ferent varieties of vegetables, is a matter Worthy of careful 

 investigation and experiment. Liquids however, for top 

 dressing, are far preferable to all others. 



Selection of Seeds. — In the cultivation of vegetables, great 

 care should be taken in the selection of seed, not merely in 

 obtaining the best varieties, but so far as possible that which 

 had a healthy growth and came to an early maturity the 

 previous year. Those who rely wholly upon our seed 

 growers for their supply will not always get the quality or 

 variety sought for; but if proper care be taken, each man 

 may raise mostly his own, and thereby not only save an item 

 of expense, but determine the age and quality of his seed 

 for himself. 



Potatoes. — Doubtless it will be conceded by all that na 

 vegetable has so large a claim upon our attention as the 

 Potato, inasmuch as none occupy so common a place upon 

 our tables, or is so well adapted to meet the wants of those 

 in poverty and distress. Hence whatever knowledge human 

 science or practical experience can furnish, either to improve 

 their culture or preserve them from disease, should be cheer- 

 fully presented and widely diffused. So general was the 

 disease the past year, coupled with the severity of the winter, 

 that the price of good Potatoes reached a point in our 

 market before unknown. Although the disease, has made 

 fearful ravages in many sections the present year, yet the 

 indications are that the crop will be much larger and of 

 better quality than that of the previous year. Had our 

 farmers the certainty of a large and healthy yield, no crop 

 would be so profitable at anything like present prices. But 

 as no infalable remedy has yet been discovered to protect 

 this valuable vegetable from the fatal disease to which it is 

 now subject, we have only to go forward in the use of 

 such means as science and practical experience may suggest, 

 until the turning of a new leaf in the great book of Provi- 

 dence shall reveal to us either the cause of the disease, or 

 suggest a permanent and effectual remedy. 



