<it<^Common Sense About Seeds^^ 



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\NY seeds are seeds. True ! So any tea is tea ; so any flour is flour. 



But grades difier. It's so with seeds. There are grades. You want 



the best. K you understood seeds as well as you do tea and flour, 



it would be easy to determine. But you don't. How should you when 



aU look alike ? 



When you are going to buy a commodity whose value you don't 

 know, you pick out an old-established house to trade with, and trust 

 their experience and reputation. Do so when buying seeds. You can 

 buy seeds at almost any price you choose to pay. But a few cents' reduc- 

 tion in the price may mean a reduction of many dollars in the value of 

 the crop. Can you afford to take such chances ? 



Eor a score of years we have sought the trade of those who appre- 

 ciate the BEST American-grown seeds, at fair prices ; and that we have 

 been successful in furnishing auch is evidenced by the fact that our busi- 

 ness, is to-day the largest of any house In America direct with critical market gardeners and experienced 

 growers who plant for profit and whose wise motto always is 



"NOT HOW CH^AP, BUT HOW GOOD" 



Our 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 lauded 

 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 ? 



OUR FRMM BOOK PREMIUMS FOR 1898 



TWO VALUABI^n NEW XTP-TO-DATS BOOKS JUST PUBI^ISH^D 



FARM GARDENING 



QUICK CASH CROPS AND HOW TO GROW THEM 

 128 pages, profusely illustrated 

 A strictly up-to-date 

 book of great value to 

 all. "Wliether a farmer, 

 a market gardener, or 

 one who is cultivating 

 a small plot around his 

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 this book will be found 

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 It also coiitains many 

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 much valuable infor- 

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 smaller cash expendi- 

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 on a most important 

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QjJICH'CASti C 



; HOW to; ORpvy 



IRRIGATION 



BY CHEAP MODERN METHODS 



Double the Crops. Water will do it. Illustrated 



There is something 

 here for every farmer 

 and gardener. That 

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 water supply. Irriga- 

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 blossom. Nature often 

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 through the uncertain- 

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 After reading this 

 •work you will be sur- 

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Both Books, this and Farm Gardening, will be 

 sent free with all orders of $5.00 and over. 



This Book will be sent free with every order for 

 Vegeiabie and Fiower Seeds amounting to $3.00 and 

 over. 



Desiring to give our customers the first and full benefit of the valuable information contained in 

 these books, we will not offer them for sale this season, and they can only be had as premiums on $3.0J 

 and $5.00 orders of vegetable and flower seeds as stated above. 



Please remember these Premiums apply only to Vegetable and Flower Seeds, and cannot be allowed 

 on Seed Potatoes, Onion Sets, Grass Seeds, Implements, Garden Tools or Live Stock. 



No Gardener or Farmer can afford to be without both these books. They should not be con- 

 founded with the cheap pamphlets offered by other seedsmen. Both are modem cloth-bound books, 

 covering in an interesting and practical way, subjects which have not heretofore been written upon. 



We also keep on hand a complete stock of all the Standard Agricultural and Horticultural Books 

 published, a list of which will be found on page 21. We allow customers a discount of 10 per cent. &om 



publishers' prices there quoted, and send them, post-p aid, to any address. __=__=^-=_ 



Jobsgon & Stokes' Oaiden and Farm Jlanual for 1898 is Copyrighted by Johnson & Stokes, Philadelphia 



