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tomers assures us that this mode of shipping and delivering is far better than 
to pack each little lot separately, -with great risk of its being delayed and dried 
up on the road, besides a great saving in the cost of packages and transporta- 
tion. 
Tlie time for digging and shipping nursery stock is necessarily crowded 
into a few weeks in the Spring and Fall, and with the assistance of all our 
agents, working early and late, it is only with the utmost energy and despatch 
that the shipments of so extensive a Nursery can be made in the time required. 
We are fully aware of the great number of irresponsible and dishonest 
travelei-s who bring discredit on the business by taking orders at loss prices 
than good trees can be grown for; making promises they cannot fulfill, buying 
their stock anywhere they can buy the cheapest (often taking refuse trees,) 
labeling varieties falsely to correspond with orders ; selling only once in a 
place ; sending another man to deliver and collect, fearing to show tliemselves 
a second season to see results, and in everj' particular doing a thoroughly dis- 
honorable and unsatisfactory business, though generally pretending to repre- 
sent some reliable Nursery. 
To protect the public and ourselves from such imposition, we give to all 
our men certificates of agency dated within six months from the tunc they 
are being used, and recommend that all agents be called upon to show their 
credentials. 
Nothing can so well show the appreciation of our satisfactory efforts as the 
fact that many of our agents are now selling on the same ground where they 
have canvassed from four to twelve consecutive years, and their sales are 
larger to-day than ever before. 
We are each year adding to the extent of our fields, and as the productions 
of our Nurseries are increasing, we add to our agents such men of experience 
as we can employ, and we trust that our constant endeavors for advancement 
in a matter so interesting to all, will secure to us a continuance of the tin 
bounded favors already awarded to us by the purchasing public. 
That our new customers may know what our old friends think of the stock 
we have furnished in past years, we annex extracts from a few letters received, 
not doubting that all who may hereafter purchase trees from our Nurseries will 
be as fully satisfied as are those who have long dealt with us. 
T E S T I M O NI A L S . 
From W. H. Drummond, Esq. 
From my experience with the trees from your nurseries, I can with perfect confidence 
recommend them to purchasers. Ali the trees, shrubs and sraaii fruits fhiiy cqualicd my 
ideas of first-class stock, and my expectations of a fine growth tins 
than realized. I have some very fine specimens of fruit on trees of last season s planting. 
From Menlo Park Land Company. 
Thelrecs-both fruit and shade-as well as the flowering 
agent arc in fine condition, and the selection of the varieties, which we left to his discretion 
we are highly pleased with. 
