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Introduced by Isaac F. Tillinghast. For description see page 9. 
ABOUT OURSELVES. 
Some of our readers may be interest¬ 
ed in the following description of the home 
of Seed-Time and Harvest as told by a 
correspondent of the Tunkhannock Repub¬ 
lican who called here one day last summer. 
He had come to Factoryville and visited 
Keystone Academy and came oil—but we 
will let him tell the stoiy: 
“A beautiful valley just above the Acad¬ 
emy beckoned us on and finding that we had 
already entered the confines of Lackawan¬ 
na county when we reached the Academy, 
we continued our walk for a short distance 
and entered what we consider one of the 
most picturesque valleys in Northern Penn¬ 
sylvania. When about half way through 
this beautiful vale, which is about a mile 
•and a half in length and bounded on the 
south by quite abrupt hills and on the north 
by those of more gradual ascent, but which 
are all under an excellent state of cultiva¬ 
tion, we came to a small hamlet containing 
some six or eight houses and a large build¬ 
ing which we took for a country store. 
A sign in front announces ‘La Plume 
Postofliee.’ On entering we found the 
building much larger than it looks from the 
outside, occupied by two parties, Geo. T_ 
Bailey, who keeps a grocery store and the 
postoffice on one side, the remainer of the 
building being used as the seed store aixS 
printing office of Isaac F. Tillinghast, Seeds¬ 
man, who has been for the past ten or fif¬ 
teen years working up a seed and plant bus¬ 
iness which now extends into every State 
and Territory in the Union. Mr.Tillinghast 
issued his first seed catalogue some eight or 
nine years ago, the edition consisting of six: 
hundred postal cards on which was printe h 
a list of such seeds as he had for sale. 
The business has now grown to such di¬ 
mensions that an edition of 20,000 copies of 
his catalogue of “Reliable Seeds at IIonesL 
Prices” is no uncommon occurrence, and a>. 
recommendation of a customer to a friend; 
to buy Tillinghast’s seeds is usually follow¬ 
ed by an order. He does not follow the* 
plan practiced by many seedsmen of leav¬ 
ing boxi s of seeds at drug stores and gro¬ 
ceries to be sold on commission, as it isNvell' 
known that on account of the great quasi 
tity left unsold when seeds are so offered; 
they soon become old and proverl dally unre¬ 
liable. By sending only fresh, reliable* 
seeds by mail directly to customers 
who pay cash in advance for them,, he lias-- 
