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= General + Introduction. 2 
For the reason, no doubt, that the purchase and sale of Seeds are pre-eminently matters 
of confidence, it has always been a custom among us in the Seed trade to set forth, in the 
strongest possible way, our various claims for patronage; and through Catalogues, and by 
other means, the practice has become so universal, that buyers of Seeds must often become 
puzzled to know at whose doors they can most advantageously place their patronage. Still, 
among a multitude of claimants, we think we can fairly claim our position in the trade to be 
altogether distinct; for the fact is now pretty generally understood, that for years before we 
engaged in the selling of Seeds, we had been among the largest growers of Vegetables and 
Flowering Plants for the New York market; an experience that gave us a varied and practical 
working knowledge that the heads of no other firm possessed; thus experienced, we have 
been able to judge intelligently on the hundreds of perplexing questions that are always 
looming up in garden operations. 
The Books on Gardening, produced by our Mr. Peter Henderson, which it is no egotism 
to claim are at this time the standard authorities in America, have served to confirm and 
emphasize our position inthe trade. Zhe Practical Testing of Seeds (of which we were the 
pioneers) has proved of the utmost value, both to ourselves and those to whom we sell; so 
that, noting all these facts, and the additional one that you can always buy seeds as cheaply 
from us as from sources that do not, and cannot, take the precautions to have Seeds pure 
that we do, we think we can reasonably ask you (if you have not before dealt with us) to try 
our Seeds, and see whether the care we claim to exercise is not made manifest in the most 
satisfactory results. 
The Revised Instructions on Vegetable and Flower Culture, 
To be found in this Manual, were written in 1882-3 by Peter Henderson, and give all the 
latest information on the subjects that the author of “ Gardening for Profit” has to impart. 
Cultural instructions, in the main, undergo but little change; yet in our large and varied 
practice, in every season’s experience there crops up some new or important detail of culture 
before unnoticed, and often of the utmost importance to cultivators, and it is principally such 
details that the ‘‘ Revised Instructions”’ are intended to convey. 
Copyright, 1884, by Peter Henderson & Co. 
