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long letters. Many times, when time is valuable, it 
is cheaper to hand over 25 or 50 cents, or even a dol¬ 
lar, than to go through with a long list of particulars. 
May I say, in closing, that it always pays best in the 
end to help the man you buy of, out of any mistake 
or misfortune, the best you can? I have a great 
many times kept goods sent me by mistake, rather 
than to put to trouble and expense the one who sent 
them, and I have never found a case where a man 
forgot such a kindness. Sooner or later I had my 
reward. The man you trade with is your neighbor, 
and j t ou are ever bound to love him, and to look out 
for his interests, as well as your own. It may grati¬ 
fy your feelings a little to talk back harshly to him, 
when he has made a blunder, and to put him to 
needless expense, when you are provoked; but it 
never brings lasting ^happiness, nor puts money in 
your pocket. 
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But when the summer's thunder crashes, 
And the fiery lightning flashes, 
And the wild wave fiercely dashes 
On the rock-bound coast, 
Then I long again for autumn, 
Autumn with its burdened sheaves, 
Autumn with its golden foliage, 
And the falling of the leaves. 
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MONET IN ONIONS. 
As we we predicted last spring this out¬ 
look for unusual profit in the onion crop 
grows brighter. The heavy crops of last 
season f)ut prices below the actual cost of 
growing, and in consequence, there has 
this season been a far less acreage planted 
than usual. This, together with the ex¬ 
cessive wet weather through the present 
summer, which has in thousands of in¬ 
stances precluded the possibility of proper¬ 
ly cultivating them, will make a scarcity 
of onions and higher prices in consequence 
for some time to come. 
In anticipation of an enlivened interest 
in Onion Culture, we particularly request 
notes from our readers in different sections 
of the Union in regard to their practice in 
sowing onion seeds. The most common 
practice here at the North, is to sow the 
black seeds as early in spring as possible, 
in nicely prepared beds where the crop is 
to mature in August or September of the 
same year. Some sow the seeds very 
thickly, 30 to 50 pounds per acre and har¬ 
vest them as soon as large enough for setts, 
which are kept over winter in a cool, dry 
place and planted out again in spring, thus 
coming to maturity m advance of crops 
from the seed. For this purpose the seeds 
should also be sown very early in spring in 
order that the setts may be pulled and 
cured during the dry weather of mid-sum¬ 
mer. Another plan is to sow a bed thickly 
for setts in August or September and at 
the approach of winter give a slight cover¬ 
ing of straw to keep them from freezing 
out. Then in spring take up and transplant 
these green setts into a properly prepared 
bed. Still another plan which is practiced 
extensively in some sections, is to prepare 
the beds and sow the seeds early in autumn 
where the crop is to grow, just as would be 
done in spring. A slight covering will 
protect the plants during the winter in 
most section^, but just how far north this 
may be successfully practiced, or how far 
south it is practiced, is what we wish to 
ascertain through reports from our readers. 
Any notes upon the subject will be thank¬ 
fully received. Let’s have an “onion club” 
next month. Please give us the compar¬ 
ative amount and condition of the present 
onion crop in your vicinity, with probable 
yield per acre and price; also any notes 
you may deem interesting concerning your 
manner of sowing, etc., and we wiil group 
these reports together and make an inter¬ 
esting article. 
If our readers M'ould respond to a call 
like this and send short reports at a certain 
date, say about the first of the month, upon 
some previously announced subject, we 
might have a highly interesting Gardeners” 
Club every month, and if there is any sub¬ 
ject which you would like ventilated 
please mention it. We will thus be en¬ 
abled to take up those upon which there is 
the most interest manifested. 
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Celery and Turnips are about the only 
crops which still have ample time to mature 
if planted in this latitude. We would call 
attention to our prices of Turnip seeds on 
page 32, new crop being now ready. We 
can also still supply very fine plants of Gold¬ 
en Dwarf Celery at $3 par 1000 by express. 
We shall not be able to supply any more 
Cabbage plants this season, the extremely 
wet weather having mined our later sow¬ 
ings. 
