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Seed Time and Harvest.

We have received the first hum
Der of a new twenty-four page Gar
den Magazine under the above title
which promises to be valuable adj
dition to American Horticultural Lit
erature. 1t is edited and published
by Isaac F. Tillinghast, Scotsman, at
La Plume, Lack'a county,. Pas who,
ia order to introduce it, offers, for
only so cents to send it for one year
together, with packages Of his, cele1
brated ia Plume Seed" worth at re-
tail more than he asks you TO pay for
all. His only object IN making SO
liberal an offer is to get new custom
.ers, whom, by pleasing, he hopes to
keep. One sample copy will be sent
free upon application. Address as
above. fsl 8b3A@E D''tA
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White Labor in the South.

At a recent meeting OF the Lake
George Agricultural Society the SUBJ
ject OF white labor was brought up by
Mr.. S. U. Hammond. The large in
crease in the cotton crops OF late
years has been attributed by some
people to the. great industry of the
negro, las freeman. There was
never a more mistaken assertion for
very many Of the colored people have
entirely withdrawn from field labor,
and entered on other less laborious
occupations, or turned loafers about
the large cities. The great increase
in the crops has been caused by the
white element that has been driven
to become cultivators of the soil and
who have cultivated on more scien-
tifc principles. In Duval county
where there are as many colored as
white people there is hardly bale Of
cotton produced, and very small
part of the vegetables grown and ex-
ported are the work of colored la
borers. In the more southern counties
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tor that purpose, the trees required,
should be cleaned around, and all
shoots and lower branches removed
the previous spring to give those IN
tended to be used, perfect symmetry
OF form. But would it not pay to
plant out grove OF sour orange trees
and bud them I'd serve for Christmas
trsesa They can be planted twelve
feet apart and trained low and when,
say in four years, the trees are well
iruited, cut down and sent into the
market a few days before Christmas.
Succors would spring up from the old
roots Of which the finest might be
saved, and woqld be fit to market in
three years more. Twelve by twelve
would give over 300 trees to the acre,
ten acres in'the grove'would be 5000
trees,Ithis would give LOCO trees per
annpm torisale, by removing one third
every year, What do you think, an
orange tree loaded with its golden
fruit, and its dark glossy leaves would
bring ifltoffered Z for sale in New
York at Christmas ?, Just fancy the
sum for yourselves. Ceald anything
be more appropriate or handsomer !!
The stem could be- placed in barrels
of wet sand which would keep them
fresh, for some time at least long
enough to answer the purpose and
the barrel hidden in a drapery Of
moss and litchens. Let some one
try it next December and give us the
result. The sour orange tree will
thrive anywhere in the State, from
the wetest hamock to the dryest
sand hill. Those people who say that
the orange business will be overdone
are not aware that if these prognos-
tics ever came true, which we, as yet,
see no chance of its being verified,
that we can cut down the trees and
sell them for christmas trees in the
north, and not even then ruin our
groves. e
Every sour orange tree in Florida
will be required before long for max,
ing marmalade from the fruit, and viii
be as valuable. as thes sweet fruit.
The orange marmalade is not yet
know and the more the knowledge
of it spreads, the greater will be the
consumption, and we are the only
people in the United States who can
supply it, California even has not that
advantage. hsll}' &f' f'
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Florida Fruit Growers Association.-Dr,
J. C. Kenworthy, pres, Jacksonville; ID.
H. Elliot sec Live Oak; D. 8, Place, cor.
Sec, Waldo. .atti icN s,sa
New Smyrna Agricultural and Fruit
Growers SOciety.--Dr. j. M. Hawks. pres;
M. B. Rolf and NJ. Lewis. vice-pres'ts.; w.
S. Hart, sec. and treas.
Orange Ridge Agricultural and Immi-
grafton Society.-Dr. B. B. Bennett, pres.;.
John Cannon, Sec; j. Y. Parce, cor. sec.
DeLand. VOlusia Co. Weekly meetings
Lake George Fruit Growers Associa-
tion.7;H; W. Peters, M; D., pres, Drayton
Georgetown; w. P. Wright, Esq, vice.
pres. Drayton Island; w, H. Lente, ESQ.,,
vice-pres., Seville; A. H. Manyille, Esq,
Sec, Lake George; Rev. T. Hind, cor. Sec.
Georgetown; S. U. Hammond. Esq, treas;
Fort Gates.
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Messrs. Ashmead Bros. are our agents
in Jacksonville, and authorized to re-
ceive subscriptions and advertisements
for this paper.
Sabbath School next Sunday morning
at $50 o'clock, Mr.. Y Parce. Super
intendent.
DR.. B. B. Bennett and Mr.. Killkof,
visited Jacksonville last week.
There has been good many people
from the adjoining towns, in DeIand the
past week. = aasvr q
Capt. a. B. Austin left last week for
Jacksonville, in the interest of this set
Element.
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THE FLORIDA 1GRICULTURIST.

of the State everything. grown may
be said to be the vorksof white labor,
they grow the corn, canes, cotton,
ETC., the few coloredg people being
mostly 10 the employ of orange
growers, attending to the groves, and
those who have taken up homesteads
confine their agriculture TO only
small patch of potatoes or corn around
the house for home use. Most of the
groves in this locality are worked by
the white owners, many of them men
OF culture who have never been ac-
customed to manual labor before COM
ing here. Doctors of medicine,
ministers of the gospel, lawy bank
ers, merchants and representatives of
every department of trade, can be
seen daily, with coats off working in
the fields, while the wives and daugh-
tiers are doing their own household
work, and may often be seen driving
the cart into the town and purchasing
the necessaries required. Enter into
conversation with any of them, and
you will at once find out the polished
gentleman or lady. They have
adapted themselves to the situation
and feel more independent in doing
their own work, and also find out
door exercise beneficial to their
health. They do not feel that they
are degraded by honest labor. The
emigration of colored people from the
southern state is only a freak that viii
soon cure itself. We have seen many
such movements among the free me-
groes OF the West Indies, for they
are a restless race and are willing to
listen to the most ridiculous state.
ments and act on sudden impulse.
AS this freak of going to Kansas and
Indiana wears off which will soon be
the case when the novelty has grown
old, the emigrants will soon begin to
return home, but not bit wiser, for
in a few more years they will be will
ing to start for some where else on
another wild goose chase. Assteady
laborers they can never be depended
on and for that reason those colonies,
where the slaves have been freed, are
retrograding. In the West Indies
% cents per day is the usual price Tor
strong men, and they have to feed
themselves out of that. This shows
that it is not the amount of hire that
is the drawback, but only the unreli-
ability of the labor They have too
much spare time, aud idle people, it is
well known, are always plotting some
mischief. If they do not start off on
another emigrant scheme the next
time they will be up to some other
kindNof mischief of more serious
nature. The Ethiopian cannot
change his skin, or his nature as the
records of thousands of years has
showed. AS we have repeatedly re-
marked, "the greatest problem this
country has got to solve, is that OF
what to do with the colored race
AS long as they are here they will
remain an element of discord, and
what can be done with the 10000
of them will take wiser heads than
ours to unfold. ar
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4 Worthy Of Attention.

a. We advise all our readers, whether
they own a foot of land or not, to
supply themselves with that treasure
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ton, the american .Agrictsltau.sst, so
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with descriptions of. labor saving and
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To Correspondents.

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correspondents be good enough to
write on only one side of the sheet ?
as when both sides are written on, it
not only makes it inconvenient for
the compositors, but the handling OBJ
literates some of the writing and pre-
vents its being true to copy.
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Florida Fruit Growers Association.

The annual meeting of the above
Society will take place in the court
house, Jacksonville, on the evening
of February, 25th, at 1870. G. J.
Kenworthy, President.
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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-11-18
The French Vineyards in Peril.

The vineyards in the southwest of
France, which have suffered SO much
from the phylloxera, are now being at
tackled by new enemy; for mildew,
which is believed to have been brought
over with the American plants, has
been found not only in the Cognac
district, but all around Libourne and
Bordeaux the mischief done is already
very considerable; and NJ Lesprault
a member of the commission appointed
to report upon the phylloxera in this
district, states that the disease is of a
similar kind to that which affected the
potato plant for so many years. 1t al
ways shows itself on the inside of the
vine-leaf, its presence being made man
ifest by white spots varying in shape.
On the American plants they are al
ways round, and easy to detect; but in
The French stocks they are so irregular
that the discoloration is more difficult
to detect. In both cases, however, the
mischief done is the same-the leaves
curl up and fall off before the grapes
have ripened. Lime, sulphur and
ashes have been tried in vain; but sui
phate of copper has done much good.
Some French vines are less subject to
the malady than others, although all
Of them are more affected than the
American plants, which however pro-
duce grapes of an inferior quality. The
same disease has made its appearance
in the canton of St. Gall, in Switzer-
land; and, as no American stocks have
been imported there, the germs of the
disease are supposed to have been car
ried there by wind. The Winge Franchise
states that the vintage of1SSO will be
of good quality but middling in quanti-
ty in the Champagne, Burgundy,
Beauj olais, and Bordeaux districts. At
Beziers, Narbonne, and Perpignan the
vintage will be excellent, rather above
the average indeed, in striking con-
trasts to other districts in the south
affected by the severe winter and the
ravages of the phylloxera. Al
though this scourge still makes pro-
gress in Spain and Italy, the vintage in
those countries is good and the prices
realized are above those Of 1879. In
Austria Hungary both quantity and
quality are under the usual standard,
but prices are we'll supported.
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GEN. PROCTOR's TREASURE.
what a Ghost Has to DO With IT..
Mysterious Occurrences. ON Hill

Mysterious Occurrences. ON HILL
Toronto Globe.
At intervals, somewhat apart, stories
ale put in circulation Of the presence,
at a particular spot on the road leading
from Woodstock westward toward En-.
bro, of ghost or "uncanny thing" OF
some kind that terrifies both man and
horse. In olden times and in older
countries strange adventures befell peo-
pie whose convivial habits induced a
late departure from the generous host
elrie, and the phantom of the disorder
ed brain was accepted as an unearthly
reality. Our people are not charged
BILE with indulgencies that might con-
jure up sprites or more offensive spir-
its; nor is it from imaginative persons
that our ghost stories come. Staid hus-
bandmen on the homeward way have,
in the darkness of the night, found
their horses to start and precipitate
themselves to fence side and tremble
as if in an agony of fright when this
particular spot is reached. Not long
since two young ladies riding past the
spot found their inability to press their
steeds onward, and were rescued from
perilous position on the top of an
embankment after calling for help:
These occurrences are not frequent,
but no sooner has one story passed into
oblivion when a new and more SEEM
ingly absurd one takes its place. In
the lifetime of the late Col. Light, that
gentleman was wont to affirm that the
treasure stolen from Gen. Proctor in
his flight from the west in the last war
with the United States had been secre-
ted near the spot indicated. That Proc
tor was robbed is a historical fact, and
that suspicious plate and treasure that
no one could OF did account for was
found, and not long ago, near Wood
stock, no one disputes. Col. Light was
so convinced of the correctness Of his
suspicious that he has confessed to
spending night after night in the quiet
of the hillside watching another hillside,
expecting to see advancing to the spot
supposed to be the dppot of the treas
ure one or more of his neighboring
yeomen. The colonel never was able
TO do more than hang together a few
facts that helped to prove the allega-
ton that Proctor was robbed at or near
Martiff7s old stand, and that traces Of
the deed were distinguishaole down to
comparatively late date. 1t may be
that some one is pursuing the same
practice confessed by Col. Light, or it
may be that the hillside is visited by
some one who has share in the i'll
gotten plumber, and in order to escape
detection adopts a guise or exterior
alarming to man and to animals. Any
number of highly respectable persons,
and of the most correct habits, will at
firm as to the startling nature of the
midnight occurrences, and if they are
not supernatural we may hear before
long of a key to a great mystery, for
quite number are determined to get
at the facts even if violence is required.
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Death of an Old British Tar.
London Truth.

London Truth.
We have to record the death, at
Montrose, on Oct /, OF Coull, the old
tar who steered the Shannon into the
memorable action with the Chesa-
peake, off Boston harbor, on the LIST of
June, 1878 James Coull was born in
the fishing village of Ferryden, near
Montrose, on the 9TH of January, 1856,
so that he was in his 95th year On
account of the death of his father and
the poverty of his mother, James start
ed life as a cabin-boy in one of the
local vessels at the early age of 6 years.
He was afterward indentured as an ap-
prentice in the brig Concord, of Mont
rose, in the year of 1901, and while ly-
ing at Copenhagen was pressed for the
navy the same year. James was sent
on board the Centaur, seventy-four
guns, commanded by Capt. Broughton,
in which vessel he first saw active serv-
ice, having been at the bombardment
of Copenhagen on the I'd of April,
1901. After the treaty of Amiens,
James received his discharge, and was
sent on board his old ship to finish his
apprenticeship, which he completed,
and then sailed as an A. B. in anoth-
er local vessel. When lying at the More
in this ship he was again pressed for
the navy, and again sent on board
the Centaur, where he was shortly
afterward appointed assistant quarter
master, and was present in this vessel
at the battle of Trafalgar, on the 21st
of October, 1905. From this time on
ward he was retained in the service,
and by the time he was p was a cir
cumnavigator. His most notable en-
gagement was the tussel of the Shan
non with the Chesapeake, off Boston
harbor, on the LIST of June, 1918, which
only lasted fifteen minutes from the
firing of the first gun to the running
up Of the union jack over the stars
and stripes. Coull, then being a petty
officer and volunteer from the Ac-
taon, had the honor of steering the
Shannon into action; and while doing
so he received musket-ball in his left
wrist, which traversed his arm and
came out at the elbow. Coull, how
ever, stuck to his post, and after the
vessels had got entangled by the Shan
mons anchor catching hold of the Ches-
apeake, he formed one Of the boarding
party led by Capt. Broke, receiving a
severe scalp wound while scrambling
on board. The scalp wound was
quickly patched up, but owing to the
bullet wound Coull was invalid in
1914, and finally the arm was taken off
at the elbow III 1916. Coull was then
discharged on pension Of ZIG per
annum, which was augmented some IA
years ago by Els 16s., so that he had
been pensioner for the unusually
long period Of sixty-six years. Al
though thus disabled, he sailed for
twenty years as cook in the whalers
belonging to the port of Montrose, be-
sides acting in the same capacity for
fourteen voyages across the Atlantic in
sailing vessels
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whom Mr.. Burke at once recognized as
''the fellow" and so he turned his back
on him contemptuously.
"You'ye got quite a color, mother
Taney," said Sophy. You'll soon be
ready to come over. Help with the
canning, eh?"
Mrs. Taney," said the doctor, grave
", "needs long season of rest before
her health is restored. l have recon-
mended Il change of air, a Journey"
William exchanged alarmed glances
with his wife.
.'Whv, you must take us for million
aires, Doc" she cried. Change of air?
Journey? That sort Of prescription
suits fine city ladies. But farmers
wives who have to earn their living
can't take time for such folderols."
The doctor would have answered,
but Lefty put her hand on his arm.
There was faint pink on her cheek
and her blue eyes sparkled like STEEL
Fortunately my mother she said,
gently, is not in such a strait, l have
made arrangements for her to take the
journey. We are going tomorrow to
Virginia. I have bought her old home
and we shall live there. She will have
long change Of air.
William turned CHASTITY pale.
''Bought! What money had your
"Her own scare of the. estate,' said
Judge Wright, calmly. "Letitia is of
age. She seems to have been always
under the impression that she and her
mother were dependent on you. She
came to ask me about it two months
ago, and I, as guardian and
executor, had nothing more to do than
to hand her over her share, which was,
YOU know, in bonds She has chosen
to invest it in Virginia land. Mr.:
Hips made the purchase for her.
nodding to the berry lawyer. who nod
ded gravely back.
Mr.. Burke moved suddenly over to
his side, with beaming recognition:
Chow do you propose to live on this
farm?" said William.
"My mother will withdraw her por
ton of the estate" said Lefty. "She is
entitled to a third, you know
"Withdraw? Thirds? Why, I've use
for it. If she does that, l have done
with the meadow lOts?'
His voice was like that of an cnrageo
dog.
"You seem, William said Judge
Wright, strangely to have forgotten
the position of your mother and sister
You have drawn the interest Of youl
mothers money. 1t must all, Of
course be refunded. Little Lefty
has clear head She will man.
age very well. By the way
she has suggested to me thai
your wife should send over the
Cleveland silver, and all other house
hold property belonging to your moth.
er before her marriage"
When William and his wife Went
out of the gate he seemed to have
shrunk into a smaller and older man:
The last words heard from him were
'lots; it's all your fault" in fierce
| bitterness,