INTRODUCTION. 
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In presenting you with this catalogue, our 14th edition, we desire to state to our 
old customers as well as the new ones, that it is now a quarter of a century since the 
“Old Reliable” Albany Nurseries stated with a small plant and our business has 
gradually grown into an enormous size. 
There are only two things to consider in business: one is to satisfy your cus- 
tomer and the other is to make a legitimate profit for yourself. There are small 
nurseries who start in business when times are good and when trees are in demand, 
who when reverses come “fold up their tents in the night time” and like the Arab 
“silently steal away,” and years afterwards when the trees they have sold prove 
untrue to name they are not to be found. Perhaps they are operating in pastures 
green. But the standard nursery that is . always doing business at the same old 
stand, charging a reasonable price, ever willing and able to make good, is the one 
that should be patronized, be it whom it may. 
It becomes natural for any one when contemplating planting to make inquiries 
where they can buy the best, and we regret to say that a great many wish to know 
where they can buy the cheapest. It costs just as much to prepare the ground to 
plant and to cultivate a cheap tree as it does a good one, and while sometimes the 
good standard nurseries may charge a little more than the questionable nurseries, 
this difference is, often, just what they need to make them strong and reliable. 
When you patronize a bank, you seek a good strong one, when you take insurance 
you look for a company in whom you can place perfect confidence and know that the 
future welfare of your widow and orphans will be protected. You do not expect to 
buy the fruit trees but once. Buy the best and be satisfied. 
The Albany Nurseries interest with a planter does not necessarily end when we 
have sold him the trees but we are interested in seeing them grow, being properly 
pruned and cultivated and lastly the marketing of the fruit, and will always cheer- 
fully do what we can to assist our customers as we are generally in touch with the 
market. 
Realizing that there are no boundaries of territory, no barriers of distance, race 
or creed to the reliable nursery which has a code of honor and lives up to it with the 
confidence of our customers, we hope to continue to grow. We thank all our cus- 
tomers for their patronage in the past and will feel grateful for all future business. 
Soliciting your valued inquiries we beg to remain, 
Yours truly, 
ALBANY NURSERIES, 
Frank Eyrond, Manager. 
