strong pumpkin flavor that is found in so many 
of the other varieties. They are immensely pro¬ 
ductive, and though not early seem to promise 
excellently as good keepers. I enjoy reading 
your little magazine very much, and the flower 
seeds obtained of you were most beautiful. 
Yours Truly, Phcebe Kennedy. 
LA PLUME CELERY. 
Bridgeton, N. J. Dec,, 4, 1383. 
Isaac F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir, I have been 
a subscriber of Seed-Time and Harvest for 
two years and I like it first class. And I will 
say all the seeds I have bought of you have been 
first class. My La Plume Celery seed did not 
come up very well; I planted some three or four 
different times. I think the La Plume celery is 
the finest I ever ate. The past season I raised 
La Plume, Golden Dwarf, Crawford's Half 
Dwarf, Perfection Hearlwell, and something I 
planted for Incomparable ( rimson and turned 
out white. (T did not get the seed of you.) I like 
the La Plume better than any other variety for 
mv own use; and other persons say I have the 
finest celery they ever ate. Yours &c., 
Philip E. Soudeb, 
I shall this spring use a car load of genuine un- 
j leached Canada ashes on our Cabbage Plant 
! beds. 
salting 
CABBAGES. 
Friend Tillinghast; Dear Sir, The seeds came 
all safe and have come up well. In Seed-Time 
and Harvest I find an article about grubs in 
| cabbage plants. As I haven’t even seen any- 
| thing mentioned in it to kill them, I will tell 
I my experience. I purchased 100 plants and 
set them. After hoeiDg the second time I no 
! ticed some were turning yellow and were dying, 
i I dug a hole and found a maggot about the size 
! of a cheese maggot, eating the fine roots of the 
plants. I got a teaeupfull of strong brine and 
put it in the hole; about two hours after they 
were dead. I then put brine around the 100 
plants. No more plants died but all grew well. 
They were plants from old seed beds I suppose. 
The same Number tells of putting one barrel 
of salt to an acre to destroy cut worms. I had 
nearly one thousand plants destroyed by them. 
I will try salt next. I sometimes put a teaspoon¬ 
ful of salt around my cabbkge in a dry time. 
Isaac S. Crain. 
USE OF SUPER-PHOSPHATES. 
Lowell, Mich., Dec. 20, 1883, 
I. F. Tillinghast; Dear Sir, Will you please 
answer the following questions. I have an acre 
of land that I am going to plant early cabbage 
on in spring. I have all the well-rotted barn¬ 
yard manure on it I can plow under; and in ad¬ 
dition to this after I plow it, I will sow broad¬ 
cast 300 pounds of Honest Buffalo Superphos¬ 
phate and drag in thoroughly. Do you think it 
will pay to do so; also do you think it will pay 
to sow 300 pounds to the acre, on land where 
I am going to plant apple seed ? 
Yours Truly, James Lewis. 
Answer. We have never used the brand of 
fertilizer you mention, but use Lister’s and 
other standard kinds largely, and with much 
confidence of good results. Have frequently 
used 1000 pounds per acre on special crops, like 
cabbage plants, <fcc. We sow broadcast and rake 
or harrow in well before sowing the seeds 
GETTING OUT STUMPS. 
Elden, Mo., Jan. 17, 1884. 
In answer to an inquiry I tried the plan men¬ 
tioned, that of boring a hole in the top of a 
stump with an inch or inch and a half auger and 
filling the hole with saltpetre water, then plug¬ 
ging up and letting stand five or six inonths, 
then take out the plug, fill tne hole with coal- 
oil ana set on fire. It was claimed that the 
stump would all burn up, even to the roots. I 
tried the plan faithfully, and it failed to work 
on black oak stumps at least. The fire burned 
out the coal oil, and only charred the hole sbght- 
j ly and was a complete failure. I saw the plan 
in quite a number of papers before trying it. 
N. J. Shephef.d. 
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SUBSTITUTE FOR ASHES. 
Query ? What is the best substitute for wood 
ashes for garden. The ground here is a whet¬ 
stone slate and conglomerate, and I think defi¬ 
cient in potash; is well manured, but does not 
yield many potatoes for the care and cultivation 
it receives. Subscriber. 
Answer. We have never found a complete 
substitute for wood ashes in our practice, and 
Yhs South Florida Orange Grove. 
50c. a Year. Sample, Pc*. Silver. 
FOUR ACRE ORANGE GROVE. 
Payment on time. J. CROSS, Liverpool, Ela. 
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