Jno. F. Finke, L. Burns, Jr., 



President, Secretary and Treasurer. 



J. A. SCHALCK, 



Vice President and General Manager. 



New Orleans, January ist, 1897. 



IN presenting this catalogue to the public, the undersigned beg to respectfully 

 announce that they have succeeded to the large and successful Flower, 

 Field and Garden Seed Business, conducted for over thirty years by the late 

 Richard Frotscher. 



After a great many years experience in the seed business at New Orleans 

 and the vicinity where gardening and truck growing for shipment to the 

 uorthern markets has been carried on so extensively for so many years, we are 

 prepared to offer to the truck growers of the South, a great many varieties of 

 Vegetables which are specialties with us, being the result of much study and 

 careful experiment. They are adapted to this climate and will stand long 

 shipment much better than the varieties offered by northern houses. 



Mr. J. A Schalck, who has for the last sixteen years been identified with 

 the late Mr. Frotscher, as one of the head clerks, and who Mr. Frotscher had 

 agreed to make a member of the Frotscher Seed Company which he intended 

 to organize in the spring of 1896 had he lived, is now a member of our firm, 

 and his wide circle of patrons, as well as the public generally, may depend upon 

 his best efforts in their behalf at all times. 



We are further pleased to annoiince that the old force of clerks, with 

 Mr. Chas. L. Sieber at the head, also remain with us, and will be pleased to 

 w^elcome their friends at the old stand. 



To the old and new friends who have used and will use Frotscher' s Cele- 

 brated and Reliable Seeds, wo. diXO: rn2i\drig o^v^ry ^Eort to iuxnish. you with the 

 choicest strain of seed at reasonable prices and hope that you will reciprocate by 

 lending us a hand in building up such a seed business in the South, as will justify 

 us in keeping a full stock of all seeds in demand and keep your dollars at home. 

 In buying stock we never lose sight of our Motto: ''The Best is Cheapest.'" 



By strict and prompt attention to the wants of our patrons, we feel confident 

 that we can give you satisfaction. Please accept thanks for past favors and the 

 compliments of a New Year. 



Yours Truly, 



RICHARD FROTSCHER SEED CO., Limited. 



Our patrons will doubtless be pleased to know that notwithstanding^ 

 the hard times, our business is steadily increasing*. 



