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For the reason, no doubt, that the purchase and sale of Seeds 

 are pre-eminently matters of confidence, it has always been a cus- 

 tom 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 uni- 

 versal, that buyers of Seeds must often become puzzled to know 

 at whose doors they can most advantageously place their patron- 

 age. 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 intelli- 

 gently 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 em- 

 phasize our position in the trade. The 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, not- 

 ing all these facts, and the additional one that vou can always 

 buy seeds as cheaply from us as from sources that do not, and 

 cannot, take the precautions to have the Seeds pure that we do, 

 we think we can reasonably ask you (if you have not before 

 dealt with us) to try our stocks, and see whether the car-' we 

 claim to exercise is not made manifest in the most satisfactory 

 results. 



PETER HENDERSON & 00. 



