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FntolisliedL Quarterly 
FOR EVERY 0\'E WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR Tl LLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 25 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 30 Cents Per Line. 
Conducted by Isaac F, Tillinghast. 
LA PLUME, LACKtA CO., PA., JULY, 1882. 
Entered at the post-office as second class matter. 
“In the morning sow thy seed ; at eve 
Hold not thy hand, for thou knowest 
Not which shall prosper.” 
The hlue-eyed violets are astir. 
And new born grasses creep, 
And young birds chirp; then sow betimes, 
And thou betimes shall reap, 
Then sow ! Then sow l 
And thou betimes shall reap. 
This is the last number of Seed-Time 
and Harvest as a quarterly. On October 
1st, we shall begin its publication monthly, 
probably in its present form and size, at 50 
cents per year, or 4 copies for $1.00. 
We can no longer send it free to every one 
who magnanimously buys five cents worth 
of seeds, but shall put it like our other sal¬ 
able goods, at a price as near the actual cost 
of production as possible and trust that it 
now has friends enough to support it on 
that basis. Can you not get at least three 
of your friends to join you and send us a 
dollar on this account at once ? Subscrip¬ 
tions are now in order. 
Our plant business will now make live¬ 
ly times for us until about the first of Aug¬ 
ust. As usual we are growing a large sup¬ 
ply of cabbage and celery plants for fall and 
winter crops, a price list of which is given 
in our advertising department. We hope 
to be able to fill the largest orders promtly. 
We will say in this connection that we 
positively will not send plants *‘C. O. D. ,? 
A Great Loss. It is probable that not 
more than one-tenth of the cabbage seeds 
which are sown in this country ever come 
to maturity. Of those that are lost, three- 
fourths are destroyed soon after sprouting, 
by a little insect, smaller than a pin head, 
known as the cabbage flea. The damage 
done annually by this little miscreant in 
our whole country probably counts into mil¬ 
lions of dollars. Who has not lost thous¬ 
ands of valuable young plants on account of 
him ?’ The Editor of this Journal has pub- 
a Plant Manuel which,among many other 
valuable ideas, gives a cheap, sure and prac¬ 
tical method of preventing the destruction 
of cabbage and kindred plants from the 
ravages of flea-beetles. We will mail a 
copy to any address for 40 cents in postage 
stamps, or for 75 cents we will send this 
book and Seed-Time and Harvest for one 
year. 
The season here has been uncommonly 
wet and backward. Apple and other fruit 
trees blooming at least a week later than 
usual. We have hadmore than an abundance 
of rainfall during May and June, no de¬ 
structive late frosts, and altogether the 
prospects for a fruitful season look unus¬ 
ually encouraging. 
“May seed-time leave your doubts no room. 
The summer find your fields abloom. 
The harvest, as ’tis gathered in 
Crowd every barn and every bin 1” 
As it is expected that this number of 
Seed-Time and Harvest will fall into the 
hands of every one who has favored us 
with an order during the past season, we 
desire to grasp this opportunity to indulge 
in a little personal chat concerning our 
business relations with them. 
During the spring of 1881, we succeeded 
in doing about twice the amount of busi¬ 
ness in the seed department, that we had 
the previous year been favored with, and 
we regarded that fact as the strongest evi¬ 
dence that our efforts to supply strictly Re¬ 
liable Seeds at Hottest Prices were being 
appreciated by our patrons. In the recur¬ 
ring years nothing can give us more pleas¬ 
ure than to see old customers return one by 
one, thus expressing in the highest measure 
their satisfaction with their dealings with 
us. and to have each one bring a new friend 
into the fold thus on the whole doubling* 
our number of patrons was a measure of 
growth as rapid as we had reason to expect 
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