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I f\ f\ f\ IS HERE. The clouds which a year ago hung low and threaten- 

 I ^y I I ^y ing in the financial and commercial skies have been dissipated 

 * ' v ' by the rising "Sun of Prosperity. " The fruitful soil has yielded 

 its harvest and throughout the land the delvers in the ground, whether it 

 be for pleasure or profit, look hopefully toward the ensuing spring to renew 

 the sowing and planting which will bring reward for their efforts. 



We have made more than the usual preparations to serve an increased demand 

 from our customers. We have erected another warehouse in Jersey City for 

 seeds, etc., with a capacity of over 150,000 bushels, giving us now, in addition 

 to our great New York stores, a total floor area of 60,000 square feet, or storage 

 capacity of half a million bushels. This provides not only for a larger stock, 

 but vastly increases our facilities for the prompt and satisfactory execution of all 

 orders no matter how large or how small. 



We have this year increased our catalogue of " Everything for the Garden" 

 to 200 pages, exclusive of the splendid cover. We have retained the heavy coated 

 paper for our novelties and specialties, we have embellished them with many 

 new photo-engravings and colored plates made direct from natural specimens, 

 we have added largely to our catalogue display of garden and lawn imple- 

 ments, offering now in our general catalogue a most comprehensive and up- 

 to-date assortment of these labor-saving and crop-producing agencies. 



Nor have we been idle in quest of new and improved varieties. Our cat- 

 alogue pages teem with them; also the sorts which we have standardized, and 

 with which the successful story of American garden, farm and greenhouse 

 endeavor is indissolubly linked. Quality, the highest attainable, has ever 

 been our aim; not alone the quality that produces growth but quality of the 

 highest type in the garnered crop. 



Another new and liberal innovation this year is our FREE offer of "HEN= 

 DERSON'S GARDEN GUIDE AND RECORD" on page 3, where full details 

 are given. As "Gardening for Profit," and "Practical Floriculture," written 

 by the founder of our firm, marked epochs in commercial gardening and flori- 

 culture, so this will in the field of the home garden. 



THE GARDEN BEAUTIFUL. The desire for beautiful gardens has 

 asserted itself in a marked degree during the past quarter-century, and in 

 its development our house has played a conspicuous part. The effect of the 

 books on ornamental gardening written by Peter Henderson, the millions of 

 superb catalogues we have issued, the countless thousands of free cultural 

 pamphlets we have sent out, all constitute a force whose cumulative effect can 

 not be overestimated. 



THE GARDEN BOUNTIFUL. With the growth in population the 

 demands on the soil increase; every foot of cultivated ground must 

 yield its maximum. It is here that quality of product tells. In this connection 

 we have a pardonable pride in enumerating some of the invaluable varieties 

 of vegetables we have introduced: Snowball Cauliflower, Ponderosa Tomato, 

 Bush Lima Bean, White Plume Celery, Early Jersey Wakefield and Succession 

 Cabbages, Big Boston Lettuce, Bovee Potato, Long Season Spinach, Early 

 Leviathan Pole Lima, Prosperity Pea, Bountiful Bean, Country Gentleman Corn 

 and a host of others. 



Our GRASS MIXTURES for lawns and pastures are famous for purity, for 

 germination and ultimate results. Our farm seeds have a like reputation. 



Our PLANT DEPARTMENT is the model upon which has been built the lead- 

 ing establishments of the country, our roses, the leading specialty in plants 

 with us, having the highest reputation. The assortment of plants we offer 

 embraces the best for the garden, home, greenhouse, vegetable and fruit garden. 



With our reputation of sixty-three years standing of honorable dealing, with 

 our increased facilities, with our prices that challenge comparison, quality 

 considered, we confidently send this catalogue to our patrons and, with grateful 

 thanks for their previous patronage, solicit their orders for this year. 



1st January, 1 <»09. 



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