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MANUAL OF 



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OE 1885. 



In placing before you our new Manual for i885, and soliciting your orders 

 therefrom, we first of all desire to acknowledge our full appreciation of the 

 very generous patronage given us in past seasons, and to draw the attention 

 of those who have not before dealt with us to the following advantages we 

 possess as growers and dealers : 



1st. The fact that we can supply every want of the cultivator in Seeds, 

 Plants, Implements, Fertilizers, etc. — in short, as our trade mark expresses 



it, " Everything for the Garden. " 



2d. That offering, as we do, all needed articles for the Garden, Green- 

 house or Farm, enables patrons to have all their goods shipped in one 

 package, or at least at one time, thus saving largely in express or freight 

 charges. 



3d. That we were the first American seed house to inaugurate a practical 

 and complete system for testing Seeds, which we were enabled readily to do 

 from our possessing extensive green-houses and grounds, which gave and still 

 gives us opportunities, at all seasons, to carry on the practice. 



4th. That these tests are conducted by ourselves, and as we claim a 

 thorough practical knowledge of our business, it will be seen that the personal 

 supervision of these Seed tests must result in great mutual benefit. 



5th. That samples of all Novelties, as they appear, in Vegetables and 

 Flowers, are grown in our experimental garden, and if deemed valuable are 

 offered in succeeding seasons. This practice has a two-fold advantage, as it 

 enables us not only to retain, but also to discard " Novelties'' with which, in 

 our opinion, it is worse than useless to fill our lists. 



Copyright, 1885, by Peter Henderson & Co. 



