so 
ty, (Miami). I have also done a little at growing 
semi-tropical fruits in Florida. Could tell you a 
good deal about Florida and its products, climate 
<&c. Would be pleased to have you send me your 
Seed-Time and Harvest when convenient. 
Yonrs truly, Geo. Townsend. 
We should be pleased and no donbt many of 
our readers interested, by the publication of an 
article on Florida and its fruits. If favored with 
a small sample of any new potato or other vege¬ 
table or fruit we will take pleasure in testing it. 
PRAIRIE FLOWERS. 
Herrick, Neb., Oct. 11, 1882. 
Mr. Isaac F. Tillinghast: 
Dear Sir: I send you 
two kinds of Prairie Flower Seeds that are de¬ 
serving of a name for their beauty. The small 
flat seeds are a kind of evening primrose; light 
straw color, semi-double and very fragrant. It 
blooms early in the evening, but is a very pro¬ 
fuse bloomer; does not always bloom the first 
year. I thought it never did, but some of mine 
did this year. Never cultivated it before my¬ 
self. 
The other is a light purple flower. It grows 
like a snapdragon on a tall stem. The roots 
live on from year to year but do not spread. 
Respect’y, Mary B. Clark. 
Many thanks for the seeds. We will plant 
them and see what they will do here. We are 
always glad to receive seeds for trial of any 
new or valuable flower or vegetable which our 
friends kindly send us. 
WHITE-WASHING HOT-BED GLASS. 
Boiceville, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1883. 
Mr. Tillinghast; *■ 
Dear Sir, Will you be so kind 
as to inform me if the glass for a hot-bed should 
be coated over with something or not. 
Yours Truly, O. N. Perry. 
Early in the season when the weather is like¬ 
ly to be cool, and the sun obscured by clouds, no 
•coating should be placed upon the glass, but as 
the season advances, and the sun becomes hot¬ 
ter and the plants larger, a coat of white-wash 
is sometimes an advantage, as some shade is 
necessary to keep them from scorching. 
RAISING PEAS. 
Lynn, Pa., Feb. 14, 1883. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: 
Dear Sir,—I would like 
to give all your patrons my method of raising 
peas, but perhaps it is needless. Two trenches 
three feet apart (they may be made with a big 
plow) partly filled with well-rotted manure; 
"then an inch or two of soil top of this; then the 
he seed (be liberad of it;) cover the seed six in¬ 
ches for Champion of England. Allow them to 
come up, and hoe them before bushing. The 
Philadelphia I do not cover as deep, and they 
do not need as high brush. Respectfully, 
S. S. Thomas. 
POTATO BUGS. 
Mr. Tillinghast, — Editor of Seed-Time and 
Harvest, — Did any of your customers succeed 
in destroying potato bugs with Pyrethrum? I 
applied some mixed with water and in a few 
minutes the slugs began to drop off, but I neg¬ 
lected to go back to see whether they recovered, 
till after a rain and a week had passed, so others 
had time to come from other parts of the piece; 
so I could tell no more about it. 
Henry A. Sprague, 
Charlotte, Maine. 
We shall be pleased to hear from any who 
gave it a trial, successful or otherwise. 
NEW FEATURES OF THE SEED TRADE. 
Novi, Mich., Feb. 7, 1883. 
Isaac F. Tillingh ast: 
Dear Sir.—Seeds received 
in good order. Enclosed please find another or¬ 
der which will, I think, entitle me to Seed- 
Time and Harvest for one year. Thanks 
for the January number. A guide for me to 
order from. Your American Racer Pea is not 
described and I do not know what it is, early or 
late, as I want the very earliest. 
There are two new features in the seed trade 
this season. The first, I noticed in David Laud- 
reth & Son’s Rural Register and Market Garden¬ 
er’s Price List, as follows. The five and ten-cent 
papers are stamped with the date of their issue. 
This season’s purchasers are thus assured of the 
freshest crop. No other house in the trade does 
this. Let me here say, is it not an all import¬ 
ant thing which all seedsmen would do well to 
try, the labelling of the date of growth on each 
packet sent out? 
Some years ago, for various reasons, I grew 
annually some seeds in my garden; put them 
away without labelling. This gave me some 
trouble. I next labelled them. I had some 
trouble yet in failures. Some seeds were left 
over year after year and lost their vitality. I 
next put the date of the year that the seeds were 
grown on the labeles, which was still better. 
The second item, I noticed on a package of 
Jersey Wakefield Cabbage Seed, from Isaac F. 
Tillinghast, viz., Good for four years. Oh, 
what two important items. Will it become 
the general practice for seed growers to label 
