Tribune and Farmer , Texas Planter and 
Farmer , Poultry Monthly , Florida Agri¬ 
culturist ,, The Husbandman , Dernoresfs 
Moiduly and other publications, altogether 
to more than twice the amouilt received by 
us from the agents who joined this func 
this season. As a result we are daily in 
receipt of replies from parties in vaiious 
sections who wish plants. We promptly 
mail them a printed list of the agents in 
their state or vicinity, and they then cor¬ 
respond directly with the ones who can 
ship to them at the least expense. We 
know of many instances where this has 
succeeded in selling large quantities of 
plants, the one dollar paid to us thus re¬ 
turning perhaps a hundred dollars in cash 
to the agent. We will here give fro m 
actual business a specimen of how it works, 
could show many similar ones. On June 
26 we received the following telegram: 
Chicago, Ill., June 26, 1885. 
To I. F. Tillinghast, La Plume, Pa.: 
Wire me nearest two plant agents who 
have large qualities. 
Sig. Burt Eddy. 
Having recently sent out a circular to 
each agent who joined the advertising fund, 
asking them to rej)ort to us at once the 
quantity of plants on hand, which they 
had grown from our Puget Sound Seeds, 
we turned to the reports just received, and 
selecting the two nearest, at once wired 
reply: 
“Address Orris Metcalf, Momence, Ill., 
and Geo. W. Stone, Port Byron, III.” 
In addition to this message we at once 
mailed a printed list of all agents in Illinois, 
Indiana and Michigan, who had joined our 
advertising fund, as we do to all who ask 
it. 
A day or two later, we received the fol¬ 
lowing : 
Chicago, Ill, June 27, 1885. 
Dear Sir: Just received your telegram 
giving addresses of parties who have plants, 
and gave order to each for 20,000 plants, 
with promise of order for 200,000 if satis¬ 
factory. You will see from enclosed cir¬ 
cular, the condition of things here. Orders 
for twenty, forty and sixty thousand are 
common from large growers who have 
failed to grow sufficient plants, and I am 
buried under telegraph, telephone, and 
mail orders. 1 thought of ordering from 
you, as 1 have booked over 200.000, but ex¬ 
press is so high I would make nothing. I 
shall make but little, as I now have to buy, 
but anything to keep my trade up and ful¬ 
fill contracts, and shall expect my reward 
in future. Am happy to say my business, 
as now organized, will be successful beyond 
all doubt. I am trying to win the name 
and fortune of the largest plant grower and 
dealer in the West, and in my contracts 
with growers here in future shall furnish 
your P. S. Seeds only, as part of the con¬ 
tract. Yours Truly, Burt Eddy. 
The above is given only as a specimen of 
the workings of our Plant Agents’ Associa¬ 
tion as now organized, and our readers will 
see at a glance how our agents, as well as 
the general public, are benefited by it. And 
as soon as we are permitted to advertise 
sufficiently to get the public thoroughly 
educated into the idea that we can furnish 
the a Idress of parties in all parts of the Un¬ 
ion who can supply good plants, the benefit 
to both our agents and the public will be 
greatly increased. 
It would seem that by this Association 
wewere giving away our individual plant 
trade. On the contrary, however, we are 
this season fairly deluged with orders fiom 
far and near, entirely beyond our ability 
to supply, and have sent orders for many 
thousands to agents who are nearer the 
persons ordering than we are. There is no 
reason why we should not have an active 
agent in every large town in the Union, 
and we invite correspondence from any 
one who is situated so as to either sell seeds 
or grow and sell plants from our now 
famous Puget Sound Cabbage Seeds. Cab¬ 
bage growers are very willing to pay an ex- 
;ra price for extra fine quality in cabbage 
seeds, and now we can supply at prices 
which so closely compete with the greatly 
inferior seeds in market, that our agents 
soon control the bulk of sales in their vicin¬ 
ities. Any one having the slightest doubts 
about the real superiority of these seeds, or 
desiring information as to how and why 
they are superior, will on application be 
given the address of parties in their own 
state who have used them for years and 
can speak from experience. 
