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In our last issue we offered to send 
out seeds to responsible parties who would 
certify that they were worth over One 
Hundred Dollars and would pay for them 
in six months or less. We did this partly 
as an accommodation to any of our friends 
who might be “short” of sufficient funds to 
enable them to purchase as many seeds as 
they really needed, and partly to work off 
seeds while they were fresh and good, 
which we might otherwise carry over. 
A large number have availed themselves of 
the offer and we will continue it for 30 days 
longer. But we wish to say that our inten¬ 
tion was to confine this to SEEDS ONLY 
and do not intend or expect to send pota¬ 
toes, plants, or other goods on such orders. 
The plan is an experiment on our part, and 
its repetition in future will depend entirely 
upon the promptness with which our friends 
pay off these promises, or the amount of 
tronble we are caused in collecting them. 
We hope we shall not be compelled to en¬ 
ter any names upon a black list on account 
of trouble in this direction, but any person 
who will go back on such a promise and 
make us trouble ought to be placed there. 
Don’t you think so? 
But there's something uncounted, unseen , that 
comes; 
An' a heigh ho! 
If you leave it out you can't prove your sums; 
An' a heigh ho! 
And this is the way to say it, or sing: 
"Oh, Spring is the loveliest thing in Spring!" 
An' a heigh ho, an' a heigh! 
In that soft season when descending show’rs 
Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flow’rs; 
When opening buds salute the welcome day, 
‘And each relenting feels the genial ray. 
— Pope. 
The Seed Potato Trade has been very 
lively with us this spring and we have 
filled thousands of orders ranging in size 
from a single tuber to a car load. The Ear¬ 
ly Beauty of Hebron has been very exten¬ 
sively planted and our supply is entirely 
exhausted. We could not nearly fill our 
orders for Early Sunrise, Rural Blush or 
Boston Market, and we judge from the in¬ 
terest manifested in them that these will 
be very popular varieties another year. 
We can still fill small orders for about all 
other varieties offered in our list but shall 
not hold them much longer than June 1st, 
so if any are still wanting them, orders 
should be sent at once. See prices in the 
April Number. We will now sell our sur¬ 
plus of Belle at $3.00 per barrel. 
Surplus Stock. For the balance of 
this season we will send any seeds on our 
list at 20 per cent less than catalogue rates 
for cash. See list on pages 30 and 31. 
Will mail good fresh Onion seeds at $1.00 
per pound postpaid. There is yet plenty of 
time to sow for setts for next year’s use 
when Onions are bound to be scarce and 
high. Fewer have been sown this spring 
than for years past, and a reaction will 
certainly take place in prices. Can’t you 
turn a few dollars by seeing thus far into 
futurity? 
Now for some Squashes. Five years 
ago the Hubbard was considered the very 
best winter squash in cultivation, and 
about every farmer and gardener in the 
country grew it. Then came the Marble¬ 
head and Butman as improvements upon 
the grand old Hubbard, which seemed 
scarcely possible, but thousands were, of 
course, ready to give them a trial. But it 
is well known that neither of them has 
eclipsed the old Hnbbard, and of late are- 
action has taken place and the Hubhard is 
no w in demand, at least twenty-five pounds 
of Hubbard seeds being called for this sea¬ 
son to one of the others. The Essex Hy¬ 
brid is very much liked and is largely call¬ 
ed for, in fact, it has been hard to supply 
the demand for seeds of it. It is hard to 
say what a man can grow which will go 
farther toward a good living than a wagon 
load of winter squashes. And they are 
easily grown if you only keep the bugs off. 
Probably protecting the hills with boxes 
is the surest remedy, but “eternal vigil¬ 
ance” is the price which most of us have to 
pay for our squashes. The two excellent 
little fall squashes “Perfect Gem” and “Co- 
coanut” were left out of our list by over¬ 
sight. We have the seeds at 15 cents per 
ounce. See cuts on page 12. 
When every brake hath found its note, and sun¬ 
shine smiles in every flower.— Edward Everett. 
