To Our Patrons 
Again we thank you for the orders you have 
entrusted to our care, for the many expres- 
sions of confidence in our trees and plants 
and methods of dealing. In no other business 
is the responsibility to the customer so great, 
the opportunities for error so many. The 
close supervision necessary to prevent mis- 
takes in filling orders, seeing that they are 
properly packed and shipped — and at the same 
time write a few hundred letters a day, plant 
out hundreds of thousands of seedlings and 
small plants, give older trees and plants the 
attention they need at the proper time — 
makes the life of the nursery man and his 
assistants a pretty strenuous one for a few 
months during a shipping season. 
If your letters are not answered promptly 
or as fully as usual at this time, remember 
we are working fifteen to eighteen hours a day 
and do not have time to write long letters, 
give directions for fruit culture, or give such 
information as may be asked in regard to cul- 
tivation of trees and plants that we othei'wise 
would be glad to. 
To enable us to do our shipping more 
rapidly and better, we have built this 
season at the cost of many thousand dol- 
lars, a frost proof storage, assembling and 
packing building, with a capacity, 150 per 
cent greater than our former large storage 
buildings. 
This new building is most modern and up- 
to-date for the purpose intended and is 
equipped with complete water, electric light- 
ing, and ventilating systems and mechanical 
means of handling heavy packages easily and 
rapidly. 
We have increased our office room iu as 
great a proportion as we have our packing 
and shipping facilities, so that we can do that 
work with greater comfort and convenience. 
This growth in our business is the best proof 
of the quality of our stock and the trust- 
worthiness of our methods. 
J. NORRIS BARNES 
The above is a good picture of J. Norris 
Barnes, Treasurer of our Company. He was 
one of the pioneers in peach growing in New 
England, and has always been actively inter- 
ested in anj'thing tending to promote the 
fruitgrowing interests of Connecticut. He is 
now President of the Connecticut Pomological 
Society, an organization of 1,000 Fruit Grow- 
ers in Southern New England. 
Our New Packing and Storage Building Looking from the Northwest 
