An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR TILLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 30 Cents Per Line. 
Entered at the post-office as second class matter. 
VOL V., NO: I. WHOLE NO.. XXVII. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., January, 1834. 
“Hashed now the tired heart, and set now is the 
sun; 
’Tis Winter-time, the stars gleam out, the new life 
is beg ;n. 
Calm is the sleep, and long and deep, 
But bright will the waking be; 
The cross 1ms been borne, the crown will be 
worn 
Through all eternity.’* 
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—Every subscriber gets a premium under our 
prize offers, and the prizes are a free gift. 
TO EDITORS AMD PUBLISHERS. 
We will send Seed-Ti---k and Harvest regularly 
for one year to any Edit < r or Publisher in America 
who will give it a notice (favorable or otherwise) a» d 
send a marked copy of hLs paper containing the 
same. 
Special Club Otters. By special ar¬ 
rangement with the publishers of the f d- 
lowing excellent papers, we are enabled to 
make remarkably low club offers, as fol¬ 
lows: 
For One Dollar we will send Seed- 
Time and Harvest, the Farm and Gar¬ 
den, the Western Plowman and Green's 
Fruit Grower . each for one year. At reg¬ 
ular prices they amount to $2.00. Or, we 
will send the New York Weekly Tribune, 
with any one of the above, for $1.25; with 
any two for $1.50; any three for $1.75, or, 
with all four for $2.00, which has for years 
been the price of the Tribune alone. 
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Our Retail Catalogue of “Reliable Seeds 
at Honest Prices,” for 1881, will be issued in 
January and sent to all of our old customers without 
application. All others desiring it may obtain it free 
by making postal card application. It will contain 
descriptions and illustrations of many of the newer 
Vegetablesfand Flowers, with complete price list of 
all the several hundred varieties of Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds which we supply. If not on our books as 
a customer of 1883. you should send for this catalogue. 
One Hundred and Thirty-nine 
Reams of paper are required for this edi¬ 
tion of Seed-Time and Harvest. This is 
60,720 sheets. The type is set, stereotype 
plates made, and printing all done in our 
own office, ou a farm where a post office has 
existed but seven years. 
We do not intend to give any infor¬ 
mation which will let any one person know¬ 
how many subscribers any other contestant 
has sent in, but as some are half-hearted 
about beginning at this late day, we deem, 
it not unfair to state that at this date (Christ¬ 
mas day) no large clubs have been received 
from any one in competition. Any active 
person can go out unaided and collect sub- 
scribeis enough in one day to place them at 
the head of our list. Our lirst prize, $200,. 
will pay for b00 subscribers at 25 cents each, 
and we have no idea that we shall receive 
that numlier from any one person. Kind 
friends, aie you going lo let this money go 
without an attempt to win it, when you 
may easJ) uo it by a few days active work:: 
We want some person in each town 
to act as agent for the sale of seeds as well 
as to collect subscriptions for Seed-Time 
and Harvest. Have you not a half dozen 
or more neighoors who would give you their 
orders if asked '? Well, write us for terms 
and we will pay you well for all the time 
you use in our interest. 
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How to send ns money. La Plume 
is a. Money Order office and probably money 
orders and Postal Notes are as convenient 
and safe as any method for those of our 
friends who are themselves at money order 
offices. There is no cheaper or better way 
than to send Bank Checks or Drafts if you 
are doing business with a bank. We accept 
personal checks without discount. If nei¬ 
ther of the above are convenient for you. 
nodose currency in a letter and register it, 
using postage stamps for fractional parts of 
a dollar only. 
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A correspondent asks: Where 'can I get a 
hundred ora tliousand cuttings of the Wor¬ 
den > ejul.ug drape. [ ure and true to name?. 
You can get mem of Daniel Conger,, pro¬ 
prietor of tile Vvayne County Nurseries, at 
U oleott. N. \ , W nty to him, for prices,. 
