Show save the pure seeds doubtless the above will be altogether 0 a superfluous admonition to many yet from the fact that ahat year after year there theme are eo so large a number of people asking have you got any seeds to spare we opine that there are some to whom it may not be without direct advantage if observed too great care cannot be taken by our seeds men as an well as ap others to preserve seeds in their purity as by a successive mingling of varieties a wort worthless bless kind is generally produced we have for example a great many varieties of the cabbage grown here some of which do not even form a head and are only fit to be fed to cows it is quite as easy and involves no more expense to grow a cabbage th atwill chatwill that will produce a good solid heads to grow a mass of I 1 cabbage leaves these worthless plants haie have been grown from mongrel seed being an admixture i of several varieties consequently partake of neither the one nor the other and should never be germinated we have two or thren good 0 varieties of the cabbage the early york and drumhead for instance which in their pure state in proper soil and with suitable culture will mature good heads beads the which in our judgment 0 is altogether 1 the best cabbage ever pro produced d here when wilen pare tt ith the winding 0 firmness known only to that variety will form a substantial head on every stock the most trilling mixture with other varieties may be at once detected 21 2 1 locust saed for forest shade or other ornamental na purposes should be planted in tile fall they need not occupy space that might be pe otherwise better appropriated 1 |