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An Illustrated Monthly Rural Magazine. 
Conducted by Isaac F. Tillinghast. 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO PLANTS A SEED 
OR Tl LLS 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. X. WHOLE NO., XXIV. 
La Plume, Lackawanna Co., Pa., October, 1S83. 
“Dear Autumn days, now hasting, 
Why speed ye on so fast ? 
E'en while thy sweets we’re tasting 
We yearn to have them last.” 
The Subscription Season has arriv¬ 
ed, and we are happy in announcing that 
clubs are freely coining in by every mail, by 
ones, by twos, by fours, by tens, by dozens 
and by scores, and yet there’s room to en¬ 
roll mauy more as we have a separate large 
subscription book for each state in the Un¬ 
ion, in all of which there is room to enroll 
148,480 names. If each of our present sub¬ 
scribers would devote one day to canvassing, 
new books would be necessary. Will you 
not help to bring about this necessity? 
“Clieerily sings the old heart, while slowly sets the 
sun; 
’Tis autumn chill, ’tis eventide, and rest is now begun. 
Brave was the heart that did its part, 
And ever upheld the right; 
Now sets the sun, the work is done; 
Now comes night.” 
The New Postal Note System is 
now in operation (since September 3, 1883) 
and any of our friends, who have the slight¬ 
est desire to do so, can now safely send us 
any amount of money from one cent to 
.$4.99 at an expense of three cents besides 
postage. In point of safety and conven¬ 
ience these Postal Notes will be about equal 
to Bank Checks with the additional advan¬ 
tage of b^ing payable at distant points 
where a fee of fifteen or twenty-five cents 
is often charged for collecting checks. The 
Postal Notes are only issued by and pay¬ 
able at Money Order Post Offices. They 
are made payable to bearer at any time 
within three months from the last day of 
the month in which they are issued. They 
are simply a draft on the Post Master at the 
office on which they are drawn. The per¬ 
son to whom they are paid must receipt 
them so the paid notes show who drew the- 
money. No written application is required,, 
as in purchasing a Money Order; you simply 
tell your Post Master, or the Post Master 
at the nearest Money Order Post Office,, 
that you wish a Postal Note for $4.99 (or 
less) on La Plume, Pa. 
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Our Premium Offers will remain 
open until November 1, when they will pos¬ 
itively be withdrawn, or rather, changed,, 
and work will be begun on an entirely diff¬ 
erent plan. After November 1, you may of¬ 
fer each subscriber paying 50 cents, a years- 
subscription to Seed-Time and Harvest,. 
and a premium Seed Certificate worth 25> 
cents. Then for your trouble you may se¬ 
lect any premium we offer to the value of: 
one-half the money sent us. Thus four 
names and $2.00 will be required to secure 
the “Premium Dictionary,” or “In a Nut¬ 
shell.” In addition to these premiums we 
shall soon offer some handsome cash prize® 
to the persons sending the largest lists be¬ 
fore a certain date. Do not fail to look for 
these announcements in our next issue. The 
Watch and Dictionary Offers as printed oik 
the covers of this issue do not include thfe 
seed certificate to each subscriber. 
“And now the merchant tvary 
Will deem it necessary 
To have an advertisement well displayed, played,, 
played, 
Within his favorite paper. 
For that's the proper caper 
By which to catch the coming autumn trade, trade'' 
trade." 
Among the many catalogues recent ly* 
received at this office, that from Mr. A„ 
Blanc, of Philadelphia, richly deserves es¬ 
pecial mention. Mr. Blanc is an engraver 
of Fruits, Vegetables and Flowers, and the- 
volume before us shows proofs of hundreds* 
of very fine engravings of which he will: 
supply electrotypes at low rates. No Nurs¬ 
eryman, Seedsman, Florist or other persom 
issuing catalogues or price lists should fail, 
to secure Mr. Blanc’s Book of Engravings. 
Mr. Blanc is a regular advertiser in Seed^ 
