GURRIE BROTHERS 



FOR 



iGARDEN AND FARIVI 



SPRING NUMBER, 1893. 



In making up our semi-annual retail catalogues we have often been on the very verge of leaving out entirely our usual 

 prefatory remarks, being impressed with the belief that, since our numerous regular patrons know us so well, and are so familiar 

 with our business, our manner of conducting it, the quality of goods we carry, and all other matters of any interest to them, to 

 them at least these introductory sentences must be quite superfluous. It is not from a desire to be continually talking of ourselves 

 for the mere love of it, nor to talk ourselves consijicuously before our friends in case they may forget us, that we persist in repeat- 

 ing what is, in part at least, an old story now, but it is because vv'e still have the ambition to increase our business, it is in fact, 

 certain our business will increase of its own accord, if we but continue to give it attention, therefore since our catalogues are 

 annually in greater demand from intending customers, we deem it our duty to them as well as to ourselves to acquaint them 

 briefly with our business, and to give them that assurance they so naturally look for, and our facilities for doing business so fully 

 warrant us in giving, that their dealings with us will be entirely satisfactory to them. With this motive, and with apologies to our 

 old friends, thanking them sincerely for their continued liberal patronage and good will, we address ourselves to our new 



acquaintances. 



OUR BUSINESS AND WHERE WE CONDUCT IT. 



We established ourselves in Milwaukee, at first as florists, and a year or two later as seedsmen. Carrying into the business a 

 thoroughly practical experience, and the laudable ambition to succeed. We have to-day a business we naturally feel proud of, the 

 inevitable result of strict attention to the wants of our customers. Briefly told, our business is EVERYTHING FOR THE 

 GARDEN AND FARM-SEEDS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, FERTILIZERS, IMPLEMENTS, and all CAROEM 

 REQUISITES. 



OUR ESTABLISHMENTS — seed ana General Store, at 312 Broadway. Flower Store, at lOS Wis- 

 consin Street. Greenhouses, corner of State and 27th Streets. 



OUR SEED BUSINESS— The successful gardener can never be persuaded to buy anything but the very best seed, and that, 

 too, of the very best varieties of the kinds of vegetable he wishes to grow, no matter what it costs. He is, therefore, very particular 

 about where and of whom he buys his seeds. 



As gardeners and florists, being born in the business, we early learned the value of a good seed and the utter worthlessness 

 of a bad one. As seedsmen, therefore, of seventeen y-ears' standing, we are enabled to appreciate the importance of dealing only 

 in good seeds, so that our customers shall get just what we would be anxious to secure were we the buyers instead of the sellers. 



We never sow a seed of doubtful quality except to test it, and we never sell a seed unless we have the utmost confidence in 

 it, knowing it to be of the ve7-y best quality, having within it the germ of a first-class plant. We must have the very best 

 Seeds, and ive use every precaution to secure them. 



THE VARIETIES OF SEEDS WE OFFER, therefore, are the very best, and we know them to be cbsolutely pure avA 

 of the very finest grades. 



WE TEST OUR SEEDS— Our greenhouse and gardens afibrd us every facility to test seeds, and none are allowed to leave 

 our establishment until we are satisfied that they are absolutely of the very best quality, possessing the greatest possible vitality. 



SEEDS TRUE TO NAME— We xise every precaution our experience can devise to have all seeds true to name, and we 

 never, binder any circumstances, substitute one seed for another, and call it by any other than its true name. 



SEEDS BEARING OUR NAME, are those which we have introduced, and are really of a very superior character, all oi 

 tl^em having been thoroughly tested before being put on the market. They are exclusively held and controlled by ourselves. 



NOVELTIES, are either of our own introduction, or are obtained direct from the originators; but we are always very 

 cautious of cataloguing anything until we are satisfied it possesses some real merit. 



DO WE WARRANT SEEDS?— While we guarantee all our seeds to be of the very be.tt quality, and from the finest stocls, 

 and certain to grow under favorable conditions, yet, as there are so many circumstances, most of them quite beyond human 

 control, which may cause the utter failure of seeds of even the greatest vitality, we are compelled, in justice to ourselves, and to 

 avoid possible complications, to impress most explicitly and emphatically upon our customers that we do not guarantee our seeds to 

 groiv, neither do we in any sense hold ourselves responsible for the failure of any crop. We wish it clearly understood, that in thcFe 

 respects our seeds are sold without any warranty, expressed or implied. 



