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within suitable shipping distance whc have 
neglected to start early hotbed plants enough 
for their trade, can advantageously stock up 
their beds with these plants. We shall have 
an abundance of later plants at very low 
rates. 
Onion Seeds.— We still have a large 
supply of reliable onion seed which we will 
almost give away in large lots. 1 f you know 
of any one who still needs onion seed of any 
variety, please call their attention to this 
and tell them we will duplicate any offer 
made by reliable growers any where. Onions 
have now been very low for two or three 
years and we confidently expect a decided 
rise soon. Few are being sown this seeson 
•‘because they do not pay at present prices.” 
Now this will surely bring a re-action before 
long. 
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Seed Potatoes.— We call attention 
to a great reduction in price of some stand¬ 
ard varieties of potatoes, as maj^ be seen by 
reference to page 32. 
Plant Agents. There are still many very de¬ 
sirable localities for profitable plant growing where 
we have no agent yet appointed. If our terms were 
unsatisfactory for any reason, please make us a 
proposition to suit your views and we will consider it. 
Rliss’s Everbearing Peas can no longer be 
supplied at any price. Please do cot order them. 
Tire Musical Watcli. We sent for one of the 
Musical Watches advertised. It is a toy made in the 
shape of a watch, and when you wind it a low but 
plaintive tune is produced. As a toy music box, it is 
no doubt cheap enough, and of course no one will 
expect a ten-dollar time keeper at that price. 
The Monarch House Hoe and Cultivator c< m- 
bined is the latest improvement in agricultural im¬ 
plements, designed for hoeing (with horse.) Pota¬ 
toes, Corn, Beets, Cabbage, Turnips, etc. See ad¬ 
vertisement of Monarch Mfg. Co., in another column. 
Literary Mention. 
One of ( the wise men of old wrote, “of making 
books there is no end,” and if the statement was true 
in his time, whac would he think now, when books 
and papers are produced at the rate of millions a 
year? To be sure he says nothing of newspapers or 
magazines such as are produc'd at the present day; but 
even in his time the production of books, manuscript, 
to be sure, must have been quite an extensive in¬ 
dustry, and we think the business has not degen¬ 
erated much until the present day. 
Demorest's, Monthly is a magazine rich in its 
varied departments and a welcome visitor to a lady's 
parlor. Its choice and entertaining stories, elegant 
engravings and colored plates make it a pleasant 
companion in time of leisure; while its household 
departments, filled as they ane with choice recipes 
and valuable suggestions, are kindly aids in making 
home pleasant. 
Vick's Magazine is edited with that careful regard 
to the eternal fitness of things that always seemed to 
characterize the late Mr. Vick, and improves with 
age. The March number is an excellent one. It con¬ 
tains a description of the Central National Home for 
disabled soldiers, at Dayton, Ohio, wdth engravings 
of the principal buildings and grounds, and a full 
account of ivhat has been done to make it a pleasant 
place of refuge for our nation’s w*ar-worn he¬ 
roes. The rest of its pages are principally de¬ 
voted to its specialties—flowers and gardening—sub¬ 
jects that are treated in a practical manner by 
master hands. 
The Cottage Hearth, published at Boston, is one 
of those excellent magazines whose very cover makes 
you think of olden times wdien you w*ere young. 
It is devoted to choice literature and home adorn¬ 
ments, and is a pleasing visitor to all the household. 
$1.25 per 3 T ear, monthly. 
The American Bee Journal, monthly, $1.00 and 
weekly, $ 2.00 per year, still retains its . place “up 
head,” though it has many rivals. Each number is 
filled with articles written by the most prominent 
bee-keepers in the country and warrants the support 
which it seems to be receiving. Published at Chicago, 
Ill,, by Thos. G. Newunan. 
The Popular Science Monthly. Those who de¬ 
light in the researches of science as applied to the 
every day work of life, will find much in this excel 
lent periodical that wall conduce to their pleasure 
and instruction. The March number contains among 
other matter, a dissertation by Herbert Spencer on 
The Coming Slavery; The Electric Railway, by 
Lieut. Fiske; The Chemistry of Cookery, by W. M. 
Williams; Why the eyes of Animals shine in the 
Dark, by Dr. S. M. Bennett; Recent Geological 
Changes in Western Michigan, by Prof. C. W. Wool¬ 
dridge, &c. Each number is a volume of some 150 
pages, printed on heavy book paper in clear type. 
50 cents a number or $5.00 per year. Published by 
D. Appleton & Co., N. Y. 4 
Farm, Field and Fireside contains in its March 
issue an illustrated history of the Northern Pacific 
Railroad and its resources, and to those who desire 
to emigrate to an y part of the couutiy reached by 
this great thoroughfare or its branches, or even to 
know about it, it is a valuable paper. Besides this, 
there are chapters from two or three continued seri¬ 
als, poems, household and farm topics and much 
other interesting matte)*. Well worth its price, $1.00 
per 3 *ear, monthly. 
The Kansas Bee-Keeper is a very handy maga¬ 
zine to have in the house. It is in editorial charge of 
J. E, Pond, Jr., who is an enthusiasiic bee-keeper, 
assisted by* a full crop of contributors from the best 
writers on topics pertaining to bee-keeping in the 
country. Published monthly at Columbus, Kansas, 
at $ 1.00 per year. 
