announcement. 
We take pleasure in announcing to our many 
friends and patrons the transfer of our fruit and 
nursery business to the Butler & Jewell Com- 
pany, incorporated under the laws of the state 
of Connecticut. As the members of the for 
mer partnership are the largest stockholders and 
the managers of the business of the present cor- 
poration, we feel that it is entitled to the same 
confidence and patronage it has been our pleas- 
ure to receive in the past. Very truly, 
Butler & Jewell. 
To Our Patrons. — Believing that the attempt 
of the former management to sell honest goods 
at living prices has been the prime cause of the 
large increase of trade, and that pra tical fruit 
growers prefer goods of known merit at reason- 
able prices, rather than untried novelties at out- 
rageous prices, we submit to our customers and 
friends our tenth catalogue of tested fruits. 
While it may resemble former editions, we claim 
for it freedom from the stereotyped puffs of high- 
priced novelties (of which the dealer knows noth- 
ing except he is to receive a large commission for 
pushing sales) which fill the catalogues of many 
of our older competitors. We give our own ex- 
perience as commercial fruit growers with the 
varieties we offer. 
The high standard of all goods sent out from 
this nursery in the past shall be fully maintain 
