Dreer's Garden Calendar. 



TO OUR PATRONS. 



( | T gives us pleasure at this season to present to you Dreer's 

 /! Garden Calendar for 1877, revised and enlarged — revised to 

 j"- improve on that already accomplished ; enlarged to. present more 

 fully articles appertaining to the business. It is not our intention in these 

 opening remarks to tire you by enlarging on the superiority of Dreer's 

 Garden Seeds, as results have satisfied you more fuily than words 

 ever can. During the thirty-nine years they have been planted by you, 

 the yearly increased demand and the continued favor which they 

 meet is an evidence that the care exercised in selecting stock of 

 undoubted purity and vitality has not been in vain. 



We do not profess to grow all the seeds sold by us, as reasonable 

 persons, after a moment's reflection, will acknowledge that to develop 

 seeds to perfection it requires for each variety different soils and cli- 

 matic influences, as well as experts in selecting such stock. We have 

 perfect arrangements to contract with growers of specialties, whereby 

 the yearly stock seed is furnished, and we obtain the entire crop of 

 such articles ; for example, Cabbage and Turnip seed mature more 

 fully when located near salt water, where they can have moist sea 

 breezes during the critical time of setting ; Sugar Corn, to secure the 

 saccharine matter in the grain and develop its character, requires the 

 even, cool season of the New England States ; Peas and Beans, that are 

 subjected to attacks of insects, and require moisture, are raised on the 

 Lakes ; Melon and vine seeds, requiring light, sandy soil, are given 

 these favored sections; Egg-plant Seed, Pepper Seed and Lima Beans, 

 requiring a long season, are grown farther South ; Cauliflower, Broccoli 

 and Corn Salad, and seeds of like character, are imported from the most 

 reliable growers of Europe. The American grown seeds receive our 

 personal inspection in addition to the trials given on our sample beds, 

 where their quality is continually looked into. 



We have been honored, during the past summer, by visits from our 

 numerous customers scattered over the country from Maine to Mexico, 

 Oregon to Florida, and even as far as the Cape of Good Hope and 

 Japan. We have known many by their style of correspondence, and 

 it gave us especial pleasure to shake them by the hand. The .seeds- 

 man is placed on a different level from other merchants from the fact 

 of his whole reputation resting upon the quality of the seeds furnished, 



