clorsement as that quite recent offering, the 
James Vick. As neither extremely large 
size or particularly fine flavor are claimed 
for it we judge it is destined to occupy 
about the same position as has for years 
the old and well known Wilson. Another 
berry of about the same class as the last 
named, which will undoubtedly prove a 
success as a market berry, but not famed 
for high quality is the Manchester. One 
other variety we recall to mind which from 
sterling worth is justly entitled to be kept 
before the public and whose portrait should 
have adorned these pages. We refer to the 
Windsor Chief. Few well tested sorts 
■could be selected which would so well please 
all who plant it either for home or market 
use. 
Among the introductions of 1882, it is 
doubtful if any has made a better record 
in size and quality than the Jersey Queen. 
Whether it will stand shipment as well as 
some of the above named is about the only 
question yet to be decided. If so it must 
be immensely popular. 
Upon the newer offerings we cannot as 
yet venture an opinion. Our readers will 
have to either accept the claims of their 
several introducers or wait until they have 
been more widely tested. Among the most 
prominent we will mention the Atlantic , 
Prince of Berries, Daniel Boone, Mrs. Gar¬ 
field, Legal Tender , Old Iron-Clad, Nigh's 
Superb and others, which will no doubt be 
offered in our advertising columns. 
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“We Call Them Tramps.” 
A recent trip of the City of Chester of the 
Inman line from New York to Liverpool 
was enlivened by the wit of a Washington 
girl, who was the favorite passenger. In 
the same steamer was a young English snob 
who wore a suit of very large plaid, with a 
fatigue cap to match, a single eye-glass, 
tliick-soled boots, spotted shirt and loud 
neck-tie, He had that exasperating drawl 
peculiar to English snobs. 
u Aw, yaas,” said he in conversation with 
the Washington girl, “I have seen a con- 
side wable of your country. I have been to 
New Yawk, Chicago, Omaha and other 
places, and it is a gwate cauntwy; but you 
don’t seem to have any gentwy in America.” 
“What do you call gentry?" asked the la¬ 
dy. 
“Aw; why people you know, who don’t 
have to do anything; people who live with¬ 
out work.” 
“Oh, yes, we have sudispeople,” answered 
the lady, “but we don’t call them gentry.” 
“Aw. what do you call them, pway?” 
“We call them tramps.” 
“Aw."— New York Telegram. 
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AMONG OUR EXCHANGES. 
The Poultry Bulletin for August contains a 
description of a Fancier’s Poultry House with two 
views of the same. Practical Poultry Topics, The 
Homing Pigeon, with fine cut, ThegSnipe, with cut 
and description, and much other matter of interest 
to the poultry breeder or fancier. $1.25 per year. 
62 Cortland St., N. Y. 
The Westbrn Plowman for August is a fine num¬ 
ber. W. D. Boynton, Dr. J. H. Hanaford, D. L. 
Evans, Jr., and others contribute to its pages, while 
the Editorials are practical and up to the times. 
Published at Moline, Ill., at 50 cents a year. 
Our Young People, a semi-monthly journal, pub¬ 
lished at Springfield, Ohio, is decidedly a fine mag¬ 
azine and a dollar can not be much better invested 
for the young people than in a year’s subscription. 
The Western Farm Journal of Des Moines, Iowa 
is fully devoted to the farmers and stock growers of 
the prairies, and yet contains much of interest to the 
general reader. Monthly, $1.00 per year. 
The Tribune and Farmer, Philadelphia, Pa., has 
Col. D. D. T. Moore, formerly the head of Moore’s 
Rural New-Yorker, as Agricultural Editor, which is 
a sufficient guaranty of its value to the Agricultural 
Public. It is full of interesting matter and worthy of 
a hearty support. Weekly, $1.00 per year. 
Hand Book for Fruit-Growers, by F. R. Elliott. 
Published by D. M. Dewey, Rochester, N. Y. We 
have been favored by the publisher with a copy of 
the new edition of this work. It gives the various 
methods of growing trees and vines, transplanting, 
budding, grafting and pruning, with a list of the 
desirable fruits, including their size, color, quality, 
origin, etc., the whole illustrated with quite a num¬ 
ber of engravings. We have not had the time to 
give it the careful perusal that works of this kind 
deserve, but should judge, from a hasty examina¬ 
tion, that it would be a good work for the novice or 
amateur fruit-grower. It is finely bound in cloth 
and contains nearly 150 well-filled pages. 
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Beatty’s Organs tor $35. 
Special attention is called to Mayor Beatty’s Parlor 
Organ Advertisement on our last cover page. Any 
of our readers who are in want of a Cabinet Organ 
at a reduced price should order at once from the ad¬ 
vertisement as the time is limited to only seven days 
from August 25th, 15b3. 
