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SEED-TIME AfSD HARVEST 
j^ml-STra^ and gamst. 
An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR TILLS A PLANT. 
SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS PER YEAR. 
Advertising Rates, 30 Cents Per Line. 
Entered at the post-office as second class matter. 
VOL IV., NO. IV. WHOLE NO., XVIII. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., April, 1883. 
Ho, Hum! 
I wish the winter would go! 
And I wish the summer would come! 
Then the big brown farmer could hoe , 
And the little broivn bee could hum , 
Ho, Hum! 
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. 
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. 
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 get a complaint 
from parties who say they 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. 
“The winter goes, the summer comes 
And the clouds descend in warm wet showers. 
The grass grows green where the frost has been 
And waste and wayside are f ringed with 
flowers." 
Growing* Vegetable Plants. —In 
our article in this issue on “Gardening for 
Boys,” we spoke of selling tomato, cabbage, 
celery and other Vegetable Plants as a 
profitable branch of gardening well adapted 
to boys. Of course there is considerable 
knack in producing these else they would 
be plentiful in all gardens and not in so 
good a demand. We are now issuing a 
new edition of our 100 paged “Manual of 
Vegetable Plants” in which our experi¬ 
ence, covering years of practical work at 
this business, is minutely given, so that 
.any one who will follow our directions will 
surely succeed. The price of this Manual 
is 40 cents, but a copy will be sent free to 
.any one who requests it when ordering 
seeds <fec., to the amount of $2.00 or more. 
The school boy’s hoop now rolls along, 
His bull begins to fly, 
His whoop is what he calls a song, 
His ba wl resounds on high. 
The Newer Potatoes. —In answer to 
numerous inquiries about our prices on po- 
j 
tatoes, we desire to say that our object in 
charging a higher rate for pecks, than 
bushels and barrels, is to cover the expense 
of boxing single pecks. In case enough 
different sorts are ordered at one time to 
aggregate a bushel we will sell them at 
bushel rates, and if enough are taken to 
make a barrel we will sell them at barrel 
rates. In case a barrel of one kind is tak¬ 
en we give 2f bushels for a barrel, but if 
the barrel is made up of different sorts, we 
can give but 21 bushels for a barrel. So 
in figuring pecks at barrel rates you will 
call each peck just one-tenth of a barrel. 
For instance, our barrel price of Wall’s Or¬ 
ange is $1.50 per peck. Cook’s Superb, 
White Whipple, Clark’s No. 1 and Belle 
are 50 cents per peck, and White Elephant, 
Early Beauty of Hebron and Pride of 
America are 40 cents peck by the barrel. 
Any person ordering enough of these va- 
