-£T0 PURCHASERS!* 
» HE present is the first edition of our general Catalogue sent out from our 
New Store, and it gives us pleasure to present you with a copy, hoping 
that, on looking it through, you will find many varieties of Seeds you need 
for the coming season, and that you will favor the New Store with your 
orders. Personally known for many years to the Market Gardeners, Florists, 
and other users of Seeds, in and around Boston and New York and their 
vicinities, it is hardly necessary for us to introduce ourselves, but we wish to 
introduce to your notice our new location, our store refitted and furnished 
entirely new throughout, and our stock of Seeds entirely new ; grown by the 
best and most trusty growers in the country. We invite you to visit us and 
look over our establishment, whether you wish to purchase or not, and also 
invite your friends and neighbors to do the same. We commence with the 
determination to gain for our business a reputation for reliability, and hence 
we shall use the greatest care in the growing of the Seeds, the selection of 
the stocks the Seeds are grown from, and, by all due care in store, avoid the 
occurrence of errors through careless handling, or otherwise. We shall, also, 
make true statements, and shall sell our Seeds for just what they are. If 
best, we shall say so ; if (from growth in unfavorable seasons, or otherwise) 
they are not quite up to the standard we could wish them to be, we shall not 
hesitate to state just what they are. We shall endeavor to do right by our 
customers every time ; and, with these assurances, leave the subject for time 
to prove the sincerity of our intentions. Our customers need not fear to ask 
questions. It will afford us pleasure to give any information we may possess 
respecting modes of culture, varieties, etc., etc., at such times as suit their 
convenience. 
About Warranting. While it would give us pleasure to warrant everything we sell, 
we cannot in justice to ourselves do so, as there are so many causes o£ failure over which we 
have no control, and cannot be responsible for, such as imperfect planting, unsuitable condi- 
tion of the soil, working of worms and insects, too hot manures, botanical changes of crossed 
varieties, etc., either or all of which are quite possible to occur — while at the same time it 
would be utterly impossible for us to account for its occurrence — and thus failures arise 
through no fault on our part. Therefore, we wish it distinctly understood that, of the Seeds 
we sell, 
NONE ARE WARRANTED. 
At the same time we shall make it a rule never to sell, or allow to be sold from our establish- 
ment, Seeds of any kind or quality, attached to which is a doubt that they are otherwise than 
as we recommend them, or that we would not plant in full confidence were they required for 
our own use. 
