of the best new and old varieties of Roses, Clema- tises, Khododendrons, Hardy Azaleas, Carnations, Lilies, Tuberous-rooted Begonias, Gloxinias, and the largest collection of Hardy Plants in America, sent on receipt of ten cents in stamps. B. A. ELLIOTT CO., 59,Sixth Stony, lily ei i comicbooks.com Ja ofl ste pr to m all du Jd