An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
_ OR TI LLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
ADVERTISING RATES, 45 CENTS PER NONPARIKL LINE. 
Entered at the Post Office as second class matter. 
VOL. VI, NO. IV. WHOLE NO., XLII. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co.. Pa.. April, 1885. 
Specialties in Seeds for April.-On 
pages 30 and 31 we give a revised, and in 
many places greatly reduced price-list of 
seeds for spring planting. We would call 
especial attention to our pint and quart 
quotations on Peas, Beans and Corn. See 
also revised rates on the newest and best 
varieties of Potatoes for seed, page 32, and 
make up a good express order. 
Onion Sets. We still have a good sup¬ 
ply of very nice yellow Philadelphia Onion 
sets grown from seed, which we will ship 
promptly at $1.00 per peck; or $3.00 per 
bushel net. If you can use any of them, 
please order at once. 
Early Cabbage Plants. We are dai¬ 
ly in receipt of orders and inquiries for 
cold-frame cabbage plants grown frorti our 
P. S. seeds in quantities greater than we 
can supply. If any of our customers or 
agents who have such plants to spare in 
quantity will write us briefly their quantity 
and price we will refer future applicants 
to them. Our small retail trade takes all 
we shall have to spare until our open 
ground plants are ready, June 1. 
Our Flower Seed Offer. Last 
month we attempted to make a great offer 
on Flower Seeds, but only succeeded in mak¬ 
ing it so vague that no one understood it. 
We intended to ask our subscribers to offer 
their friends a year’s subscription to Seed- 
Time and Harvest together with their own 
selection of Flowei' Seeds from our cata¬ 
logue to the amount of fifty cents , all for 
fifty cents. And then for every dollar sent 
us in this way you may select and receive 
flower seeds to the amount of twenty-five 
cents for your trouble. Now let the barren 
earth bloom and all nature rejoice. 
SEEDS ON CREDIT. 
A couple of years ago the idea struck us 
that many responsible, deserving persons 
might be short of the necessary funds in 
spring to purchase seeds really needed, and 
it might prove a real accommodation for us 
to grant six month’s time to such customers. 
So we drew up a form of promise to pay, 
which we required those who could truth¬ 
fully do so, to sign and return. Orders 
came in freely, and from a box full of me¬ 
mentoes which we still keep to remind us 
of the folly' of the undertaking, we will 
produce a few samples at random: 
Shandaken, Ulster Co.. N. Y. 
May 10, 1883. 
I hereby certify that I own real estate to 
the value of over One Hundred Dollars, 
and for value received, I promise to pay 
Isaac I. '1 illinghast, or order. Twelve 
Dollars within six months from date. 
William P. Grant. 
La Plume, Pa.. July 15, 1884. 
Post Master, Shandaken, N. Y.: 
Dear Sir,—I enclose a note given by Wm. 
P. Grant, of your place for $12.00 with 10 
month’s interest, amount, $12.60. Please 
collect same and remit proceeds to me by 
registered letter or money order, less ex¬ 
pense and trouble to you. 
If not paid in one week, please return. 
Very Respectfu 11 y. 
Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
Shandaken, N. Y., July 16, 1884. 
Dear Sir: Wm. P. Grant is deceased. 
He died a few w eeks ago. H© left no 
property of any amount, and I see no way 
that your note could be collected. I con¬ 
sider it worthless. I herewith return it to 
you. Respectfully Yours, 
Henry Griffith, Post Master. 
M-,-Apr. 14, 1884. 
I hereby certify that I own real estate to 
the value of One Hundred Dollars, and for 
value received, I promise to pav Isaac F. 
Tillinghast or order, $7.00 within six 
months from date.- 
M---.-Dec. 3, 1884. 
Mr. I. F. Tillighast:—M y note is due to 
you, but I am not able to pay you as I 
have had bad luck; I have lost about twenty 
