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ie THE little sketch above, our artist has endeavored 
to portray the conditions as they exist in this country 
to-day. The glistening bayonets of our victorious regi- 
ments and the booming of Dewey’s guns are already 
becoming but a memory. The legions of industry are 
rapidly coming into the field, peace having been restored 
by our gallant army and navy, and our great country 
is entering on a career of pr merity such as the world 
has never known. The gooy times that are coming 
have been largely brought all ‘t by the farmers and 
gardeners of this country, magnificent crops of 
the past two years, and the ices that have been 
realized, are starting the wheels O\ -eneral industry in all 
\KOSPERITY | 
y) FOLLOWS | HE radical departure that we made last season 
| of selling only direct to consumers, and no 
CLOSE UYON | longer supplying dealers to sell again, has been 
THE HEELS | most satisfactory to our customers and ourselves. 
| We have received hundreds of letters from cus- 
OF FEACE. tomers commending our change of policy, which | “itections, so that it is not unrea\ nable to expect that 
ae ensures their receiving the genuine PETER HEN- | the next five years of our counti\s history will be as 
DERSON & CO.’S seeds from us direct, instead | S!0riously prosperous as the past\lve have been dis- 
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“2X of having spurious articles foisted upon them py | Couraging and disastrous, 
SSSS5SSSSSSSF, unscrupulous dealers. We beg to thank all our 
customers for their kind words and substantial encouragement in this vitally important 
HILE we do | step that we have taken, and to say that for our part we shall redouble our efforts to 
not wish to | merit the support which we have received by supplying only the best and purest stocks 
appear egotistical, | at lower prices than ever before. 
yet in justice to 
ourselves and our seeds, and for the benefit of people who have never dealt 
with us, we claim to be the producers and distributers of the BEST SEEDS 
IN THE WORLD—it is our business and our profession; and we wish 
to say, from a business point of view, we Know that planters of seeds buy 
them entirely on confidence; we realize that to lose a man’s confidence is 
to lose his patronage. If you have never used our seeds, TRY THEM 
THIS YEAR, and we will try and retain your confidence, as we have 
succeeded in doing with annually increasing thousands for over half a 
century, and we promise you all that under our new system of ONLY 
SUPPLYING OUR SEEDS TO THE PLANTER DIRECT, with the 
dealers’ trade and its blighting effect eliminated, we shall spare no expense 
or trouble to make our seeds even better than ever. 
ALFRED HENDERSON, President. 
CHARLES HENDERSON, Vice-Pres. and Treas. 
