HORTICULTURAL GUIDE 



FOR 



ga.t<.J31b:n ilnj^ factum. 



SPRING NUMBER, 1892. 



To Our Rbadeirsx 



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OUR numerous customers, who deal regularly with us, and now know us so well, may deem the following 

 remarks entirely superfluous, since they are mainly what we have repeated annually for a number of yeare. 

 We do not wish to be credited with egotism, but since our " Guide " is every year materially increased in numbers ia 

 l)oth issues-^-Spring and Fall — and as a matter of course falls into the hands of many readers who, perhaps, know no 

 more of us than what they have learned from a biief advertisement, we consider it our duty, for their benefit as well 

 as our own, to acquaint them of our business, and our facilities and capabilities for conducting it. 



OUR BUSINESS BRIEFLY OUTLINED.— The simple statement that we are Seedsmen and Florists might 

 be sufficient, yet, as it applies to the business we conduct, it is, we fancy, scarcely explanatory enough. As Seedsmen 

 WJE GROW AND INTRO DTICE NEARLY ALL THE NOVELTIES WE OFFER, and' 



large quantities of other seeds we deal in are either grown by or especially for us. 



OUR SEED STORE, at 312 Broadway, a commodious building of four floors, is stocked not only with seeds of 

 all kinds, but also with fertilizers, tools, implements ; everything, in fact, for the farm and garden. We are also 

 agents for all kinds of heavy farm implements and machinery. 



SEEDS FOR THE GARDEN AND FARM of every Grain, Vegetable and Ornmental Plant, 



worthy of culture in our climate, we keep in stock in sufficient quantity to supply every demand. 



NOVELTIES, as we have stated, 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. 



SEEDS BEARING- OUR NAME are those which we have introduced, and are really of a very superior char- 

 acter, all of them having been thoroughly tested before being put on the market. They are exclusively held and con- 

 trolled by ourselves. 



SEEDS TRUE TO NAME. — We use every precaution our experience can devise to have all seeds true to name, 

 and we never, under any circumstances, substitute one seed for another, and cal it by any other than 

 its true name. 



SEEDS ARE TESTED, A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE OF GREAT VALUE TO OUR CUSTOM- 

 ERS AND OURSELVES. — Our greenhouses and gardens afford 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. 



THE VALUE OF GOOD SEEDS. — 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 vegetables 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 nearly seventeen years' 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 con- 

 fidence in it, knowing it to be of the very best quality, having within it the germ of a first-class plant. And 

 although we are under the necessity of having many of our seeds grown for us, we are very careful to employ only the 

 most experienced and most reliable seed-growers engaged in that profession ; and furthermore, on no consideration 

 do we purchase a seed of a grower whose reputation is at all doubtful. WE MUST HAVE THE VERY 

 BEST SEEDS, AND WE USE EVERT PRECAUTION TO SECURE THEM. 



OUR SEEDS, therefore, are the very best, and we know them to be absolutely pure and of the very 



finest grades. 



THE VARIETIES WE OFFER of grains, vegetables and plants are the best introduced, all the best and 



only the best. The market gardener and farmer cannot afford to grow anything but the best, and the private gar- 

 dener has no satisfaction in anything, however slightly inferior it may be. We are, therefore, very particular in making 

 our selection of varieties. 



