Monroe Co.. N. Y. 
April 10, 
Dear Sir:—Being fully satisfied, after a • trial 
of two or three years of your Garden Seed, and 
that it is not safe to trade houses when you are 
confident you have the best, I inclose you an or¬ 
der for myself and one or two neighbors. 
Very Respectfully 
Geo. Emerson. 
This is .quite suggestive, coming as it does 
from a county which claims to send out more 
seeds than any other in the Union, and the faith 
expressed in it is such as I would like to be per 
mitted to instil into the bosom of every one 
who gives this page a reading. 
Owosso Mich. Aug. 9, 1880. 
I. F. Tillinghast. 
Dear sir:—I Suppose you 
understand the cabbage business pretty well and 
also claim to have some very nice seed. Now I’ll 
tell you what I want. I want the seed to a va¬ 
riety of cabbage that will winter out well in cold 
frames; perhaps you would suggest more than 
one variety for that purpose, then I shall want 
some good varieties for selling plants in spring, 
and also for heads in summer, fall and winter. 
I supply the town with milk and raise cabbages 
for a two fold purpose, namely, to make what I 
can in sales, and balance for feed for milch cows 
in fall and winter. Have you any experience in 
wintering out lettuce; If so what varieties do 
you succeed the best with? Send me the price of 
your seed. 
Yours Respectfully, 
James L. Wright. 
Answer:—I have experimented with dozens of 
different varieties of cabbage, and think those 
named in my seed-list possess more desirable 
qualities than any others. The first five there 
named are all suitable for wintering over, and 
the Fotlers Drumhead and Premium Flat Dutch 
are standards for later use. Lettuce is seldom 
“ wintered over,” but that sown under glass 
in the fall is usually marketed by February so 
that the space may be»occupied by other plants. 
For early out-door setting the Boston Mar¬ 
ket and Black Seeded Tennisball are the varie¬ 
ties most frequently used for forcing under glass. 
Tomatoes and Asparagus. 
Dear sir:—I want to get all the information 'I 
can on the cultivation of Tomatoes. Does your 
Manual of Vegetable Plants, treat much on the 
tomato? 
Would Asparagus be any earlier if I dig 
trenches, say 8 ft. wide and 6 ft. deep running 
E. & W. (well drained) and plant asparagus in 
the bottom without any covering or artificial 
heat? 
Yours Very Truly, 
T. Chapman, 
Manson, N. C. 
Answer:—My Manual of Vegetable Plants, 
does not treat on tomatoes, although it does up¬ 
on nearly every other important vegetable. We 
sow our tomato seed early in March, quite thick¬ 
ly in drills four inches apart, in a hot bed, (full 
information for making hot beds will be'j found 
in another part of this magazine.) To pro¬ 
duce good stocky plants it is necessary to trans¬ 
plant them two or three times, each time give 
them more room to grow thick and stocky, and 
produce an abundance of fibrous roots. 
Tomatoes do not require very rich land, 
but should be placed in an early, warm, shelt¬ 
ered position and manured a little in the hill. 
This will give the vines a good start when young 
and as soon as the roots grow through into the 
poorer soil the vines will cease to grow so rank 
and ripen early. We do not stake them up but 
hill them pretty high and let them run. 
I doubt whether the trench alone would make 
Asparagus enough earlier to pay; but if it could 
be covered with hotbed sash for a few weeks it 
could undoubtedly be readily forced out of season. 
Blue Ridge Springs, Va., Nov. oth 1880. 
I. F. Tillinghast, 
La Plume P.O. 
Dear sir:—“Seed-Time and Harvest” for Oct . 
is just to hand, and I notice you club it with 
Home and Farm, and Farm and Fireside, I also 
notice a heavy advance on some of your seed 
from last years Catalogue. Cabbage seed for 
which I paid you $2. last season I must now pay 
$3.00 per pound or get my seed elsewhere, 
which I would greatly regret to do as they cer¬ 
tainly gave perfect satisfaction. I will give 
you a remittance now of three dollars, if you 
will send me your publications, Book on plants, 
Seed-Time and Harvest, and the two papers, 
Farm and Fireside, and Home and Farm. 
At your present price for cabbage seed this will 
allow you $1.00 over last years prices. And if 
you will send me a few specimen copies of Seed- 
Time and Harvest will do what I can without 
further charge. As to your seeds there is but 
one other House in the United States, that can 
equal them. 
