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SEED-TIME AfiD HARVEST. 
£ed-8rau| and ga rmi 
An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
would “follow copy” they might help us 
greatly and at the same time do the public 
a good turn by showing where to get the 
best cabbage seeds. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR Tl LLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, Cents Per Line. 
Entered at the post-office as second class matter. 
VOL. V., NO. IX. WHOLE NO., XXXV. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., Sept., 1884. 
This magazine is published monthly 
and mailed regularly to those who are en¬ 
titled to it from having complied with the 
following terms: First, the payment of 
50 cents for one year’s subscription to us 
or to one of our agents: Second the pay¬ 
ment of $1.00 for four subscriptions: Third, 
every person who patronizes our Seed De¬ 
partment to the amount of $2 00 or more, 
is entitled to one year’s subscription free. 
When a subscriber's time is out his name 
is taken from our books, and if he desires 
to receive it longer he must renew. The 
above terms are as liberal as we can afford 
to any one. Our own brother should not 
expect better terms. It is your business to 
see that you comply with these terms if 
you desire to receive the magazine. We 
shall send it to nobody as a “friendly to¬ 
ken.” “There is no friendship in business,” 
and we publish this magazine as a business 
enterprise. If it fails to come to you reg¬ 
ularly, consider it your fault, not ours. 
Cabbage Shows. In a private letter 
one of our Plant Agents in the west writes. 
“I have just made my first exhibit of 
Cabbages and Tomatoes. I showed Wake¬ 
field, Henderson’s and Fottler’s. They 
were placed in a large window with a card 
in large print with name of variety on 
each pile, and a large card in the center 
with my name on as grower, and 
‘FROM TILLINGHAST’S PUGET SOUND SEEDS,' 
under. The cabbages were very large, 
almost double the size of any others on the 
market, and attracted great attention from 
the passers by.” 
That is just the way to do it. If hund¬ 
reds of our friends in different sections 
Extra Seed Wheat. We «have care- 
lully watched the Martin’s Amber wheat 
for two years, and it has both seasons yield¬ 
ed far ahead of any other variety in our 
neighborhood. With common field usage 
here on old land it has returned a plump 
thirty-five bushels per acre. We know of 
no variety we would sooner sow for profit 
than it. See advertisement of our towns¬ 
man, Mr. G. T. Bailey, on second cover 
page, and if you are going to buy seed 
send him an order. You will be fairly and 
liberally dealt with. 
‘Must for Greens.” The great ma¬ 
jority of country people go without Spinach 
because they neglect to sow ic at the proper 
time, which is in the month of September. 
Then in spring the women scour the fields 
and road-sides hunting for Dandelions and 
Narrow Dock, which, not only are scarce, 
but form very poor substitutes for Spinach 
greens when obtained. Spinach seed is 
plenty and cheap. We will send the pop¬ 
ular Round Leaved variety in lots of five 
pounds or more by express at 25 cents per 
pound. 
New Cabbage Seeds. We have just 
secured the largest and finest crop of cab¬ 
bage seeds we have ever handled. Grown 
with the greatest possible care from the 
best seed stock procurable, and only per- 
fect heads allowed to seed, it ought, and 
we have no doubt will, give every planter 
abundant satisfaction. Now there would 
be great gain in several important points if 
each of our friends and patrons who intends 
purchasing of us for either this fall, or next 
spring’s use, would give us his order at 
once. Of course you may not know just 
how much you may need, but you can ap¬ 
proximate this much closer than we can 
calculate how much you are all going to 
demand of us during the next six months. 
And as we desire to sell to the trade, only 
reserving enough for our retail business, 
it is very important that we estimate quite 
