WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 
The letters which have appeared in prev- 
numbers of Seed-Time and Harvest con¬ 
cerning the Territory of Washington have 
elicited so many personal enquiries about 
that country, that we have requested Mr. 
A. G. Tillinghast, who is still a resident ©f 
the Territory, to furnish the information 
asked for the benefit of other readers who 
may be interested. For want of room, we 
eave out the questions, but endeavor to 
give the information desired: 
(In answer to Mr. Cromwell Washburn, S. Ware- 
liam, Mass.) 
As yet I have not raised many seeds ex¬ 
cept cabbage. The climate is too damp in 
the fall for curing most seeds, but I am 
experimenting with several kinds of Vege¬ 
table and Flower seeds. 
There are few’ wild fruits of much value 
growing here, though cultivated fruits do 
exceedingly well. I have never found any 
wild strawberries or wild plums, but tame 
strawberries and plums yield heavily, pro¬ 
ducing fruit of extraordinary size and qual¬ 
ity. There are many wild gooseberries that 
grow almost everywhere in the woods and 
yield abundantly. They are black, and so 
small in size as to be unprofitable to gather 
or prepare for the table. I am trying to 
raise some seedlings, thinking perhaps I 
could get them larger by cultivating them. 
I think of no wild fruits here that bid fair 
to be of much value for cultivation, but the 
woods and swamps abound in flowering 
shrubs of great beauty, and we do not laok 
for wild flowers. 
There is a red, flowering currant here that 
blooms very early in spring and is a bright 
scarlet, very pretty and striking in appear¬ 
ance. It seldom fruits and would be of value 
only for its beauty. There are also plenty 
of wild lilies of beauty, and ferns in abund¬ 
ance. Pansies do well here and bloom near¬ 
ly the whole year round. There is a great 
abundance of wild roses, but they are all 
about alike, and single. I have never found 
any worthy of cultivation, This climate 
suits the rose and I never saw 7 finer ones' 
anywhere than in the door-yards and gar¬ 
dens around Puget Sound. They are often 
in bloom at Christinas and New Years, and, 
in fact, nearly all the year. No insect enem) 
or disease seems to trouble them. The 
choicest Moss and other roses thrive and are 
all hardy and healthy here. There ate also 
Spireas, Syringas, Snowballs, Honeysuckles 
&c., growing wild, but I do not know if 
they differ any from the cultivated varieties 
of the east. 
(In reply to Jacob R. Heck, West Hanover, Pa.,) 
The cost of an Emigrant ticket from 
Harrisburg, Pa., to Portland, Oregon, Se¬ 
attle, or any other point on the Sound, or 
in Washington Territory, is about $65.00 
over the N. P. R. R. 
There are no large cattlt ranches in West¬ 
ern Washington, or the Sound Country. 
There are many cattle ranches in Eastern 
Washington, or the Columbia River Valley 
Country. There are plenty of schools and 
churches in all the towns. 
You would find plenty of employment at 
rough hard work, about the Saw 7 Mills, 
Logging Camps, Mines and Farms. If you 
are strong and willing to work, you could 
get good wages almost anyw’here on the 
Sound. From $30 to $50 per month and 
good board, but the other fare would be 
rather rough. 
On a farm they expect a man to dyke, 
ditch, chop, split rails, handle sacks of 
grain, &c. And every man has to furnish 
his own blankets and make his own bed. 
If you are healthy and strong, and want 
to work by the month, you can do better 
here than in the East. But if you aie not 
strong, are sickly, and want an easy job, 
with all the comforts of life, you had better 
stay in Pennsylvania. This is a good coun¬ 
try for a poor man if he can keep his health 
for a few’ years until he is able to take care 
of himself. 
Your expenses getting here would be 
about $100. There is not much land now 
open to preemption on the Sound that is 
worth taking. 
(In answer to Gardiner Woodward, Freehold, N.J.,) 
This country has all the resources any 
country has. Lumbering is the chief in¬ 
dustry at present, and the supply is practi¬ 
cable inexhaustible, as the whole Sound 
Country is a vast forest. Mining is an im¬ 
portant industry, as the whole Sound basin 
is underlaid with coal, and it is loaded on 
