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[E think we possess some peculiar advantages as Seedsmen that we wish to tell to those to 

 whom we are not personally known. The senior member of our firm is now and has been 

 for the past twenty-five years, personally engaged in growing fruits, flowers and vegetables, 

 in short is a "Practical Gardener" in the most comprehensive sense of the term. Our Florists 

 or Greenhouse establishment, which he personally superintends, covers nearly two acres, solid 

 in glass, and employs an average of fifty hands throughout the year. These greenhouses being at 

 all temperatures, gives us a certain means of testing the germinating qualities of all our seeds, 

 and no seeds of any importance are ever sold without being subject to the most thorough test. 

 We have also for the past five years had a piece of ground set apart as an Experimental Garden, 

 wherein samples of all the leading vegetables and novelties in flowers are tested, so that we are 

 enabled to discard, by our own actual observation, the kinds least worthy of cultivation. We 

 cordially invite any one interested in such experiments to call and examine them during the Sum- 

 mer and Fall months. Our Gardens in Jersey City are within 40 minutes time, by Ferry Boat 

 and Horse Cars, from our Seed Store, 35 Cortlandt Street, ISTew York, where a card with plain 

 directions of " How to reach the Nursery," will be given to any one applying. 



ABOUT WARRANTING SEEDS. 



The question is repeatedly asked us, if we guarantee or warrant seeds. We beg to state most 

 emphatically thai ice do not, and our employees have strict orders never to do so in any case. 

 Though well believing that the seeds we offer are unsurpassed in quality, yet our practical experi- 

 ence of many years as Market Gardeners, has well assured us of the fact that crops may fail, no 

 matter how fresh or pure the seeds sown to produce them may be. Failure of germination of 

 seeds may be produced from causes that the utmost care from most experienced cultivators can- 

 not control, and the maturing of crops also repeatedly fail, so as to be a total loss, from causes 

 that no human power can avert. Hence to guarantee seeds to invariably produce a perfect crop, 

 would be little short of quackery. 



FORWARDING OF ORDERS. 



Except in rare cases, all orders are forwarded the day after they are received by us. 

 The importance of being enabled to do this, particularly in such an article as seeds, where it is 

 so often imperative that there be no delay, can hardly be over-estimated. 



Those of our customers who require both Seeds and Plants, will find it a convenience to send 

 their orders to us, as the orders can be sent together in one parcel, and in that way save addi- 

 tional express charges— tf^ orders for Seeds and Plants however, m all cases, should be made out 

 on separate sheets. 



We guarantee the safe arrival of all packages to any part of the country, and will hold our- 

 selves responsible for safe arrival of remittances, sent us, when made in the form of a Draft, 

 Registered Letter, or Post Office Order. Remittances sent us in any other way are entirely at 

 the risk of the sender. 



Peter Eexdersox, i 



james reid, 35 Cortlandt Street, 



Alered Henderson ) NEW Y0R g 



