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and gamut. 
An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine 
_Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
TOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
_ OR TILLS A PLA NT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
advertising rates, 45 CENTS per nonpariel line. 
Entered at the Post Office as second class matter. 
V0L. VI, NO. VI. WHOLE NO., XLIV. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., June, 1885 . 
Our Cabbage Plant Crop. Our 
plants have come on very rapidly in the last 
few days and we now have a full supply of 
the kinds mentioned in our advertisement 
on page 32. We hope all our friends will 
read our ad., and if they cannot send to us 
for plants on account of the distance, we 
will give them the names of our nearest 
agents who will supply them at our prices. 
Quality of Our Plants. In this con¬ 
nection we trust we will be excused if we 
<call attention to a few voluntary testimoni¬ 
als lately received regarding our Cabbage 
Seeds and Plants. All of these letters being 
entirely unsolicited by us, speak volumes 
for our P. S. Cabbage Seed, and that article 
on page 21, by Mr. S. E. Todd, copied by 
ns from a prominent N. Y. paper, in which 
we have no interest whatever, should be 
conclusive evidence of their extraordinary 
merits. 
A Valuable Package. By special 
arrangement with the publishers we are 
enabled to offer our friends all the following 
\for One Dollar: First, one copy of the 
new book “How to Propagate and Grow 
Small Fruits.” the most interesting and 
instructive volume we have ever seen on 
the subject. Price 50 cents. Second, one 
copy of T. B. Terry’s new book “ABC 
of Potato Culture.” The author is acknowl¬ 
edged to be the most successful grower of 
potatoes in the Union, and he tells just how 
to do it. Price 40 cents. Third, one copy 
of “Money in Potatoes,” the new book by 
“Joseph.” See advertisement on cover of 
this magazine. Price 50 cents. Fourth, 
(to those who haven’t it already,) one copy 
of “Tillinghast’s Manual of Vegetable 
Plants,” price 40 cents, which tells what 
we know about starting vegetables. Here 
we offer nearly Two Dollar’s worth for One 
Dollar, and if any purchaser is dissatisfied 
we will refund his money. Now let the 
books go lively. We are prepared to fill 
one thousand orders promptly and we 
ought to get them. 
Sweet Potato Plants. These we 
have not grown ourselves this season, but 
have arrangements with reliable growers 
in New Jersey, whereby we can order them 
shipped directly to our patrons who desire 
them, at $2.50 per single thousand, or 2000 
and over at $2.00 per thousand. 
Rulil mail’s Wheel-Hoe, which is so 
well and favorably known as a weed- 
slayer, should be in the hands of every one 
who has a garden. We have reduced the 
price and will ship promptly while our 
stock lasts at $4.00 net. Former price 
$5.50. 
The Kolb Gem Melon is rapidly grow¬ 
ing in favor. To show the great popularity 
of it where best known, a correspondent 
writes from Monticello. Fla., the neighbor¬ 
hood from whence it was first introduced: 
“Last season in Brooks county, Ga., our 
adjoining county on the north, there was 
planted 2500 acres in melons for Northern 
markets, of which eleven acres only were 
planted in Kolb Gem. This season out of 
the same acreage, all but 100 acres are in 
Kolb Gem. It is considered by far the 
best shipping variety ever introduced. 
Now here in the world is such an acreage 
of vegetable farms as those looking to 
Philadelphia for their market. The south¬ 
ern half of New Jersey is, in proper rota¬ 
tion, almost all devoted to trucking, and 
this section comprises three million acres 
of land and one and one-third million 
acres, including all Delaware and the East¬ 
ern Shore counties of Maryland, forming 
the Peach growing peninsula, at the base 
