. . .Introduction. . . 

\ \ J E TAKE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING a New Edition of our Descriptive 
Catalogue, carefully revised and corrected by the addition of descriptions 
~ ~ of our new and promising sorts, and the ommission of such as greater 
experience and progress in horticulture and floriculture have proved no 
longer worthy of general dissemination. 
The continued patronage of our friends, as shown by their frequent 
and increasing orders, assures us that our efforts to please them are appreciated. 
This will stimulate us to still greater efforts, and will warrant us in making expendi- 
tures necessary to secure the best results. 
Nothing better illustrates the progress of our country, the advance in civilization 
its people are making and the fact that they are learning to live better, than the 
greatly increased and continuing demand for nursery stock, both fruit and ornamental. 
While this demand is stimulated in part by the knowledge of the great profits 
which result from the systematic planting and careful cultivation of many kinds of 
fruit, it is by no means limited to this incentive. In ever}' rank and station of life, 
including the humblest and the most opulent, those residing in town and country 
people are beginning to see that nothing can add so much to the comforts of living 
as a constant supply of the best varieties of the different fruits for home use, and 
nothing will do so much to adorn their homes, gratify a sense of the beautiful, and 
produce refinement in their families as the planting of such well-selected varieties of 
ornamental trees, shrubs, roses, clematis, etc., as the ground about their houses will 
permit. 
Some persuade themselves that the demand for fruit and fruit trees has already 
reached its limit, but canning and the improved methods of factory drying (still in 
their infancy) have increased the domestic consumption of the different fruits by 
rendering them nearly as good as fresh throughout the year, and that by means of 
these processes and improved facilities for shipping fresh fruits, the fruits of the 
United States can be exported to the remotest quarters of the globe. Millions upon 
land and sea are now supplied who have hitherto been deprived of such luxuries and 
no one can doubt that the setting of trees and plants for the production of large and 
small fruits at a much better profit than can be derived from ordinary farm crops, 
is also in its infancy. 
We would not tempt the uninitiated with the promise of a large fortune in a few 
years without labor or trouble, but we do say, that the business of fruit growing, 
conducted with energy, perseverance and intelligence, will bring an ample and sure 
Good cultivation — by which we mean keeping the ground sufficiently fertile and 
at all times mellow and free from weeds, together with thorough drainage, either 
natural or artificial — is absolutely necessary to success. This, with judicious pruning 
and proper selection of varieties’ suitable for the locality will, in nearly all portions 
of the United States, produce gratifying results. 
We devote our personal attention to every branch of our business. We aim to 
include in our assortment the best varieties in each class, for market and family use, 
and persons ordering from us may rely upon our giving careful attention to" their 
interests. 
