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Stowe, and Harriet Prescott Spofford ; Susan Coolidge 
of Lydia Maria Child; Louise Chandler Moulton of 
Frances Willard and Marion Harland. The book con¬ 
tains in all thirty of these delightful little biographies, 
finely illustrated with full-page portraits. It is sold 
only by subscription. 
The spring and summer catalogue of Jordan, Marsh 
& Co., Boston, is prepared especially for the use of out- 
of-town patrons, and presents a very attractive appear¬ 
ance with its numerous illustrations. The articles 
offered are dress fabrics, with the materials required to 
make them into costumes, also housekeeping and up¬ 
holstery goods, all at moderate prices. Shopping by 
mail is carried on extensively, and with large and re¬ 
liable houses is full as satisfactory as when conducted 
in person. It is often more so, for the buyer has better 
opportunities for examining the samples in the quiet of 
home than in the confusion and haste which usually 
accompanies city shopping. 
The Prairie Farmer. —This popular weekly, which 
has been a welcome visitor to many a household for 
more than forty years, has added to its many attrac¬ 
tions by placing at the head of its editorial staff 
Orange Judd, Esq,, the founder of the American Agri¬ 
culturist. Mr. Judd is a man of ability, a pleasing 
writer, and an authority on agricultural matters, and, 
as he has taken hold of the work with his indomitable 
push, both the paper and its patrons will be mutually 
benefited. 
John G. Heinl, Terre Haute, Ind.—Plant Catalogue, 
for 1884. One of the most neatly-printed, concise and 
beautifully-illustrated collections of greenhouse and 
bedding plants on our list. 
M. E. Page, Forest Glen, Ill.—Plant catalogue, for 
1884, of the Forest Glen Floral Co. This catalogue is 
remarkable because of its simplicity, no illustrations, 
and but few descriptions, yet it tells the whole story to 
those that know what they want to buy. 
American Institute. —List of premiums to be awarded 
for Plants, Fruits and Flowers, at their Fifty-third 
Annual Exhibition, to be held in the city of New York, 
commencing on the 24th of September, 1884. 
Ant. Roozen & Son, Overveen, Holland, New York 
Agency, J. A. De Veer, 318 Broadway.—Annual Cata¬ 
logue of Hyacinths, Tulips, Crocus, and all other varie¬ 
ties known in this country as Dutch Bulbs. This is in 
reality a retail bulb store, with headquarters in Hol¬ 
land. The agent here takes orders, large or small, 
receives the goods and delivers without trouble or an¬ 
noyance at the Custom House. The parties ordering 
are notified upon the arrival of goods, when they can 
pay for the same, and have them forwarded as they 
may direct. The catalogue contains complete lists of 
all desirable sorts, with prices delivered in New York. 
All orders for fall delivery should be sent before July 15. 
C. H. Thompson & Co., 71 Clinton Street, Boston, 
Mass.—Illustrated Catalogue of Field, Garden, Grass 
and Flower Seeds. This new firm have for their motto, 
“We sell nothing but reliable Seeds.” 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Roses. — An Old Subscriber —Blight is your enemy; 
the cause of that is a mystery that has never been satis¬ 
factorily explained. Some consider it owing to a 
disease of the sap, others attribute it to fungus. A 
remedy seems as hard to find as the cause for its neces¬ 
sity. We cannot give one. 
Hops.— The same —The first year of planting the crop 
is very small, and generally not worth gathering; but 
the second year a considerable crop is produced, and the 
third year the plant should be in full bearing. The 
yield is from total failure to fifteen hundred pounds to 
the acre. The precarious nature of the crop, the great 
expense attending its culture, render the occupation of 
the hop-grower an extremely speculative one, and while 
in good seasons large profits are sometimes made, in 
less favorable years the cultivation often results in 
heavy loss. 
Hyacinths.— Mrs. A. S. Thomson —After your Hya¬ 
cinths have flowered in the greenhouse, they will be of 
but little value for future use. By growing them on 
in pots, if given a good situation, and liberal waterings 
with liquid manure, and carefully ripening off, they 
may be planted in the garden the coming fall, and will, 
the following spring, give reasonably fair spikes of 
flowers. It is, however, far cheaper to get new bulbs 
annually, than to give them the room and care neces¬ 
sary to fit them for the little use they will be in the 
garden. 
Tulips.— The same —Tulips should always be taken up 
soon as the leaves dry down in the spring, and re¬ 
planted in September. That is if the very best success 
is to be attained. They will do very well left for two or 
three years in the same bed without taking up, and 
their dying forms may be covered with any desired an¬ 
nuals; but for perfection of flower take up and re-plant 
annually. 
South Window.— Mrs. H. M. Shaw —Geraniums 
ought to do well in your window, even though the 
situation be a hot one. Water freely, and not use too 
large pots and your plants will flower finely. Palms 
will also do well in a warm window. 
Farfugium.— The same— This plant produces small, 
yellow flowers in clusters, on scapes about six inches 
high, and the plants can be safely wintered in the 
cellar. 
Hyacinths. — Mrs. G. C. Coppersmith — Hyacinths, 
when planted in the garden, will bloom for several 
years, but never so finely as their first season, unless 
medium or small bulbs are planted, and then they 
should be taken up in June and re-planted in Septem¬ 
ber, in soil made very rich with well-rotted manure 
from the cow-stable, and the soil worked very deep. 
