Good Seeds Promote 

 Long Friendships 



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Ghere are names 

 on our books that 

 datebacic for more 

 than 20 years. 



NOTHING gives us more pleasure during our busy spring season than to find in going over our 

 daily orders the names of scores of lifelong customers, who have been with us annually almost 

 since the first year we embarked in business. This loyalty on the part of thousands of old cus- 

 tomers makes us sure that our efforts to give them the Best American Grown Seeds at the lowest 

 prices at which they can be produced and sold, have been appreciated and encourages us to go on, and 

 if possible todo better than ever in their behalf. 



A MODEST CATALOGUE WITH HONEST DESCRIPTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 



We were the first seedsmen in this country to trust entirely to photographic reproduction in illus- 

 trating our catalogues. This has given our Manual a deserved reputation for truthfulness and accuracy. 

 It is for this reason that some things that are much lauded in other catalogues are omitted. Sonle do 

 not appear as large or extravagant as shown in the overdrawn cuts of other lists. Our pictures have 

 won for us the attention of thousands of seed buyers, and we have held their confidence by meeting the 

 promises of our catalogue, both as to illustrations and descriptions of the various vegetables and flowers 

 which are made during the growing season at Floracroft Trial Grounds or on our Seed Farms where 

 the crops are grown. It is for this reason that our Manual is so frequently used by other seedsmen as 

 a reference-bouk aud is frequently found at the agricultural colleges, being used as an auxiliary text-book. 



PAN-AflERICAN EXPOSITION, BUFFALO, 1901 



To JOHNSON & STOKES, SEEDSMEN 



FOR PRODUCTS OF JOHNSON & STOKES' SEEDS GROWN AT 



FLORACROFT SEED GARDENS /fND TRIAL GROUNDS 



Floracroft Seed Gardens and Trial Grounds for Testing and Proving .l- - Seeds we Sell 



We make a critical study of the wants of the critical gardener, and do everythi^ • possible to 

 safeguard his interests, and for th. v'-eason conduct every year, at great expense, extensive u als at our 

 Floracroft Seed Gardens and Trial Grounds, located about nine miles from our city wai^ luses. 

 The cash expended at Floracroft buvs knowledge, and the benefit goes to our customers. 



In our extensive seed-testing houses there, all seeds are tested for germination and purity beij-^p 

 being sold. We also develop a considerable amount of high-grade pedigree seed stocks at Floracroft. 

 We have men there under the direct supervision of one of our firm, who understand the improvement and 

 development of ideal tvpes and high standards. From Flor.\croft we send improved seed stocks to our 

 various farms in other States, wherever the conditions of soil and climate are best adapted to their per- 

 fect development, for multiplication as to bulk and quantity. 



We ask a careful reading of the following pages and solicit the orders of all. 



Johnson 6 Stokes, 217 and 219 Market St. Phila.. Pa. 



