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An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tilljnghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANT* A SEED 
OR TILLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION M CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 80 Cents Pee Lists. 
Entered at the post-office as second etuse matter. 
VOL. IV., NO. VI. WHOLE NO., XX. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., June, 1883. 
The Celery Prize. —Through over¬ 
sight we have never announced the decision 
of the judges in regard to the Ten Dollar 
Prize offered last summer on Celery Cul¬ 
ture. The prize was unanimously awarded 
and paid to Mr. Q. A. Lobingier, manager 
of the Jefferson Gardens, Steubenville, 
Ohio, for the article which appeared in our 
number of November last, and which is 
supplemented in this issue by the same 
valued correspondent. As the celery sea¬ 
son is now approaching we beg to call at¬ 
tention to this prize article feeling assured 
that it will repay a second ly'ading by all 
who are interested. 
Celery Plants. —At the present writ¬ 
ing, our Celery Plants are much better in 
q uality and quantity than we have before 
had them in years, and we hope and trust 
that they will give excellent satisfaction to 
all purchasers. As will be noticed, we 
have slightly advanced the price on former 
years, but as a good celery plant is an ex¬ 
pensive thing to grow we believe that bet¬ 
ter satisfaction will be given in charging 
a little more for a vastly better article than 
we have been doing in the past. 
The Cabbage Plant Business.— 
Never before did we get into quite so great 
a muddle as our Cabbage Plant Business 
has brought us this season. Growing Cab¬ 
bage Plants is about the most uncertain 
scheme in which a man can embark 
any way. In the first place nearly every 
man who wants any quantity of plants 
tries to grow them himself. If he succeeds, 
and we also succeed in growing a large 
quantity, we are left to plow ours under 
and are laughed at and called a fool in the 
bargain for so overdoing the. business. If 
he fails, he comes down upon us and thinks 
we are fearfully slack in business if we are 
unable to load him up in twenty minutes 
time. Of course no allowance is ever given 
us for making failures. We haven’t much 
to think about or see to and should keep 
a few hundred thousand ready for an 
emergency, in case they are wanted, for it 
is known everywhere that we are in the 
business of growing plants for sale! If 
plants could be turned out by machinery 
at an hour’s notice, and could be packed 
away and kept till wanted, we should try 
to never disappoint a customer, but when 
it takes five weeks to grow one, and 800,000 
are demanded on a day on which we have 
but 100,000 ready, 200,000 will have to be 
waited for, and we cannot help it, no mat¬ 
ter how sincerely we regret and deplore the 
fact. Some years we plow under what at 
another time would sell for thousands of 
dollars. They makefgood green manure 
but are terribly costly. All through the 
early part of the present season we had 
demands constantly for three timee as 
many plants as we could supply. In con¬ 
sequence of this, nearly all who did get 
them were forced to take them before they 
were really large enough, and many had to 
wait a week for them to grow at that. 
The truth of the matter is, our reputation 
for supplying the best cabbage plants in 
the world is greater than we realized, and 
in consequence, we fear it has suffered 
greatly this season, but we hope our friends 
will bear with us this time in consideration 
of the facts. Next year we will promise 
to overdo the business in the matter of 
supply and fine quality to such an extent 
that if all do not get promptly all they 
wish we will stand the damages. But what 
we wish to announce here is, that by the 
time this is in print, or at farthest, by 
July 1st, we shall have a large quantity 
of fine plants of later sowings, and ean fill 
orders promptly should you still wish them. 
In answer to W. IX, we would say that 
E. L. Meyer, wholesale druggist, Hutchin¬ 
son, Kansas, is ready to deliver new crop 
Russian Mulberry and Apricot seed. 
