TO OUR PATRONS 



We again greet you on the opening of the New Year, hoping that it 

 will prove one of fruitfulness and prosperity to all. 



Although the past year has been fraught with many trials — a wide- 

 spread financial panic, in some sections di-ought, and again in others the 

 pestilence, that walketh by noonday, bringing death and sorrow into 

 many a happy household — yet we have occasion to render heartfelt 

 thanks to the Divine Dispenser of every good and perfect gift, who 

 never fails with each returning season to give us seedtime and harvest. 



We now have correspondents in nearly every city and hamlet in the 

 United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



Our aim has been, and will continue to be, to supply all our friends 

 and customers with pure and reliable seeds. How well we have suc- 

 ceeded is attested not only by the numerous unsolicited testimonials we 

 are daily receiving — a few of which we have taken the liberty of pub- 

 lishing on the next page — but also by the great annual increase of our 

 business in every department, including Vegetable and Flower Seeds, 

 Grass and Agricultural Seeds, Ornamental Plants, Evergreens, Bulbs, 

 Garden requisites, and every article appertaining to the Farm and 

 Garden. 



All the leading articles are grown on our own seed farms, or by com- 

 petent and responsible growers under our supervision. Such varieties 

 which it is found necessary to import are obtained from the most reliable 

 houses, with which we have been dealing many years. . Our object is to 

 come directly in contact with the farmer and gardener. 



And the facilities now offered for sending 



SEEDS BY MAIL, 



under the revised postal law, at the low rate of one cent for every two 

 ounces, enables us to send our seeds free to every post office in the 

 United States, with the exception of Beans, Corn, Peas, Potatoes, and 

 other bulky articles of little value, for which eight cents per pound, or 

 fifteen cents per quart, must be added in remitting the order to prepay 

 postage. 



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