Card. 
A year ayo we felt constrained to especially thank our 
customers for their liberal patronage which had brought us 
triumphantly through the years of depression our country was 
even then laboring under — now, while our appreciation of the 
increased business our friends have given us during the last 
twelve months and their many favors is in no wise diminished, 
how much brighter is the business outlook generally, and to 
what factor more than any other, is this improved condition of 
affairs due, than to the agricultural prosperity, that basis of all 
wealth, which accompanied the harvesting and marketing of 
the crop of 1897? 
Therefore Ict us all “ Speed the Plow;” we are prepared 
to do our part. 
We offer the seed product of over ten thousand acres grown 
from-our own selected stocks; cared for in the field and during 
preparation for market by our own skilled employees. 
Our 1898 Annual has been largely rewritten and brought 
up to date. Many of its illustrations are photographic repro¬ 
ductions of prize specimens, which, through our offer, “ We 
Double It,”(seepages xii and xiii), earned their growers double 
the premiums offered by the societies awarding them. New and 
valuable acquisitions have been included, especially in the line 
of plants for forage, and green manuring, (see pages 39-10.) 
A Department of L andscape Gardening has been added 
to our already extensive business. (Seepage xviii.) 
Our Publications, (see page 15), are well worth your 
consideration, especially those relating to Plants and Poultry, 
We call your attention, almost with reverence, to our 
G.olden Roll of Honor , (see pages 10-11.) 
Our Catalogue of Agricultural Hardware, Machines, 
Implements and Woodenware, 300 pages, 1,000 illustrations, 
(seepage 6), has supplied a long felt want. 
Free Delivery, (see third page of cover), an exhaustive 
index, a Spraying Calendar, (see page 54), and our Bureau 
of Registry and Information, (see page 16), are boons to the 
horticultural and agricultural public. 
We were never in a better position to serve our patrons 
than now, or to assure them of our best efforts in their behalf. 
Eat ranee at the 66 Big 
Clock 99 51 and 52 North 
Market St. 9 also entrances 
at 40 Merchants How and 
21 1-2 North St. 
BOSTON , MASS . 
