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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
July ist_, 1903. 
Gents: Have no letter or wire from 
you today in reference to shipment of 
peaches; fear you did nOt get car off. 
This is unfortunate as market continues 
active for your peaches. No trouble to 
get $2.50 for fancies and $2.25 for choice. 
Outlook favorable. Our customers will 
want more of the Florida stock, while 
Georgias are larger they are not as good 
flavor as the Floridas. 
H. B. Williams, Inc. 
July 2ist, 1904. 
Gents : We took one crate of the Im¬ 
perial peaches out of Cold Storage to¬ 
day, which had been put in there July 
2nd, and it came out sound as a dollar. 
If we had a car of them today could get 
two dollars for them. With a big crop 
of Imperial peaches, and a short crop in 
Georgia, twenty or twenty five cars of 
these peaches in storage they would sell 
like gold dollars. Their keeping qualities 
are excellent. 
H. B. Williams, Inc. 
New York, June 17TH, 1905. 
Gentlemen : I want to state that it is 
a pleasure to handle goods put up in the 
style and careful manner which you ship 
in. The trade here recognizes that your 
brand of Florida peaches, is by far the 
best that comes from Florida. There will 
be no trouble in the future of obtaining 
top of the market. 
Lyon Bros. Co. 
Philadelphia, Pa., May ii, 1905. 
Dear Sirs : We are enclosing you a 
letter received from Mr. J. H. Hale on the 
conditions of the crop in Georgia. 
One of our customers called on us and 
wanted to know if your crop was secured 
this year from the cold weather. When 
we assured him it was he has gone to the 
expense of twenty to twenty-five dollars 
in having a large sign painted across the 
front of his store “Headquarters for Grif- 
fing Peaches.” He has given us instruc¬ 
tion^ that he wants 100 crates every day 
as long as you ship, so you see we feel 
very much encouraged over the inquiry 
we are having for your peaches. 
H. B. Williams. 
New York, July 25TH ,1904. 
Gentlemen : We have your several 
communications and it is very satisfac¬ 
tory to us to have you express yourselves 
as being satisfied with the results, but, 
we wish to state that a great deal of cred¬ 
it for the results we obtained for your 
peaches is due to yourselves, for by the 
style of your packing and the delicious 
flavor of your peaches, caused the buy¬ 
ers to seek for more and buy liberally. 
They were at the top of the market 
every day we had them to offer. We can 
say honestly that the eating quality of 
your peaches were superior in flavor and 
lacked that bitter taste from the skin that 
many of the Florida peaches had, that 
were on the market, and we can assure 
you that you can look forward to always 
having New York take your peaches at 
the top prices and as many as you can 
place on this market. 
The Lyon Bros. Co. 
Philadelphia, July 8, 1905. 
Dear Sirs : We wired you today to 
ship all peaches possible here. I enclose 
you a letter received from Mr. Hale today 
in which you will note he says about the 
peach crop there. This is contrary to 
