Card. 
We thank our friends and customers for their liberal 
patronage during the past three years. It has enabled us 
not only to keep the volume of our business up to what it 
was before the hard times began in ’93, but to make a 
material gain each year as well » 
This has been accomplished in the midst of general 
depression and decline in values, and, titerefore, we deem 
it fitting to express our appreciation of our customers’ favors 
in th is, the most conspicuous place in our ’97 seed annual. 
That some of the features peculiar to our business may 
be better understood and taken advantage of, we beg your 
careful consideration for the following, viz: 
Golden Roll of Honor, (see pages 10 and 11). 
Bureau of Registry and Information, (see page 22). 
Spraying Calendar and Insecticides (see page 53). 
We Double It (see pages xii and xiii). 
Our Publications (see page xx). 
Free Delivery (see third page of cover.) 
We devote but little space to Agricultural Hardware, 
Implements, machines and Woodenware in our seed annual, 
because we have in the printer’s hands the most complete and 
elaborate catalogue of these goods (see page xxi) ever pub¬ 
lished in the world. This work will be sent free on application 
to customers. 
We assure those who entrust us with their business 
that the same care and fidelity will be observed in caring 
for their interests that have been heretofore exercised by us 
and those associated with us. 
Entrance at the “ My 
Clock ” 51 and 52 North 
Market St., also entrances 
at 40 Merchants Mar amt 
21 1-2 North St. 
BOSTON. MASS. 
