OUR NURSERY. 
Although we are annually increasing our planting of trees and vines, we find the 
yearly supply suitable tor our trade far from being sufficient to meet the demands of 
our rapidly increasing business ; but having access to the several nuraeries in our 
immediate vicinity, where only a wholesale trade is done, we usually contract for the 
cream or for 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 othere, but we do claim that, quality of stock 
considered (with the care we exercise in packing and delivering), we are not under- 
sold by any responsible concern. We claim that whenever 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 em- 
ployees, 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 be honest and trustworthy. 
By dealing with us through them you are assured of receiving your stock in good 
condition, and our oft repeated " Please give your orders to our agents " is intended as 
much for your benefit and satisfaction as for ours. 
Very respectfully, 
R. Q. CHASE & CO. 
NURSERY AND PACKING GROUNDS AT GENEVA, N. Y. 
BALES OFFICES-OENEVA, N. Y. PHILADELPHIA, PA. BOSTON, MASS. 
