Water cress 84 Whale-oil soap 97 Wood ashes 17 =Everybody Should Read our New Book= =IRRIGATION BY CHEAP MODERN METHODS= =Double the Crops--Water will do it. Strictly up-to-date. Fully Illustrated.= =Tells you just what you want to know in just the way you want to be told.= There is something here for every farmer and gardener. That thing is a sufficient water-supply. Irrigation makes deserts to rejoice and gardens to blossom. Nature often withholds needed moisture at critical times. Millions of dollars are lost annually through the uncertainties of the weather. After reading this work you will be surprised at the cheapness and practicability of irrigation, which will double the production at an expense of from $10 to $1,000, just according to what you want to spend, while it reduces soil culture to an exact science and enables the tiller of the soil to work on schedule time. For terms on which this book can be had, see our "Garden and Farm Manual," which is sent free to all who write for it. Compiled and published by =JOHNSON & STOKES= =..SEED GROWERS AND MERCHANTS..= =217 and 219 Market Street Philadelphia, Pa.= [Illustration: The Largest Seed Warehouse in the East Nos. 217 and 219 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa.] Floracroft Seed Gardens and Trial Grounds In order to get the best results from our efforts, and make sure that customers shall receive from us the best seeds that the world produces, we have for many years maintained and carried on extensive trials at our Floracroft Seed Gardens and Trial Grounds, located about nine miles from our city warehouses. All operations are under the personal direction and management of one of our firm, who resides there. Here are planted each season, for thorough trial, samples of all "Novelties" offered by other seedsmen both in this country and Europe, as well as anything which may be sent us, claimed to be new and superior, by our amateur or market garden customers. By this means we are enabled to satisfy ourselves of the true character and value of any novelty before it can find a place in our catalogue. Many acres are also devoted to the production of pedigree stock seed, from which the seeds we offer are grown. We plant the best seeds obtainable; then go over the crop, plant by plant, carefully "rogueing" and destroying the inferior and selecting and saving only the best. This stock seed from selected plants is sent to be grown on our farms in localities where the conditions of soil and climate are best adapted to the perfect development of the particular variety. It is the product of such stock seed only that we offer for sale.