SILVER BALL LETTUCE. 
easy to test all that we will depend upon a 
trial by our friends themselves to convince 
them which is really the most meritorious. 
The new Water Melons are too im¬ 
mense in number and size to admit of 
illustrations for all. The Scaly Bark, Kolb's 
Gem, Mammoth Ironclad and Pride of 
Georgia are foremost in the race for this 
year, and some time will be required to 
ascertain which wins. 
GOLDEN MARROW PUMPKIN. 
In Pumpkins, the Golden Marrow, first 
named and sent out from La Plume, some 
three or four years ago, is hard to surpass 
for practical use as a field variety for the 
table or for stock. It will grow among 
corn as freely as the old Connecticut Field 
and cannot be surp rssed for beauty or pro¬ 
ductiveness. The Gray Boulogne is a new 
French sort which is called the “King of 
Pumpkins” in the Paris Market. They 
have been grown in this conntry to weigh 
upwards of 100 pounds. 
The Sweet Corns have not been slighted 
and a number of new sorts are offered. We 
think that Rose's Improved Evergreen, first 
sent out by us last season, will be found 
hard to surpass. 
In Mammoth Onions, we have Vesuvius T 
Pompeii and Silver King, all Italian or 
Tripoli sorts chiefly useful for exhibition 
purposes. 
DEBT. 
There are circumstances other than those 
of necessity which Justify debt. The delay 
incident to earning money is sometimes - * 
impolitic. There are nicks of time; there 
are gobien opportunities; 
“There is a tide in the affairs of men 
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune* 
Omitted, all the voyage of their lives 
Is bound in shallows and in misery.” 
This may justify debt. Youth is the time 
for education: the young person is justified 
in incurring debt tobtain an education,, 
for otherwise the golden time will be gone,, 
and an education will enable him to repay 
debt and interest more easily than to earn 
the principal without a (true) education. 
The young couple are justified in going in 
debt for a home. So much of life; in fact, 
about all of married life, is bound up in the 
security and content of a house of one’s 
own, a home belonging all to self, that the 
desire to have a home encumbered for the 
time being by even a large encumbrance is 
justifiable, yes, laudable. For having the 
home will cheer to action the strength and 
energy of youth, and the feeling of posses¬ 
sion will be a rich recompense for the denial 
and endeavor. Very few have a home late 
in life if they have it not early in life; and 
while we may sympathize with the young 
c >uple who fight debt from the door, we 
must justify them, commend them, admire 
them. O sacred influence of home upon 
our life, our society, our country, better to 
have you with debt than to have you not 
at all! 
Circumstances may justify any measure; 
but the circumstnces. nevertheless, which 
justify debt are few. For the sake of an 
education or of a home, in the true sense, 
perhaps for other things, we are right in 
going to the money-lender. But we should 
shun debt more than we do. We should 
always consid er it the dernier ressort. Gen¬ 
erally is it better to deny one’s self, to 
work and wait, and to stand square with 
the world, than to gratify desire at the- 
expense of peace of mind, than to enjoy 
luxuries with the incubus of debt upon the 
life and the shadow of a mortgage over thes- 
home.— South and West. 
