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Superb Incomparable Dwarf Early Cabbage, 

 -Choke's Wonderful Twenty-Eight-Day Early Cu- 

 cumber, and other wonderful new novelties, just 

 introduced, of which I told your readers last year ? 

 [See page 274, May, 1890. — Ed.'\ Why don't 

 someone invent a brand new tomato which will 

 ■climb so high that the chickens cannot roost on it, 

 •or a new apple or pear which cannot be phased by 

 arctic cold or prairie fires ? 



Why don't someone invent a way of making pic- 

 tures so that they will look as the thing ought to 



the whole kit of them ? I do not see. And we 

 should be able to recognize the pests then because 

 they always look the same anyway, and they al- 

 ways raise their heads and shoulders in just 

 the same way. Really, so many cuts are confus- 

 ing. I often wonder what these professors would 

 do if they didn't have these bugs to fall back on ! 

 When the summer has been cold or the moles have 

 run through the traps and eaten up all the po- 

 tatoes — cut in only one way, too — the bugs are 

 still there, or some new recruit has been naturalized 



'And as for Bacteery — Fiddlesticks !" 



look and not be so particular about getting the exact 

 twist on every leaf, or the correct hitch on the 

 flower ? There is no use of being so exact ; it only 

 makes useless bother and it don't pay. And why 

 can't the professors make some arrangement to 

 lend each other pictures of the bugs and things 

 -they catch and not tax the farmers to make a new 

 picture everytime they find something which is not 

 new ? Why does every bulletin have a different 

 kind of picture of codlin moth and potato bug and 

 cut-worm, when one picture could go the rounds of 



and is going to begin business in a new line ; and 

 these can be talked about. 



Since my dear Uncle Samuel came down here a 

 year or two ago, and sat on our fence and ate water- 

 melons while I told him how Enoch and I had been 

 bothered by carting plants over the country in our 

 " democrat," and he offered to take them in his bag 

 and carry them for half price, Enoch and I have 

 done well. When plants go by the ounce, it is not 

 necessary to grow them big. I^eople don't expect 

 it, and we don't e.xpect that they shall. I can't see 



