would report on the crops, and you would 
kindly give us the substance in the August 
number of Sked-Time and Harvest. It 
would be a help to tho-e that have these 
products to market in the fall. 
Potted Strawberry Plants. Those 
who failed or neglected to set a bed of 
strawberries last spring for fruiting next 
June, have one chance left to yet secure a 
bed in bearing condition, at that time. The 
only way this can now be accomplished is 
by setting new pot-layered plants in August. 
Plants of last season’s growth, such as are 
used for spring planting, have now become 
so old as to be worthless for setting, ani new 
layers are very difficult to make live if set 
early enough to produce much fruit next 
season, but if layered in small pots, so the 
roots will form in a compact mass and hold 
the soil in position, they may be safely 
transported almost any distance and set in 
any kind of weather or soil and will go 
right on growing unchecked and form hills 
which before winter will closely rival the 
best spring set layers. We are now rooting 
layers in pots, of a number of the very 
finest new sorts, such as Cornelia, Daniel 
Boone, Atlantic, Prince, May King, Parry, 
Longfellow, Sharpless, Henderson, Man¬ 
chester, Jersey Queen, Janies Vick, Bidwell 
and Crescent, which we will pack and ship 
in light baskets after Aug. 1, at from $5.00 
to $10.00 per 100. Short as the above list is, 
it contains the very best new or old sorts 
yet produced, and even a few potted plants 
of each, set in good soil and well cultivated, 
will supply an abundance of fruit, as well 
as plants for setting larger beds next spring. 
Slug-Shot. As a matter of accomfno- 
dation to patrons who may want this most 
effective destroyer of potato bugs, cabbage- 
worms, &c., we will supply it in five pound 
packages only, at 40 cents per package. 
When sending for Turnip Seeds, Plants, 
&c., order one or more packages and you 
will find it a good thing, safe, sure and 
effective If large quantities are wanted, 
of course you can get it somewhat cheaper 
directly of the manufacturer, whose adver¬ 
tisement may be found in this magazine. 
A well-known Wholesale Seed Dealer 
said to us the other day, “Your Puget 
Sound cabbage seed scheme proved to he a 
very successful advertising dodge, did it 
not ? I had no idea it would become so pop¬ 
ular. Of course nobody in the trade believes 
your seeds are actually grown at Puget 
Sound, but if you can sell for so much bet¬ 
ter prices by making people think so, it’s all 
right. We shall all have to list some of our 
best brands as Puget Sound Stock if the 
public want it so badly.” 
Can you imagine our surprise at such a 
salutation from such a source? Indeed, 
he was quite loth to give credence to our 
solemn affirmation that the cabbage seed 
we sell under our well known “P. S” trade 
mark are actually grown under the person¬ 
al supervision of experienced growers in the 
exact locality claimed in our advertisements. 
He further said that it was an open 
secret in the trade that very little of 
the so-called ‘•American grown” cabbage 
seeds were really seeded in this country, 
that he knew firms who sell tons of seed 
under the affirmation that it is actually 
American /Stock . by v\ hich they mean that 
the stock seed was American , but ii is sent 
to England or France, or Germany, to be 
seeded and returned, thus forcing Ameri¬ 
can growers to either fall in and practice a 
like deception or compete with them in 
prices, which are lower than good seeds 
can be produced for in this country. And 
they tell us that the amount of cabbage 
seeds really grown here, is so small that a 
total failure will not perceptibly increase 
prices so long as they succeed in getting 
a good crop of their “American Stock” 
from their growers in Germany! 
New Crop Turnip Seeds are now in. 
We have a heavy stock of finest quality 
which are well worth the prices quoted on 
page 24, for small lots by mail. These 
prices are subject to the usual agent’s dis¬ 
counts, and each our agents should order at 
once as many as will be needed in their 
vicinities for sowing in as second crops 
after early potatoes, peas, &c., have been 
cleared from the ground. 
