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QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 



American 

 Seeds. 



Aatnmn 

 Cabbage. 



Ijinseed Oil. 



Cotton Oil. 



Onien Sets. 



ing objects, all displeasing objects being hidden by masses of evergreen 

 trees and shrubs, which should be evergreen so as to hide the displeasing 

 objects inWinter as well as in Summer. The spaces between the vistas to be 

 planted with trees and shrubbery, single specimens and groups. On these 

 spaces mark with stakes the position of trees intended to reach full devel- 

 opment, placing them far enough apart to admit full development. This 

 done, fill in the spaces with other trees to make an immediate eifect, but 

 to be cut out as rapidly as they encroach upon those intended for full 

 development. Few men have the strength of character to thin out lawn 

 trees encroaching upon each other, but those who do thin out from time 

 to time have shapely trees and a general effect to be admired, while the 

 timid souls have only a mass of shrubbery and trees, a constant advertise- 

 ment of their incapacity. 



908. Q. Is there any particular merit in the seeds of garden vegetables 

 produced in the United States as compared with foreign seeds? 



A. Yes ; most assuredly. They are in the first place acclimated and 

 enabled to withstand our hot suns, possessing an heredity fitting them to 

 American conditions — not so with seeds developed in the moist climates 

 of France, England or Germany; and in the second place, American seeds 

 are more vital, being ripened in a dry climate, ripened in the field and not 

 in a stack as are most European seeds ; and thirdly, American seeds are 

 grown by the most intelligent of American farmers, men who know what 

 other Americans want as to form and quality. 



909. Q. What sorts of cabbage are most desirable for sowing in Sep- 

 tember to carry over Winter in cold frames ? 



A. Among Pointed Heads, Select Jersey Wakefield, Landreths' Large 

 York and Bloomsdale Early Market. Among Flat Heads, Reedland 

 Early Drumhead and Early Dwarf Flat Dutch. 



910. Q. What was the estimated value of linseed oil pressed in the 

 United States during the census year of 1890? 



A. Over twenty-three millions of dollars, the product of sixty-two 

 establishments. 



911. Q. Can you inform me the estimated value of the annual manu- 

 facture of tobacco, a very important agricultural product, into cigars and 

 cigarettes, snuff, and smoking and chewing preparations? 



A. About two hundred million dollars. 



912. Q. Under the census report of 1890, what was the value of cotton 

 seed oil and cotton cake ? 



A. The value of the two was over nineteen million dollars, the product 

 of one hundred and nineteen establishments. 



913. Q. How is it that of the two lots of onion sets received from you, 

 the first in September, and the other in December, the last were superior 

 to the first ? 



A. Sets shipped early in September are not fully cured, consequently 

 they cannot be expected when packed for several days, or perhaps for two 

 or three weeks, in crates or barrels, to be secure against heating and rot- 



