SEED-TIME km HARVEST. 
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. 
Grand Centre, Kan., June 22, 1884. 
Mr. Tillinghast; I enclose you spec:mens of 
the Sensitive Ro e. 1st, a sprig before it has 
been touched; 2nd, a sprig after it has been dis¬ 
turbed in any way; 3rd, a bud; 4th, a rose in 
full bloom. They are now in full bloom scatter¬ 
ed around over the prairie. If th*y could be 
cultivated they would be quite an addition to 
the flower girden, as they ate lardy and term 
to grow the best on dry, gravelly knolls. Wneu 
the seed is ripe I will send y< u some. The plant 
is a running vine; each root has from hve to ten 
vines on stalks which are from six inches to two 
feet long. The seed will be ripe from the mid¬ 
dle to the )a t o ! July. We h*ve a gftat many 
varieties ot beautitui flowers on the prairies here 
which vNOuld make fine additions to the flower 
gardens. The names of most of them are uu- 
km wn to me. 
I remember your place well. Your brother 
“Vinz,” as we used to call him, went to the 
Madison Academy several terms at the same 
time I did. Ido not r member of ever seeing 
you. I wish you all the success possible.in your 
enterprise, you certaiuiy desetve it Wi h alt 
due respect tor that bride whose NOM de plume 
was La Plume, I think that your Post Ohio* 
should have been named “Sisson” in honor ot 
that staunch old Abolitionist, Rodman Stssion, 
whose memory I sha»l always respect for the 
principles he advocated, ami the manner in 
which he advocated them. When you write to 
Ymzgive him my best wi hes. 
Yours Respectt u ly, Stephen Tripp. 
Samoth, III., Sept. 17, 1884. 
Isaac F. Tillingha&t; D arS.r,— I am a sub¬ 
scriber to Seed-Time and Harvest and Hike 
it very much, out I bee that you admit some 
swindling advertisements. R. L. Wolcott, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., is a swindler. Several years 
ago he fl oiled this western country with circu¬ 
lars advising farmers’ sons to leave the farms 
and become agents for him to sell his villainous 
nostrums. IL, sta.ed in his circulars that to 
many intelligent young nun and boys- were 
was;ing their live-* on a farm, whil* if they 
would eugage to travel for him that he would 
put them in a w*y to make money fast and have 
more pleasure than to remain on the old farms. 
R L Wolcott is a scoundrel a,.d deserves ta be 
introduced to a primitive thrashing-machine in 
ti • *h*pe ol a hickory hoop pole. R. C. Mer¬ 
rill A Ce., a ad their aliases are swindlers. I 
don’t laiak there is any suen firm ia Chicago, 
but the name of the real swindler is Erton, w he 
advertises under the name of Merrill & Co., 
changing the initials for each r . fit rent news¬ 
paper. J mes Emmons & Co.’s “mind reading” 
is another humbug. The Michigan L^an & Pub¬ 
lishing Co., Charlotte, Mich., is another villain¬ 
ous swiudler. I am in favor of pas-irg a law to 
stop newspapers and magazines from publishing 
the advertisements of the villainous scoundrels 
and swind ers. 
I expect to buy seeds of you again next spring, 
but I want, no seeds of the nasty Banana Mask 
Me’on. Yours Trulv, A. B. Agnew. 
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