SEED-TIME Am HAHVEST. 
Winning Their Way. 
The following clippings from the Ohio 
Farmer may serve as straws to “show 
which way the wind is blowing” in that 
country: 
Cabbage Seed. This morning, in wip¬ 
ing my razor, my eye fell upon an adver¬ 
tisement of Tillinghast’s Puget Sound cab¬ 
bage seed, and it leads me to inquire, what 
I intended to ask last February, whether it 
is really any better than cabbage seed 
grown in Michigan, California or Pennsyl¬ 
vania. It is some time since I studied 
physical geography, and I have no isother¬ 
mal map at hand, but it is running in my 
head that the climate of Puget Sound is 
milder than that of Maryland and that the 
claim for this seed on account of its being 
grown so far north is not as valid as it 
might be. As far as the value of this par¬ 
ticular brand of seed is concerned, I know 
nothing from experience, but there are so 
many things told us in catalogues now-a 
days 
“That keep the word of promise to the ear 
And bieak it to the hope,” 
that one hardly knows what to believe. 
There is plenty of work for horticultural 
societies in sifting and investigating the 
various claims being put forth for new 
plants, seeds and fruits, and they can oc¬ 
cupy no more valuable field. 
Cabbage Seed. In looking over your 
valuable paper this evening, I noticed 
friend Pierce wondering about the superi¬ 
ority of the Puget Sound cabbage seed. 
For one, I can speak from some experience. 
I bought my first cabbage se<-d of Mr. Till- 
inghast this last spring, and I have market¬ 
ed Henderson’s Early Summer, seed raised 
at P. S., that weighed 10 lbs.; also cauli¬ 
flower that measured 10 inches across the 
flower, and there is not plant a in the patch 
of cabbage but what has a head on. I don’t 
think Mr. T. claims so much for his seed 
on account of its being raised so far north 
as he does for its being raised in a climate 
adapted to the full development of cabbage; 
and there being no demand for cabbage in 
that country, they save the whole heads 
for seed. I don’t know of anything that a 
farmer raises that so much depends upon 
the superiority of seed as the cabbage. I 
bought some cabbage seed from Michigan 
last year, and the leaves covered the whole 
ground but not a head was solid enough to 
cut. I have 1500 late cabbage of the P. S. 
brand; will report later as to how they 
head up. W. B. Main. 
Delaware Co., O. 
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