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A New and Superior Variety of C otton With from 400 to 500 open Bolls to the Stalk. THE HOLMES’ EARLY PROLIFIC ! Tlie Earliest Maturing and Largest Producing Cotton Known / TESTIMONIALS. H. YV. Vaughan, Midway, S. C., writes July 2, that he planted the Homes Early Prolific on the 25th of April—rather dry, did not come up until May. By comparing the Early Prolific with the Dickson which had been planted three weeks earlier than the Prolific, found forty-six squares on tl ie Dickson, and eighty-six squares and blooms on the Holmes’Prolific—noticed blooms on the Prolific 12th June; height, three feet, ten inches, . D. A. Fish, of Oglethorpe, writes July sth : “I am satisfied that the Holmes’ Prolific is at this time three weeks in advance of any other cotton in the neighborhood. It is larger, and has double the number of squares aud blooms than the Dickson. My patch is generally about waist high.” Dr. J. J. Robertson, of Washington Ga., writes July 7th : “Planted the Holmes’ Early Prolific ISth and 20th April—saw the first bloom 25th June.” This cotton is doing finely ; it has not been checked at all in its gaowth, and is fruiting as finely as cotton can. It is full of forms, blooms and bolls. Thomas Stokes, near Atlanta, says, that he planted '• varieties of cotton this year, on the same plat of land, same amountof fertilizers, cultivation, Ac. That he picked 2050 lbs. seed cotton from the acre planted in the Early Prolific. The yield was 50 per cent more tnan either of the other varieties planted. M. G. bobbins, of this city, says his (Holmes’ Early Prolific) is the finest cotton in Spalding county. Judge M. Shackelford says he has the finest cotton (Holmes’ Prolific) in Heard county. The Georgia Enterprise of the 10th of July says of the “Holmes’ Early Prolific “The attention ol the pub lic is called to anew variety of cotton known as the Holmes’ Early Prolific.” Mr. J. O. P. Henderson, of Oxford, Ga., planted some ot it on the 18th of April, and it produced the first bloom on the 28th of June, and on the 4th of July a stalk twenty-eight inches high —eighty squares and two bolls. It can be seen growing on his lot, near the Post Office in Oxford.” Mr. Samuel Barnett, of Washington, Ga., says he planted one acre ol the Holmes’Early Prolific, on ground that would not produce ordinarily more than 400 lbs. seed cotton. By preparing it well and with commercial fer’ilizers, it was made to yield 2200 lbs. of my cotton—and also remarked that his overseer thought it would have yielded 3000 lbs., but for the drought in August. Henry C. Rogers, of Sheltocville, Ga., writes, July —, the Holmes’Etrly Prolific is by far the best cotton he has ever planted. It is far ahead of the Dickson variety, though planted on the same day and on the same land. Mr. David Harris, ot Jasper county, Ga., August 2, writes that the Htlmes’ Early Prolific is very fine; I think the finest cotton I ever saw. One of my neighbors counted one stalk on Saturday last which had five hundred bolls, blossoms and squares. Mr. James W. Arnold, of Wilkes connty, Ga., August 1, writes that the Holmes Prolific is the best cotton I ever saw grow. I planted it along side the Dickson, on the same day, on a uniform plat of land, and the Holmes Early Prolific is far superior to it. Mr. B. M. Hullum, of Grand Junction, Tennessee, July 14, writes : I have never had cotton to come as quickly, and take on lorms, as I have found the Holmes Prolific to do. It commenced blooming on the 4th ot July. It is the best formed cotton I ever saw. Mrs. Mary E. Westbrook, of Jefferson Marengo county, Ala., August 2, writes : Holmes Early Prolific is decidedly the best cotton ever planted in this part of the country. I wish you could come and see it about the middle of the mouth. It will, by that time, be splendid. Charles J. Malone, of Americus, Ga., July 26, writes: The Holmes Early Prolific is superabundant in forms, very frequently two and three to the same joint. The present prospeet certainly surpasses any cotton I have ever grown. I have shown my patch toa number of practical planters who pronounce it wonderful. Messrs. Graeser & Smith, of Chaileston,S. C., August 5, writes: We are pleased to report, as far as we SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR—ADVERTISEMENTS.