Spring, 1900.. 
E. W. REID 
ALFRED JERVIS 
Greetings and Announcements . 
E have pleasure in again presenting to our many friends and patrons our new Cata- 
logue for the Spring of 1900. We desire especially to thank those who continue with us 
year after year, and assure them that it is a source of great satisfaction yearly to hear 
from so many old customers such expressions of praise for the quality of stock we supply. 
We ask prospective customers to carefully examine our Catalogue. We have many desir- 
able new and old varieties of fruits that ought to find a place with every lover of good fruit. 
Our stock is entirely healthy, and second to none: well-grown, smooth, with plenty of 
fibrous roots, is budded or grafted entirely on whole roots, and, with ordinary care in planting, cannot 
fail to be a success. Owing to the large and increasing demand for our stock last season, we were com- 
pelled again to enlarge our facilities for handling it. We have erected one of the largest stone storage- 
cellars in the nursery trade. This will enable us to handle more orders with the same promptness, and, 
as it is absolutely frost-proof, we can fill orders in the most unfavorable weather. 
Buyers will do well to place their orders early this season. There is a scarcity of stock for spring 
delivery, together with a large demand for stock to replace that injured by the severe winter of last year. 
This, with the heavy advance in all material used in the nursery trade, has caused a considerable advance 
in prices over those of last season. We have placed our rates as low as good reliable stock, well-graded, 
can be supplied for, and will stand comparison with any reliable nursery that aims to please and give the 
same satisfaction,— about half the price you would pay an agent, who has no responsibility. To prevent 
disappointment, always buy and receive stock that you can depend upon, direct from the grower, whose 
chief interest is a satisfied customer, who can, in turn, recommend our stock as being just as described. Our 
success has depended more on this than on anything else, and we ascribe our past yearly increase in 
business to our many patrons, who are ever ready to bear testimony to the high grade of stock we supply. 
Fop the protection of all OUP patpons, we have had our Nurseries inspected by the State Ento- 
mologist, who issued the following certificate, showing that our stock and premises are entirely free 
from all obnoxious insects or diseases: 
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F. M. Webster, M.Sc., Entomologist. 
Chas. E. Thorne, Director. $ 
No. 70. 
C. W. Mallay, M.Sc., Assistant. 
The 0bio Agricultural Experiment Station, 
WOOSTER, WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. 
Bridgeport , Ohio, October 26, J899. 
ENTOMOLOGIST’S CERTIFICATE OF NURSERY INSPECTION. 
This Certificate is invalid after June 1, 1900. 
F. M. WEBSTER, 
This is to certify that the growing nursery stock and premises of the REID’S NURSERIES, situated at 
Upland, Ohio, have been inspected by a duly accredited inspector , and that no indications have been found 
of the presence o{ San Jest, Scale or other dangerously injurious insect or plant disease. 
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Entomologist of Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, t 
Please notice the change in post office address. Owing to the decision of the Post Office 
Department to open an office in proximity to the Nurseries, for the better accommodation of mail matter 
here, we would be pleased to have you kindly change our post office address to UPLAND, BELMONT 
COUNTY, OHIO, instead of BRIDGEPORT, OHIO. This is not a change of location, as we are still in 
the same place, but an effort of the Postal Department to give us better mail facilities. 
We SOlIeit COPPespondenee from all large buyers; our advice is always ready for the asking. We 
have every appliance for the handling of large orders, with a complete and superior stock. These are 
worth consideration in placing orders. 
Hoping to be favored with your patronage, and assuring you of our best attention to orders, we are, 
Yours faithfully, 
E. W. REID’S NURSERIES, 
Belmont County, UPLAND, OHIO. 
