SQUAW CORN. Tula is a fieui variety, Hav¬ 
ing large kernel* of red, white, yellow, brown 
blue, green and mottled colors, some ears being 
beautifully variegated. It is undoubtedly one of 
the earliest varieties known, ripening even in 
Manitoba. 
NICOLLET BIG GEM PEA. The-e in shape 
size, color, productiveness and fine quality, re¬ 
sembling the Champion of England, but are 
an improvement on that well known variety in 
growing but one half as high. These blue 
wrinkled varieties are in quality the best peas in 
the world and this in size and productiveness is 
not to be excelled. 
EARLY BLEICHFIELD CABBAGE. This 
is a new German variety—some two weeks earli¬ 
er than the popular Winmgsta U, yet growing 
nearly as large. We find it valuable for very 
late setting as a second crop. They last season 
produced fine heads on plants set af er July 20 
when no other kind which produce large heads 
would have had time to mature. 
GOLDEN MARROW PUMPKIN. Tnis L 
the handsomest and best flavored varieties 
for pies, we have ever grown. It is well adapted 
to field culture and may be planted among corn 
FORD’S ALPHA TOMATO. Another extra 
early variety, whic i claims tne championship 
for earliness and productiveness. It is well 
worth a trial 
We earnestly request that nil our friends who 
try any of these novelties will report to us what¬ 
ever degree of success they mty nave with them. 
We will publish these reports, a id those who 
do not try them this seas m can thus |u»lge as to 
whether it will pay them to d i so n< xt season or 
not. 
Tuberose. 
This fragrant an 1 beautiful plant i« a native of 
the East Indies and requires a long and warm 
season to bring it to perfection. It, should be 
started early in the greenhouse or ho -bed. 
Lacking these conveniences, a warm place in the 
house will answer. Amateur fl >rists have not 
all learned that this bulb blooms only once, and 
the bulblets not until the second year. Spade 
the soil deep, with a plentiful proportion of well 
decayed manure; plant the bulblets between two 
and three inches deep, and far enough apart 
to leave room for weeding. Keep the ground! 
well stirred until frost withers the tops; Then 
dig the bulbs, dry them in the sun for a few 
days, protecting them from frost at night. Re¬ 
move all dead leaves and store in a dry place. 
Early in the Spring take off the side shoot and 
prepare the bulos lor blooming. This cultiva¬ 
tion of the offsets can be successfully carritd on 
in a mild climate, but with us the season is too 
uncertain to insure a proper ripening of the 
bulb. The safest plan in our cold country is to 
procure fresh bulbs every year. Select the 
strongest and best grown tubers, large and plump 
to the very top, and free from old blossom- 
stalks. Put a drainage of charcoal in the bottom 
of the por, and over it a layer of dry old cow-ma¬ 
nure, broken fine. Fill the pots up almost full 
of rich loam mixed with leaf-mold sand, and a 
little charcoal-dust Take every offset fiom the 
bulb, then plant it in the soil, and just cover 
it from sight. Plunge the pot in the h<>'.bed or 
set it on a shelf near the kitchen fire. If it has 
plenty of heat it will require a good deal of 
mo.sturt-; but moisture without heat will r«*t the 
bulb To do well, it must be kept warm, and 
the soil must be allowed to get dry and powdery. 
Celery. 
This wholesome vegetable is coming into prom¬ 
inence in late years. Fresh, crisp celery is an 
mdispeusble ariicle on the tables of the rich, and 
it is gaining favor among the multitudes in hum¬ 
ble life. Scientists agree that celery, whi *■ both 
heal hy aud palatable, pos-esses rare qualities 
that oont ioute muscle and brain pow r—that; it 
stead e-> the nerves, and that its medic xial pro¬ 
prieties have whols *m« influnce- on toe entire 
hum n system. Of the various moles advauC'-d 
for culivatiug and bringing celery lo the highe-t 
standard of perfection we have diseoverel, 
through actual practice, that the trench ry-tern 
leads. “Not the collecting of the plants togeth¬ 
er in the fall,” but treuehthe young plants at 
the time of transplanting in July, and these 
treated and earthed by degrees and c »vered at 
the approach of severe weathtr and there allowed 
to remain until taken out as needed for ihe ta*de. 
Some very practical persons adhere to su face 
culture of celery, forgetting that the trench is 
pooof against the extremes of heat, and the 
plants therein brtter supplied with moisture. 
There is, however, an item in the celery trench 
that we would caution against—the application 
of too much earth to the stalks in midsummer, 
which in many cases covers the heart of the 
plants and causes the outside stalks to rust and 
decay on account of their oontact with the earth* 
This decay can be avoided by delaying the earth¬ 
ing- up process until the beginning of September, 
and then earthed gradually until finally covered, 
which is, in our latitude about the second or 
third week in November. In starting celery 
