To My Thousands of Friends 
and Customers in the South — 
ADVANCED PRICES OVER LAST YEAR: Our customers will find 
prices advanced this year on everything we produced. The reason for this 
is known to our southern Friends, because they have to pay higher prices 
for all labor also, and in the nursery business prices of labor, packing ma- 
terial, taxes, etc., have advanced so much that we could produce three trees 
at the price of two years ago, where we now can grow one, consequently 
prices had to advance, as with all other commodities. However, our prices 
in comparison to other Nursery Catalogs is the lowest; we have always 
sold at reasonable prices and know our customers undei'stand the advance 
prices this season. 
Varieties of trees and seeds that have mostly originated here on our 
grounds, which are the result of my own work in horticulture all these 
years, are well known to many of my friends and customers. Their own 
success with these varieties have been the strongest possible recommenda- 
tions for them. 
For, of course, the varieties, having originated here, are the best for 
this section. 
Way back in 1886 we started here in the nursery business. We have 
been at it ever since. We began on a little 5-acre patch, but soon outgrew 
this place. Now we have over 100 acres in Nursery Stock. 
We have planted more roses and fruit trees this year than ever before. 
These have made good growth, too, and are fully up to our usual well 
known standard. Our stocks of evergreens, ornamentals and flowering 
shrubs are the largest and finest in the South. So we feel we can please 
you. We have no agents. This is our sole representative. We do but 
very little advertising. We depend on the high quality of our goods to 
hold our customers and bring us new ones. Our prices are reasonable — 
very low, in fact, quality considered — so low we have to sell for cash only, 
and do not ship C. 0. D. 
A pleased customer — as our 34 years of nursery experience has taught 
us — is the best advertising any firm can have. We still number among 
our best customers many who bought nursery stock from us a quarter of 
a century ago. That is a source of great satisfaction to me. To every 
man who is thinking about putting out an orchard, I cordially invite to 
write us. Address me, personally. Tell me about what you have in mind. 
I will be glad to give you the benefit of my lifetime’s experience as a horti- 
culturist. I will recommend and help you select varieties that have proved 
themselves best for this section. I will advise you as to the preparation of 
your soil, fertilization, irrigation, etc. Our oldest customers trust us most. 
They benefit by our experience by leaving it to us to select their assort- 
ments. Of course, we make mistakes. We are only human. But we 
cheerfully correct any errors we make, when they are reported to us. 
Yours for more and better Texas fruits, 
OTTO LOCKE, 
Comal Springs Nursery, New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas. 
