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Continued from Page 90. 
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Guthbert Rasp 
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1 AAA /I A A SHARPLESS Strawberry 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS— Pu, |’ c ^ f ?e r e own ’ 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
All the new and standard kinds. Illustrated Catalogue 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
in large quantity. Raspberry and Blackberry Plants 
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WILLIAM H. MOON, Morrisville, Pa. 
CHARPLESS, 40 cts. per doz ; $1.50 per 100, post-paid. 
Other kinds lower. SNYDERS, $6 to $10 per M. Lists 
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T he crystal city strawberry is 
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Everyone wanting new and choice plants should send for or 
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SMALL FRUIT PLANTS, 
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Fish as Fertilizer.— “ J. C. D.,” Richmond, Va. 
The fish known as Menhaden, or Moss Bunkers, are tlie 
kind used, merely because they are the most abundant 7 
the oil is first pressed out of them, and the residue, dried 
and ground as Fish Guano, or Fish Scrap, is a regular 
article of trade with the dealers in fertilizers. 
Feeding Poultry.— It is a common practice tor 
throw the “chicken food” on the cold snow, sometimes 
where it is as deep as the fowls can well wade through, 
or even worse, into a regular mud hole. Neitherof these 
methods is of advantage to the fowls; in the first case 
they are obliged to swallow a large amount of cold, 
chilling snow, and in the second, an amount of mud is 
taken into the stomach that is not desirable. All this 
discomfort could be avoided by providing a feeding 
trough, so arranged that the food maybe clean. Aside 
from the looks of the practice, it will pay to be neat in 
feeding these animals that help to feed us. 
Honey Locust Seeds.— L. Heading, and others 
will find at the end of an article on the Honey Locust, 
page 63, the information asked concerning the seeds. 
Artichokes—Jerusalem—Brazilian.— Sev¬ 
eral inquiries. There is no such tiling as Brazilian Arti¬ 
choke so far as coming from Brazil any more than there 
is one coming from Jerusalem. It is not at all likely that 
this native American plant was ever seen in either place. 
We have more than once explained how the name Jeru¬ 
salem came from a corruption of the Italian name GirasoL 
In France, where much more attention has been given t<> 
its culture than with us, they have nearly a dozen varie¬ 
ties. When some of onr cultivators found that a short, 
round variety was more productive then the old fashioned 
long and slender one, they called it “Brazilian,”—a good 
enough name to distinguish that variety, hut it should 
not be understood to indicate anything about its origin. 
