Sal visa, Ky., Dec. 20, 1884 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,—I desire to say 
a few words iu praise of your excellent seeds. Last 
spring you sent me some sample {jackets of cabbage 
and cauliflower seed. The seeds were the finest I 
ever saw—large, plump and oily, I can confidently 
say I believe every seed produced a good plant. 
Fottler’s Early Drumhead is unquestionably the 
best general purpose cabbage in cultivation, at least 
in this section of country. I sold twenty dollars 
woi th of good heads from plants produced from a 
single packet of this variety. Having found your 
sample so good, I sent to you for one ounce of your 
late winter varieties, which were in every respect 
as good as the sample. Your Banana Cantaloupe 
is splendid, and your Golden Dawn pepper is a 
desirable novelty. I believ<r your seeds are the best 
procurable anywhere. Very Truly Yours, 
W. L Jones. 
West Bay City, Michigan, March 5, 1885. 
Mr. I. K Tillinghast: Dear Sir,—Enclosed find 
order for seeds with Postal Note for amount. Your 
seeds have given me the best of satisfaction. There 
are several market gardeners in this vicinity, but all 
appear to have their favorite seeasmen to deal with. 
I know that I raised abetter crop of cabbage last 
year than any other gardener in the county, and 
much of it was due to the P. S. seed. I sold a good 
many plants and hope to sell more this year. 
Yours Respectfully, A. Corbin. 
Warren, Pa. May 29, 1885. 
I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,—I will give you a few 
notes here. We had a terrible cold winter and a 
long one, but when it came off warm everything 
began to grow and is doing well. We have the 
promise of a great fruit year if we don’t get any 
frost and I do hope we won’t. My cabbage are 
looking well. I think that the first of July is early 
enough to set plants for winter cabbage. Last year 
we set them the last of June, and the best of them 
bursted so that they had to be made into crout. I 
sold one barrel for $0.00. We raised over a thous¬ 
and heads. From the two pounds of Longfellow 
field corn I got of you, I raised over twelve bushels, 
and we did not plant but a little over a quart, then 
the birds took part of that. This spring I sold four 
teen quarts for a shilling a quart. Do you think 
that was too much? I get Seed Time and Harvest 
every month and like it real well. Will try and get 
some subscribers for it after awhile. Shall be very 
busy for a while yet planting garden. I have got 
about half of if planted, I believe in women making 
their garden, for there are few men that know' just 
how to make it. Well, I guess I have bothered you 
enough for this time. Yours Respectfully, 
Bertha Wilcox. 
Ionia, Mich., June 30, 1885. 
Dear Friend Tillinghast: I don’t wish to give 
up selling your seeds, and I don’t think any one else 
would do better here. I nave to lafcoF under dis¬ 
advantages it is true, but hope to build up a trade 
before long. It takes a great deal of arguing to 
make people believe that your seeds are superior to 
others. Some say there is no difference in seeds. 
In this section seeds from Detroit have been dissem¬ 
inated into almost every home. Beautiful cata¬ 
logues have been distributed freely, and farmers go 
to the stores and select their “pretty” papers of 
either vegtable or flower seeds—the papers with the 
prettiest pictures selling the fastest. These seeds 
are in every store, whether grocery, dry goods or 
hardware, sent there early in spring to be sold on 
commission, and in fall the travelling agent comes 
alocg and gathers up the “fragments.” So you see 
my success cannot be obtained immediately, but 
must be patiently acquired. I think the only and 
best way to build up a reputation for good seeds is 
to show the products from them at the agricultural 
fair. As I have told you before, providence inter¬ 
fered last year with my exhibit, or your seeds would 
perhaps have been very popular in this county this 
year. Now I have to do the best I can until next 
fair. As to your Puget Sound Cabbage Seeds it 
would not be w’orth while to distribute them among 
the farmers, as they say they cannot raise the plants 
on account of the plaguey bugs. They say they pre¬ 
fer to buy the plants rather than bother with the seed. 
Now if I should undertake to tell them how to grow 
the plants it would interfere sadly with my plant 
trade, and really it would be too bad to have the 
bugs destroy the plants from such plump seeds in 
their earliest infancy, and blighten lives w r hich other¬ 
wise w ould serve as food for thousands of human 
beings. When I sell plants to a customer, I give 
him all the instructions I can to secure a good crop 
of cabbag/ heads, but I don’t tell him how’ to suc¬ 
ceed in raising the plants. It may seem selfish to 
others, but 1 don’t think so 
Very Respectfully, M. Wetterling. 
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