OUR NURSERY. 
Although we are annually increasing our planting of trees and vines, we find the 
yearly supply suitable for our trade far from being sufficient to meet the demands of our 
rapidly increasing business ; but having access to the several nurseries in our immediate 
vicinity, where only a wholesale trade is done, we usually contract for the cream or some 
of the best blocks, and of such particular varieties as our trade is likely to demand, months 
before the shipping season, so we are able to fill our orders, let them be ever so numerous, 
with the best the market affords. 
We do not claim to sell cheaper than others, but we do claim that, quality of stock 
considered, (with the care we exercise in packing and delivering), we are not undersold by 
any responsible concern. We claim that wherever Geneva trees have been fairly compared 
with trees from Eastern or Southern nurseries they have plainly shown their superiority. 
The reason of this is to be found, not only in the increased care and attention which 
competition always brings and the improvements which experience suggests, but in the 
fact that^-First, our soil is sufficiently strong to grow trees without the application of 
strong fertilizers. Second, our climate is so natural for producing healthy timber that a 
tree attains the age of three or four years perfectly healthy, and with vitality enough to be 
transplanted into the most fickle climate with perfect safety. 
Western New York is pre-eminently suited for growing healthy trees, and the fact that 
a large percentage of the trees planted in the country are grown within fifty miles of 
Geneva, demonstrates that this section is well adapted to the business. If it were not, 
nurserymen would go elsewhere to grow their stock — where land is cheaper, and help not 
in such demand. Every section in the country is suited for something, some for sweet 
potatoes, others for tobacco. Geneva is the place for raising young trees. 
A WORD ABOUT OUR CANVASSING AGENTS. 
With few exceptions our canvassers belong to our regular force of salaried employes, 
and self interest, as well as regard for the public, prompts and compels us to employ only 
men whom we have good reason to believe to he honest and trustworthy. By dealing with 
us through them, you are assured of receiving your stock in good condition, and our oft re- 
peated "please give your orders to our agents," is intended as much for your benefit and- 
satisfaction as for ours. 
Very respectfully, 
R. G. CHASE A CO. 
NURSERY AND PACKING GROUNDS AT GENEVA, N. Y. 
SALES OFFICES-GENEVA. N. Y. 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
BOSTON, MASS. 
