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Trial grounds and greenhouses at Moorestown, N. J. 



Personal to My Friends and Customers 



T>ear Friend: 



If you have not already joined the "Stokes* Standard" happy family of Seed 

 Buyers, I am confidently expecting that you will do so this year. My Catalogue for 

 1 909 is "different" from others in many ways, and I think its plain, straightforward 

 descriptions and honest illustrations and directions for culture will insure me an order 

 from every Catalogue issued. Every seed listed must stand a rigid test and give a 

 good account of itself before it can presume to jom the "Stokes' Standard" family. 



There is Honest Endeavor back of every seed sent out, and Honest Endeavor 

 back of the service to get them to you promptly and in the best of order, and an 

 Honest Desire to give you a Square Deal on every purchase. I know what it means 

 to get fooled with poor seed when you are looking for a big crop, and it does not do 

 merely to mean well. The successful seedsman must know and understand his busi- 

 ness from top to bottom, and know that his employees are efficient and reliable. 



Novelties and Specialties for 1909 



The novelties and specialties annually offered by seedsmen should be of great interest to progressive gardeners, no 

 matter how many old favorites they may have among the standard varieties. I am careful, in this department, to try 

 to offer nothing but varieties, not only of real merit, but those that are an advance in quality or productiveness over the 

 standard varieties that are already well known, or such as have been highly recommended by specialists or gardeners 

 in whom I have confidence. I believe you will not be disappointed in any of the novelties herein offered. 



I am always glad to receive samples of any new, rare or superior varieties of garden or flower seeds from my customers, 

 and will give them a careful test at my Floracroft Trial Grounds and report results at the end of the season. 



Yours for the best garden on earth, 

 ,909 WALTER P. STOKES 



