and garucst. 
An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinohast. 
TOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
_ OR TILLS A P LANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YeTr! 
advertising rat es, 45 CEN TS per nonpariel line. 
Entered at the Post Office as second class matter 
forward a copy at once, then when your 
regular copy comes you can hand one to 
some friend. 
VOL. VI, NO. n. ~~ WHOLE~NO.. XL 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co.. Pa., February. 1885 
A correspondent says that cuttings of 
any kind received by mail or otherwise 
may be kept in tine condition for a long 
time by inserting the cut end of each in a 
potato, the juce of which will keep it from 
dying. 
Up to this date we have appointed 
over eight hundred special agents in as 
many different towns throughout the Union 
to sell “Tillinghast’s Puget Sound Brand of 
Cabbage Seeds,” (Trade marked) and grow 
and sell plants from them under our in¬ 
structions, and most of them are working 
at the business with great energy. New 
applicants at first think it altogether too 
much for us to require them to pay us for 
such a privilege, but when they find what 
we really do for them in return, they think 
our terms more than liberal. If we have no 
agent in your town please let us hear from 
you. Now is a good time to begin to make 
some money and we will help you do it. 
Caution. Various agricultural news¬ 
papers throughout the Ur ion have recently 
been invited to contract for the insertion of 
a large displayed advertisement of Field 
and Garden Seeds by one W. N. Dunbar 
& Co., who purport to be a large seed-firm 
m New York and Chicago, the correspond¬ 
ence coming from the latter city. Never 
before hearing of such a firm, before closing 
a contract we wrote to several parties in 
Chicago and get the following replies: 
“We do not know such a seed-firm. The 
fact of their applying to you for rates, and 
giving Chicago papers a wide berth is in 
itself suspicious.” “They do not exist in 
this city to my knowledge.” “We think 
they are a fraud about to spring some game 
on the unsuspecting farmers. Keep vour 
eye pealed.” 
We have not yet seen the advertisements 
of this firm in any of our exchanges, but 
expect to soon, and give this word of warn¬ 
ing. 
A SOFT AJVS WER TURNETH A WA Y 
WRATH. 
One large edition of our Annual Cat¬ 
alogue of “Reliable Seeds at Honest Prices” 
has been printed and mailed, but a failure 
on the part of our paper manufacturers to 
fully supply us in time, has prevented us 
from issuing enough to fill all the wrappers 
we have written. Last month we gave in 
this magazine a corrected price-list of most 
of the standard seeds, and in this issue, on 
page 24 and 25, will be found a list of the 
Novelties and late additions to our stock. 
Any of our friends who may have failed to 
to get a catalogue, and who wish to order 
before our next edition is ready can order 
from these lists, or if in a hurry to see our 
catalogue, drop ns a postal and we will 
. “K is mortal to err.” We are mortal and 
in common with our fellows undoubtedly 
commit many errors. It is an easy thing 
to become impetulant and snappish and *ay 
something cutting and mean when some 
ones action does not quite accord with 
our minds, when we discover an error 
which hag been committed by another 
which m some way affects us. But is it 
wise or noble for us to lose our balance and 
fiy m a passion at s ght of another’s fault? 
“He that ruleth his spirit is greater” & c . 
These thoughts are brought to our mind on 
seeing the different degrees of coolness 
which are exhibited by our customers when 
things are done, as they occasionally are 
by us, in a manner not perfectly satisfac¬ 
tory. No one was ever more willing and 
anxious to correct errors of every sort, or 
more liberally fill up the measure of satisfac¬ 
tion than we, and it is not necessary for 
our customers to d< mand their rights in a 
