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Floracroft Seed Gardens and Trial Grounds 



" GOOD CROPS CAN BE GROWN ONLY FROM GOOD SEEDS." 



lOR more than a score of years it has 



been our constant aim to supply direct 



to the planter the Best American^ 



grown Seeds at fair prices. That we 



have been successful in furnishing 



such is evidenced by the fact that our 



business is to-day the largest of any 



house in America direct with critical 



market gardeners and experienced growers who 



plant for profit and who realize the important truth 



that the "Best Seeds cannot be the Cheapest." 



In order to attain these results and to make doubly 



sure that our customers shall recei\e the best seeds 



that the world produces, we have for all these 



years maintained and carried on extensive operations, 



under the personal direction of one of our firm, at out 



Floracroft Seed Gardens and Trial Grounds, 



located about nine miles from our city warehouses. 



Many acres are devoted to the production of 

 pedigree stock seed, by expert breeding and im- 

 proving to ideal types, and higher standards of purity 

 and excellence. This stock seed from selected plants 

 is sent to be grown on our farms in localities where 

 the conditions of soil and climate are best adapted 

 to the perfect development of the particular variety. 

 Here are also located our Seed Testing Houses, 

 where a sample of every lot of seed, whether grown 

 by ourselves or grown for us under contract, is thor- 

 oughly tested, in mother earth, for vitality and purity 

 of stock, and only those of satisfactorv- quality and 

 germinating power are sold. In fact, we leave no 

 stone unturned to gain and hold the confidence of all 

 customers and secure them from disappointment. 



Here we also plant each season, for thorough 

 trial, samples of all " Novelties" offered by other 

 seedsmen, both in this country and Europe, as well 

 as anything which ma}' be sent us, claimea to be new 

 and superior, by our amateur or market garden cus- 

 tomers. By this means we are enabled to satisfy 

 ourselves of the true character and value of any 

 novelty before it can find a place in our Catalogue. 



OUR DOUBLE SEED WAREHOUSES 



Located on the principal business street of Philadel- 

 phia, Nos. 217 and 219 Market St., extending 

 through to Nos. 206 and 208 Church St., are the 

 largest in the East, and afford us every facility for 

 the conduct of a large business, being especially 

 arranged to accommodate the various departments 

 of the vSeed business. Visitors are always welcome 

 here, as well as at Floracroft or at our various seed 

 farms in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other States. 



OUR CATALOGUE ILLUSTRATIONS PHOTOGRAPHED FROM NATURE 



From the beginning of our business career, it has been our constant aim to make each successive 

 issue of our Catalogue more complete and interesting than its predecessor. With this end in view, we 

 were the first Seedsmen, some years ago, to adopt the method of Photographic Reproduction on half- 

 tone plates, which has given our Manual an unique reputation for truthfulness and accuracy, .setting 

 forth actual appearance and real merits without the alluring illustrations and exaggeration that so 

 flagrantly appear in nearly all the seed catalogues published. For this reason some things that are 

 much latided in other catalogues are omitted. Some do not appear as large or extravagant as shown in 

 the overdrawn cuts of other lists. Is it not better to be disappointed in a picture than in a crop ? 



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Directions for Ordering, Modes of Remitting and Liberal Discounts will be found on page 14 

 ADDRESS ALLORDERS, INQUIRIES, ETC. 



JOHNSON & STOKES, 217 & 219 Market St., Phila., Pa. 



COPYRIGHTED. — Johnson & Stokes' Garden and Farm Manual for 1899 is copyrighted and all rights reserved. 



