Our Golden Roll of Honor. 
L AST year, for the purpose of establishing our GOLDEN 
ROLL OF HONOR, we invited those who had traded 
with us, either as buyers or sellers, for Jorty years or more, 
to advise us of the fact with particulars as to length of time of 
their dealings with us, and of any features of interest that 
have been connected with the same during these long periods 
of years. 
The result has proved quite a surprise to us; we realized 
we had a great many “old friends,” but our estimate of their 
real number was altogether incorrect, for letters and visits 
from old customers soon began to be a daily occurrence, and 
it is quite a common thing to hear persons, frequently strangers 
to one another, who had come into our store to make pur¬ 
chases, as they had done for forty, fifty, sixty, and in some 
instances, even seventy years, exchange experiences of the 
olden time, and speaking of their satisfactory dealings with 
the three generations of Brecks. 
It gives us great pleasure to reproduce here pictures of a 
few of these friends, and to subjoin a list of the names of those 
residing in Massachusetts, who either visited or wrote us 
during the past year. Two of these are especially remarkable, 
namely, Franklin King, Esq. (of E. & F. King), Boston, and 
George Bird, Esq., North Cambridge; both of these gentlemen 
personally supplied their wants at our store in 1896, as they have doneevciy year since 1826 . 
We were a'so favored with some correspondence from Fearing Burr, Esq., Hingham Centre, author of The 
Field and Carden Vegetables of America , in which he not only feelingly referred to his early acquaintance 
with the late lion. Joseph Breck, founder of this business, but to many others who w'ere associated with it 
more than half a century ago, including Mr. Charles Willis, father of our own “old” Mr. Willis, who retired 
from active life some three years ago, after a continuous service of sixty-four years. 
List of Massachusetts Customers heard 
from, of Over 40 Years’ Standing. 
Mr. Charles E. Grant, Concord . . 6oyrs. 
“ Benjamin G. Smith, Cambridge . 60 “ 
“ Nathaniel T. Allen, West Newton 45“ 
“ Mii.o II. Shattuck, Groton . . 45 “ 
“ Alexander McGaw, South Braintree 44 “ 
“ E. G. Andrus, East Weymouth . 44 “ 
“ W.H.Baldwin, Pres. Y.M.C.U. Boston 40 “ 
“ R. B. Leuchias, Boston . . . 44 “ 
“ David C. Robbins, Malden .60“ 
“ Stead, Woburn . . . . 50 “ 
“ John H. Reed, West Roxbury . 40 “ 
“ J. P. Conant, Stoneham . . 48 “ 
“ J os 1 ah Reed, South Weymouth 45 “ 
“ Franklin King (FL& F.KingJ,Boston 70 “ 
“ S. A. Stetson, Boston . . . 60 “ 
“ George Bi RD, Cambridge . 70 “ 
“ G. B. Talbot, Nonvood . . 60 “ 
“ John S. Richards, Brookline . 63 “ 
“ S. W. Grant, Wrentham . . . 46 “ 
“ C. S. Bates, Cohasset . . 50 “ 
“ Samuel T. Sharpe, Watertown 43“ 
“ John S. Tewksbury, Winthrop . 49“ 
“ Fearing Burr, Hingham Centre . 60 “ 
“ E. A. Brackett, Winchester . . 51 “ 
“ J. Harrigan, East Foxboro . 41 “ 
“ Matthew II. Burr, HinghamCentre 60 “ 
“ Daniel Bowker, Malden . . .66“ 
Rev. C. S. Locke, West Dedham . 42 “ 
Dr. B. B. Chandler, Hyde Park . . 61 “ 
fj}*We desire to add to our Golden Roll of honor 
the names of all customers qualified by time lo be 
included and solicit their correspondence. 
The following letter from Hon. Benjamin G. Smith, the well- 
! known eminent horticulturist, speaks for itself: 
T . 
DAVID C. ROBBINS, ESQ., 
A Customer for 60 Years. 
