New Creations in Fruits and Flowers. 



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brawn of presidents, authors, actors and laborers alike. Since that was pro- 

 duced many eyes have been brightened, many homes made more charming, 

 and many markets and tables more tempting by the fruits and flowers which 

 have been born on my experimental grounds, and there is not a land on this 

 broad earth which has not in some measure been influenced by them. 



A love for the work has always been the great incentive through the many 

 years of study, with the added pleasure of knowing how rapidly many of my 

 introductions are becoming popular, among which may be mentioned Sweet 

 Botan, Burbank, Satsuma, and a dozen or more other Plums which are proving 

 to be hardy and productive in northern New England and even at Ontario, 

 Canada. The Sieboldi and Sieboldi cordiformis Walnuts, which have lately 

 proved themselves able to endure a temperature of twenty-five degrees below 

 zero without a trace of injury, the Japan Mammoth Chestnut, Accacia Molis- 

 sima Florabunda and some of the best Gladiolus, Clematis, Lilies and Roses 

 known, some introduced directly, and some by other firms. The Quinces 

 which I offer are in all respects the greatest advance ever made in improving 

 this fruit, combining the best of every good qualit}^ known in the Quince with 

 size, beauty, tenderness and flavor never before attained. 



The endless labor bestowed in hybridizing, selecting, testing, etc., is now 

 being more generally recognized, and the fruits and flowers originated by my 

 labors are becoming household words wherever fruits and flowers are admired. 



The six hundred thousand hybrid and cross-bred seedling berry plants 

 which lam growing and more than half a million hybrid seedling Lilies are 

 producing profound surprise and admiration, and from the vast chaos of com- 

 mingled species forms have been created and segregated which will produce 

 great and unsuspected changes in fruit and flower culture. 



When I mention, for instance, a Raspberry of largest size which ripens 

 before Strawberries, before Raspberries bloom and before Blackberries show a 

 leaf or bud, some idea may be formed of some of the tremendous changes 

 which will be produced in berry culture. The best, after a most exhaustive and 

 careful trial, will be introduced from time to time. 



The above does not even outline the work which is being accomplished on 

 my experimental grounds, onh^ having mentioned two or three of many 

 thousand horticultural acquisitions w^hich only a few years ago were thought 

 to be utterly impossible. I am often asked " Why not introduce them your- 

 self? " My time is so wholly occupied in their production that I cannot well 

 attend to their introduction. It is plainly impossible to produce, test and 

 introduce so many of them as my grounds are annually turning out; therefore, 

 I offer all the stock in existence carrying with it the complete control of each 

 new creation at the extremely low prices quoted in this circular. 



The sale of these novelties has generally been by correspondence, or more 

 lately b}^ members or agents of the larger firms visiting my grounds to select 

 and purchase such as seemed to offer the greatest results for themselves and 



