INTRODUCTORY 
WE take pleasure in presenting this new Catalogue to our friends and customers, old 
and new, and in preparing it we have kept in mind that a few good varieties are bet- 
ter than a large assortment of doubtful ones, consequently have discarded from our 
lists many varieties we have found to be worthless. Wc aim to grow and offer only 
varieties of merit; these include the old and tried varieties that have proven themselves 
worthy and new varieties that promise to prove productive and prolitable. 
We are much better equipped than ever before to handle our increasing business. 
Within the last year we have been incorporated under the laws of this State vvith a capital 
and equipment such as is necessary for carrying on successfully and economically all the 
details of a large nursery business. We have the past season added largely to our storage 
capacity by building a frost proof cellar, 50x100 foet, which with the cellar storage we had 
previous to this, gives us ample room to store our stock through the winter. The expe- 
rience of the past justifies us in this outlay, as we have found that much nursery stock, es- 
pecially peach trees, is greatly injured the first winter by severe cold, often killing back the 
tops to the snow line. We now dig and store our peach trees and much other stock through 
the winter and by our system of storing them, they come out in the spring, bright, fresh, 
uninjured and in the best of condition. There may be firms not equipped with storage 
cellars who scoff at the wisdom of storing stock through the winter. We have planted in 
our orchards thousands of trees of both kinds, trees stored and trees wintered outside, and 
we know the stored trees are the best; they have more vitality than those subjected to the 
severe freezing of winter. 
We ha\-e as nice a lot of Peach and Apple trees as were ever grown in a nursery, straight, 
clean, handsome trees, well rooted and all right in every way. We have made a specialty 
for years of growing these trees and it has become a science with us and a matter of pride 
to produce the best that can be grown. We dig our trees with a machine digger which 
gets practically all the valuable root system, a great advantage, leaving the trees in much 
better shape for successful jjlanting than by the old way of digging trees by hand. We 
spend much time and care in grading our stock, making several different and distinct grades 
to meet and suit the varying demands of our customers. 
We have two large fumigating houses and fumigate all stock sent out with Hydro- 
cyanic acid gas, as an effective safeguard. Entomologist's certificate of inspection accom- 
panies shipments. 
We employ skilled and experienced help in digging, handling and packing our stock, 
giving it constant personal supervision and every known precaution is taken to have all 
stock true to label and handled and packed in such a way as to reach the customer in the 
best condition. 
We think we have superior ad\'anta.ges over many of our competitors who solicit trade. 
It is not common that nurserymen have and control, personally, m conjunction with their 
nursery work, large orchards of bearing trees. We have been doing this for some years 
and are pleased to say that when we speak of our trees being true to name we mean just 
that. Wc cannot do more on our part, and if the railroads do their part in promptly trans- 
porting shipments, and the planter does his part faithfully when he receives his order, suc- 
cess with our stock is certainly assured. 
We are on the main line of the N. Y.. N. H. & H. R. R., about fifteen miles from New 
Ha\-en and twenty miles from Hartford, and about three miles from Meriden, with which 
we have trolley connection. We have a long side-track next to our packing house which 
we use to great advantage in shipping. 
We are glad to have our friends and customers come and inspect our plant and our 
stock and see how and where we conduct our business. Visitors are welcome and where 
practicable we think it often more satisfactory to those who buy extensi\'ely to come in 
person and see us. But customers wishing to buy of us should not wait till the busy pack- 
inc season when our time is too much taken up to give them the attention we would be 
glad to. It is far better to engage early what is wanted, before our lists of varieties are 
broken up and depleted. You can call us up by telephone from any point in Connecticut, 
for 25 cents or less, and from long distance points at reasonable rates. Correspondence 
solicited. Letters, lists for estimates and inquiries concerning anything in our line will 
be promptly and carefully attended to. 
Our reputation rests on fair dealing and the intelligent handling of our business, and 
it is our desire to supply stock of all kinds which is absolutely first class in every particular. 
We grow these varieties here in our nursery and if ordered before supply is exhausted we 
can supply our customers with their choice of stock, that will surely prove both pleasing 
and profitable. Our list of customers is greatly increasing every year and we thank all 
those who have favored us with their orders in the past and confidently trust for a contin- 
uance of their patronage, 
THE BARNES BROTHERS NtJRSERY CO., Incorporated 
TALESVILLE, CONNECTICUT 
