DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
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The building is heated entirely by steam, which is supplied from our box factory, which is 
located directly opposite the lirush street front, and is lighted by gas manufactured by ourselves 
from naptha, the carborator being sunk in the alley in the rear. 
OUR BOX FACTORY. 
For some years past we have been obliged to make our boxes at some distance from our offi¬ 
ces, but we have now overcome this disadvantage by the erection of a new building for this pur¬ 
pose directly across the street from our new warehouse. It is three stories high, built of brick 
and stone in the same architectural style as our warehouse. 
This box factory, though only a feature of our business, is a complete manufacturing institu¬ 
tion in itself. Besides supplying the larger building with heat and, to a limited extent, power, 
it contains every facility for converting an immense amount of lumber into the boxes which are 
annually used in our business. Machines designed especially for our use are employed for almost 
every process necessary for the construction of finished boxes from rough lumber ; nevertheless in 
winter there are usually over ioo men employed in this department alone. We give elsewhere a 
sketch of the box factory employes. 
OUR CANADIAN BRANCH. 
We have long felt the desirability of a store in the Dominion for the accommodation of our 
Canadian friends, and on adoption of their recent tariff law, we at once secured suitable quarters 
in Windsor, Ontario, opposite Detroit. Seeds in packets and small parcels designed for Canada, 
whether sent by mail or otherwise from the United States, are subject to a duty of 25^, which 
virtually debars our Canadian friends from purchasing in this country. 
By the establishment of this branch we are enabled to execute promptly all orders in large or 
small quantities by mail, express or freight, without any of the vexatious delays and expensive 
processes of entering and paying duties. Our stocks will be imported directly into Canada, and 
a duplicate will there be found of nearly everything we sell in the States. The advantage of 
this move to our Canadian friends cannot be overestimated, as it places them on a par with our 
friends in the States. 
Our warehouses in Windsor and Detroit are connected by telephone, and are but twenty min¬ 
utes distant from each other by ferry across the Detroit river. Never before have we been in so 
favorable a position for the prompt and accurate execution of Canadian orders, and now that our 
facilities are unexcelled, we confidently expect an increasing patronage from the Dominion. 
THE FORMATION AHD MANAGEMENT 
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SITUATION AND EXPOSURE.— If possible, the garden should be quite near the house, and in no case 
should it be in an orchard or have trees or shrubs within it. If the space must accommodate both fruit and vege¬ 
tables it is better to set the fruit at one end so as to leave the portion for vegetables unbroken and unshaded, even 
if it is much smaller. Abrupt slopes in any direction are to be avoided. A gentle inclination to the south and east 
is the warmest will give the earliest vegetables and be best for Corn, Melons, Tomatoes, <fcc., but it suffers more 
from a spring or early fall frost, because of receiving the direct rays of the morning sun. An inclination to the 
north and west is later, suffers less in a drought and is the best for Peas, Cabbage, Lettuce, &c. So it is an advant¬ 
age in a large garden to have both these exposures, but for small gardens a gentle inclination to the south or east 
or a level surface is the best. . , , . , c . ,, 
SOIL —A good garden be made on any soil , but that best suited to the purpose is a deep, rich, friable 
loam—and the more nearly other soils can be made to approach this the better. This may be accomplished m te- 
nacious clays (and must be for a good garden) by good drainage, deep and judicious cultivation, use of coarse ma¬ 
nure and liberal applications of leached ashes, sand, and in some casesof peat. If the soil is naturally too light and 
sandy, it may be improved by rolling and the use of large quantities of well composted manure and muck, and 
dressings of clay. 
