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SEED-UME AH© HARVEST. 
An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR TILLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 60 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 30 Cents Per Line. 
Entered at the post-office as second class matter. 
VOL IV., NO. III. WHOLE NO., XVII 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., March, 1883. 
When with icy fetters broken, 
Though by human words unspoken 
Spring comes, fitting sign and token 
Of the resurrection morn; 
Then I saw thee summer hasten 
With thy gorgeous sunset hues 
And thy genial warmth and sunshine. 
And thy gently falling dews. 
We again insert our Seed Price List in 
the advertising department of this number 
and will continue the offer made in our 
last to send your own selection of Flower 
or Vegetable seeds from that list to the 
amount of $1.00 and Seed-Time and 
Harvest monthly for one year for only 
$1.00, or for 50 cents the Magazine a 
year and your own selection of Flower 
seeds to the amount of 50 cents. 
Our Colored Plate. —The excellent 
plate in this issue represents two of the no¬ 
table potatoes now being disseminated and 
of which all of our readers have no doubt 
heard. These pictures were drawn from 
life having been photographed directly 
from potatoes which we furnished the ar- 
tisls, and we we were the original intro¬ 
duce! of them. These plates cost us sever¬ 
al hundred dollars, and some unscrupulous 
parties who desired to secure, without 
great cost, engravings intended to repre¬ 
sent potatoes they were offering for sale, 
have purchased copies of our electrotypes 
and affixed other names to them and plac¬ 
ed them before the public as fair repre¬ 
sentations of potatoes they were offering to 
their customers. This is notably the case 
in the catalogue of one seedsman who off¬ 
ers a potato called the McCormick, the 
picture of which is made from a cut of the 
Wall's Orange purchased from us. An¬ 
other catalogue contains a picture of Wall's 
Orange labeled Early Telephone which re¬ 
ally bears no resemblance to it. When 
parties buy electrotypes they may have the 
right to give them any name they choose, 
but we consider it very unfair of them to* 
impose upon their customers in this man¬ 
ner, and it is hardly living up to the pre¬ 
cepts of the Golden Rule. 
'‘‘Over and over again , 
No matter which way I turn, 
I always find in the book of life 
Some lessons I have to learn. 
I must take my turn at the mill’ 
I must grind out the golden grain; 
I must work at my task with a resolute tvill. 
Over and over again." 
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Seeds at Wholesale.— Market Gar¬ 
deners or Dealers requiring large quanti¬ 
ties of seeds (say Ten Dollars worth or over) 
should send for our new Wholesale List. 
While the prices we give elsewhere in this 
issue are as low as good reliable seeds can 
be mailed in small lots on general orders, 
we can and will give lower rates on some 
articles in large quantities. If you wish a 
large quantity of any particular item write 
for an estimate or send for Wholesale List. 
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Potatoes by Mail.—In sending pota¬ 
toes in pound lots we usually select the 
small or medium sized tubers for the ieas- 
on that they contain many more eyes to 
the pound and most persons prefer them. 
Occasionally, however, we iret a complaint, 
from parties who .-w nicy expected large- 
tubers. Now. if you prefer large tubers 
in pound orders please say so upon your 
order and you will get them. Otherwise, 
we shall continue to send small or medium 
sized ones. 
OUR CLUBBING LIST. 
We v ill send any of the following publi¬ 
cations for one full year, by mail, postpaid,, 
at the very low prices annexed, if ordered 
by a subscriber to Seed-Time and Harvest.. 
If you are not a subscriber and wish to* 
take advantage of these low prices, send ant 
extra half dollar along for a year's sub¬ 
scription to Seed-Time and Harvest, (or 
