INTRODUCTORY 
It gives us great pleasure to again greet our friends and customers, old and new, and 
to be able to announce that we have an exceptionally desirable stock of fruit trees and plants 
to offer for the coming delivery season. The past season has been favorable for growth and 
our stock is far above the average in quality. 
Keeping in mind that for the amateur as well as the large commercial growers a few 
of the best tested varieties are better than a large assortment of doubtful ones, we have 
discarded from our lists and discontinued growing many varieties we have found to be worth- 
less or undesirable. Our list may not be as long as some but our aim has been to grow and 
offer only varieties of real merit. These include the old varieties that have proven them- 
selves worthy and new varieties that promise to prove productive and profitable for the 
planter. 
We are much better equipped than ever before to handle our increasing business, hav- 
ing frost proof storage cellars covering over 8000 square feet so that we can safely store 
much of our stock through the winter and do much of our handling and packing under cover. 
We have 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 
wets practically all the valuable root system, a great advantage, leaving the trees in much 
Setter shape for successful planting 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 advantages 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. We 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 frbm New 
Haven 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 extensively to come in 
person and see us. But customers wishing to buy of us should not wait till the busy pack- 
ing 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, BROTHERS NURSERY CO., Incorporated 
YAUESVILLE, CONNECTICUT 
