Seeds In Dated Papers is the subject of a short article in one of our valued contemporaries, the Country Gentleman, written to show how much the buyer suffers at the hands of the merchant in the purchase of old seeds. It does not state the case fairly, or rather fully. In the first place, no seedsman, worthy the name, ever sends out seed without sufficient vitality to germinate satisfactorily. Seeds may be bought at a country store where they have been kept so long as to have outlived their usefulness, but that is no place to buy seeds. The place to buy seeds is at the seedsman's. But the most important query is, are seeds not as valuable when old, even though not more than two per cent. of them ger-minate? Now, it all depends upon the seeds. All vine seeds are greatly to be preferred when several years old, as they produce grapes with more flesh and fewer seeds than perfectly fresh seeds. Of many kinds of florists' flowers what are considered perfect specimens - very double, cannot be produced unless the seeds are old.

Many of our market gardeners buy a sufficient quantity of cabbage seed, as well as other sorts, to last several years, in order that they may know what they have, and many of them find that they get better vegetables from old than from new seed. - C. L. Allen.