CURRIE BROTHERS' 



Horticultural Guide 



FOR 



GARDEN AND'FARM 



SPRING NUflBER, 1895. 



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"\ XPERIENCE has fully demonstrated what we always firmly believed that we best serve ourselves by faithfully serving 

 "\ our customers. Noproof could be more conclusive than our continued success, and especially the great increase in our 

 business during the past year, notwithstanding the almost unprecedented universal depression of trade. BeiDg greatly 

 encouraged by the liberal patronage of our customers, whom we know to be our friends by their many kind words of 

 thanks, expressions of appreciation, flattering testimonials and hearty recommendations to acquaintances in our behalf. 

 We are stimulated to even greater efforts to serve them, and merit a continuance of their confidence and patronage. 

 In extending to all our heartfelt thanks for past favors we wish to emphasize the statement that we are in a better position than"' 

 ever, in every branch of our business to supply all the wants of our customers. We have earned the reputation of carrying only 

 first-class goods, and conducting our business with strict integrity. This reputation we are confident of maintaining, and we hope 

 Iby unremitting attention to business, careful consideration of the wishes of our customers, and our usual promptness in filling 

 — -rders to retain the patronage of old friends, and continue to add new customers to our lists. 



Read Carefully. — We respectfully direct attention to and solicit a careful perusal and study of our "Guide." This number 

 has been prepared with more than ordinary care that it may the better serve, not merely as a means of advertising our business 

 and cataloguing our goods, but as "The Cultivator's Handbook," a valuable book of reference for the assistance of the Farmer 

 and Gardener, whether professional or amateur. The best and most useful Vegetables, Flowers, Plants, Grains and Grasses, 

 new as well as standard — all of ivhich have been thoroughly tested and found adapted to and entirely reliable in our climate — are introduced, 

 and as fully described as the limited pages of our "Guide" will permit. Directions for their cultivation, aimed to meet the require- 

 ments of the several plants in our latitude, are given, which may be followed with confidence, a few changes in time of sowing 

 seeds and planting, according to locality, being of course left to the judgment of the cultivator. In the case of flower seeds, 

 partly to economize space, but particularly to make it more convenient for the gardener, we give full cultural instructions on each 

 seed packet. In the descriptions we endeavor to set forth honestly the merits of the several plants and sundry merchandise, 

 and the numerous illustrations are designed to be faithful representations as free from exaggeration as possible. In this con- 

 nection we wish to say to those of our readers who are not yet acquainted with us, that all the members of our firm are practical 

 horticulturists. In all branches of the profession we had had a thorough practical experience previous to the establisment of our 

 business twenty years ago. The lessons we then learnt, and the knowledge we have gathered through all these years are of 

 inesteemable value to ourselves, and to our customers, who are continually reaping the benefits in all their dealings with us. ,_ j 



A GLANCE AT OUR BUSINESS. 



Turning over the leaves of our "Guide" our readers will discover we deal in Everything for the Garden — Seeds, Bulbs, 

 Plants, Flowers, Fertilizers, Implements and all Garden Requisites. We can only add that we carry large stocks of everything, 

 and we warrant them all to be of the very best quality. 



OUR ESTABLISHMENTS are: Seed Store, Wholesale and Retail, 312 Broadway; Flower Store, 108 Wisconsin Street; 

 Greenhouses, corner of State and Twenty-seventh Streets. 



OUR SEED DEPARTTIENT. 



This department is managed by a member of the firm who has had many years of practical experience in this line of business, 

 and who devotes his whole time, thought and energy to this special trade and the interest of our customers. His assistants were 

 ill carefully chosen, and are men of ability, who thoroughly understand the business, and are strictly reliable. 



Reliable Seeds, How Obtained. — The experienced cultivator is never troubled about this matter. During the years in which/ 

 e has been engaged in his business he has become acquainted with all the prominent seedsmen at least, and has learned in whom 

 1 can place confidence, either through direct dealings with them, or by reputation. But the gardener or farmer who is making 

 first venture, perhaps, yet is aware of the importance of securing good and reliable seed, is sometimes at a loss where to senc 

 t. From him we respectfully solicit a trial order, in the full confidence that we can give him entire satisfaction and secur< 

 pture patronage. ' 



'lS gardeners and florists, being born in the business, we early learned the value of a good seed and the utter worthlessnes, 

 I bad one. As seedsmen, therefore of nearly twenty years' standing, we are enabled to appreciate the importance of dealing 

 only in good seeds, so that our customers shall get just what we would be anxious to secure were we the buyers instead of the\ 

 sellers. 



