JOHN D. long. 
ELIAS A. LONG. 
DANIEL B. LONG. 
LONG BROTHERS' 
FLO RI CULTURAL 
ESTABLISHMENT, 
LOCATED AT BUFFALO, N. Y* 
City Depot anu Shf.u Store, 4.10 Main St. Greenhouses, at Park Entrance, near Main St. 
THE FORWARDING OF PLANTS, BULBS, SEEDS, ETC., 
BY MAIL AND EXPRESS, A SPECIALTY. 
It affords us pleasure 10 state, in the present Catalogue, that our trade in supplying amateur and other culti- 
vators throughout our country, as well as Canada, Nova Scotia, and other adjacent foreign countries, with Plants, 
Seeds, etc., is growing steadily and rapidly. For the past two years, our success in this branch of our business 
has been extraordinary, we may say, not only as regards a marked increase in number of patrons, but also in the 
uniformly good results which have attended the forwarding of stock— especially Plants by Hail and Express- to 
CllltOmeri, This branch receives the constant, watchful attention of one of the proprietors, and we feel that the 
results alluded to, are but a natural outgrowth incident to the great amount of labor and thought which has been 
expended, in systematizing and improving its working throughout, and in studying what kinds and varieties of 
stock woidd prove most satisfactory to purchasers. More is said of this matter of choiccuess of kinds, on another 
page, as we deem this a subject of moment to all buyers who make selections from catalogues. 
That live growing Plant* are susceptible of being packed so perfectly, and at the same lime sufficiently com- 
pact, to carry with safety to the most extreme parts of America, that arc reached by railroads, seems strange to 
many persons who have never given the matter a trial. But that this is possible, and to a most satisfactory 
degree to recipients, is practically demonstrated almost continually, throughout the entire year, at our establish- 
ment. Wc frequently forward between loo and 300 packages, alone, of Greenhouse and Hardy Plants by Mail 
daily in the spring months, some of them to points thousands of miles distant, and so nnexccptionnlly successful 
ban tiur present improved mode of packing proven itself, that although for years we have advertised and still 
Continue most emphatically to GUARANTEE the SAFE ARRIVAL of PLANTS by MAIL and EXPRESS, 
in good condition, and arc pleased in all cases to make such guarantee entire!} satisfactory, yet less than a score 
of reports have been received annually in the past few years in which it has been slated that Plants were received in 
bad shape, and in these the causes were frequently attributable to something which had transpired after the Plants 
had left us, and consequently beyond our control. In these few cases wc have most cheerfully refilled the orders, 
to the full satisfaction of the persons who ordered. On the olher hand, wc arc, every year, made the recipients of 
hundreds of verbal and written testimonials from those who receive stock from us, in which they attest, in warm 
terms of praise, to the fine quality of the articles sent, and the excellent condition in which they reached them. 
Wc lake the liberty of devoting a few pages of a pamphlet that accompanies our Catalogue, to printing some of 
* Buffalo is situated on Lake Erie, at the head of Niagara River. It 15425 miles nearly west from New York. 
Rochester, N. Y., is a neighboring city, 69 miles cast, on the New York Central Railroad. 
