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ecii varieties, some of which will mature 
very early, others medium, and still others 
very late, so that a supply may be had at 
any time during the season. And so with 
other vegetables, Those who are rightly 
situated will be well pleased with our 
'infixed seeds.” 
A He volution in Seed Growing. 
SUPERIOR CABBAGE SEEDS. 
It is now pretty generally admitted by ’ 
^ill experimenters that it is very much 
preferable to have vegetable seeds of most 
sorts grown as far north as possible. The 
result of this practice is perhaps more read¬ 
ily observable in planting seed potatoes 
-and cabbage seeds than any others. Cab¬ 
bage seeds grown in the Southern States 
•and planted in the North, do not, as a rule, 
produce good crops; while those grown in 
the far North, when planted in a more 
southern locality, have in many instances, 
produced results which were really re¬ 
markable. They show more vigorous, 
hardy and healthy plants from the day 
they first break through the ground, and 
invariably produce more uniform and solid 
beads, which mature in less time and keep 
better afte;* maturing, than those from 
southern grown seeds of the same varieties. 
We have been for more than ten years 
'Carefully experimenting upon this subject, 
with invariable results as here stated, and 
have been so thoroughly convinced of the 
truth of these statements that we have 
'established a seed-farm at about 48 degrees 
North latitude, which is 550 miles farther 
north than the city of Philadelphia, and 
over 200 miles faither north than St. Paul, 
Minnesota, which has been called the most 
northern seed garden in the Union. Our 
establishment is located in Washington 
Territory in the very north western county 
of the Union. The limited amount of 
seeds which we have produced there during 
the past ten years have been planted with 
such really remarkable results, that we 
have never as yet been able to supply the 
'demand for them: for a large portion of 
our trade wc have been forced to look 
elsewhere for supplies. We are pleased to 
•announce that we shall this season be able 
to supply a larger quantity than ever 
before, and as we expect to produce a full 
supply next season, we earnestly request 
that every cabbage grower in the Union 
who buys his seed will procure a sample of 
our “Puget Sound Stock” which is all 
carefully grown from perfect heads and 
of the very best strains obtainable , and 
compare it with the very best seeds to be 
procured elsewhere. We will risk the 
result, as we believe that it will in future 
bd used in preference to any other by all 
who test it. Labor in that country is very 
high and for that reason we cannot quite 
compete in price with Eastern grown seeds, 
but believe our patrons will find them 
much the cheapest in the end at any price. 
We shall this season fill all retail orders for 
Early Jersey Wakefield, Bottler's Early 
Drumhead, Late Flat Dutch, Late Ameri¬ 
can Drumhead , Early Bleichfield , Berk¬ 
shire Beauty and Marblehead Mammoth 
from Puget Sound Seeds, and earnestly 
ask our customers to observe and note the 
results. To those who desire Eastern stock 
in quantity we will, sell, at much lower 
rates than our quotations on this choice 
stock, as may be seen by a reference to 
our price list. 
A more extended description of the 
Puget Sound Country may be found in the 
December Number of Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest, which will be sent free to any one 
applying for it. 
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New Vegetables. 
As our old subscribers and patrons know 
we never add new names to our list of se¬ 
lect vegetables until we are quite sure they 
possess much more than ordinary merit 
We constantly strive to keep our list down 
rather than to enlarge it. However when 
a really good thing does turn up we desire 
to give it a place. Few novelties have re¬ 
cently been introduced which have given 
so general satisfaction as the Golden Dawn 
Mango of which we were tlie original in¬ 
troducers. Nearly all the new vegetabh s 
which we added to our list last season have 
proved all that was claimed fur them. 
Among the recent introductions which 
have proved to he genuine acquisitions we 
