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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1893. _ - r-? ----- 4> VOL. LVIII. NO. 39. V I Babies and Children I thrive on Scott's Emulsion when all the rest of their food seems to go to waste. Thin Babies and "Weak Children grow strong, plump and healthy by taking it. Scott's Emulsion overcomes inherited weakness and all the tendencies toward Emaciation or Consumption. Thin, weak babies and growing children and all persons suffering from Loss of Flesh, Weak Lungs, Chronic Coughs, and Wasting Diseases will receive untold benefits from this great nourishment. The formula for making Scott's Emulsion has been endorsed by the med ical world for twenty years. No secret about it. Sendfor pamphlet on ScoWs Emulsion. FREE. Scott & Bowne, N. Y. Al! Druggists. 50cents and SI. SILVER BLOCK, 1207 BROADWAY, AHSWST? GA. We offer to the Farming and Country People a special line of goods, honest, strictly solid leather Shoes, which cannot be excelled for stvle and durability, at the lowest possible prices. SILVER SHOE CO. brand Shoes acknowledged the best in the city. Our Goods are especially made for us, and we sell nothing but we can guarantee, and at Rock Bottom Prices. A trial will make you our friends and cnstomers. Remember,, Silver Shoe & Hat Co. Leaders in Good Honest Goods, at BOTTOM PRICES. WM. F. SAMPLES, Formerly with E. T. Murphy it Co., now wit h Arrington Brothers & Co., Groceries and Plantation Sunplies, 621 BROAD STREET, - - AUGUSTA, GA. (Xortli side street, half block above Railroad Crossing.) He cordially invites and would be glad to wait on all his friends and acquaintances. I One of the LargestjOrganization t^lass Cental Practice in ffic-UnTtrrr"Stat?sr Pledged to the Promotion of Scientific Dentistry at Moderate Prices. TEETH WITHOUT PLATES. Almaliram f illings. 50c. up Platina Fillings.-. 75c. up Gold Fillings.$1 00 up| Best Set of Teeth (either upper or lower set,). 8 00 A Good Set of Teeth for. 5 50 Extracting Teeth. 50c. Crowns and Teeth Without Plates at Same Rates. PERFECT FITTING ARTIFICIAL TEETH and Best Workmanship Guaranteed or Money cheerfully | refunded. Only the Best Material Used. Sio Broad Street. [Over Mullarky & Harty.] Augusta, Ga. cfc - WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Grocers and Commission Merchants, - AND DEALERS IN - FLOUR, CORN, SUGAR, TEAS, MEAL, OATS, COFFEE, RICE, LARD, HAY, MOLASSES, SPICES, MEAT, BRAN, SYRUPS, . CAN GOODS, Etc AND EVERYTHING IN THE GROCERY LINE. We have NEW BAGGING, PIECE BAGGING, and SUGAR BAG CLOTH, NEW ARROW TIES, whole re-bundled TIES, and piece TIES. We make a specialty of these goods and sell them at VERY LOW PRICES. Call to see us when you come to Augusta. We want the TRADE of EDGEFIELD COUNTY and will make it to your in terest to give it to us. Mr. HILLMAN THOMPSON is with us and will be glad to meet his friends. 843 Broad Street, - AUGUSTA, GA. Statesville, ? m - DISTILLERS AND JOBBERS IN - Pure, HrlttWl C. M Made COPQ and Rye IMsfe Apple and Peach Brandies, We make a specialty of pure ?roorts for private use and medicinal pur poses. Our brands are all recognized as standard, and we sell nothing but high grade goods. Weare sole proprietors of the celebrated Key brand of old-fashioned hand made Corn Whiskey and Apple.Brandy, packed in cases of one dozen bottles. We quote as follows, in lots 1 to 10 gallons: N. C. "Poplar Log" Corn Whiskey, $1.25 to $3.00,*according to age) Rye Whisker, $2.00 to .$0.00, according to age. Apple Brandy, $2.00 Peach Brandy, $2.75. E:*tra charge for jugs. We can Siirmsb ('oro Whiskey in cases of 1, 2. 4, fi, and S dozen Dottles to case, in pints, half pints, and quarts, ready for use, at low prices. Can make special prices on barrel shipments. We have the largest, stock in the country of old corn whiskey, ripened and mellowed by age, and espe cially recommend it for private use. EIGERT Corner Broad and McIntosh Streets. PARAGRAPHS*'*" SOETS. "Ma," said a discouraged urchin, I "I ain't going to school any more." "Why, dear?" tenderly inquired his mother. "'Cause, 'tain't any use. I can never learn to spell. The teacher keeps changing the words every day." In the family circle, little Mary, one evening when all was silent, looked anxiously in the face of her father, who han1 ceased to pray in his family, and said to him with quivering lips, "Papa, is God dead?" "No, my child; why do you ask that?" "Why, papa, you never talk to him now as you used to do," she replied. y A hundred tons of cat's tails were recently sold in one lot in London for the purpose of orna menting ladies' wearing apparel. Assuming that an average cat's tail would weigh a couple of ounceB, this would mean that no fewer than 1,792,000 pussies had been killed just to supply this one deal. Hicks-That wasn't a bad pres ent that Tom got from his wife's father as a wedding gift-$2,400, $100 for each one of the bride's years. Wicks-I shoujd say not; neither did Tom have anything to say against it, I guess. "No-oh, no ; only he couldn't help saying, half aloud, 'What a fool I didn't take Maria! She's thirty if she's a day.'" "Sairy Ann," he said, with a touch of asperity in his voice, "What is it?" asked the president of the Bingville Association of Emancipated Women. "Any wo man that can't sew on a suspender button any better'n you did this one couldn't discharge the duties of sheriff nohow. An' I'm durned ef I'll vote fur ye." "I say, Robert, what is it that is dearer than ltfe, and freer than air j the rich man wants it, the poor man has it, the miser spends it, the spendthrift saves it?" "Give it up. What is it?" "It's nothing. Nothing is dearer lhan life, noth ing ia freer-than ?irjc^^ejrioh^man wan^B^?oThlng, the poor man has nothing, and the spendthrift saves nothing." "I hate to see a woman with rings in her ear!" exclaimed the good deacon ; "they ain't natural ! If it was intended for women to wear them she would have been born with holes in her ears. The first woman didn't weai rings, I'll be bound." "No," remarked a quiet little man in the corner, "nor any thing else." The discussion was adjourned without delay. "I should like to be excused, your honor," says a man who had been summoned on a jury. "What for?" "I owe a man $10 and wish to hunt him up and pay it." "Do you mean to tell the court that you would hunt up a man to pay a bill instead of waiting for him to hunt you up?" "Yes, your honor." "You are excused. I don't want any man on the jury who will lie like that." Samuel was before the bar of justice for having purloined divers and sundry pullets from the coop of a prominent citizen. "Didn't you know it was wrong to steal those chickens?" asked the judge. "Yessuh, yo' honor." "Then why did you do it?" "It's disher way, yo'honor," replied Sam, striking the attitude of a martyr, "I j is' done hit to take away tem'tation furn de paf ob my neighbors, yo' honor." A day or two since Albert Miller, of Pittsburg, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for kissing his sweetheart on the public street. Served him right. A man who would do a thing of that kind in public ought to get a whole year. He should have waited until he got home. .It's a thousand times better in a dark room or hallway than in the blazing light of the sun. Georgia has turned out a 119 pound pumpkin. It grew upon a vine that covered one and one fourth acres and had 113 pumpkins that weighed 7,435 pounds. Mr. John A. Tomberlin, of Irwin county, grew it in 1893. At least the Atlanta Constitution says so. South Carolina grows some large pumpkins itself and can probably beat Georgia. But it cannot beat the Constitution's story. See the very best $1.50 shoe in the world at J. W. Marsh & Co.'s, Johnston. WHEN WOMEN VOTE. Oh, mother, please, mother, come home .with me now, The afternoon's slipping by fast. You said yon were coming right home from the polls As soon as your ballot was cast. Poor father came in for his dinner at noon And not a mouthful could he find, ' And the words that he said as he slam med the front door Left a strong smell of sulphur be hind. -Kansas City Journal. And Then. Marion Farmer. Things are coming to a pretty pass. The props will drop from under men and firms this season that have not felt the strain of financial depression so keenly before. The dusty last year's clothing and shoes of the merchant, lying untouched and unpriced, .in the preseuce of bare-footed, half-clad, shivering negroes, will take the cataracts from over his eyes and enable him to see who is right and who is wrong. Then it will be getting right to make him sympathize with the debt-ridden farmer. Then he will the better appre ciate the you-ought-to-do-a-cash business theory of his boss ; and then he will gradually get the idea that the farmers do know some thing, do have some brains and some rights. And then the air-inflated cra nium of the street-corner dude will bob up and tell us that you can't legislate money into people's pockets. And then the cross-roads wise acre will whittle away on a dry goods box and expatiate on the you-ought-to-diversify doctrine of his boss. And then some miserly agricul cultural skinflint will open up on the work-more-and-talk-less-poli tics of his boes. And then the motes and beams and cataracts will be removed from the people's eyes. And they will see empty cotton houses and corn cribB/r?thii?*kr68,' j mouthe TSPS*? :? n?'?n*fifuinSar ve st. They will see hunger in the pres ence of abundant food crops ; they will see nakedness in the presence of abundant clothing products; they will see increasing poverty in the presence of increasing plenty, and misery stalking, unnoticed, in the presence of dazzling splendor and reckless extravagance. Then will the people wonder how inattention to business (as assert ed of the farmers) can produce too much, and how over-production can produce poverty. And then the people will be in proper humor to pestle these ground-mole theorists with facts that they can't explain. And they will do it. And it won't be long. Keeping- Sweet Potato Vines. A writer in the Texas Farm and Ranch gives the following direc tions for keeping sweet potato vines through winter, to be used in ; early spring for seed: Cut the vines close to the hill ; take a knife : and clip off leaves and leaf stems i close to the vine, and if vines be longer than four feet, cut them in i two or more pieces, for convenience. ! Select a place well drained. Raise : a little mound the size you wish < your hill, about eight inches high in the middle, sloping to edge. Now put down a layer of vines, two inches deep ; cover with fina < earth, and so continue a layer of 1 vines, alternated with fine eartl ( until you form a cone shaped hill i Cover this with corn stalks or any- i thing to keep dry and keep fron i freezing. Vines are much easie* E to keep than potatoes, and in Jan \ uary or February you will hav? \ nice vines to plant, much earlie ? than sets, and they make the nice? c and smoothest potatoes. As vino- \ less yams are V6ry scarce, ver i much more potato seed can b fi saved by this method, and at tb * same time a heretofore useless pat e of the plant utilized. I have ga- r dened several years and never fai- % to save potato vines, while at tb i same time I have had all my p- c tatoes to rot. It is worth coming from tho ii- . most partB of Edgefield county:o reach Ramsey & Bland during te r progress of their November 8ale>f c Furniture of every descriptio, t also wagons, buggies, harnea, . window shades, rugs, and hai ware. a - -,- o Buy shoes from J. W. Marshfe d Co., Johnston. o IGRICULT?RAL. WHEAT, OATS, BARLEY, RYE. It is still not too late to sow wiieat, but every effort should be mide by cross-plowing, harrowing, and rolling to put che land in the very best condition. ?ijk the Atlantic and Gulf States oats also may still be sown. And barbey can be sown to great advant- j age, especially that intended for seed. Where possible, all unoccu piejd laud should be seeded in rye, which, as an improver to the land, takes almost the same place in winter that peas do in summer. It iprevents washing, and thus saves wljat is already in the land, and by] being turned under in the spring, adds large stores of plant fo6d for other crops. The COMPOSTING of ( all available materials is in or der now, and from this time until the spring work begins, one can scarcely spend his spare hours to better advantage than by gathering and prepariug to give back some part of what he has been taking | off from his land year after year. * * * HOGS. The longer the fattening hogs are kept after they are in condition for pork, the greater the loss. The plan is to push them now to be ready for the first cold spell in this month or December, which is con sidered the best time for killing and curing. Seo that their food is in sufficient quantity without) waste, and clean, as also the water. We cannot expect the best quality of meat unless these details of cleanliness are attended to. * DO FERTILIZERS PAY? This is a question that has both ered my mind for the last thirty odd years, and I have not yet reached a final conclusion on the subject. Taking everything into consideration, the original cost, the freight, the expense of hauling, distributing, etc., the increase in production and the reduction in I j?icesjisjinatural consequence, it 'd?esTse?nT'to" be~m????y" thrown1 away and labor wasted, as we now have cotton below the cost of pro duction. It is true, fertilizers in vigorate the plants and cause them to grow faster and mature earlier and give the farmer pleasure as he watches them in their rapid growth. The improvement can be plainly seen some years, other years it is scarcely perceptible. Is this caused by the seasons, the fertilizers, or both? Let all speak out and tell what they know of fertilizers, and how much clear money they have on hand as a result of using f?rtil izer8 during the last eight on ten years. It is true, much of lauds have been improved, but we cannot give all the credit to fertilizers. I know whereof I speak wh?n I say many of us have increased the yielding capacity of our lands by taking out the stumps and roots, which ena bles us to pulverize the soil deeper and cultivate it better. This adds beauty to our fields and gives them increased production over the old Btumpy field with its grass turfs, broken plow stocks, grass and sweeneyed mules. It is easy t.? put $3 or $4 per acre into our soils, but it is hard to get it out, on either :orn or cotton. H. N. F. * * * WEEVILS IN PEAS. When peas or beans are stored )ver winter to be planted the fol owing season, they become infest ?d with weevils of a similar nature ;o the ones which are found in corn md other grain. While the weevils n peas and heans are of different ipecies scientifically from the wee nie in corn, yet to all intents and )urposes, they are the same so far LS their destructive influences are ioncerned. The species which yorks in our cow peas is very sim lar to those that infest the beans, md as a rule the peas are infested vith weevils when they are gath ired from the field. The weevils ?ontinue their growth and propa ;ate in the peas when stored, and n many cases by the time spring ?pens, the peas will be destroyed. REMEDY FOR THESE INSECTS. There is no occasion for any loss >y these insects, for the simple emedy given last mouth for the orn weevils, is also applicable to hese pea weevils. So the remedy 9 simply this: Pour a small mount of bisulphide of carbon ver the infested peas. This is best .one by placing the peas in a box ra grain bin, so that the fumes of the bisulphide will be confined as much as possible. But a small amount of the bisulphide will be needed in the treatment of a large bin of the peas, so that the cost of treatment is very little. * * .* DOES NUT GRASS PROPAGATE FROM SEED? I have recently read Mr. Till man's article on destruction of "Nut Grass," and agree with his opinion in some particulars. His policy of making a hard fight for its extermination ought to succeed, and if a sufficient amount of per severence is exercised, it will suc ceed. He believes in making the con test in the summer time. I am sure it is much easier to exterminate in the winter. Nut grass enjoys the sun, but cannot stand a freeze. I have tried both plans, and have ceased trying to destroy it in summer more than the damage which occurs in fre quent working of the crops, which is considerable. Turn the land in the winter, after severe freezes, light at first and getting deeper at each turning, and the large numbers of dead nuts on the surface after the first rain suc ceeding I he freeze will prove that this severe usage will soon make a complete destruction of the nui sance. Another difference in opinion is, I think this grass does not propa gate from the seed. I thought so until Prof. Newman, then the main stay of Clemson College, declared it was a mistake. I did not accept his theory readily, but gathered some seeds and mixed them thor oughly with a quantity of soil, and placed the soil in a box amongst my wife's flowers, where it was cared for regularly, receiving wa ter, proper temperature and light for several months, and not a sign of nut grass appeared. Other grass seeds and weed seeds, which hap pened to be mixed with the soil, came up and grew until destroyed. I then examined the seed with a microscopej and upon opening the ooocla-wrtn a kn if e, founcLna k?rnp.l , in them. If Mr. Tillman will make some experiments, I think he will be convinced that it will not propa gate from the seed. I will be glad to learn the result of his test. J. W. STRIBLING. Seneca, S. C. The Prince's Pledge. I saw her first as I turned the bend in the road. In her faded calico dress, she stood leaning against the trunk of a tree, with the noonday lights and shadows playing around her. "She looks as if wicked fairies had bound her to the tree," I thought, "and she were waiting for the prince to come and deliver her." As she caught sight of me, she started forward, but then, seeing that I was not the one for whom she was watching, she drew back. "Can I get water there?" I asked of her, pointing to a cabin on the 3dge of a cornfield. "Yes, it's shorter this way," and ' she went ahead by a path that skirt- ! ?d the field. "How pretty the country is up here," I said. ? "We'uns that has lived here il'lus gets mighty tired o' it," and . ;here was a sad patience in her i foice. "Ma, this gentleman wants some water," she said to a woman 1 vho was hoeing peas near the louse. "Lord, bless you, sir! You're nighty welcome. This water is he best anywhere 'round," and the ? vornan followed to the well talking c garrulously. ? The girl said nothing, until as I * vas leaving, I asked her if she i vould give me a rose from a bush ^ )looming near. "No, no," she cried 8 jassionately ; "you shan't have * me! They are all mine, mine!" t rhen she turned and fled. ? "Mandy is a lee-tle off 'bout that i har bush; you mustn't mind her," c aid her mother apologetically. t The gentleman that was up here I hree summers ago gave it to her. ' ?hey sot it out together, an' he 1 old her as how when the roses I (loomed he'd come back again, but t ie ain't never corned, an' I don't d low as he ever will, but whenever a he flowers is a blooming, Mandy 0 oes an' watches fur him at the u ork o' the roads." a - a Do not be fooled by anybody ?io offers you something for noth- A ?g. J. W. Marsh & Co., of John ton, will give you the best goods Dr the least money. at TIE SPECULATORS SCARED. They See Danger Ahead in Mr. Roddey's Proposition. THAT NEW COTTON TRUST PLAN. In New York, as Well as in Other Cities, the Brokers Say That It Would Ruin Their Business. NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-Members of the cotton exchange here and in other cities are somewhat ex cited over the proposition to form a gigantic trust of all the cotton raisers of the South, which is be ing advocated by John T. Roddey, a prominent broker of this city. The exchanges are opposed to the scheme. If such a trust is formed, the brokers say that their business will be ruined, so far as exercising any control of the market is con cerned. The trust would be able to practically dictate the price of cotton in the open market. Mr. Roddey's plan is for every cotton farmer, no matter how small, to become a shareholder. When the crop is gathered each member shall turn into the trust one bale out of every five or six bales raised by him, or if the crop is a small one, then one bale out of every seven or eight shall go to the trust. The amount of cotton thus placed in the hands of the trust shall be held by the latter as a sort of bal ance wheel to the market. The farmer will markst his crop, less the amount turned over to the trust, as best suits him. The trust supply will be held until the market price shall be high enough to war rant its sale and the return of a good profit. Mr. Roddey feels Bure that the adoption of his plan and the formation of a trust, as pro posed, will at once put the price of cotton up to about 8 cents from the present price, which is about 5 cents. This would be an imme diate-, and material -benefit to the farmer, who would also benefit by the dividends which it is expected will accrue to him on his trust shares. Mr. Roddey suggests a meeting in New York at an early date of representatives of all farmers' or ganizations in the south, to con sider the matter. He has received a number of letters from promi nent cotton planters and leading citizens of South Carolina, who heartily endorse the plan. When seen at his office, 80 Broad way, Mr. Roddey said he expected active steps towards organization would be taken this week. Almost a New York Daily. That Democratic wonder, The i New York Weekly World, has just s changed its weekly into a twice-a i week paper, and you can now get . the two papers a week for the same i old price-$1.00 a year. , Think of it! The news from New York right at your door fresh ; every three days-104 papers a 1 year. j We have made arrangements by i which we can furnish this paper j and the twice-a-week New York J World all for only $2.25 a year. Here is the opportunity to get your - jwn local paper and The New York r World twice every week at extra Drdinarily low rates. THE ADVERTISER, Edgefield, S. C. \ The political contest in New g fork State has become so compli- 3 :ated that it is hard to predict what r he out come will be. The Mug- j vumps and Tammanyites are fight- f ng each other to the bitter end. t Chairman Faulkner of the Nation- ] il Congressional committee after \ pending days in New York trying j o heal the breach has utterly fail- j d and left disgusted with the out- \ ook. If Senator Hill comes out J if the fight victorious it will be - he grandest victory the New York t )emocracy has ever gained, and it ?rill force him to the front as the egitimate Presidential nominee. 1 f New York goes Republican this ime it means a Republican Presi .ent in 1896 certain, and possibly J Republican Congress. The Dem- j cracy in the Empire State is cut Jj p into warring factions, and they 2 re scrambling there for the loaves a nd fishes without regard to the B] ature success of the party.- ? fanning Time?s. ^ Go to J. W. Marsh & Co., John ton, for best quality of goods. IF Women and Men-The Conflict Around the Cradle. Harper's Bazar. In the dayp when Tupper's Prov erbial Philosophy was taken se riously, it was customary to quote from it the excellent statement, "A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure." Certainly the little atom of mortality in its cradle is the centre of peace and subdued quiet, while it is asleep; and from the moment of its waking a centre possibly a storm-centre-of do mestic activity. The curious thing is that this lovable little object is also the citadel around which the fiercest contests of reformer and conservative are apt to be waged. Those who are contending against any change in the rights or condi tions of woman do it for the sake of "baby." Rally round the home 1 is their persistent war-cry. On the other hand, those who would change these conditions assert that they are working in the interest of "baby" also. Thus each side makes the cradle its citadel; each side waves the same flag, as when two rival claimants are contending for the same throne. The object of all alike is to defend the cradle, although the process leads them to wholly opposite conclusions. There is in the last report of the National Museum at Washington a curious engraving cf a stuffed group of the bird called the horn bill. When these birds have built their nest the female retires to it, and is walled in by the male, a hole being left through which she puts forth her beak to be simply fed by him, until her young shall be hatched. This picture repre sents the process of feeding, the husband being perched chival rously on a branch. It might hang as a decoration in multitudes of human households, where very , much the same ideal of domes ticity prevails. In these families -and many of them, for instance, speak the German language-it seems as essentially wrong for a mother to haye any interests out side her home as it would seem, to the female hornbill to lead thelifei . of a mother robin. The robin flies, perches, runs along the grass, draws herself up with that military strut, then grasps at a worm, tears it from the ground, and flies swiftly away with it to her nest; and this again and again through the live long day. To tba sequested horn bill the robin must seem a vagrant, bold-faced, and very reprehensi ble bird; and yet both live ac cording to their lights, no doubt ; and it takes all sorts of birds to make a world. J. W. Marsh & Co., Johnston, have the best $1.10 shoe on earth. Medical Card. ?WILL resume the practice of medi cine in Edgefield and vicinity. Many thanks for past patronage, and I only isk a partial continuance of the same. Can be found in my office from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. My specialties are: Scrofula, com plaints peculiar to women, and vene real diseases. I am the oldest physician in the ;ounty, though not the oldest man. It has been said by some up-start poung M. D. that the oldest physicians ire at least fifty years behind the ;imes; per contra, it has been said by philosophers, statesmen, scholars, and gentlemen, from yKsculapius to Jen lings, that "practice makes perfect." I have never forgot anything: in my ife, except when I did so on purpose. \nd, if not, why not? W. I). JENNINGS, SR. Oct. 23, 1894. ro all Whom it May Con cern ! A PETITION will be presented to r\ the next Legislature of South karolina, convening next November, i.. D. 1894, to lay off a new county out >f the northern or Saluda portion Sdgefield county, S. C. As more fully ihown by a certified survey of James kl. Forrest, giving the boundary lines LS follows: Commencing at Saluda iver and running the Lexington line o the Aiken line, and from thence to ',ybrand's mill, from thence to Lotts, rom thence to the Abbeville line, from he Abbeville line to the Saluda river, md thence down Saluda river to the ,exington line. i. T. EDWARDS, J. P. WILLS, JED CROUCH, A. J. COLEMAN, TOM ATTA WAY, BAILEY MATTH BWS iIiKE KEMPSOX, S. M. SMITH, )B. KEVNKEDY, B. F. SAMPLE, )R. BUSTER, JOHN RAUCH, )R. KIRKSEY, LUTHER DEAX, AMES BLACK, and others. 250 Acres in Nurseries. 37th Year. 1 Acre Under Glass. 7ruit Trees & Plants. Specially adapted to the South rn States and sub-tropical coun ries. Rare Conifera} and Broad weaved Evergreens; 10,000 Came ias; 8,000 Azaleas ; 50,000 Palms J 5 acres in Roses; Geeen house nd Bedding plants and everything iiited to needs of Southern Horti nlturalists. No agents. Send or ers direct to us. Catalogue free, .ddress P. J. BERCKMANS, ruitland Nurseries, AUGUSTA, GA