Adoust 20, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



91 



A QUIET WORD WITH YOU, IF YOU PLEASE, 

 NENBERS OF THE SEED TRADE OF AMERICA 



WE have many friends among you, but with 

 increasing business, we have not time to 

 come and see all our friends, and the field is 

 left clear for our good friends, the enemy, to 

 sow a few tares among the wheat. 



Our house may not yet be so large a concern as some, but 

 it is steadily increasing: its connection, and that because of the 

 celebrity of the seed selections which we have been making: per- 

 sonally at Langport for the last three generations. If you hear 

 otherwise, it will possibly be from competing houses, who, a few 

 years back, when we were growing for them instead of for the 

 general Seed Trade, could find nothing but good to say of us 

 personally, or of our stocks. ' 



On the matter as to whether your Government should dis- 

 tribute seeds free, we have nothing to say. But it surely redounds 

 to our credit that we are able to obtain a very large share of the 

 orders of your Qovernment, the largest and keenest buying cor- 

 poration in the seed world. Not one of you will lay his hand on 

 his heart and say that he can logically criticise US. On our side 

 we assure you that our prices to you are the same as to the 

 United States Qovernment. 



Will you do us a favor? We know our stocks are right. 

 You must know that we are in a position to quote right, how- 

 ever much you may object to our being favored with a large 

 Qovernment order. What we ask is: if you hear anything 

 adverse to our house, to its honor, to its reliability, will you 

 ask the person to write his statement and sign it, and will 

 you let us know?— unless he is a competitor, in which case you 

 will, of course, take no notice. We will play fair. Will you 

 give us fair play? 



==. OUR ADDRESS FOR QUOTATIONS IS: 



KELWAY & Son, Langport, England 



Growers to the W ii o I e s a I e and Retail Seed Trade 



