Floracroft Seed Gardens 
and Trial Grounds 
In order to get the best results from our efforts, and 
make sure that customers shall receive from us the best seeds 
that the world produces, we have for many years maintained 
and carried on extensive trials at our Floracroft Seed Gar- 
dens and Trial Grounds, located about nine miles from our 
city warehouses. All operations are under the personal di- 
rection and management of one of our firm, who resides 
there. Here are planted each season, for thorough trial, 
samples of all "Novelties" offered by other seedsmen both 
in this country and Europe, as well as anything which may 
be sent us, claimed to be new and superior, by our amateur 
or market garden customers. By this means we are enabled 
to satisfy ourselves of the true character and "value of any 
novelty before it can find a place in our catalogue. 
Many acres are also devoted to the production of pedigree 
stock seed, from which the seeds we offer are grown. We 
plant the best seeds obtainable; then go over the crop, plant 
by plant, carefully "rogueing" and destroying the inferior 
and selecting and saving only the best. This stock seed from 
selected plants is sent to be grown on our farms in localities 
where the conditions of soil and climate are best adapted to 
the perfect development of the particular variety. It is the 
product of such stock seed only that we offer for sale. 
Here are also located our Seed Testing Houses, where 
a sample of every lot of seed, whether grown by ourselves 
or grown for us under contract, is thoroughly tested, in 
mother earth, for vitality and purity of stock, and only those 
of satisfactory quality and germinating power are sold. In 
fact, we leave no stone unturned to gain and hold the confi- 
dence of all customers and secure them from disappoint- 
ment. 
JOHNSON & STOKES 
..SEEDSMEN.. 
217 and 219 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
