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B PAYEE’S SEED CATALOGUE. 
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS FROM GERMANY. 
f UST as we were putting the finishing pages to our present Catalogue, tidings 
of the most flattering character come to us from Germany, in the Catalogues 
just issued by Messrs. F. C. Heinemann and C. Plat^ & Son, two of the 
largest and most noted Horticulturalist firms in Germany. The latter firm is the 
Purveyor to his Majesty the Emioror of Germany and King of Prussia. 
Both these establishments are located at Erfurt, this place being noted as the 
headquarters of the Water Cress, 
where it is grown in the highest per- 
fection and to such an extent that 
millions of baskets are annually sent 
to all parts of Europe My Upland 
dress, having been critically tested 
there last season, by the most com- 
petent judges, revealed the fact of 
its being possessed of such sterling 
merit, as to have it assigned the most 
prominent place in their respective 
Catalogues and heading the lists of 
Valuable Novelties offered there this 
season. Also, Mr. Heinemann lias 
been so favorably impressed with 
this, my Upland Cress, that speci- 
men plants were exhibited by him at 
Berlin, last fall. Acknowledgments 
from such authority, and from so 
eminent a source, are gratifying and New Upland Cress, 
complimentary in the highest degree. This plant, I first brought to public notice 
in a letter to the Farmers Review, and published August 19th, 1885. After 
describing it, I remarked that “In particular it would largely benefit the poorer 
classes and was destined to avert hundreds of untimely deaths which 
so frequently occur by gathering in and eating poisonous weeds in early 
spring.” This will cease to be when the Upland Cress will be generally known. 
Viewed in this light, I consider those Seedsmen who so kindly aided me in the 
work of disseminating this useful plant as well as the Press that made mention 
of it, as public benefactors, entitled to the thanks of the general community. 
Olnrk’s No. 1 Potato. Set* page 19. 
Yellow Danvers Onion, 
