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New Farm, NEAR Pensacona, Fua., answer, that we have got our seeds from 
Dec. 17, 1887. . you since ’76, and advise all who want 
I have been using your seeds for five good seed | and reliable information 
years with much satisfaction, and ex- about the climates to deal with you, and 
pect to do so as long as I cultivate the guarantee that if they will follow your 
soil. ‘‘Frotscher’s Garden Manual” is | instructions, they will soon become old 
indispensable to the gardener in this 48 well as new customers. Hoping that 
latitude, and tells better than any other | You will attend to these explanations, 
what to plant, and how to do it, for the benefit of our many new-comers, 
J. V. DANSBY. and serve them as well as 
Warlet Gardener Your humble servant, 
Mrs. MARGARET WETMORE. 
PoncHaTou.La, La., Dec. 6, 1887. 
RICHARD FROTSCHER. my Almanac gives the desired informa- 
Dear Sir:—Have the goodness to ex- | tion. Will try to answer the question 
plain in your next Almanac, why aseed | fully in my next issue of the Almanac 
merchant should know his climate in | as it is almost impossible to do so at 
order to understand intelligently the _ present; being too late—as all is in 
wants of his patrons. Iam dailyasked, | print with the exception of the last 
‘‘who do you get-your seeds from?’ I . pages. 
A WORD ABOUT CABBAGE SEB 
CABBAGE SEED has been a specialty with me since I started 
into the seed business, nearly 25 yearsago. I have tried different strains 
of Flat Dutch, advertised as something extra by the leading seed growers; 
but I have never found any to come up to Frotscher’s Superior Flat 
Dutch. Since fifteen years I have sold this variety, and by selecting fine, 
well shaped heads to raise seeds from, it is now as the name says— 
Superior. Of all the Cabbages brought to this market, three-fourths are 
raised from seed obtained from me. There is no better variety for fall 
crop. One of my customers, whose letter is published under the head 
of Testimonials, had sown fifty-one pounds of my: Flat Dutch, and also 
fifteen pounds of Improved Early Summer. 
He is selling now fine specimens of cabbage, and will have~nearly a 
million to send tothe market. The largest crops raised about here for Spring 
are from the Improved Early Summer and Large Flat Brunswick, which 
are sold by me. ‘These are facts, which I can substantiate, and no 
braggadocio. I have read about Great Cabbages for the South; if they 
exist, they have never made a mark here. I tried them more than once. 
My cabbage seed is not sold at fancy prices; which can be seen by looking 
at the price-list. 
In answer to the above, I think that , 
