zontal position, so that tho sugar may pene¬ 
trate as much as possible. It is said that 
flsh prepared in this way can he kept com¬ 
pletely fresh for a long time, the savor being 
as perfect as if recently caught. Salmon 
thus treated before salting and smoking, 
possess a much more agreeable taste, a ta- 
blospoonfnl of sugar being sufficient for a 
live pound tish. 
Silver Cake.—Take the whites of six 
eggs, two cups of sugar, two-thirds of a cup 
domestic (rconomi) 
HOVEY & CO.'S 
ILLtfST RATED 
THE TROPHY TOMATO 
CATSKILL PUDDINGS. 
Rico Pudding— Take one teacup of 
rice, one teaspoonful salt, add water and 
boil until tender; remove from the lire; 
add one quart sweet milk, two or more eggs, 
small half cup butter, a small teacup sugar, 
half a nutmeg, and bake. To be eaten warm 
or cold. 
Tapioca Pudding. —Put eight large 
spoonfuls of tapioca to three pints of milk; 
warm it; let it soak till it becomes soft, 
then mix with it two spoonfuls of butter, 
three beaten eggs, half a cup sugar, half a 
nutmeg; bake immediately; to be eaten hot 
or cold—a very excellent and healt hy desert. 
Roily Poly Pudding.—Make your pas- 
1 ry as for soda biscuit; roll it about, an inch 
in t hickness, add your fruit (raspberries are 
best), then roll it snug. Put it in your 
steamer, have your pot of potatoes on the 
stove boiling, put your steamer over it. and 
when your potatoes are done, your Roily 
lh.lv will be done also; eat with sweet 
AND GUIDE TO THE 
Flower and Vegetable Garden, 
FOIl 1873, 
Contains 150 pmtos, with niunv tine Illustrations of 
Flower* it ml Vegetable*, nnd n heuutlful Colored 
piste; nlxii n descriptive list of over two thousand 
specie* and varieties ol Flower and VngHulilC Seeds, 
Novelties of the Season, Choice Glndlnliw, Stmnner- 
flowerlng Bulbs, elo.; the most tensive ami com¬ 
plete SEEIH’atAi.oOUK piddislied. vIvliiK plain direc¬ 
tions fur the oil I tare of Flowers uud YbgpUiblcs, ar¬ 
rangement of Guldens, etc. Sent tree to all. 
HOVEY <fe CO.. 
53 No fill ItlniUet Streot, Hnsloii, Muss. 
Our Seeds warranted Fresh, and to reach Purchasers. 
PLANTS 
THE BEST CATALOGUE yet Published, con¬ 
taining a complete list of Vetreinlile nnd Flower 
Seedst Bulbs of every sort for sprint* pluolhiK; also 
Hoses, Geraniums, anil other Bedding Plants, Small 
Fruits, Ac,, Ac. Fully Illustrated. 
ttWSent Free to all Applicants. 
Address (*. I,. Al<l<EN it CO., 
7<» Fulton St.. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
ODDS AND ENDS, 
u PKESI1. TUVf), ICICI IA BLU ” 
I’ Garden, Field and Flower Seeds, “f*11l A LI, 
FUI ITS," Fruit. Ornamental, am Shade Trees, 
Shrubs, Hoses, Flowering and Bedding Plants luxeel- 
Iciit stock). Tuberoses, Gladiolus, etc., file. I so true 
first duality seeds and plants toi first quality vege- 
lables. fruits, ele. nuf seeds and hints are of such a 
eliuraeler that all may sow and plant with confidence 
that i hey will produce true, flrat-oluiis crops. \\ e prow 
thousands of small fruits amt vegetables tor market, 
amt know the value of true and reliable seeds and 
plants to the farmer, gardener, and fruit grower, ele. 
\V<* tfrow the beat, iina *>Ut OUHttum»fM kIihIi 
have the same. Onr catalogue -giving cul¬ 
tural direction*, and description ot \ ege- 
laldos, Flowers, and small fruits, etc and 
Order Shot and Dine- lion ISnrelone, sent lo 
all on application. Seeds and plants by mail, pre-paul, 
to tiny part of the United States. Orders, hi rue "i 
smalt, shall have our best attention. H r mill-,e •' 
,,„Ontt„ id Goo/, her*' wants. Simrt for Cu tiling no, and 
tuko advantage or our reasonable rate*, D. II. BRO'' n 
A SONS, Seedsmen and Small Fruit Orowers, 24 Hiram 
St., unit Cherry Lawn Farm, Now Brunswick, N. ,t. 
Vegetable Oyster Cakes.—Clean the 
Vegetable oysters well, and then grate them; 
add milk and Hour sufficient to make a stiff 
bat ter. Proportions, a gill of grated oyster 
plant,, two eggs, one pint of milk, flour to 
make the bailer, and salt- Drop by spoon¬ 
fuls in hot lard. Fry till brown. Some 
cooks boil tho vegetable until soft enough 
to mash, which is less work than to grate it. 
In either ease the cake, or fritter, is equal 
to that mado of the real oyster. Try it. 
EM GUV CUSHION, OPEN. 
of butter, two cups of flour, two teaspoou- 
fuls of cream tartar, one cup of sweet milk, 
one teaspoonful soda, dissolved iu milk. The 
above formula,, using tho yolks of the eggs, 
will make excellent gold cuke.—x. v. z. 
Cream Cake.—I herewith send you a 
most excellent recipe;—Whites of four eggs, 
ly recommend it. to our readers as such. To 
till who subscribe for this journal we will 
send a large packet of Trophy Tomato seed 
as a premium. 
Now I wish to inquiro if the above was 
the price of genuine Trophy Tomato seed; 
if so there were an immense quantity of 
people humbugged; aud myself among the 
Scissors Case and Needle Cush¬ 
ion Combined.—-This is a neat little 
case, intended to hang upon the wall 
near the sowing machine or work¬ 
table. Our pattern is made up of 
brown silk and finished with three 
rows of cords. Three cords are also 
stitched on as finish for the pockets, 
which are sewn on the case itself. Cut 
from the illustrations a pattern in 
paste-board, and a similar one in silk, 
allowing a margin to turn In. To make 
it more substantial, line tho silk with 
thin muslin. The back can be covered 
HAWLEY'S PRICE LIST 
OF 1 GENUINE 
Wethersfield, Conn, Onion M. 
1072. 
WARRANTED FRESH AND RELIABLE. 
Pro*. Pr It*. Pr28H>«. 
Wethersfield Large ltod Onion.30 *> ' 
Medium Burly lUmtul Hod .25 2-jJj '•‘ ,l 
Extra or First Early •** * 
Yellow Danvers •*;’ 'f™. 
Whim Stiver Skin . .. .10 *• 
Pri ntout! Fla! Dutch Cubic,ip. .. * .i> <' 00 
I'iiIiIht's Warlv Brunswick r ?dl PM,n -- 
Early While Sfiitie Cucumber- .10 I * •' 1 
Early Simpson Lettuce, Forcing.. .10 i on 
Four lbs. and under, by mall, post-paid. Largo 
nuuntilli"' by Express, on receipt of price «llh order 
(Express not pre-paKl.> Parlies may remit by 'hall 
oti New York, Money Order, Registered I .niter or Ex 
press, or small sums not exceeding ft by mull- Coui- 
plute Descriptive Catalogues free to all, with full in- 
strmjtlons how to grow Onions. Address 
K. D HAWLEY, Seedsman, Hartford. Conn. 
IIe>n<taHarter* for tho Genuine Wethersfield Onion 
Rochester 
Commercial 
[Established 1830.1 Nurseries. 
Send for our New Circular Of Price* per doy., per 
100, or per 1.000-cmbruclng all hast HAHDY rilEEH 
and PLANTS-noth FECIT AM) ORNAMENTAL—be¬ 
sides it select l.st of Specialties and Novelties. 
Address W. S. LITTI.E, Rochester, N. A . 
Walnut Shell Emery Cushion.— 
(See illustrations.)—Hollow out both 
halves of an English walnut shell, aud 
varnish neatly on tho outside with co¬ 
pal varnish — first making a slit two- 
tlfths of an inch in the middle of tho 
side of each half. Glue into one of the 
shells a small cushion, covered with silk or 
velvet of any oolor, and filled with emery; 
i he other half is lined with material of the 
same color, ornamented with gold beads and 
braid. Join both halves of the shell togeth¬ 
er, by means of a narrow silk ribbon, which 
is drawn through the openings aud tied iu a 
bow outside. Through the openings on the 
opposite side, draw a ribbon six inches in 
length, edged with button-hole stitch and 
ornamented with a narrow fringe of gold 
beads. Tho walnut opens and shuts by 
means of this ribbon. 
number. 1 bought seed from an old estab¬ 
lished seed store at 25 cents per paper, 20 
seeds in a paper; aud the seed store in Cin¬ 
cinnati and elsewhere advertised to send a 
package per mail (free of charge) for 25 
cents. If I hail none of the genuine seed, 
those at 260. per seed, I must confess ! rais¬ 
ed no Trophy Tomato. The above looks to 
me as though Mr. I). wanted subscribers at 
60 cents each and would try to make them 
SCISSORS CASE WITH NEEDLE CUSHION. 
reserving one for frosting; one-third cup of 
butter; one cup sugar; half cup sweet milk; 
two teaspoonfuls cream tartar; one of soda; 
one and three-fourths of flour.— Mas. Liz¬ 
zie Yates. 
Diseased Pork.— Enclosed I send you a 
lump of some substance cut from a hog 
killed this year. The same hog had similar 
lumps in various parts of his body. Is it 
“ trichina ?”—w. l. 
We have examined the dark-colored 
lumps and pork attached, under a powerful 
microscope, but find no trichina, and can- 
SS&, Trees! ° H ”SS Plants! S83S. Seed: 
IBIO Acres. tilst Year. 13 Oroun-Uoum 
10,000 Apple and Crab Knot Krafts, bent sorts 
1,000 Four, PI it m nr Tatofsr- 11 
10,000 Apple and Crub IlnOtKi'afts, best snrts.Ljo 
l.OOn Pour, Plum nr Totofsky Rontprafta .... .... (■> 
I.0UM Std. Pcarfextni. 1 your Bartlett, Ac., A to lit. 1M) 
5,000 Silver Muplos, average 1 foot. 10 
10,000 Osage Orange Plants. 1st class. 35 
i,,000 Concord Grape, ur Wlll««w Cuttings . 3 
Flower and Veaetflbla Seeds, large stork. 
100-PuKo Illustrated Catalogue. 10 cent'. 
Colored Pintos. Fruits and Flowers, samples by 
mall. 1 1. WIkiIaxhIo Price List. free. 
F. K- PHOENIX, Blni.mliurinii, III. 
ffifflk Trees 1 ®.T Pli 
Apple and Crab HOOtQOifts, be 
Pear, Std. Extra, 1 yr, Burl lot 
Seeds, Poach, bu.,*3; Apple,' 
Potatoes, White Peach Blow. 
Seedlings, Soft Maple, 1,000, 01 
Illustrated Catalogue, lib pngi 
How to Make a Good, Old-Fashioned 
Soup.—Procure a soup bone, boil until ten¬ 
der, remove the meat, add to the soup a few 
onions, season to suit the taste; slice the 
onions very thin; set it to boil. Then take 
some flour iu a bowl, drop sweet milk in by 
the drop, and keep stirring with the right 
hand, until you think you have enough to 
thicken tho soup sufficiently, and you will 
have what we call flour rubbings. Add to 
the soup; let It boil up, stirring it all the 
time, and it is done. It is excellent warmed 
over for next day.— Mrs. H. S. Brown, Co ts- 
kill, N. Y. 
Apple Dumplings.—Make your pastry 
as for soda biscuit; roll; cut in as many 
pieces as you want dumplings; have your 
apples cored and quartered ; wrap the ap¬ 
ples in the pastry, and steam the same as 
Roily Poly. To be eaten with sweetened 
cream. They are pronounced double extra 
by our city friends iu the summer. 
satisfied by offering a paper of seed. But 
aside from the above, I would like to know 
where I can get some genuine seed. C. S. 
S. Todd. 
The Trophy Tomato was first offered to 
the public in the spring of 1870 at the price 
, named above, viz:—20 seeds for $5,00; but 
in 1871 the price went down to 25c. per 
\ packet. If Mr. D. wrote the article oredit- 
M iddlrtoivn nursery and 
FRUIT FARM.—Situated at Middletown, Del., 
tliu largest peach shipping station In the world. »!•>,- 
OUI baskets (X tnish.) .shipped In summer id IH71, In less 
Hunt ctxlit weeks -25,000 banket* of them mown on 
thin farm. Pencil and Otlnir Fruit Trees and Sinai I 
Fruit Plants for mile. Peach Trees a. specialty! Buy 
where long experience In ttrmvin* tin* fruit bos proved 
which varlet.10* pay bent to plant. Trees and Plants 
securely packed txi «o to any parte“* U. A Catalogues 
free. Address E. K. COCHRAN, 
ir Middletown, Dehtwnrc. 
n n/vn Ten Thousand Dollars’ worth of 
SJ>.a Nursery and Green House Slock, 
for full of ’T2, not yotemcaged, which we want to con¬ 
tract to No. 1 experienced canviy.se.ra. Southern 
raised trees for Southern soil and climate. Territory 
close bv tiio Nurseries. First-rate references given 
and r t H,ulred. TUUUTT’S SUNS A MORGAN, 
Roscbiiuk Nurseries, Nashville, Tenn. 
EMERY' CUSHION, CLOSED. 
not. account for the presence of such a sub¬ 
stance in the flesh of a hog or other animal. 
The pork may not be unhealthy, but as the 
countrymen say, we would not “ hanker 
after that kind.”_ 
Folding Napkins Capuchin Stylo.— 
Wo give, this week, another style of folding 
napkins- Capuchin fashion. D 1 shows the 
first fold; T) 2, the second; 1) 3, the third: 
D 4, the fourth, and D tho final appearance 
when folded. 
IOIIN S. COLLINS, MOORESTOWN.N. 
(I Jersey, raises Borriua and Small Fruit* tor market. 
Sells str’onp. genuine, heat sort* plant* at bottom 
prices. Send for list. 
I liave the Evergreen firnnm Corn, the west 
variety In cultivation. Will send one quart of 
*eed toany nddre** for50ets. J. ROSS MCLEAN, 
Leeches Corner*, Mercer Co., Pa. 
ed to him by you in 1871, he was correct; if 
in 1872, wrong. He may have written it in 
Dec., ’ 71, for his paper issued in Jan., ’ 72. 
which would make some difference. Seeds 
of the genuine Trophy can be had of any of 
our seedsmen. 
/ minpbcll'K iiU Huy* Hu«nr Corn. A new hy- 
\ j brlrt variety, believed to be the curliest *we«t corn 
Krown. I.oiik cars, larae griUns, *mnll cobs, exquisite 
flavor. Pkt..2,V!. Geo. W. GAMt-MtU.. Delaware, O. 
To Keep Fish Fresh.—A method adopt¬ 
ed iu Portugal for preserving fish consists 
in removing tho viscera and sprinkling sugar 
over the interior, keeping the fish in a hori- 
n m IIII FITE DC If vou wlsb to be cured 
UrlUM tA 1 CKO, of tho h iibit, address 
T. E. CLARKE, M. D., Mount Vernon, Ohio. 
