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SEED-TIME-AND HARVEST. 
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. 
Amiret, Minn*, May 30, 1885. 
I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,—I sent to 
you and obtained a small bill of seeds, of 
Something over $2.00 worth, and your mag¬ 
azine, Seed Time and Harvest. I wish 
to express to you my satisfaction at the 
result. The magazine has been a constant 
and welcome visitor as with a friend, and the 
seeds have given the very best satisfaction. 
The Puget Sound cabbage seed showed 
wonderful vitality. I sowed in a hot-bed; 
three days after, I went to see if the seeds 
were germinating, and lo and behold ! they 
were all up, and became the rankest plants 
I ever saw. I sold a good many plants and 
raised about 3.000 heads. The neighbors 
have been already inquiring if I will sell 
plants again this year. I would like to 
become agent for sale of your plants. 
Yours Respectfully, John Sherman. 
Perryville, N. Y., June 1, 1885. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,—In closing up 
the little trade that I have had with you as your 
agent here, I wish to say that I have never dealt 
with any seedsman in my life who has given me so 
great satisfaction. I am proud to own to my cus¬ 
tomers that I am the agent of I. F. Tillinghast. I 
shall commence the next season’s trade with a nice 
promise for business for you here. I pledge myself 
with you to better endeavors to promote the higher 
interests of this noblest branch, the horticultural 
calling. Yours Truly, William Miller, 
Riverside, Pa., June 5, 1885. 
Mr. I. F. Tillinghast: Dear Sir,—Circulars came 
to hand O. K., and they are quite attractive. I have 
posted part of them. My cabbage plants are looking 
very well this season. I have had splendid luck with 
them, and have about 150.000. I have raised plants 
for a numbeFof years, but never had such success 
as this year. No trick to raise plants with P. S. 
seed and your Private Instructions to Agents. They 
are worth many times their cost to plant growers. 
The six pounds of cabbage seed I received of you 
were the nicest I ever bought, they were so plump 
and clean. No shriveled or small seed to be seen. 
I bought some seed from another house before yours 
arrived. They were said to be fresh seed, but they 
were so shriveled and small, that I didn’t plant them. 
I shall trouble no other house for cabbage seed so 
long as I can get such P. S. cabbage seed. If P. S. 
cabbage seed don’t wear the belt, it is not because 
they are not entitled to it. I advertised my plants 
in three of the local papers this week. I stated that 
they we re from Isaac F. Tillinghast’s P. S seed. I 
shall do what I can to have P. S. seed used in this 
section. If all of your agents will do the same, i^ 
will not be long until P. S. seed will be more ex¬ 
tensively used than any other. 
Yours Respectfully, Abner Pitmhr. 
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