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interest in your business, as “I like your 
style” likewise your seeds which have serv¬ 
ed me well the past season, having market¬ 
ed especially the finest crop of early cab¬ 
bage I ever grew, seed purchased of you 
in February, and everything else merits the 
same commendation. I have sympathy for 
and interest in any enterprise whose pur¬ 
pose it is to win on its merits and build up 
patronage by fair dealing and giving good 
quality and measure; I am “on” that my¬ 
self and find it is the key to success on 
business principles aside from moral con¬ 
siderations. 
I intend putting up a lean-to greenhouse 
200 ft. long by 8 ft. wide, giving room for a 
6-ft. bench and 2—ft. path, sash sloping south, 
front 4 ft. from ground, sheeted, papered and 
weather-boarded, and place for walk dug 2 
feet deeper than bench foundation using 6-ft. 
sash, balance of roof over path to be 
shingled, with space under shingles for sash 
to slide under, up to a stop piece If inches 
from front edge of shingles; all the sash to 
take off in airing instead of a portion as 
generally used; sliding on 2 by 8-inch rafters 
same as hot-bed; when sash are off can 
“prick out” from outside in fair weather, 
otherwise work inside in foul weather. I 
tried one last winter, 6 ft. long with brick 
flue, which worked all right, only do not 
like a flue, they are an abomination; shall 
heat with water. I like this kind of house 
much better than my Span-roof Greenhouse 
for transplanting plants on account of its 
superior ventilation, and for growing let¬ 
tuce it is the thing. With thanks for your 
favors in our business transactions, I am, 
Yours truly, 
' Burt Eddy. 
Thank you, friend Eddy, for your kind 
commendations. We shall try to always 
merit the good will of our patrons. Hope 
you will be successful with the new green¬ 
house, and next spring tell us how it works. 
Fairview, Hancock Co., W. Va., 
Nov., 22, 1880. 
Mr I. F. Tillinghast, 
Dear Sir,—Last spring 
I bought some cabbage seed that was sent 
out by a western seed firm that claims to 
send out no seed but what is true to name. 
I sowed the seed, set out the plants, and 
thought I was going to have good cabbage 
but only about one-half of them headed, 
and I think, if I remember correctly, I 
counted thirteen different varieties of what 
grew to be cabbage, and why the balance 
did not head, I cannot tell; I planted in 
good ground, manured well and went ac¬ 
cording to Gregory in his manual on cab¬ 
bage raising. The Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest comes all right, would not do with¬ 
out it; only wish it came oftener than it 
does. If it came monthly I would freely 
give $2.00 per year. 
Yours Truly, 
John F. Spirey. 
We think your cabbage seeds must have 
been similar to a lot we purchased a few 
years ago. (before we were in the seed busi¬ 
ness,) from the famous firm of Briggs & 
Bros. We grew plants from them and sold 
them, and such a muddle as we were in! 
We wrote to them several times about it 
but they did not consider it worth replying 
to. 
If our present readers who wish Seed-Time 
and Harvest convert ed into a monhtly will 
send us 5000 new subscribers at $1.00 each, 
(and each to receive a dollar’s worth of “Re¬ 
liable Seeds at honest prices” in addition to 
the magazine,) we are ready to publish it 
monthly. If they will not do that, we can 
not undertake it. 
Jordan, N. Y., Aug., 31, 1881. 
Dear Sir; 
I dug my Belle Potatoes to-day, 
and took from the pound I received of you 
52f pounds. I cut one eye to the piece and 
one piece to the hill. I took three from 
one hill weighing 2f lbs., seven from an¬ 
other weighing 2 lbs., and two weighing If 
lbs.; one dozen of the largest weighed Ilf 
lbs. A. Crofut. 
Marietta, O., Aug., 13, 1881. 
Mr I. F. Tillinghast, 
Dear Sir;—I saw in 
the editorial of your Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest for July 1881, that you would like re¬ 
ports upon new fruits, vegetables, etc. 
My brother, W. F. Smith, sent you some 
potatoes raised by me, in 1870. from seed 
ball of Early Rose. I will send you by 
mail to-day some seedling plums raised by 
me from seed of common Blue Damson. 
Tree has been hardy and bore good crops 
for three years. Yours Truly, 
J. P. Smith. 
, Answer. The Potatoes were received 
and planted in our trial grounds late in 
June. The tops are still green, but it is 
doubtful whether they yield much as the 
drought has been so severe on late potatoes. 
Thanks for the plums which were also re¬ 
ceived in good order. We alwuys supposed 
that the Blue Damson Plum reproduced 
