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W ITH our 32d Annual Greeting to the host of our customers and friends, we extend our 
best wishes for their success during the season of 1889, in deriving health, pleasure 
and profit from their investment of money and labor in the soil. 
Marked and noticeable development and improvement have taken place in late years in the 
vegetable and floral kingdoms. Many recall the time when the Tomato hung on its vine in an 
obscure corner of the garden, and was known only as the curious and poisonous “ Love Apple." 
It is a long stage from then till now, when thousands upon thousands of dollars are invested to 
put the millions of crates and cans of Tomatoes on the market—a much prized and valuable 
article of food on every table. The “ Love Apple” is not alone in this respect. There is hardly 
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in the entire range of vegetables and flowers a single one which has not, by the study and 
careful culture of the seedsman, taken on such a form and excellence as scarcely to be recognized 
as its former self. As a consequence, gardening in all its branches has rapidly advanced in its 
methods, its extent and the perfection of its results. 
This development and improvement is not the work of chance. Chance cannot be relied 
upon to work excellence. Luscious vegetables and beautiful flowers are gifts to man which are 
his in perfection only on condition that he cultivate and improve them. To aid in achieving 
these desirable results is, in our opinion, within the province of the seedsman, and we ask your 
attention to the remarks which follow as exemplifying our idea of the course best calculated to 
attain this end. 
