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INTROD UC TOR Y. 
Spring, iSgi. 

^^VNOE more old Earth has finished its mighty course around the 
sun, and the race of 1891 has well begun. The bright Spring 
days with their balmy atmosphere will soon he upon us, when 
thousands of our customers who have bright and happy homes will 
now he planning for their Spring task in Floriculture. And so, 
friends, in anticipation of your recurring wants, we take pleasure 
in presenting you our Spring Catalogue for 1891, and trust it may 
prove of some interest to you. 
Our readers will observe the very modest appearance of our Cata- 
logue this Spring. We have abandoned the flashy lithographs that 
decoy the inexperienced purchasers, and the hundreds of exagger- 
ated illustrations that mislead the uninitiated in plant buying.. 
We believe the era of tawdry catalogues is on the wane, and that the 
flower loving public want better plants, bulbs and trees, with prac- 
tical hints on their cultivation and care, in lieu of the densely 
begrimed pages of the numerous catalogues now sent out by many 
of the florits and seedsmen in the United States. 
While our catalogue does not abound in highly colored plates, the 
change does not in the least imply a change in our policy. On the 
contrary we have determined to make our catalogue instructive to 
our customers by helping them to so cultivate their plants that 
they may he successful in all their undertakings, and thereby con- 
tinue their patronage with us. Whatever in our policy accrues to 
the benefit of our customers is to our advantage, as our customers’ 
interests and ours are inseparable. The stock of plants which wc 
catalogue this Spring is fully up with the times, and the increasing 
demand for the unexcelled collection we offer is the best criterion 
that our patrons appreciate our efforts to send out good plants, and 
do a square and honest business. We enumerate nothing but what 
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