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waSgm. jf “ My boy had Scarlet 
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(Vjiii and with blood pois- 
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wi\ /m W His eyes became in- 
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HOOD'S PlLLS are the best after-dinner Pills, 
assist digestion, cure headache and biliousness. 
August 5 
Our Abundance (Botan) is loaded with 
plums an inch in diameter (July 16), and 
this without any attempt to fight the 
curculio. Though they look green and 
plump now, all may fail later. 
Varikgated Zinnia. — A very pretty 
dwarf strain of variegated zinnia comes 
from seed sent us by Pitcher & Manda. 
The flowers are large and perfectly filled 
out with petals—that is, they do not show 
any pistils or stamens. The color is 
nearly white, inclining towards a feeble 
straw color, with splashes and lines of 
deep crimson. The plants at this date 
are hut one foot high. It is a choice 
strain. 
Burpee's Profusion Pea, sown not 
until May 1, comes in nicely just after 
Heroine (Henderson), sown April 28. 
Profusion has been tried for two seasons 
past in richer soil and carefully brushed. 
We are now trying it as a late field pea 
without brush. The plants thus raised 
are not quite three feet in length. The 
lower part of the vines falls over, resting 
on the so.l, and the upper portions upon 
which the peas form, thus supported, 
grow upright, needing no support. The 
Profusion is this season a fine success as 
a late pea. The vines are loaded with 
pods which are quite well filled ; the 
seeds are large and of the best quality. 
Henry Stewart aptly compares the 
soil to a mill in which wheat or corn is 
ground. As long as the grain is sup¬ 
plied the mill yields its grist, but when 
the supply is ground out, if no more is 
put in, the mill runs dry. And this is 
precisely what is the matter with much 
of the farming of the present day. It 
has run dry. The old supply has gone 
and some other source of supply must 
be found. And this is found in the use 
of fertilizers, which contain, in a differ¬ 
ent form, precisely the same elements of 
plant food as manure does. A fertile 
soil contains lime, phosphoric acid, pot¬ 
ash, and nitrogen in some form. When 
manure is applied to the soil these ele¬ 
ments are added to it, and become avail¬ 
able as the manure decays. 
The plot of Crimson clover sown May 
19 is now (July 16) beginning to bloom. 
The heads are two inches long and five- 
eighths of an inch in width, of a bright 
crimson color. 
Mr. Paul Dana tells Garden and For¬ 
est that he first saw a plant of Xantho- 
ceras sorbifolia at Baden-Baden on the 
grounds of Herr Max Leiehtlin about 
the year 1884. He admired it, and Herr 
Leiehtlin spoke of it as a new plant of 
great promise, which he felt sure would 
be an acquisition to horticulture. Mr. 
Dana secured two plants, and has been 
cultivating them now for 8 or 10 years. 
They are six feet high, and grow in rich 
warm loam They have no protection 
whatever, and yet they have never lost 
a branch in winter, and they endure our 
dry summers perfectly. They are not 
strong-growing shrubs, but they bear 
flowers in great profusion. Mr. Dana 
(Continued on next page.) 
§ 740 Bushels Wheat on 20=acre Field. 1 
8 The photograph represents my field of wheat containing twenty acres. It was fertilized with Bradley’s Phosphate § 
§ and yielded thirty-seven bushels per acre. When we take into consideration the fact that the average yield in this part O 
of Monroe County was not eighteen bushels per acre this year, I think we may say that this was a good crop. There 2 
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Q longest heads I ever saw, but wheat did not fill well in western New York this year. O 
g I have used Bradley’s Fertilizers for the past eighteen years, and they have always largely increased my crops. If § 
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roller and harrow. A thorough use of these implements gives a good, fine seed-bed. I would as soon think of keeping o 
my pork without salt as to attempt to grow grain at a profit in western New York without fertilizers. I have grown on O 
my farms about 200 acres of wheat per year, and careful observations have shown me that an application of a good 2 
phosphate always proves a paying investment. Bradley’s Fertilizers are not stimulants, as I at first supposed. The O 
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Lima, N. Y., October, 1892. CHARLES T. DIBBLE. O 
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