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seems to be worth more than the price asked, and take 
the chances. If more or less deceived, we may yet 
sell the article for what we paid or something less. 
But we do not know what the seed will produce until 
it grows and bears fruit. Then the season is gone and 
the loss irreparable. 
William Hurst is an excellent dwarf, first-early 
wrinkled pea. It is as early as American Wonder, 
and more productive. The vines grow about 10 inches 
high. Tiie R. N.-Y.’s report of the new pea, Heroine, 
is fully suppox-ted by later trials. Thei’e is no better 
medium eax*ly wrinkled pea. The vines grow about 
2% feet tall. Try the Heroine. 
There are few annuals 
more pleasing than the 
Cypress vine, if provided 
with suitable support. 
A few stxdngs fastened to 
a four-foot stake and 
fastened in the soil so 
as to make a cone, will 
give just that needed 
support. Nothing is 
delicately beauti¬ 
ful, more refreshing ^ or fexm-like than the 
tiny foliage of the ‘ Cypress vine studded 
with its white and scarlet star-shaped flowers. 
We doubt vex*y much whether, in the long run, it 
pays people to hunt for “ bargains ” in seeds or plants. 
Bargains in them, as in most other things, are usually 
inferior ai’ticles. Thex-e is something \\ rong about 
them. We can not afford to run any risk in the quality 
or vitality of our seeds. We may buy a gannent, a 
wagon, a horse or cow that, upon careful examination, 
The worst use that catalogues may be put to is to find 
out whex*e we may buy the most seeds for the lowest 
price. Except in an experimental way, do not buy 
seeds or plants simply because, however much lauded, 
they are offered at si low price. Good and pure seeds 
and plants are never offered by good firms at a price 
less than that of producing them. Gold dollars are 
never sold for less than their real market value. There 
is no need of it, and gardeners, florists, seedsmen and 
nurserymen must live as well as other tradesmen. 
Only dealers who aim to make money to-day regard¬ 
less of to-morrow, can afford to sell inferior stock of 
any kind. Accidents and mistakes occur 
in the very best regulated houses. But 
the latter stand ready to make ample 
amends, and would, moreover, tluxnk you 
for calling attention to any shortcoming 
on their parts from whatever cause—just 
the same as The R. N.-Y. would thank 
its readers for pointing out any over¬ 
looked blunder on the part of its man¬ 
agement, whether business or editorial. 
There are as many honorable nursery¬ 
men and seedsmen as there are other 
dealers in any business whatever—per- 
SL haps more, for these occupations are, or 
ought to be, ennobling, since they deal 
with Nature’s own products, and the re- 
k ^ ’ ward of selling pure seeds, plants thrifty 
and true to name, or novelties of strik- 
ing merit is immediate and bountiful. 
^SjgaPjjjjg^ Still, the prices of well-known and 
trusty dealers will be foxxnd to vary as 
W V their stocks of certain varieties may be 
* smaller or greater; as they may make 
specialties of this, that or the other. 
Hence it is that we advise our friends to 
study and compare the price-lists. It 
will pay the provident bxxyer to do so. 
A red of the latest strains of Tom 
Thumb nasturtiums is a brilliant delight 
during most of the summer ; and they 
are of the easiest cultivation, and by no 
ml means exacting as to soil. The colors 
now are variegated, brilliant yellow, 
brown, rose, maroon, crimson. An as- 
sortment may be purchased for 10 cents. 
Bffir The new early pea, Exonian, was tried 
- at the Rural Grounds last season. Planted 
* April 19, the first picking was .June 18. 
The Exonian excels in bearing uniformly 
well-filled pods which average two 
inches long, filled with about five large 
wrinkled seeds. The vines grow about 
two feet high. But the Exonian is no 
better than the new Station, which is 
rVfc. just as early and perhaps more prolific. 
There is no sweeter pea than the Para- 
/" r«y gon. The Admiral (vines three feet) is 
an extremely prolific intermediate. The 
pods are small, but well filled with from 
six to nine seeds. 
Tradewinds 
more 
We would thank our readers if 
they would mention the “ Catalogue 
number of The R. N.-Y.” if they have occasion to cor¬ 
respond with any of the firms whose catalogues are 
now noticed. The l’eason is that we wish our adver¬ 
tising patrons to know just how much or June little our 
readers are influenced by this special number. We 
have not knowingly overpraised any variety of seed 
or plant mentioned. If we speak without experience, 
then the description is always prefaced with “ it is 
said,” or “ it is claimed,” and unless the 
new candidate for popularity is not 
pretty well supported by becoming cre¬ 
dentials, it has been omitted. 
Sweet peas hold their own well in the 
popular regard. There is a wide space 
open for the dwarf pea, which we ax*e 
promised next year. 
When any one tells you that his seeds 
or plants are better and cheaper than 
those of any other seedsman or nursery¬ 
man, don’t believe him, and don’t order 
from him. 
We approve of collections of plants and 
seeds. These may be arranged and put 
up during the dull season, and reason- 4 
ably sold for less than individual seeds 
or plants. 
We have now a real yellow aster. 
The flowers are almost half-balls of a wjcjj[ 
straw-yellow color — the plants grow 
about 15 inches tall. These are fine for ‘ 
bouquets. 
When you l’eceive a catalogue crowded 
with imaginary, impossible, grossly ex¬ 
aggerated flowers, you will be justified 
in saying : “ Falsum in uno, falsum in /jfjj 
omnibus.” 
Six of the best new geraniums, one JraB 
strong plant of each, for 25 cents, post- 
paid, sent by a trustworthy house, is a 30ESj| 
libex-al offer. Eight ever-blooming roses, ^ 
postpaid, for 50 cents, is equally liberal. 
Try an assortment of the new, lai-ge- 
flowering, tuberous - rooted begonias. 
They will stand the sun as well as the 
shade, if kept moderately moist. No < 
other plant gives a more brilliant bed of * 
bloom. . 
It is claimed that the new onion from 
Spain, Gibraltar, while similar in appear- 
ance to the Brize taker, grows to a much 
larger size, and is of a lighter color. It r 
is of a regular, globular form, and a 
straw color. 
Lemoine’s Giant hybrid heliotropes 
are said to bear flower heads more than 
twice the size of the best varieties of the 
old sorts, measuring from 10 to 12 inches 
CRIMSON RAMBLER. Fig. 34. See page 118, 
