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THE ILLmOIS FAEMEE. 



Feb. 



sons and years •were counted by lunar and solar 

 indications. It is hard to prove this theory, 

 though it is most likely true ; and the conceded 

 fact that time, excepting days only, was counted 

 by the moon, by the antideluvian^, renders it the 

 more plausible. 



If this theory is true, then in that age of the so- 

 lar world, heat was alwtiys the same, in any given 

 plnce, and the ever-varying moon which crossed 

 the extremes of latitude, may have exercised a 

 marked influence on vegetation. Indeed, such 

 must have been the case ; and the lunar influences 

 on vegetation then may have been almost as 

 manifest as solar influences, in warm climates, 

 now. If now we suppose that a change in the 

 direction of the poles of the earth causfd the 

 flood, and produced our seasons, we shall see 

 how easy it was to substitute the sun for the 

 moon, in measuring time, but to retain the belief 

 in lunar icfluence?, which were then most likely 

 accounted for as ignorant people now account for 

 charms. 



From these premises it is obvious that, if the 

 moon ruled then, the sun rules now ; that if they 

 were governed by ihe moon, we should be gov- 

 erned by the sun ; and that when the proper 

 season has arrived, when the air and soil are 

 warm enough, and the soil is in good condition, 

 as to moisture, pulver'zation and drainage, the 

 time has come to plant or sow, and the moon is 

 so far in the minority, at least, that it need not 

 be noticed. — Indiana Farmer. 



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List of Illinois Nurseries. 



We give below a list of our Illinois nur- 

 series, 60 far as we can obtain them. We 

 shall be pleased to make any correction or 

 additions, as it is our purpose to make the 

 list as complete as possible : 



Babcock & Brother, Summerfield. 



Very A'drich, Tiskilwa. 



I. C. Allen, Lena. 



H. N. Bliss, Buda. 



Arthur Bryant, Princeton. 



Samuel Brooks, Chicago. 



E. E. Bacon, Willow Creek. 



John B, Bubach, Princeton. 



Jabez Capps & Son, Mt. Pulaski. 



A. S. Coe, Port Byron. 



Colman & Drake, Bloomington. 



John A. Cook, Pavillion. 



Dent & Verner, Wenona. 



Robert Douglass, Waukegan. 



Michael Doyle, Springfield. 



M. L. Dunlap, Champaign, 



Samuel Edwards, Lamoille. 



Lewis Elsworth & Co., Napierville. 



Emmeret & Wiieeler, Freeport. 



Isaac B. Eisex, Drury. 



0. B. Qalusha, Lisbon. 



John Garner, Nova. 



Dr. James H. Grain, Cain. 



Havens & Austin, Cass. 



William T. Henning, Polo. 



R. Herring, Durand. 



C. H. Hibbard, Marengo. 



N. & C. G. Hotchkiss, Belvidere. 



J. lluggins, Woodburn. 



Charles Hamilton & Son, Ridgefield. 



A. Harbison, Mount Union. 



J. H. Hunter, Ashley; 



R. AV. Hunt & Co., Galesbnrg. 



Johnson & Clark, Brighton. 



Dr. J. A. Kennicott West Northfield. 



D. F. Kinney, Rock Island. 

 M. Myers, Magnolia. 

 Huntington & W.oodworth, Rockford. 



A. S. & George Barry, Alton. 

 I S Knowlton, Byron. 

 Charles Kennicott, Sandoval. 

 M. G. Kern, Alton. 



J. L. Little, Dixon. 

 Tyler McWhorter, Millersburg, 

 Manly & Lowe, Marshall. 

 Dr I. D. Maxon, Henry. 

 Otis Marble, Thompson's. 

 S. G. Minkler, Specil Grove. 

 Luman Montague, West Point. 

 - J. Moore, Diamond Lake. 



E. Ordway, Freeport. 

 Overman & Mann, Bloomington. 

 Thomas Payne, Fremont Centre. 

 L. S. Pennington, Sterling. 



F. K. Phoenix, Bloominsiton. 



B. Pullen & Brother, Centralia. 

 Rogers, Woodward & Glass, Marengo. 



A. Ross, Ottowa. 



Edgar Sanders, near Chicago. 

 Henry Shaw, Tremont. 

 J. S. Sherman, Rockford. 

 E. H. Skinner, Marengo. 

 H. Strickland, Roscoe. 

 I. H. Stuart, Quincy. 



J. H. Tull & Son, two and a half miles from 

 Pontoosac. 

 S. J. Wallace, Carthage. 

 Adnah Williams, Galesburg. 



B. 0. Curtis, Paris. 



Professor J. B. Turner, -Jacksonville. 



James Rees, Ridge Farm, Vermillion county. 



Johnson & Clark, Brighton. 



Overman & Bushnell, Canton. 



Clem & Ten Brook, Paris. 



We are aware that the list is very imper- 

 fect, yet here is enough to show that if peo- 

 ple will look to their interest and buy at 

 home, that they will have no need to risk 

 long importations, besides paying exchange 



and freight. 



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Impositions. 



The Southern Homestead says a French itiner- 

 ant in that neighborhood sold bulbs of the squill 

 for the magnificent Brunsvigia Josephence, or 

 Josephine Lilly ; and roots of the Columbine or 

 Thalictrum — a common weed — for the British 

 Queen Strawberry. Served them right — igno- 

 rance of a strawberry plant in a purchaser is 

 inexcusable,. We know a party who '< would 

 not be humbugged" by a respectable Philadel- 

 phia seedsman two years ago, by " paying^two 

 dollars for a small Rebecca grape," and so went 



