INTRODUCTORY 
It gives us great pleasure to greet our friends and customers, and we wish to thank 
those who have so kindly and hberally patronized us in the past. The many acknowledge- 
ments by letter of entire satisfaction with stock received by customers the past season 
were quite gratifying. 
It is not our ambition to do an immense wholesale nursery business but rather to carry 
on a carefully conducted retail trade, making sure that every customer is well served and 
given full value for his money. 
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 Usts 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 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 
gets practically all the valuable root system, a great advantage, leaving the trees in much 
better 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 sohcit trade. 
It is not common that nurserymen have and control, personally, in 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. 
Our entire time from boyhood has been given to growing fruits, trees and plants. 
Having only limited capital and Uttle experience 'we started in a small way, feeling our 
way along and trying each year to increase our business. We have given close personal 
attention to our business, aided by competent and experienced foremen, and now we have 
over 1,000 acres in this state used in our business and having thereon peach orchards con- 
taining sixty to seventy thousand trees and of apples about five thousand trees, the re- 
mainder being devoted to small fruits, nursery stock and general farm operations. 
We are on the main line of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., about twenty miles from 
Hartford, fifteen miles from New Haven and three miles from Meriden, and are also con- 
nected by trolley with these cities. We have a long side-track next to our packmg house 
which we use to great advantage in shipping. We are equipped to handle and do much of 
our packing under cover and if the planter does his part faithfully when he receives his 
order, success with our stock is certainly assured. 
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 yvould be 
glad to It is far better to engage eariy 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 '>5 cents or less, and from long distance points at reasonable rates. Correspondence 
soUcited. Letters, lists for estimates and inquiries concermng anything in our line will 
be promptly and carefully attended to. 
To fully satisfy every customer that his interests are carefully considered when he 
entrusts his orders here, is our earnest ambition. 
THE BARNES BROTHERS NURSERY COMPANY, Incorporated 
YALESVILLE, CONNECTICUT 
