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A Few TVords to Our Friends 
After Forty Years 
FOR forty years we have rendered faithful service. For forty years 
we have tried to make each year's service more nearly ideal. 
This untiring effort has built for us not only the World's Largest 
Mail Order Seed Business, but also a world-wade reputation for effi- 
cient service and undisputed leadership. 
Confidence is the one thing that makes possible the commerce of 
the world. It is the greatest factor that enters into a purchase of 
seeds, because you are not buying a finished product, but only the 
means by which your garden may be either a pronounced success or a 
partial failure. When you buy Burpee's Seeds the element of doubt is 
removed so far as is possible by human care. The confidence of many 
thousands of pleased and permanent customers is maintained by the 
Burpee Idea of Quality— first to give rather than get all that is possible. 
More opportune than anything we ourselves may say about 
Burpee's Seeds are the many remarkable things our thousands of cus- 
tomers and friends have said and continue to say about them. 
The Fortieth Anniversary Edition of Burpee's Annual 
^^ The Leading American Seed Catalog ' ' for 1916 
is unlike any other. It tells the plain truth about "Seeds That Grow." 
The front cover illustrates in nine colors the greatest novelty in Sweet _ 
Peas — the already famous "Fiery Cross." The back cover shows the 
two famous Burpee Ban^-ams, Golden Bantam Corn and Blue Bantam 
Peas. The colored plates show, painted from nature at Fordhook 
Farms, six other Burpee Specialties in Vegetables, and the finest new 
Burpee Spencers as grown at Floradale, the California home of Sweet 
Peas, and the unique new Gladioli, Fordhook Hybrids. 
This catalog is mailed free. A post card will bring it. 
V 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Seed Growers 
Bb&PEE BUILDINGS, PHILADELPHIA 
