grown from them, were sold without in¬ 
forming purchasers of their origin, and 
their superiority over any we had ever sent 
out was so great as feo be noticeable by all 
purchasers, and the trade in them rapidly 
increased by reason of intrinsic merit. 
Having found that good cabbage plants 
are every year scarce in many parts of the 
country, and that planters are often obliged 
to send away hundreds of miles for plants 
which come at a great expense for trans¬ 
portation. and perhaps in a half spoiled 
condition at that, we decided it would be 
a grand thing for the country to establish 
an agent in each large town and give him 
full instructions for growing plants success¬ 
fully. Accordingly about a year ago we 
began advertising for men rightly situated 
for carrying on the plant business and 
have succeeded in establishing about 1400 
such agencies. The number is rapidly 
enlarging and there are yet thousands of 
towns in good localities, in which we want 
a plant agent. As but one person is enrolled 
as agent, and furnished with instructions 
in each town, we of course want the man 
who is best situated to properly conduct the 
business with profiit to himself and to us, 
(for we supply him with seeds at a net cost 
which will enable him to sell them also at 
a fair profit.) To save ourselves the risk 
of booking the wrong man, who would 
apply out of curiosity and accomplish noth¬ 
ing were we to offer the agency tree to all 
applicants, we require a payment of One 
Dollar, on receipt of which we enroll the 
applicant as agent, book him for a year’s 
subscription to our monthly magazine, Seed- 
Time and Harvest, send instruction 
books giving full detailed information on 
successfully growing plants, with net prices 
to agents on seeds. In fact we put him 
right in position to start and conduct a 
paying business in selling seeds and plants. 
For those who wish to do more than a 
local business, we have recently perfected a 
plan which we think will, as soon as thor¬ 
oughly understood, be appreciated by our 
agents and also by the general public. An 
annual fee of One Dollar is charged each 
agent who wishes to join a general Ad¬ 
vertising Fund. This money is expended by 
us in general newspaper advertising. The 
following is a copy of the advertisement 
which was this season sent to as many 
good papers as we could insert in for $200 
paid in by the 200 agents who joined the 
fund: 
CABBAGE 
PLANTS 
FROM 
TILLINGHAST’S 
PUGET SOUND SEEDS. 
This popular brand is now generally acknowl¬ 
edged to be the best in the world. I have 
now established over Thirteen Hundred 
Agencies in all parts of the U. S. and Canadas for 
growing plants from these justly celebrated seeds, 
and any one desiring to purchase plants will be 
given the address of growers near them from 
whom they may be obtained. Seeds also in stock. 
Address, ISAAC F. TILLINCHAST, 
LA PLUME, Lack’a Co.. Pa. 
The above, or a similarly worded adver¬ 
tisement occupying less spacef has been in¬ 
serted in American Agriculturist, Farm 
Journal , N. Y. Independent, Practical 
Farmer, Green's Fruit Grower, Purdy's 
Fruit Recorder, National Stockman , Peo¬ 
ples Journal Farmer and Manufacturer, 
Empire State Agriculturist, Farmer's 
Home, Farmer's Magazine, Rural Nebraska, 
Farmer and Fruit Grower, Western World, 
Farm Implement News, The Housekeeper, 
