LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. 
OUR NEW PREMIUM. 
South Haven, Mich., July 6th, 1883. 
I. F. Tiilinghast: Dear Sir, I saw an adver¬ 
tisement to night in Seed-Time and Har¬ 
vest in regard to Dio Lewis's new book, “In 
a Nutshell.” Was glad to see you offer such a 
useful book as a premium. Our boys certainly 
need such wholesome advice as Dr. Lewis gives, 
and I will do all in my power to help you 
further the sale of the book. 1 am in the store 
of II. Peckham this summer, and will see a 
great many people, especially boys who would 
buy the book. Should I act as your agent what 
per cent off would you give me? I will do the 
best I can for you; could probably sell a good 
many copies. I am greatly interested myself in 
the work which people will doubtless make up 
to after awhile,—of saving boys from the many 
e vils into which they fall through ignorance, as 
I sincerely believe, and not total depravity. 
Please find enclosed a money order for $1.00 for 
which send me sample copy of book, and Seed- 
Time and Harvest for two years more, 1884-5, 
if you will consent to do this. Should you desire 
to have me act as your agent, please write me. 
Would you have the power to give me territory 
for an agency, or could you make such an ar¬ 
rangement with the publishers? 
Before I close this note I wish to tell you how 
much I think of Seed-Time and Harvest. 
I place it side by side with my Century and 
Harpers’, in fact can obtain the same amount of 
boiled down information nowhere else in the 
same space as this very useful little monthly. 
If you can succeed in making it as good another 
year as you have during the past I am sure your 
circulation will be doubled. 
Yours Truly, Harry J. Brown. 
Answer: We would very much prefer that 
you get us the two new subscribers as per our 
offer. Our object in making this liberal offer 
is to extend the circulation of Seed-Time and 
Harvest, not to sell books, and from the kind 
words you express concerning it we judge you 
are or should be willing to exert yourself a little 
in our behalf. The offer is so liberal that you 
could almost afford to present two subscriptions 
to your friends and so secure the book. We 
thank you for the kind words you have for 
Seed-Time and Harvest and hope to hear 
from you again. 
name wanted for a vine. 
Smiths Point, Texas, June 18, 1883. 
Mr. I. F. Tiilinghast: Dear Sir, With this 
letter I mail you in a yeast powder can some 
sample balls or fruit of a wild vine that grows 
here; it makes a fine ornamental vine for hang¬ 
ing baskets or inside training over windows, 
growing finely but does not bear fruit in the 
house, but abundantly out of doors. Please send 
me the proper name of it. 
The package of wild flower seed produced 
some marvels of beauty. Three of the varieties 
are the same as the wild native flowers at this 
place, and a good joke is we did not recognize 
ihem until they bloomed. Yours Truly, 
Ciias. N. Ely. 
ANSWER: Thanks for the specimens which We 
are unable to name, never having seen anything 
like them before growing on vines. They look 
almost exactly like “Wild Goose Plums" in col¬ 
or, shape and size, and would indeed be orna¬ 
mental if they would bear fruit in a hanging 
basket or as a window climber. 
Of course very many of our finest flowers are 
originally found growing wild in some part of 
the world, so it is not at all singular that in a 
collection of several hundred varieties, of which 
our Wild Garden seed is composed, native Texas 
plants should be represented. But perhaps they 
will not be a disappointment to our friends in 
Maine and Washington Territory. 
ONION SETTS. 
Harlem, O., June 16, 1883. 
Mr. Tiilinghast: Will you give me the in¬ 
formation I desire about onions? Will Red 
Wethersfield onion seed sown next month thick 
for setts, to set out next spring, produce bottoms 
as from seed, or produce seed on top, or what 
kind of onion seed would you sow for setts to 
raise large bottoms, as I want to send to you for 
some more seed soon. Please answer my request 
and oblige Jas. W eld. 
Answer: Onion setts are produced by sow¬ 
ing seed very thickly, say 50 pounds per acre. 
They are usually sown early in the season for 
this purpose, not that all the season is required 
to produce them, but if matured sufficiently 
early to be pulled in July or August in harvest 
weather there is much less trouble in curing the 
bulbs, than if the work is delayed and the curing 
attempted alter the fall rains come on. If we 
wished to grow onions and failed to get them 
in early, we should defer it until about Sep¬ 
tember and then prepare the ground and sow 
them at the rate of 5 to 7 pounds per acre as in 
spring. Then before the ground freezes give 
a light covering of straw which will protect 
them during the winter. They will then start 
much earlier iu spring than spring-sowed onions, 
and grow very large. 
We hope to hear soon from our readers in 
various sections in regard to this method so that 
we may kuow how far north or south it may be 
successfully practiced. Will all who have 
tried it please report ? 
