The Floral Instructor. 
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mire from the barnyard or an old .straw- 
pile. Fresh manure should in no case 
be used, unless it is on a low, wet 
spot. This may be benefitted by a lib¬ 
eral coat of manure from the horse-sta¬ 
ble, which will tend to counteract the 
coldness of the soil. If possible the 
ground should be plowed in the fall. 
This will make the soil pulverize bet¬ 
ter, and also allow work to begin ear¬ 
lier in the sping. 
The work that demands attention this 
month is 
SELECTING SEEDS, 
and it should be done immediately. 
Procure catalogues, study them well as to 
the merits of the seeds offered as well as 
the prices asked. When you have fully 
determined what you want, send to a 
reliable seed-house and receiye your 
seeds by mail. Unless you would have 
your garden fail, do not depend on store 
box-seeds. I will speak of vegetables 
in my next. Gardener. 
“ Buchupabia.” — New, quick, com¬ 
plete cure 4 days, urinary affections, 
smarting, frequent or difficult urination, 
kidney diseases, $1, at druggists. Iowa 
Depot, Mitchell, Bartlett & Crain, Des 
Moines, Iowa. 
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NALS. 
We will send the Floral Instructor 
in club with the journals named below. 
In all cases you get two journals for the 
price of one: 
Publisher’s Price of 
Price. both. 
The Housekeeper.$ .75 $ .75 
Tha Fruit Recorder. 1.00 1.00 
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Western Rural. 1.65 1.65 
Poultry Bulletin. 1.25 1.25 
Country Gentleman. 2.50 ; 2.50 
American Agriculturist.. 1.50 1.50 
Floral Cabinet, and prem 1.25 1.25 
Green’s Fruit Grower. -.25 .25 
American Home Journal 1.00 1.00 
And almost any paper published in this 
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about it. 
NICE PRIMROSES. 
H., Indiana, Dec. 27 .—Spalding & Mc¬ 
Gill: All that have been taking the 
Floral Instructor like it so much that 
they again send for it. Indeed I watch 
for mine to come to tell me how to tend 
and treat my flowers. 
I must tell you what nice Primroses I 
have. Out of the paper you sent I 
raised twenty-one nice plants, ten of 
which I have given away. I have four 
varieties, and they are all so nice. My 
bay-window is just beautiful to look at. 
I had so many flowers to bring in, in the 
fall, that I did not send for any bulbs. 
I tell every one wheie I send for seeds 
which produce such nice flowers, so I 
expect in the spring you wall have more 
! orders. 
My Hoy a, which I have written you 
about, has grown so large I do not know 
what to do with it. It is far higher than 
my head and covers a large frame. In 
the fall it came out full of buds, but on 
bringing it into the house thev all blast¬ 
ed. It is seven years old and I am dis¬ 
gusted with it, though it is green and 
thrifty and beautiful to look upon. 
That you may have abundant success 
with your paper is my best wish for you. 
Mrs. M. B. W. 
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J. C. Kinsey, Cambridge, Ill., told our 
agent, Mr. Hackett, that he has no med¬ 
icine in his store that, gives the satisfac¬ 
tion of Dr. Marchisi’s Catholicon, and 
has and will recommend it above all 
others. Every woman should know it 
and every druggist should recommend 
it. These are the words of a first-class 
druggist now in business twenty years. 
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