SEED-TIME AH© HARVEST. 
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periment larger in the muck the coming season. 
The upland celery was large but ill-shaped, 
tough, and strong flavored. After eating the 
muck celery I comdemned the upland as unfit 
for market. I shall not set celery on upland 
the coming season, nor as long as the muck gives 
such good results. Yours Respectfully, 
Henry Lock, 
Novi, Oakland Co., Mich. 
CABBAGE WORMS AND NEW POTATOES. 
South Norwalk, Ct., July 4, 1S82 
Mr. Isaac F. Tillinghast, 
D^ar Sir: I see in 
the July Number of Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest you advertise Dalmatian Powder for cab- 
Dage worms, <fcc. Now I would like to try some¬ 
thing that would be a sure thing for I have onp 
acre of fall cabbage plants set. Will one pound 
of powder be enough for the acre, if so let me 
know at once and I will send for it and how it is 
used for cabbage. I lost my whole crop las' 
fall by this worm. One of my neighbors has a 
new potato, he says he found it two years ago 
among his Early Rose. He planted it last year 
by the side of the Early Rose, the vines were 
larger and he said full two weeks earlier. I saw 
them in his garden, the vines of this variety 
were ripe and the E*rlv Rose were green; he 
pulled up a hill and they were very fine looking; 
he said they yielded certainly one half more 
than the Early Rose; they look just like the cut 
of the Defiance in your book. Is the Defiance 
an early or late potato ? I saw this potato grow¬ 
ing some three or four weeks ago. The vines 
were very large, much larger than tbe Eirly 
Rose by the side of them. I am going to see 
them in a few days and see how they turn out 
this season. 
Yours Very Respectfully, 
P S. Carver. 
We have not as yet tried the Dalmati -n Pow 
der- on cabbage worms and can only advise you 
to procure a small quantity at first and experi¬ 
ment with it yourself. We think it will be 
found necessary to sprinkle the powder directly 
upon the worms to exterminate them, as it is not 
by reason of their eating it, that they are killed. 
This will no doubt be a great objection to it use 
as it will be difficult to hit all the worms in 
making a hasty application. We procured and 
offered the powder mainly upon the recommenda¬ 
tion of others, and hope that our readers will 
give it a thorough trial and report to us what¬ 
ever degree^of success or failure they may meet. 
If the potato you speak of is as early and pro¬ 
ductive as you claim it will no doubt be valuable. 
We’shall test a large number of new varietie- 
this season and regret that a tuber was not sen' 
us last season as we could then have given a 
better opinion of its value. 
Caramels can be made of sugar, but it is 
far easier and much cheaper to make them 
of clay and molasses. 
£ccd-Shmt and garrest. 
An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted'by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
r OR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR Tl LLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 30 Cents Per Line. 
Eotered at the post-office as second class matter. 
VOL IV., NO. n. WHOLE NO., XVI. 
La Plume. Lackawanna Co., Pa., February. 1883. 
The delay caused hv the extra work in 
getting out our enormous January edition 
has extended to this number but we are 
working night and day to catch up and 
hope to get the March number out on time. 
We request our subscribers to be patient 
as they will get all the numbers as soon as 
we can possibly get them printed and mail¬ 
ed. 
We again insert our Seed Price List in 
the advertising department of this number 
and will continue the offer made in our 
last to send your own selection of Flower 
or Vegetable seeds from that list to the 
amount of $ 1.00 and Seed-Time and 
Harvest monthly for one year for only 
$ 1 . 00 , or for 50 cents the Magazine a 
year and your own selection of Flower 
seeds to the amount of 50 cents. 
Advertising in Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest. —Mr. A. Blanc of Philadelphia. Pa., 
makes a specialty of engraving for florists, 
nurserymen and seedsmen. He inserted a 
fifteen-line advertisement in Seed-Time and 
Harvest at a cost of $4,50 per month, at 
the same time placing the same or a much 
larger advertisement in nearly all of the 
Agricultural and Horticultural journals 
published. As a result he voluntarily 
writes us under date of Feb. 14th. “I am 
pleased to say that I believe I am receiving 
more inquiries for catalogue through your 
paper than through any other which I ad¬ 
vertise.” 
Mr. S. O. Hawkins of Bucks, Ohio, con¬ 
tracted with us for three .inches of space 
some six months ago in which to tell our 
readers that he was a breeder of thorough- 
