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An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
other strains in market; at least we have 
never had any such complaints, and if any 
of our patrons have known of their doing 
so we should like to hear from them. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
_ OR TILLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
adver tising rates, 45 CENTS per nonpariel line. 
Entered at the Post Office as second class matter. 
V0L. VI, NO. VIII. WHOLE NO., XLVI 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., Au gust. 1885, 
Potted Strawberry Plants. The 
season has now advanced so that we can 
detin itely report on the potted plants. At 
*my time after this date we shall be able to 
ship thoroughly rooted, potted layers of 
Cornelia , Daniel Boone, Atlantic, Prince 
of Berries, May King, Manchester, James 
Vick., Longfellow nnd Sharpless, an excel¬ 
lent selection of the most promising new 
varieties, at 75 cents per dozen, or $5.00 per 
hundred, packed in light baskets, by ex¬ 
press. A few of these set this month, on 
good soil, will produce hundreds of gooc 
plants for next spring’s setting at a less 
cost than they can be puschased at next 
spring. 
Early Cabbages. We commenced 
cutting good, hard heads of Early Jersey 
Wakefield in July this season from spring 
sown Puget Sound seed. No doubt a week 
or two might have been gained by fall sow¬ 
ing and wintering over the plants in a cold- 
frame. Cold-frame plants are always in 
demand at good prices, and each of our 
agents who possibly can do so should ar¬ 
range for a small supply. The seed should 
be sown from the 1st to the 20th of Septem¬ 
ber in this latitude. The date of sowing 
winter wheat is about the right time. If 
sown too early some strains will run to seed 
instead of forming heads when set out; if 
too late, the plants do not get hard enough 
to stand the winter well. The complaint of 
running to seed is more common in the 
southern states than at the north. We be¬ 
lieve that plants produced from our Puget 
Sound seeds are not so liable to disappoint 
southern planters in this way as are many 
Summer Complaints. A very sea¬ 
sonable caption you think, but the com¬ 
plaints we have in mind are quite different 
in nature from what you may suspect, 
though in this case yours might be brought 
along perhaps by ours. If a single one of 
the hundreds of thousands of packets of 
seeds sent out by us last spring proves for 
any reason unsatisfactory to the purchaser 
about this time in the almanac we expect 
to hear from it. We know it is rulable 
among seedsmen to publish all the good 
reports and consign the bad ones to the 
waste basket on the left, but evil reports 
are so seldom thrust upon us that we are 
much troubled at their appearance when 
they do come in. Now you see we are pre¬ 
paring to tell how somebody has been scold¬ 
ing us lately, and we don’t blame somebody 
for scolding, yet all our investigations re¬ 
sult in finding “nobody to blame,” as the 
juries on a railroad accident always report. 
But to our confession. Probably half a 
dozen persons have complained to us of 
late that small packages of seeds bought 
and planted for Montreal Green Nutmeg 
Musk melon have produced handsome 
White Spine Cucumbers, a sort of refuta¬ 
tion of the proverbial “Whatsoever a man 
soweth that shall he also reap.” How this 
blunder was made we cannot tell, but we 
must confess that with all our care and 
painstaking somebody has got labels wrong¬ 
ly placed, or in some way put up cucumber 
seeds in bags printed for muskmelons, and 
in consequence some of our friends have 
their hopes of luscious melons dashed to 
darkness, and perhaps worse, may in conse¬ 
quence have a touch of colic in cucumber 
time. We don t know how extensive has 
been this deception or how great the result¬ 
ing damages, but if it doesn’t take more 
than a ton of genuine Montreal Melon seeds 
to do it, we will send a complimentary 
package to every one who has suffered from 
this gross carelessness if they will gently 
remind us of it when ordering seeds next 
time, for we sincerely hope that no one will 
