ISSUED QUARTERLY. 
ISAAC L\ TILLING HAST 
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 
TERMS, Fifty Cents per year, or, 
3 copies for $1. 
A VALUABLE SEED-PREMIUM GOES FREE WITH 
EVERY NUMBER. 
Advertising Bates: Each insertion, 
,$30. per page, $15. per one-half page, 
$8. per one-fourth page, and 25 cents per 
agate line for less space. 
Address all communications, 
SEED-TIME AND HARVEST. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa. 
JANUARY, 1880. 
SALUTATORY. 
Kind Friends : Allow us to present you 
with this, the first number of Seed-Time 
and Harvest, and to tell you what it is 
and what we intend to make it. 
For the past five years we have been en¬ 
gaged in the production and sale of Vegeta¬ 
ble and Flower Seeds, Plants, &c., and have 
A published annually a Descriptive Catalogue 
in which we have tried to furnish instruc¬ 
tion concerning the best varieties, and best 
methods of cultivation of the various kinds 
of flowers and vegetables. But the space at 
our command through this medium proved 
so limited that we feared but little good 
could ever arise from it. Besides it was 
necessary to scatter a large number of cata¬ 
logues indiscriminately among many people 
not at all interested in order to hit a few 
who were benefitted by its reception, thus 
making for ourselves a large cost in order 
to receive a small gain. To avoid all this 
and yet favor those of our friends whom 
we are sure will appreciate a publication of 
this kind, we have decided upon issuing a 
quarterly magazine which we shall offer up¬ 
on so liberal terms that no person at all in¬ 
terested in it can afford to be without it. 
In fact it will be our aim to return a greater 
value for the amount charged for this jour¬ 
nal than can be obtained elsewhere, and, to 
this end, in addition to striving to make 
every number worth the full year’s subscrip¬ 
tion price in practical information, we pro¬ 
pose the adoption of a new plan of premiums 
to subscribers, which will consist Qf a pack¬ 
et of Seeds of a New and Valuable Flower 
or Vegetable to go with each number as a 
supplement. These premium seeds will con¬ 
sist of choice and rare Novelties and varie¬ 
ties which have proved to be of much more 
than ordinary value. Thus the cash value 
of the four packets of Premium Seeds which 
each subscriber will receive during the year 
will be at least fully equal to the whole 
amount paid by the subscriber for both 
seeds and paper. 
The article which we have selected to go 
with this, the first number of Seed-Time and 
Harvest, is a packet of our improved strain 
of Fottler’s Early Drumhead Cabbage, a de¬ 
scription and cut of which we give elsewhere 
as also an expression of opinion of persons 
who have tried it in various localities. Our 
second number will be accompanied by a 
packet of New Double White Clarkia which 
is shown upon our first page. 
Now, Friends, please bear in mind that it 
will be necessary for us to receive your sup¬ 
port and co-operation to enable us to success¬ 
fully carry out this undertaking. We are 
willing to bestow upon this publication, for 
a year, at least, all and more than we shall 
receive on its account. Therefore it lies 
with you to say how valuable or interesting 
it shall be made. The moment that our 
income from it will permit of it, we promise 
to enlarge and improve it accordingly, and 
further, we will issue it monthly instead of 
quarterly if you will permit us to do so. By 
way of clubbing we offer three copies for 
the price of two, thus enabling any one who 
will to obtain subscriptions from a couple of 
friends or neighbors and receive a copy free 
for his trouble. Several special offers are 
also made on the first Advertising page 
which are certainly liberal. Now for busi¬ 
ness. Whom shall we first serve? 
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ABO UT 0 UR SEED PREMIUMS. 
After reading the above article you will 
understand our plan of premiums. Now a 
few words regarding our method of obtain¬ 
ing these seeds. In connection with our 
