Floracroft Seed Gardens and Trial Grounds 
“ GOOD CROPS CAN BE GROWN ONLY FROM GOOD SEEDS.” 
OR more than a score of years it has 
been our constant aim to supply direct 
to the planter the Best Americano 
grown Seeds at fair prices. That we 
have been successful in furnishing 
such is evidenced by the fact that our 
business is to-day the largest of any 
house in America direct with critical 
market gardeners and experienced growers who 
plant for profit and who realize the important truth 
that the “ Best Seeds cannot be the Cheapest.” 
In order to attain these results and to make doubly 
sure that our customers shall receive the best seeds 
that the world produces, we have for all these 
years maintained and carried on extensive operations, 
under the personal direction of one of our firm, at our 
Floracroft Seed Gardens and Trial Grounds, 
located about nine miles from our city warehouses. 
Many acres are devoted to the production of 
pedigree stock seed, by expert breeding and im¬ 
proving to ideal types and higher standards of purity 
and excellence. This stock seed from selected plants 
is sent to be grown on our farms in localities where 
the conditions of soil and climate are best adapted 
to the perfect development of the particular variety. 
Here are also located our Seed Testing Houses, 
where a sample of every lot of seed, whether grown 
by ourselves or grown for us under contract, is thor¬ 
oughly tested, in mother earth, for vitality and purity 
of stock, and only those of satisfactory quality and 
germinating power are sold. In fact, we leave no 
stone unturned to gain and hold the confidence of all 
customers and secure them from disappointment. 
Here we also plant each season, for thorough 
trial, samples of all “ Novelties ” offered by other 
seedsmen, both in this country and Europe, as well 
as anything which may be sent us, claimed to be new 
and superior, by our amateur or market garden cus¬ 
tomers. By this means we are enabled to satisfy 
ourselves of the true character and value of any 
novelty before it can find a placein our Catalogue. 
OUR DOUBLE SEED WAREHOUSES 
Located on the principal business street of Philadel¬ 
phia, Nos. 217 and Market St., extending 
through.to Nos. 206 and 208 Church St., are the 
largest in the East, and afford us every facility for 
the conduct of a large business, being especially 
arranged to accommodate the various departments 
of the Seed business. Visitors are always welcome 
here, as well as at Floracroft or at our various seed 
farms in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other States. 
OUR CATALOGUE ILLUSTRATIONS PHOTOGRAPHED FROM NATURE 
issuJof 1 “ n W m,ing ° f our business career, it has been our constant aim to make each successive 
" f °' lr Catalogue more complete and interesting than its predecessor. With this end in view we 
, w . ™ ^ e . f Seedsmen, some years ago to adopt the method of Photographic Reproduction on half- 
1 °' ?, p , es ; "’ hlch llas 8 lve " our Manual an unique reputation for truthfulness and accuracy setting 
fqrLh actual appearance and real merits without the alluring illustrations aud exaggeration that so 
flagrantly appear in nearly all the seed catalogues published. For this reason somethings that are 
l£U ! ded 111 other catalogues are omitted. Some do not appear as large or extravagant as shown In 
le Overdrawn cuts of other lists. Is it not better to be disappointed in a picture than^n a crop ? 
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directions for Ordering, Modes of Remitting and Liberal Discounts will be found on page 14 
ADDRESS ALL ORDERS, INQUIRIES, ETC 
JOHNSON & STOKES, 217 & 219 Market St., Phila., Pa. 
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