rieties to make ten pecks, or one barrel al¬ 
together may figure them at these prices. 
Any person who 'will order five or more 
barrels of any kind may discount our bar¬ 
rel prices 10 per cent. As many single 
pounds as desired may be added to a 
freight or express order at 25 cts. for each 
pound. These may be of any variety you 
choose to select from our whole list. 
Any seeds desired in our list may be add¬ 
ed to a freight or express order for potato¬ 
es, &c., at 20 percent discount from our 
mail prices, as we will not have the post¬ 
age to pay. 
Seeds on Credit. —As our old custom¬ 
ers know our usual way of doing business 
is to require full payment for everything 
before it leaves our store. Yet we frequent¬ 
ly have applications from perfectly good 
and honest customers, to favor them by 
sending a bill of seeds, and wait for pay¬ 
ment until they are able to turn something 
into money. Now if we had any way of 
knowing or being assured that the pur¬ 
chaser was honest and reliable, and would 
pay as agreed when the bill was due, we 
should have no objection whatever to 
granting the favor and waiting for two, 
four, or even six months for payment. 
But with the great cost of producing reli¬ 
able seeds, and the close competition in sell¬ 
ing them, there is not a large enough mar¬ 
gin of profit to warrant our trusting them 
into the hands of irresponsible or unknown 
parties. 
After much thought and study upon this 
subject, we have concluded to send whatever 
seeds are wanted from our list, to any per¬ 
son who will copy the following form and 
return it with their order, filling out the 
blanks to suit their circumstances: 
“I hereby certify that I own real estate to the val¬ 
ue of oVer One Hundred Dollars, and for value re¬ 
ceived I promise to pay Isaac F. Tillinghast or or¬ 
der. .Dollars within six months from date. 
(Signed). 
(Dated).” 
On receipt of this promise and a list of 
the seeds desired, we will at once fill the 
order just the same as though cash accom¬ 
panied it. 
We will keep these promises in our pos¬ 
session until due or paid. If payment is 
made as promised, when due, or before, we 
will receipt and return the document. 
We take the ground that any person who 
honestly intends to pay for what he gets 
will not object to signing such a promise, 
and if he does not intend to pay, we of 
course do not care for his patronage. The 
length of time may be made to suit the cus¬ 
tomers circumstances, providing it is with¬ 
in six months, and no interest will be 
charged if paid when due. 
Why not you? —The winter is now 
about ended and spring is upon us in ear¬ 
nest. During the next six weeks thous¬ 
ands of family gardens w ill be made, and 
the seeds for planting them are yet to be 
purchased. Although there are at least two 
hundred seedsmen in this country who pub¬ 
lish large editions of catalogues and scatter 
them freely over the land soliciting mail 
orders, we believe there are more people 
wdio still depend upon purchasing “com¬ 
missioned” seeds from the grocery stores in 
their own towns, than there are those wdio 
send their orders directly to some reliable 
seedsman to get their supplies. As those 
who buy at the stores usually w^ait until 
about the time the seeds are needed to buy 
them, there is still ample time for active 
agents to canvass their neighborhoods and 
collect a large number of orders. 
Kind readers could you not spend a few 
days at thi • business? You might help us 
greatly, and we wdll pay you handsomely 
if you will try it. We do not want to tell 
here publicly how liberally we will pay 
you. but will send you full particulars on 
application. Please w^rite at once for our 
“Terms to Agents” and we will give you a 
chance to help us and get big pay for it too. 
GARDENING FOR BOYS. 
$66 in Prizes! 
We wmuld call particular attention to 
our article elsewhere in this issue entitled, 
“Keeping the Boys on the Farm.” Proba¬ 
bly the question of making ready money 
is one of the principle ones considered by 
him in forming his decision of going away 
or staying, and we think a trial ot garden¬ 
ing likely to prove as remunerative to him 
