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of berries that are rather sweet, fairly firm, and which are of good size the season 

 through. Although supplied with but few stamens, it fertilizes well with me. 

 Perhaps the presence of other varieties may account for this. Warfield is much 

 like Crescent, but rather larger, and hulls easier. 



Williams has white ends, and, so far, does not equal Bubach in productive- 

 ness or quality. I have discarded Col. Cheney, Seth Boyden, Monarch of the 

 West, Great American, Downing, Cumberland, May King, New Dominion, 

 Manchester, Sharpless, Crescent Seedling, Atlantic, Jessie, Kentucky, Belmont, 

 Bidwell, Capt. Jack, Prince of Berries, Arnold's varieties, and many others. 

 Most of these succeed occasionally, but are not reliable. 



Niagara Falls South. E. Morden. 



Garden Seed should and will be grown in a climate that is most favorable 

 to the production of the vegetable. One favorable for the growth of vegetables 

 where the seed is eaten (such as peas, beans, etc.) would be one that induced 

 rapid growth, for we know that the seed is wanted as soon as possible after 

 sowing, as it is the seed only that is sought by the gardener, and it would be 

 difficult to get an early sort where vegetables grow slowly. For the class of 

 •vegetables of which the substance is eaten or used (such as lettuce, cabbage, 

 cauliflower, etc.) a climate should be selected w^here the growth is slow, since 

 the longer the period of running to seed the better, especially so with lettuce and 

 cabbage. If the seed stock in lettuce makes it appearance almost as soon as 

 the lettuce is in head, the result is very unsatisfactory, as the quality is regarded 

 as very poor. — C. C. Morse, before World's Hort. Congress, 1893. 



Manure for Bulbs. — An ounce of nitrate of soda, dissolved in four gallons 

 of water, is a quick and good stimulant for bulbs, to be applied twice a week 

 after the pots are filled with roots, and the flower spikes are fairly visible. A 

 large handful of soot, or about a pint, tied up in a piece of old canvas, and 

 immersed in the same quantity of water for a day or two, will furnish a safe and 

 excellent stimulant ; also good and safe is a quarter of a pound of cow manure 

 mixed in a large garden pot of water, and used as required. Any of these 

 stimulants will do good, or the whole of them applied alternately will benefit 

 bulbs that need more sustenance than the soil affords. 



How to Grow the Pansy. — The pansy delights in a cool, rich loam ; 

 the richer, the larger will be the flowers, in a partially shaded situation. It 

 never flourishes as well during the hot days of July and August as later in the 

 season. Young plants, from seeds sown early in the spring, if the bed be very 

 rich, will come into handsome bloom during the latter part of June. All the 

 first blossoms should be picked off that the plant may first become robust. 

 Even with the old plants, the great secret of keeping them in constant bloom is 

 to pick off the blossoms early and constantly, since it weakens the plant more to 

 ripen one seed-pod than to yield a dozen flowers. 



