I&KEVIEW 
For more than twenty years I have been engaged in gardening 
and seed growing. My experience in gardening has been very 
useful to me in growing seeds. It has given me a practical 
knowledge of the great variety of vegetables grown at the present 
time, and has taught me that good seed lies at the foundation of 
all successful gardening. I have also learned another important 
fact, that good seed can be grown only from the best stocks. 
Every gardener of experience knows that for seed to be reliable 
and produce satisfactory crops, it must not merely come up well, 
but it must be from pure and high grade stock. It is with plants 
as with animals, pedigree tells. 
Good seed cannot be produced from inferior stocks, nor can 
good stock be secured without careful and constant selection of 
the best types. This I have been doing for years. My aim has 
been to improve, by a careful selection of the most perfect types 
of the different vegetables, all the seeds I grow. In raising seed 
I never use the whole crop as grown, but only the best are used. 
Though I may set out hundreds of bushels of onions for seed, 
EVERY ONION IS HAND PICKED ; 
every cabbage head for seed is carefully selected in the field 
where grown ; only the best and purest types of beets are used 
for seed, and the same can be said of all my other seeds. The re- 
sult is, that my strains of onions, cabbages, carrots, etc., are not 
excelled by any grown anywhere. 
But such seeds cannot be raised as cheaply as seed that is raised 
from pickling onions or scallions ; from unsalable, soft-head cab- 
bage, and from stock generally which is too poor to sell, any 
more than a Kentucky thoroughbred horse can be raised as 
cheaply as a wild mustang. Asa rule what costs but little is 
worth but little. The best, though it costs more in the beginning, 
is always 
THE CHEAPEST IN THE END. 
My efforts to produce and sell only the best seed have met with 
a generous and gratifying response from my customers and friends. 
My orders and sales have largely increased each year. During 
the past season I have enlarged my seed house and increased mv 
facilities for filling my orders with promptness and dispatch. 
Another advantage which I can fairly claim for my seeds arises 
from my location near the northern boundary of the United 
States. It is generally conceded that Northern grown seeds, with 
few exceptions, will produce earlier and more sat sifactory crops 
than seeds grown further south, or where the season of growth is 
longer. As a rule, seeds of quick growth and maturity are the 
best adapted to our climate. This fact has made Rochester one 
of the great seed growing centers of the country. There is great 
advantage in 
BUYING SEED OF THE GROWER.. 
Only those who grow their own seeds can know that their seeds 
are f resh and pure. The seed dealer may take the greatest care 
in selecting Ms stock of seeds, and, after all, he may be imposed 
upon by those of whom he buys, either in the pm ity or age of his 
seeds. But he who grows his own seeds knows for a certainty 
just what the character of his seed is. Seeds can now be so 
cheaply sent by mail or express to the most distant parts of the 
country, that gardeners and others can procure fresh seeds direct 
from the grower, as cheap and often cheaper than they can get 
commission seeds at country stores. 
Lakeview Seed Farm is situated on the Ridge Road just north 
of the City of Rochester and three miles from Lake Ontario. It 
is easily reached from the city by taking the horse cars on State 
street labeled " Lake Ave. to Ridge Road," which run nearly to 
my farm. I shall be glad to welcome my customers at any time 
during the growing season, and have them inspect mv method of 
growing seeds, 
