. Gleanings in bee culture. Sf me-thing that he thinks is an improvement on the Snow-ball. Here is what he says in regard to it: Mr. Root:—I send .vou to-day ^ lbs. of selected Early ^ej-Waketield calibage seed; also 1 lb. of caulitlower seed. 1 to wager my reputation as a laulillower-seed ^al^e^that it is tlie very best pound of cauliflower seed in .\mei-icato-day. Every seed, with good care, will make a head. .\t sheet is a photo of six of them piled up against awheelbarrow turi ed up edgewise. You can see what they arelike. Those six heads, trimmed as you see
. Gleanings in bee culture. Sf me-thing that he thinks is an improvement on the Snow-ball. Here is what he says in regard to it: Mr. Root:—I send .vou to-day ^ lbs. of selected Early ^ej-Waketield calibage seed; also 1 lb. of caulitlower seed. 1 to wager my reputation as a laulillower-seed ^al^e^that it is tlie very best pound of cauliflower seed in .\mei-icato-day. Every seed, with good care, will make a head. .\t sheet is a photo of six of them piled up against awheelbarrow turi ed up edgewise. You can see what they arelike. Those six heads, trimmed as you see them, br mght ih&scales down at 60 lbs. You may lecommend the seed with ijei-fect confidence. It heads with Snowball, but larger. Here ii*our climate tlie leaves cover the iieads so well that tlieieis no need of tying up. We call it the Mattituck Erfuit. Thestock seed was imported from Erfurt three years ago, througha man at MattitucK, L I., at a cost of per ounce. Fidalgo, Wash., Dec. 3. H. A. March. 555. SIX HEADS OP MARCHS CVtTLIFLOWSR The pound of seed referred to in the above will besold, while it lasts, at the regular price of the Snow-ball; viz., packet, .5cts.; J4 ounce, 25 cts.; % ounce,40cts : 1 ounce. SI 50. ~^1^^ Early cauliflower brings tremendous prices; there-fore it is a good plan to start a few plants right strain of Early Jersey Wakefield cabbaee isalso equally well known. The 5 lbs. referred to abovewill be sold in ocent packets ; per ounce, 20 cts.; perlb , S2 50. The cabbage is so very hardy that it is agood plan to have some of the seed put in right can transpant them into cold frames, and getthem almost readv to head up before they go into theopen ground, thus getting ahead of anybody else onearly cabbage. GRAND RAPIDS LETTUCE SEED — THE IMPORTANCEOF HAVING THE VERY BEST. , Some time ago, while discussing this matter of thebest strains of seed, Eugene Davis, the orisinator ofthe Grand Rttpids lettuce, sent me by reque
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