HARD TO TELL HOW LARGE THEY WILL 
GROW. 
Boonsboro, Ark. July 14, 1684. 
Dear Sir:—As you required those who or¬ 
dered your plant instructions and Puget 
Sound cabbage seed to let you know how 
Miey are pleased with them. I ordered too 
late to do anything at the plant business 
this year, as most of my neighbors had 
plants ready for setting out before I got 
my seeds; but I prepared a bed and sowed 
the early cabbage seed, which came up in 
four days, I pushed them by watering, and 
good care, anc^soon had plants ready for 
the garden; although we have not had a 
good rain in ten or twelve weeks my cab¬ 
bage is ready for the table far ahead of any 
I have seen which had a month’s start. 
Some heads are as large as a man’s hat- 
crown now, (July 14,) and with a ground- 
soaking rain it would be hard to tell how 
large they will grow. I put my late cabbage 
out July 5, in dry ground. I dug a hole, 
watered it, and set the plants; next morn¬ 
ing I drew dry earth about them, and with 
one watering since are growing finely. 
Truly Yours, J. D. Wilbur. 
DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH PLANTS. 
Copenhagen, N. Y., June 30, 1884. 
Isaac F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir, As one of 
your Agents I thought I would report to 
you my progress in the plant and seed busi¬ 
ness up to the present. The cabbage seeds 
I received from you with my outfit, came 
up remarkably quick and have made a very 
rapid growth, and have produced as fine 
stocky plants as I ever grew. About five 
years since I discovered a preparation which 
I compound that gives to my plants a great 
quantity of fibrous roots and a stocky 
growth, which, with your seeds, makes 
them extra fine. My plants have been 
gaining a reputation ever since I used this 
preparation on my seed beds. I now have 
the greater part of my plants closed out 
for the season. I have been selling fine 
tomato, pepper, tobacco, cauliflower, cab¬ 
bage, turnip and celery plants on the road 
by running one wagon. I want to run two 
or three plant and seed wagons next year 
from the first of the season through, if I 
live. My plants have all been extra fine, 
and take well among my customers. I 
notice by correspondence from you that 
your early cabbage plants were killed 
by the frost of May 29th. I managed 
to protect mine—but found it a great deal 
of labor—by covering the beds with hay 
and other material. Another season I think 
I shall engage more largely than ever in 
the plant and seed business, and I shall 
want to order seeds largely from you; of 
course I grow a great many plants, but not 
enough for my local, retail trade. I am 
also engaged in market gardening, and any 
seeds that I recommend, people are quite 
apt to think must be about right and seem 
to have confidence in them. I can create 
a demand for seeds such as will help to fill 
large orders from you, to furnish and sup¬ 
ply among my customers, by beginning 
early in March and canvassing the territory 
thoroughly on the road. Please make me 
liberal terms for packets and printed seed 
circuars, and it will help both of us, as the 
more seeds I retail, the larger wholesale or¬ 
ders I shall favor you with. I am desirous 
of building up a large plant and seed busi¬ 
ness, and with a little assistance and good 
seeds I know I can. Respectfully, 
Franklin D. Austin. 
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