Floracroft Seed Gardens and Trial Grounds 



In order to get the best results from 

 our efforts, and make sure that customers 

 shall receive from ns the best seeds that 

 the world produces, we have for many 

 years maintained and carried on extensive 

 trials at our Floracroft Seed Gardens 

 and Trial Grounds, located about nine 

 miles from our city warehouses. All opera- 

 tions are under the personal direction and 

 management of one of our firm, who resides 

 there. Here are planted each season, for thor- 

 ough trial, samples of all " Novelties " 



offered by other seedsmen both in this country and 

 Europe, as well as anything which may be sent us, 

 claimed to be new and superior, by our amateur or 

 market garden customers. By this means we are en- 

 abled to satisfy ourselves of the true character and 

 value of any novelty before it can find a place in our 

 Catalogue. 



Many acres are also devoted to the production of 

 pedigree stock seed, from which the seeds we offer 

 are grown. We plant the best seeds obtainable ; 

 then go over the crop, plant by plant, carefully 

 " rogfueing" and destroying the inferior and select- 

 ing and saving only the best. This stock seed from 

 selected plants is sent to be grown on our farms in lo- 

 calities where the conditions of soil and climate are 

 best adapted to the perfect development of the partic- 

 ular variety. It is the product of such stock seed 

 only that we offer for sale. 



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 

 thoroughly tested, in mother earth, for vitality and 

 purity of stock, and only those of satisfactory 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. 



OUR DOUBLE SEED WAREHOUSES 



Located on the principal business street of Phila- 

 (■"elphia, Nos. 217 and 319 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 Seed business. Visitors are always welcome here, 

 as well as at Floracroft or at our various seed farms in 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other States. 



Don't get into the wrong store. Look out for 

 our name and number before entering. 



JOHNSON & STOKES, SEEDSMEN, 217 &. 219 MARKET ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



