A PEACE GREETING. 
the moment of going to press we are thrilled with the glorious news of 
the cessation of hostilities, the signing of an armistice, and the prospect of 
a victorious and lasting peace, after the greatest of all world-wars. 
Conscious of the fact that these pages travel to every part of the 
British Dominions over the seas, as well as to many parts of our Allies’ 
cannot refrain from communicating by these means our deep-felt congratu- 
our friends. 
\Yc recall the fact that four years ago, when autocratic militarism threatened to cut off 
the mother country from her brethren across the seas, we predicted that the British Fleet 
would keep open the highways across the ocean and enable us to maintain the necessary 
supplies of seeds to all the far-distant shores where we have for so many years contributed 
to the necessities of farms and gardens alike, and our predictions have been realised. 
With peace in sight we predict that England will continue to play its part as the 
nursery and home of the best seeds, alike for food and for flowers. "1 he best iood- 
producing seeds because of the highly-selected strains proved to yield more in quantity 
and better in quality, year by year, as the work of hybridizing and selecting proceeds — 
a work which has no limit ; and by the same processes to introduce new strains of 
Flowers, rich in their abundance and variety of colour and fragrance, to beautify the 
surroundings and homes of our friends in all climes. 
England will continue to play her part, and we give place to no one in the im- 
portance we attach to this method of utilising the forces of nature for the pleasure and 
benefit of all classes in all countries — a striking contrast to the way the Central Powers 
have prostituted the forces of nature in directing them to the destruction of all that is 
beautiful. 
BY THESE MEANS WE SHALL HELP ENGLAND TO GAIN AND 
DISTRIBUTE THE FRUITS OF PEACE. 
We close this greeting to our numerous friends at home and abroad in the words 
of four years ago : “ THE EMPIRE FOR EVER ! ” 
JAMES CARTER & CO. 
