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SEED-TIME A$3® HARVEST. 
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. 
PLANT AGENT’S REPORT. 
Olyphant, Pa., July 10th, 1884. 
I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir, —I have, at this 
date, sold only 4000 celery plants. I have trans¬ 
planted 6000 plants, have thinned them out and 
filled all vacancy in the row. There is a well 
on one end of the patch and a river on one side 
and end. I have watered quite frequently and 
the plants are growing very fast. One end of the 
patch is shaded by trees. I would, rather not 
sell any more plants till Monday, and then I can 
pull 50,000 or more. The largest are about the 
same as those I bought of you last August. Will 
begin shipping next week. Will buy all my 
seed of you next year if we can agree in prices. 
Nearly all the seed I bought of you was the best 
I ever bought. The cabbage, celery, beets, peas 
and tomato plants were all first class. 
Clark told me there was a man in Luzerne 
County who had five acres of cabbage plants 
and offered to ship plants in 10,000 lots for $1.00 
a 1000. Clark said that that man had almost 
ruined his trade in Luzerne and Columbia 
Counties, and he was obliged to come down in 
his prices. 
I have sold $280 worth of cabbage plants. I 
sold most of them for $1.25 and $1.50 a 1000 on 
ground. I did not ship a cabbage plant on my 
place. I have sold about 25,000 plants at retail 
for 25 cents a 100. I have on hand about 100,000 
Premium Flat Dutch and Excelsior Flat Dutch, 
besides Fottler’s and Late Drumhead. The 
season for setting Flat Dutch and Drumhead is 
about over for North Eastern Pennsylvania. I 
suppose the Southern trade has hardly begun. 
I have not advertised in any papers outside of 
Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties. J have 
about 200,000 cabbage plants and about 5000 
tomato plants. Do you think it will pay me to 
hold on my cabbage plants, or plow them under ? 
Please reply soon and oblige E. J. Hull . 
Answer: The trouble with the plant busi¬ 
ness this season is, that not in ten years before 
have we had so favorable a year for growing 
them, and every one who made the attempt seems 
to have succeeded in growing his own supply; 
hence, plants have been very plenty and cheap 
in all directions. Never, during our twenty 
year’s experience in growing them, have we had 
so little trouble. The fleas did n^t cause us the 
slightest annoyance until too late for them to do 
injury. On the other hand, a worse season for 
selling is seldom experienced. From June 1st, 
when sales usually begin, we had no rain worth 
mentioning until the 27th; so the time when we 
should have been making the best sales was lost, 
as it was so hot and dry no one dare buy. Take 
the month of June out of the cabbage plant trade 
and but little is left. Then when rains did come 
it was so late that those who bought dare not 
risk the latest varieties; hence, a larger propor¬ 
tion of Flat Dutch and Drumhead on hand than 
usual. Don’t be discouraged. Next season it 
will probably be very different. 
THO&E WINTER OATS. 
Nicholson, Pa., June 28th, 1884# 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: I have planted and 
cultivated seed from your establishment for the 
last eight years, and have always been pleased 
with the extra growth and vigor of your seeds, 
showing their quality to be superior to common 
store and market seeds. I have planted in three 
different places in this state and in different 
places in the west, and could always look in a 
neighbors garden and see a poorer growth than 
in my own. All the seed I received from you 
this spring is doing finely. I shall purchase in 
larger quantities next year. 
A few years ago there was a note in the Agri¬ 
culturist about some Winter Oats that could be 
sown in the fall and yield very, heavily. If you 
know of its present progress or whereabouts 
please place the information in my possession, 
and oblige your friend Alex. Bronson. 
Answer: This is just the kind of report we 
have been striving to bring out, by supplying 
seeds which really are superior to those to be 
obtained elsewhere, and we are happy in know¬ 
ing that the number who have found it out and 
appreciate our labors, is very rapidly increas¬ 
ing. Regret to say that we do not know any¬ 
thing about the Winter Oats, but do not believe 
that they proved hardy enough for our latitude. 
Fairview Nurseries, 
| —Established in 1835.— 
250,000 handsome 1 yr. Peach Trees 
low rates as ground must be cleared 
|^^||M±arly. 100,000 OLD IRON CLAD 
Strawberi T- 50 other kinds. 25 Acres 
Big Berries. Millions of Fruit and Orna¬ 
ment. u ees. Choice Kieffer Pear Trees. Price-list 
free. j. PERKINS, Moorestown, N. J. 
For Sale Cheap. 
300,000 Peach Trees. 1 rear from bud, raised 
from Tennessee pits. 100,000 La Versailles and 
Cherry Currants, 1 and 2 years old. 25,000 Con¬ 
cord Vines, 1 and 2 two years old, together with a full 
assortment of other Nursery Stock. Address, 
STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS, 
101y New Canaan. Conn. 
