CURRIE BROTHERS' 



Horticultural Guide, 



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GARDEN AND FARM. 



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SPRING NUMBER, 1894. 



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The Cultivator's Handbook. 



A careful perusal of the pages of our " Guide " will reveal the fact that it is not simply an ordinary Catalogue of Seeds, 

 lowers, Plants, etc., but a valuable book of reference, designed as an assistant to the gardener and farmer. All the best and 

 imost useful Yegetables, Flowers, Plants, Grains and Grasses adapted to our climate are fully described, and instructions for 

 their culture given. It 'contains also a complete list of Garden Tools and Implements, Fertilizers, Insecticides and Sundry 

 "'lequisites; in all it contains our customers may put the utmost reliance. 



To Our Customers and Friends. — Close application to business and observation, careful and unremitting attention to the 

 demands of the trade and particularly to the wants of our customers, strictly honest dealings, promptness and the carrying of 

 only first-class goods of everything required by the trade are reasons which, no doubt, in a great measure, account for our success 

 in business, yet we fully appreciate the fact that to our friends and customers we are greatly indebted. Their patronage has 

 been very liberal, made all the more gratifying to us by the many kind words of thanks and expressions of appreciation which 

 they have time and time again sent us, testifying to the satisfaction which our seeds, plants, etc., has given them. They have 

 jet further extended their kindness and largely increased our trade by the many hearty recommendations they have given to 

 their friends on our behalf. AVe are indeed very grateful, and take great pleasure in expressing to them our sincere thanks, with 

 the assurance that their continued patronage will be duly appreciated and their wants carefully and promptly attended to. In 

 this connection we wish to say that with improved facilities and provisions made necessary by the increase in our business we 

 are better prepared than ever to supply every demand. 



A Word to Correspondents. — A great many letters are received by us throughout the year asking for information on hor- 

 ticultural subjects, all of which we are most happy to answer, the subject in question, if it so demands, being most carefully 

 considered by us, and our reply given to the best of our ability. To facilitate this work, and avoid confusion and errors, we will 

 be greatly obliged if our correspondents will kindly write such letters on a sheet of paper separate from that containing an order. 



Important to Gardeners and Farmers. 



How Good Crops are Secured,— The successful husbandman like all business men who are prosperous, must possess good 

 business qualifications. He must make a study of and understand his business, and devote his time and energy to its pursuits. 

 He must know the nature of the plants or crops he is growing, and be perfectly familiar with all their requirements, such as the 

 soil which suits them best, the proper time to sow the seed or set out the plants, and the subsequent cultivation they require; all 

 U" these tilings demand and receive his closest attention. But his first and most important consideration is to see that the seed 

 M om which he expects to raise his crops Is of the very best quality procurable. He can never be persuaded to sow anything but 

 ■ le very best seed, and that, too, of the finest varieties of the kinds of vegetables, grains, etc., he wishes to grow. An inferior 



ll. aiity of seed he knows can never produce good crops no matter how carefully the soil may be prepared or the plants cultivated, 

 ^'ailure may occur even when the best of seed is sown, for, as the man of experience knows, there are many things necessary to 

 success which are beyond the control of the cultivator; but this much he is assured of, he may reasonably expect good crops from 

 \ good seed, but nothing but utter failure from bad seed, which means, on the one hand, pleasure and prosperity, on the other, 

 j bitter disappointment and irreparable loss of time and money. 



I Reliable Seed, how Obtained. — ^The experienced cultivator is never troubled about this matter. During the years in which 

 I be has been engaged in his business he has become acquainted with all the prominent seedmen at least, and has learned in whom 

 i be can place confidence, either through direct dealings with them or by reputation. But the gardener or farmer who is making 

 i bis first venture perhaps, yet is aware of the importance of securing good and reliable seed is sometimes at a loss where to send 

 jjfc r it. From him we respectfully solicit a trial order, in the full confidence that we can give him entire satisfaction and secure 



bis future patronage. 



As gardeners and florists, being bom 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 nineteen 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 



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 very best gwaZziy, 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 reputa- 

 tion is at all doubtful. We must have tlie very best seeds, and we nse every precaution to secure them. Our seeds, therefore, are 

 the very test, and we know them to be absolutely pure and of the very finest grades. That they invariable give entire satisfaction 

 to our numerous customers is fully testified to by the many flattering testimonials we annually receive from them. 



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