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An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
_OR TILLS A PLANT. 
own, and One Dollar for the two, we will 
send any three of the above-mentioned 
books. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
advertising rates, 45 CENTS per nonpariel line. 
Entered at the Post Office as second class matter. 
V0L. VI, NO. VII. WHOLE NO.. XLV. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., j uly . 1885 . 
A. A alliable Package. By special 
arrangement with the publishers we are 
enabled to offer our friends all the following 
for Oue 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 hook “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. 
Plants for July Setting. The 
month of June was with us so very dry and 
hot that we could not get a supply of really 
first class cabbage or celery plants on hand, 
but with the new month we have a fa¬ 
vorable change in the weather and the 
warm, wet days have brought our last sow¬ 
ings along so that we are now able to fill 
orders for any quantity of cabbage or celery 
of the finest quality, promptly at our lowest 
rates. Our varieties are, cabbage, Fottler’s 
Brunswick and Premium Flat Dutch from 
our best Puget Sound seeds. Celery, New 
Golden Dwarf, Crawford’s Half Dwarf and 
Hendeison s Dwarf "White. There has not 
been on the whole, probably one half as 
many plants set this season as last, and 
there is consequently a much better out¬ 
look for quick sales and fair profits to 
growers. 
White Plume Celery. We have but 
a limited supply of plants of this renowned 
variety. As it is mainly desired in small 
quantities for family use, we shall offer 
only transplanted plants, very strong and 
heavily rooted, for which we shall have to 
charge 10 cents per dozen, or 75 cents per 
100 , packed in basket by express. Can also 
supply transplanted plants of Golden Dwarf 
at same rates. 
Mid-summer Premiums. This is 
the growing time of the year. All vegeta 
tionisnow doing its best, and we must 
keep our subscription list also in a growing 
condition. For the next sixty days we 
will offer to any one who shall send in 
either new subscriptions or renewals, with 
cash at our regular rate, (50 cents each) a 
choice of any one of the books named in 
the “Valuable Package” described on this 
page, free by mail. Or, if you will send 
along some friend’s subscription with your 
Crop Reports. Mr. E. J. Hollister, 
of Tecumseh, Mich., writes: 
The cabbage crop will not reach 50 acres 
here this year; while last year there were 
nearly 100 acres planted. This year it 
is all from P. S. seeds. The apple crop 
will be almost a failure as far as can be 
learned. Strawberries are plenty, while 
cherries and other small fruits are almost 
no crop. The acreage of potatoes on an 
average throughout the state will be small. 
The wheat crop in this state promises a 
large crop, Not many onions sowed, and 
very few Hubbard Squash planted. Peaches 
are nearly winter-killed. Corn is just fair. 
I wish that each one of your 1400 agents 
