TO MY PATtjONS yiND FfjlEHOS. 
JjQjjNOTHER SEASON of sowing and harvest, of toil afid pleasure has passed 
^ by and the time is again approaching when the pleasant duty of issuing my 
Annual Catalogue devolves upon me. To me this opportunity is a delightful one. 
The relations with my patrons having always been so cordial and intimate that I 
enter upon this task with no little pride and satisfaction. Most gratefully I ac- 
knowledge the many and generous favors so regularly bestowed on me in previous 
seasons for which I tender to one and all sincerest thanks. With much pleasure 
I again lay before you, a most. carefully selected list of the choicest Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds, with noteworthy Novelties. Experimenting on new varieties with 
a view to introduce them if found of desirable merits, has been a special feature 
of my business, in which I have been eminently successful. It will be re- 
membered that I was first to offer the famous Giant Stuttgart Summer, the White 
Hospital and the long White Vienna Radish, the Filderkraut Cabbage, the Bra- 
zilian Sugar Squash, and of late the Oak Leaved Lettuce and Upland Cress. The 
last two, unknown to the world before, now head the lists of prominent Seedsmen 
of Germany and Canada; and all have become permanent additions with the ma- 
jority of Seedsmen in this country. 
15y offering only the most critically selected varieties and which can always be 
relied upon for purity and growing cpialities, which are the most essential, and in- 
deed the fundamental points of making the cultivation of Vegetables and Flowers 
a success. These methods carefully adhered to have earned a reputation and 
popularity for my seeds, so well and widely known, and as my prices are the most 
reasonable. I trust to be kindly remembered by all in need of seeds for the com- 
ing season. All orders I am favored with will be filled as liberally, promptly and 
satisfactory as heretorore. 
Yours sincerely, 
HUGO BEYER. 
New London. Iowa, January, 1K87. 
