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Ernest. 
IPxxTdII/sIiocI Quarterly 
FOR EVERY O'JE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR Tl LLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 25 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 80 Cents Per Agate Line. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
LA PLUME, LACK’A CO., PA., APRIL, 1882. 
Entered at the post-office as second class matter. 
We desire to hereby return our thanks 
in a sort of wholesale way for a large num¬ 
ber of samples of choice seeds, beans, pota¬ 
toes &c., which have been forwarded to us 
from various sections for trial in our 
grounds. Is there not something in your 
family which has been kept for years, or 
more recently picked up on account of su¬ 
perior merits, which you think should be 
better known? If so, kindly send us a sam¬ 
ple for trial and if we find it worthy we 
will propagate it and give the world the 
benefit. 
We will also return our thanks in ad¬ 
vance for any notes or items of interest 
which you may kindly send us for publica¬ 
tion. We desire to make Seed-Time and 
Harvest one of the most interesting and 
instructive publications in the country. 
Don’t you think we can succeed if You will 
help us? 
Quite a mistake occurred in our price 
list in the January Number. The column 
headed ‘‘pints” should have been "‘quarts.” 
Prices look more reasonable now. 
Our supply of Eclipse Beet has become 
entirely exhausted and we cannot get more. 
We have therefore substituted its value in 
the Egyptian which is nearest like it, in 
many orders. Any persons who are not 
satisfied with this can return it to us and 
we will refund the money paid. 
It is our custom on receipt of an order 
to immediately acknowledge it by postal 
card, on which is given the number of that 
order on our books. We especially request 
that customers will preserve these cards 
and if for anv reason they ever have any oc- 
i casion to write to us concerning that order, 
they kindly give us the number This will 
save us many hours of perplexity in search¬ 
ing for “one among ten thousand”. 
We will cheerfully correct any mistake if 
you will observe this request. 
The. mixed seeds we offer are grown sep¬ 
arately and purely. They are made up by 
mixing a quantity of seeds of all the varie¬ 
ties we have of one species, to be sown to¬ 
gether, the object being to make a greater 
variety and succession than could otherwise 
be obtained in a small family garden. This 
idea originated with us, and has met with 
greater favor than we anticipated. Would 
you not rather sow a package of cabbage 
seeds consisting of ten good varieties mix¬ 
ed than the same quantity of any one vari¬ 
ety you know of? See our special offer of 
Family Garden collection on page 22. 
The new “golden dawn” Mango which 
we first offered this spring was taken with 
such avidity that our supply has been com¬ 
pletely exhausted. We will try and grow 
enough so that all who wish may trj^ it next 
season. 
Careless People. There is a reason 
why some people do not get what they or¬ 
der. We have on file a bundle containing, 
the following documents: A letter from 
Bulger, Pa., containing 20 cents, with no 
name signed. One from Greenleaf, Kansas, 
10 cts. and no name. One with 20 cts and 
no post-office, county, state or signature. 
The writer wanted some Amber Cream Corn 
and Livingston’s Tomato but did not get 
them. One from Jonestown. Miss., 51 cts, 
and no name. One from New Lots, L. I., 
45 cts, no name. One with 51 cents for 
flower seeds, no post-office, state, county 
or signature. Six cents from Princeton, 
Ind., no name. Seventy-five cents from 
Sedgewick City, Kan., with no name.— 
Fifty cents for peas and beans, no post of¬ 
fice, county, state or name. Fifteen cents 
from Woodstock, no state, county or name. 
Fifteen cents from Jordan’s Run, W.Va., no 
name. $1.09 from Middletown, no county, 
state or signature. The writer says he is 
just 11 miles from Pittsburgh, but the P. O. 
Directory gives no Middletown P. O. with¬ 
in 100 miles of Pittsburgh. Twenty cents 
