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THE ILLmOIS FAHMEK. 



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Still biding his time, he made no effort to sell by 

 advertisiDg until the season was too far advanced 

 fdr this purpose ; the result is, he will adyise the 

 readers of the Fabmbb in tim« for them to avail 

 themselves of his low prices and well grown 

 plants. We received from him several hundred 

 Tines one year old, so large and fine that they 

 astonish our customers. The express oharges 

 from Iowa was $1.50 a hundred plants, and by 

 the thousand would not be much, if any, over a 

 dollar. Of course it is an unusual direction 

 from which to order grape vines, but if we can 

 get better grown vines and at just half what is 

 charged for them at the East, we can see no good 

 reason for not sendiog to Iowa for grape vines, 

 for the amount at least beyond the home supply. 

 For one we make the venture that the advantage 

 of half price has pleased our customers, we re^ 

 tailing them at less than the cost at wholsale 

 prices. We are for well grown cheap trees an| 

 plants whether grown at home or abroad. ^ 



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A WiNB Cellab. — James Smith, of Des MoineA 

 Iowa, has a wine cellar 37 by 45 feet, ten feet 

 deep with 22 inch wall — ^this looks as though he 

 had some faith in wine-making, on the table lands 

 of Iowa. Mr. Smith writes that the tree ped- 

 dlars sold Concord grape vines a few miles west 

 of him at one dollar and fifty cents each, when 

 he sold better ones at a quarter of a dollar. Now 

 this is in bad taste for the intelligence of the 

 farmers in Western Iowa, or good for the hum. 

 bugging tact of the pi ddlars. Well, if they only 

 sold them a true oncord, they done a good deed 

 after all, as the children of the humbugged farm- 

 er will find the Concord no humbug when it 

 fraits, and if the father paid for one plant what 

 would have purchased half a dozen, the knowl. 

 edge of this may be useful hereafter in the way 

 of a hint to first inquire the price which a reliable 

 man sells plants at before he gives his order to a 

 mere adventurer, who has no other interest than 

 to cheat the community, this year in plants, next 

 year in tomb stones, and the next in some patent 

 nostrum. 



■ Cotton Cuitube- — ^A large amount of seed is 

 Mng sent to this State from Tennessee, and Qi;ir 

 fanners would do well to give it a fair trial. In 

 another part of the Fabmeb we give an article 

 on its culture by J. H. Klippart, of Ohio. On 

 xrell drained soils the ridging is unnecessary. 

 We iiltend to plant one or two acres. ;^ /y,-. 



Peab TEEES.^-We have just opened our in-, 

 voice of Dwarf and standard pear trees from the 

 nursery of A. Frost & Co., Rochester. They are 

 first class two year old trees — varieties of our 

 own, not ihe nursery selections — all fine, thrifty 

 trees and in good order. There are certain va-. 

 rities of the pear that have thus far done well on 

 the prairies and we prefer to pay our extra paing 

 for those rather than to run the gauntlet of those 

 who have gone crazy on French pears. The 

 Messrs. P. & Co., have brought down their list 

 of pears to reasonable bounds, and have rejected 

 nearly all the fancy sorts. Some twenty varie- 

 ties wil fill our bill at present. 



A New Seed Stork. — Albert H. Harvey, for a 

 long time in the well known seed store of Harvey 

 & Co., Boston, has located a seed. store in Chica- 

 go. Not having visited it in person, we can say 

 little of its prospects. We have sent a couple of 

 email orders by way of trial, and are well pleased 

 with their prompt execution. From what we 

 hear of Mr. H., he knows how to keep a seed 

 store. The name has been so long and favora- 

 bly known, in this line, that with ordinary tact, 

 Mr. H. will l;>e able to secure a large share of 

 trade. We had about given up all hopes of en- 

 terprise in this department in the little village 

 of Chicago, but this looks a little as though we 

 were for once mistaken, yet our caution has be- 

 come so chronic that we shall be cautious even 

 under the auspices of a well established name, 

 we shall therefore take Mr. H. on trial and give 

 him a chance to coin a good name for himself, 

 amonghis new patrons. Bad seeds are not dis* 

 posed of when< you have lost your money, as 

 three to five times tlTeir value is lost in labor, 

 and the season is nast to recover from the loss. 

 When a seedman is too poor or penurious to go 

 into the market to purchase the best of sefed, he 

 will please excuse us from sending our oz'ders to 

 him. The selling of fresh grown seeds will al- 

 ways please the planters and make the dealer 

 sleep all the sounder of nights. " ' ■'"-•'■'■- ' 



Fbuit Fabu of KiDDEB & KuNG. — OuT read- 

 ers are aware that this farm is located at Evans* 

 ton, nordi of Chicago, and is the largest for tixe 

 ctdture of sm&ll fruits in the State. We bare 

 just reoelTed a package of plants from this es* 

 tablishment which came in fine order. They Sell 

 plants of all the small fruits as well as grow the 

 fruit. Planters of small fruits would do Well 

 to send for their catalogue. • ' 1 



