ONE HUNDRED and 

 TWE NTY-EIGHTH 

 ANNUAL EDITION of 



Landreths' Seed Catalogue 



OLDEST SEED ESTABLISHMENT IN AMERICA 



One hundred and twenty-eight years is a very brief period in the flight of time, but an exceedingly- 

 long one in the history of any commercial establishment, as is proved by the fact that there are only forty 

 eommercial establishments in the whole United States yet remaining in the hands of children of the fouaderf 

 one hundred years ago. 



This statement is one of absolute record, for twenty years ago the President of the Landreth Seed 

 Co. conceived and organized the Association of Centenary Firms of the United States, which Association 

 now comprehends v/ithout a single exception every one-hundred-year-old house in this land, the oldest 

 being two hundred and twenty-one years since its establishment, and the youngest, lately admittedv oiie 

 feiimdred and two years since its foundation. 



It can easily be perceived that membership in such a society is one of great distinction, as nothing 

 like it is found in the whole world. 



The various Firm Titles since the organization of the Landreth business have been as follows: 



David Landreth, 1784. 

 David & CuTHBERT Landreth, 1790. 



David Landreth & Co., 1830. : 

 David Landreth & D. Landreth Munns, 1843. 

 David Landreth, 1845. 

 David Landreth &^SoN, I860; 



David Landreth & Sons, 1875. fr;r '.- ;v . ' ^ 



D, Landreth Seed Company, 1903. 



Various S^ed Farms. 



-4rch Street, Philadelphia 1784 



.........1789 



:.,.,....:i818 



1819 



1820 



1826 



Federal Street, 

 Garlic Hall, 

 The Meadows, 

 Fifth Street, 

 Gray's Ferry, 



Bloomsdale, Bucks Co., Pa 1847 



Ueedland, N. J . '. 1865 



Monaskon, Va 1871 



Granville, Va 1871 



Manitowoc, Wis 1873 



Various Seed Stores, 



Market Street, Philadelphia 1784 



Federal Street, " 1789 



Old Court House, " 1790 



Second Street, " 181C 



Charleston, S. C 1818 



Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 1820 



Sixth Street, " 1853 



St. Louis, Mo 1854 



Arch Street, Philadelphia 1878 



Market Street, " 1898 



Jamaica, L. I., N. Y 1899 



Those individuals of the Landreth family identified with the business have at various periods during 

 the one hundred and twenty-seven years past been : 



David Landreth, 1st, 

 CuTHBERT Landreth, 

 David Landreth, 2d, 

 Thomas Landreth, 

 Oliver Landreth, 

 Henry Hall Landreth, 



The present officers of the Seed Company are: 



Burnet Landreth, 

 Leopold Landreth, 

 W. Linton Landreth, 

 Burnet Landreth, Jr., 

 S. Phillips Landreth, 

 David Landreth, 5th. 



The Office, 

 J, Pennsylvania. 



Burnet Landreth, President; 

 Burnet Landreth, Jr., Treasurer; 

 S. Phillips Landreth, Secretary. 



