INTRODUCTION. 
V. 
OVR NURSERY. 
Although we are aunually 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 of 
some of the best blocks, and of such particular varieties as our trade is likely to demand, 
months before the digging season, so we are able to fill our orders, let them be ever so 
numerous, with the best the market aflbrds. 
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 tliat 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 per centage of the trees planted in the country are grown within fifty miles 
of Geneva, demonstrates that this section is well adapted to the business. And, 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. 
Wilh few exceptions our canvassers belong to our regular force of salaried employees, 
and self interest, as well as regard for the public, prompts and compels us to employ 
only men that we have good reason to believe to be honest and trustwortliy. By 
dealing with us through them, you are assured of receiving your stock in good condi- 
tion, 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. G. t3HASE efe CO. 
Branch Offices— BOSTON, MASS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
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