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The rounding of six decades in the history of an estab- 

 lishment which has grown from small beginnings to an 

 extent far beyond the ideals of its founder, affords a 

 proper occasion for both reminiscence and 

 forecast. It may be compared with the acorn 

 buried in kindly ground which has become a 

 beneficent oak, the finest type of endurance 

 and usefulness. 



If, as we are told, that man is blessed who causes two 

 blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, 

 certainly he is a benefactor of humanity, in the highest 

 sense, whose daily task it is to put into the hands of the 

 tillers of the soil the means to wrest from nature the 

 choicest products of her fields. 



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The corporation engaged in business under the honored 

 name of the late Henry A. Dreer presents the following 

 anniversary pages to its numerous and widely scattered 



patronage, as a supplement to the annual 



catalogue for the year J 898, confident that 



this souvenir will be found interesting and 



that it will prove a friendly agency in 



securing to a still larger degree that confidence which the concern has so long enjoyed 



among its great army of customers, whose varied requirements it is always the highest 



ambition of this house to serve. 



Prepared by 



FRANK H. TAYLOR, 



Artist and Publisher, 



Philadelphia. 



