During our whole career as nurserymen we never knew a time when the 

 outlook for the fruit-growers was so bright and promising. Owing to meager 

 profits for years past, many owners throughout the country have neglected 

 their berry fields, vineyards and orchards, allowing them to become unfruit- 

 ful ; for the same reason but little planting, compared with former years, 

 has been done. This being the case the supply of fruit must be decreased, 

 and as we are undoubtedly entering an epoch of unprecedented national 

 prosperity, the demand cannot fail to be great. In addition to the short 

 supply and great demand remains the fact that experiments in the use of 

 fungicides and insecticides, with improved apperatus for applying them, 

 enables the fruit-grower to produce better fruit, more of it, and with greater 

 certainty than in the past. Therefore can any one doubt that during the 

 next two or three years at least prices of fruits will rule high, and the grower 

 will realize the returns for his ceaseless energy, care, watchfulness and 

 industry, that he always should, but too often in the past has not ? 



Times certainly change, and if we would keep abreast with the times we 

 must change with it. This surely applies to nurserymen as well as to others. 

 We believe that the people of America possess as much enterprise, energy 

 and enthusiasm now as at any time during its history; but we also believe 

 fruit-growers and owners of private gardens are more practical than of yore, 

 and for this reason will no longer pay a dollar a plant for a valuable new 

 strawberry, or five dollars a vine for a promising grape, without hesitation, 

 as they did thirty years ago. Realizing this we have put the prices of our 

 many choice new sorts in keeping with the times; although we have by 

 actual trial proved all of them to be of intrinsic merit. 



Never before has it been our good fortune to possess for dissemination 

 novelties to be compared in value to those we now offer. Attention is es- 

 pecially invited to Lovett's Best Blackberry, the most valuable small fruit 

 that has been introduced is a decade, Childs' Tree or Topsy Blackberry, 

 Beebe, the marvel in productiveness and size, Lovett's Early, the best early 

 and the most profitable of all varieties, and Iowa Beauty, the most beautiful 

 Strawberry, Lovett or $1000.00, the finest and most valuable of all black- 

 caps, Older and Kansas Raspberries, Japanese Wineberry, Lincoln Plum, 

 Ruby Gem and Glowing Coal Apples, Lovett's White and other Peaches, 

 Centennial Cherry, Hardy Orange, Fuller Quince, Japan Walnuts, Ice King 

 Primrose, Turkey's Beard, Red Flowering Cornel, Everblooming Spiraeas 

 and Weigelas, Japan Roses, etc., and those named on preceding pages. 



