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more important Competitive Exhibitions throughout the 
United vStates during the year 1897 is without a parallel. The 
number of first prizes duplicated was very large. In Massachu¬ 
setts alone, where gardening, both professional and amateur, is a 
high art, and competition at the shows very keen, ire doubled 
over five hundred prizes for specimens and collections of 
Vegetables and Flowers, 
Cultivators from nearly every State in the Union made claims 
on us which we gladly met in accordance with our promise. 
We propose continuing our encouragement to gardeners as 
shown on opposite page, and trust all lovers of flowers will prove 
for themselves, during 1898, that our claim to sell only the best 
strains of the different kinds of seeds is well grounded. The 
following examples, taken at random, will give some idea of what 
“We Double It” means. 
To John S. Bandy, E. Burnett, Yt., we paid $4.50, being an 
equal amount to that awarded him at the Caledonia County Fair 
for Cut Flowers in variety. We duplicated the first prize for 
largest and best collection of Sweet Peas awarded by the 
Mechanicsville (Iowa) Society to Mrs. S. T. Buell. Harry F. 
Cross of Hingham, secured the Hingham Horticultural Society’s 
first prize for best display of Asters ; these being grown from 
Breck’s Seeds we doubled the prize money. S. J. B. Dunbar, Elk- 
horn, Wis., obtained five first prizes for vegetables, at the Wal¬ 
worth County Fair; H. P. West, Fayetteville, Wis., twelve first 
prizes at Wisconsin State Fair; John Grape, Waukesha, Wis., 
twenty first prizes at Waukesha County Fair; thus three Wisconsin 
horticulturalists were paid, in addition to the amounts awarded by 
their societies, nearly £100. William Bain of Chatham, N. Y., en¬ 
tered fourteen varietit s of flowers at the Columbia Society’s 
exhibition and obtained first prize in every case. We dupli¬ 
cated the twelve prizes won by W. Bentzieis of Troupsbourg, 
N. Y., at the Stubun Agricultural Society’s Exhibition. To Alfred 
Burt of Minneola, Queen's Co., N. Y., we sent our check for $63 
to equal the amount won by him at the Queen’s County Show on 
the twenty-five entries he made with the product of Breck’s Seeds. 
To H. B. Watts, Leicester, Mass., we paid #18, being an 
equal sum to that obtained by him on his exhibits of Sweet Peas, 
Verbenas (24 varieties) and Ten Week Stocks, Many of the 
successful competitors of 1896 continued their efforts in 1897 with 
equally good results, and we naturally take pleasure in recording a 
few of their achievements here: C. L. Hartshorn, Worcester, 
Mass., thirty firsts, $60; Aaron Low, Hingham, fifty-seven first 
premiums, $50.90; Edwin C. Lewis, superintendent for Colonel 
Mason, Taunton, Mass., twenty-four first prizes, $70; Mr. Kinney, 
Worcester, Mass., eighty-two first prizes, $193; Warren Heustis 
& Son, Belmont, Mass., fourteen first prizes, $48; Elliot Moore, 
Worcester, Mass., thirty-seven first prizes, $60. 
But were we to give in detail anything like a full list of the 
honors accorded the product of Breck’s Seeds at the exhibitions of 
1897 the capacity of our present Catalogue would have to be 
“doubled.” We have included enough, however, we think, to 
show the quality of the goods we sell, if that were needed, and also 
that a large proportion of the gardening public appreciate it. 
We look forward with increased interest and pleasure to 
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the requests to “Double It” that 
are sure to come to hand in the fall 
and winter of this year, and trust 
that all our old, and many new 
friends will find both pleasure and 
profit in planting the kind of seeds 
which produce prize crops, and 
That’s Breck’s Pedigree Seeds. 
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