(Extract from a letter received from the same, dated August, 1856.) 
“ The Verbenas purchased of you last spring, have grown and flourished 
finely all summer; out of thirty I have only lost one, and that through 
careless planting ; they have bloomed profusely the entire summer. 
S. M. FRAZIER.” 
(Also from William Frazier.) 
“ I have always taken pleasure in saying to my guests, that the packing 
quito surpassed any thing of the kind I had ever seen; inasmuch, that after 
undergoing all the rough handling of Railroad and Steamboat agents, they 
finally came to us on horseback, in perfect and beautiful order. 
W.M. FRAZIER, Rockbridge, Alom Springs, Va.” 
(Free Press Office, Burlington, Vt.) 
“ Your package of thirty-six varieties of Verbena Plants, with your letter 
of April 25th, reached me by mail on the evening of the 29th, the Plants 
were all in as fine condition as could have been desired. 
G. W. BENEDICT.” 
From Drew’s Rural Intelligencer, (of May 17th, 1866,) published at 
Augusta, Maine. 
“ Wo received last week, from Dexter Snow of Chicopee, Mass., a box con- 
taining fifty varieties of Verbenas; some in blossom, some in buds, and others 
in a younger state of vegetable life— all in excellent order for planting out in 
beds; Mr. Snow is no humbug— he promises only what he fulfills. He 
hay the largest collection of Verbenas in the United States, nay in the world, 
and devotes himself exclusively to the cultivation of this rich and delicate 
Plant. The roots he sent us came packed s6 well in moss, that we doubt not 
the box might have gone to Louisiana, or California oven, and, on being 
opened, would have presented a show of green foliage, brilliant colors and 
delicious fragrance, that would have astonished the admirers of Nature’s 
Fine Arts. The collection cost us five dollars, but we are entirely satisfied 
with the trade; if any of our friends desire ono of the richest flowerbeds, 
that will be covered with beauty from Spring to late Autumn, we advise them 
to send to Mr. Snow for as many Plants as they desire.” 
Should there be some who do not find the arrangement of 
either Package satisfactory, they are at liberty to make their own 
selection, choosing the same proportion of Novelties or Extra 
First Class, as arc included in the foregoing. 
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