LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. 
TRANSPLANTING CELERY. 
Shakers, N. Y., May 30, 1883. 
Friend Tillinghast: With all the explana¬ 
tions about raising Celery, please inform me 
whether I should set the plants, which you will 
send to me in June, in their final trench (or 
row) or should I plant them in open ground to 
^row for a time and then transplant them care¬ 
fully to their final row, say August 1st. I am 
a novice and so are all here so far as I find. 
Please answer in Seed-Time and Harvest. 
Chancy Dibble. 
Answer: If you have a rich, moist bed or 
unoccupied corner in which you can set the cel¬ 
ery plants about 4 or 6 inches apart where you 
can water them frequently and cut the tops back 
and keep them in good condition until about 
the 25fch of July and then set them in their 
final trenches, you will no doubt be well re¬ 
paid for all the extra work. If set in the field 
now they will grow but little during the hot, 
dry weather and will make but little growth 
anyhow, and by keeping them as above, ground 
now in use may be set with them as a second 
crop. 
CABBAGE AFTER PEAS. 
Wabash City, Ind. 
Mr. Tillinghast: 
Dear Sir, Please tell me which 
is the best Cabbage for planting after early peas 
and early potatoes, Fottler’s or the Winning- 
stadt. Please give me a remedy for the green 
worms. Yours Truly, Theodore Cory. 
Answer: For very late setting, say after the 
middle of July, I should prefer the Winning- 
stadt, Early Flat Dutch or Bleichfield to the 
larger drumhead sorts. We have no infalible 
remedy in our own practice for the green worm. 
Several remedies have recently been published 
in back numbers of this journal. The worms 
do not seem nearly as destructive now as a few 
years ago. Only the very small patches seem 
injured by them now to any great extent. Their 
natural enemies seem to be subduing them. 
“park beauty” strawberry. 
Mechanicville, N. Y., June 7, 1883. 
Mr. Tillinghast: 
Dear Sir, Your Seed-Time 
and Harvest comes always bringing pleasure 
with it, and not pleasure only, but much val¬ 
uable information. Please accept my warmest 
thanks for it. 
Have you the Park Beauty Strawberry? I 
have read much about it, but do not know to 
whom to apply for it. Am very anxious to ob¬ 
tain a few plants. Very Respectfully, 
Mrs. R. G. Williams. 
Answer: We have no strawberry or other 
small fruit plants for sale. We know nothing 
whatever of the “Park Beauty,” but presume if 
it possesses any unusual merit some of our ad¬ 
vertisers in the small fruit line will soon offer it 
to our readers. 
FERTILIZERS FOR POTATOES. 
Naponee, Neb., June 1, 1883. 
Isaac F. Tillinghast: 
Dear Sir, I am glad that 
I can say your seeds are doing very well with 
me. I have them nearly all sown and they 
came up as good as I could wish them to do. We 
have so much more rain than we used to. 
Mrs. B. Ayer of Bloomington, sent to you for 
a $1.00 collection of mixed seeds which she gave 
me. I am very well pleased with your mixed 
seed system, it works well. I made a mistake 
with the potatoes, I put strong fertilizer too close 
to them and not enough soil between. If you 
desire for me to send you names of parties that 
use considerable seeds I can do so and you may 
either send them your catalogue orSEBD-TiMR 
and Harvest. Respectfully Yours, 
Henry Bihler. 
Answer. Many thanks for your kind words 
and generous offer of aid in our behalf. We 
have spent a large amount in advertising during 
the past few years in order to get our business 
before the public, and now think, if each of our 
friends would take the trouble, which you seem 
so willing, to speak a word in our behalf to their 
acquaintances it would prove the most effective 
advertising which could be done for us. We 
study to please, and whenever we fail shall be 
glad of an opportunity to try again if informed 
of the failure. In regard to the use of phos¬ 
phates we have used Lister Brother’s Am- 
moniated Dissolved Bone for years with good 
results and no evil effects from burning plants 
and seeds which come in contact with it. This 
season we tried, for the first time, a ton of the 
Stockbridge Special Manures aud came near 
spoiling an eight acre corn field by dropping 
corn in contact with it. When dropped upon 
growing corn or other vegetation it will kill it 
as quickly as pure salt. We give the facts and 
our readers may draw their own conclusions 
from the comparison. 
A NEW CABBAGE ENEMY. 
Oakdale Station, Pa., June 4th, 1883. 
Mr. Tillinghast; Sir, I send you in the same 
mail with this letter a tin box containing some 
roots of Cabbage plants that are infested with 
small white worms or maggots that are destroy¬ 
ing my entire crop of early cabbages. I have 
your book on vegetable plants, and you speak 
of the small white maggot that causes the club- 
root, aud that it comes from the flea beetle; but 
I cannot think that this is the same, because it 
is four or five times larger than the flea beetle, 
and they aae destroying the plants before they 
have attained the size when they are affected 
