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is the proper time to sow the seed for the fall crop, but those 

 who are willing to gamble with the clerk of the weather, can 

 continue to plant through August and September, and often 

 win, as was the case this season. However, for the later 

 plantings, the Italian Autumn Giant variety, sold by Frot- 

 scher, of New Orleans, is more hardy, though the flowers are 

 not so handsome. I have had heads of that variety in Feb- 

 ruary and March that weighed fifteen to twenty pounds, as 

 for instance, those exhibited at the Cotton Exchange in this 

 city. I again repeat, plant this crop on a good, high ridge 

 in all level locations. 



