GAIN we present our Manual of 



-L " Evepything fop the SapdeF^, " 



and, in doing so, wish first to express 

 our appreciation of the very Hberal 

 share of patronage that has been ex- 

 tended to us the past season, and to 

 assure our customers that with our in- 

 creased facihties we are now in a better 

 position than ever before to execute all 

 orders in the prompt, accurate and lib- 

 eral manner that has always character- 

 ized our house. 



IsineSS Growth. — Despite the fact that 

 Stores in Cortlandt Street, New York, are the 

 largest of the kind in New York, we have been com- 

 pelled this past summer to erect a large Seed Ware- 

 house in Jersey City, which has a storage capacity of 

 1 00,000 bushels. {See headmg.) In addition to this, we have made extensive structural alterations 

 and improvements in our Stores and Green-houses, which make our entire "plant" the largest and most 

 complete on this continent. {See heading.) 



A New System of Packing. — This great departure is the natural outcome of complaints, 

 which come from buyers in all sections of the countr}-, of excessive express charges, particularly on small 

 orders of seeds. Heretofore the universal practice has been to pack in wooden boxes, which alone weighed 

 from 5 lbs. to 30 lbs. By our new method we use strong 

 light baskets, weighing scarcely i lb. 



This will effect a saving to our customers of one-half 

 the express charges in many cases. In packing seed orders 

 we line the baskets with oiled paper, and use waterproof 

 canvas covers, thus insuring their arrival in perfect con- 

 dition. Of course, all orders cannot be packed. in this way, 

 but, wherever practicable, the baskets will be used. 



Besides its costing much less expressage, another advan- 

 tage of our basket mode of packing is that it can be conveni- 

 ently carried by the handle from the express office or depot, 

 while a box could not. 



Our Catalogue Cover this year is illustrated so as to show on the front the coloring in 

 Autumn of the Ampelopsis VeitcJiii, or "Boston Ivy." It is difficult to im.agine a more gorgeous coloring 

 than this shows in the Fall, when it has grown to a height of 50 or 60 feet. On the same page we show a 



