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WE DOUBLED IN 1896 
Nearly Five Hundred First Prizes, secured at over 
One Hundred Exhibitions, with the 
Product of 
Breck’s Seeds and Bulbs. 
Mr. H. R. KINNEY. 
MR. W. HEUSTIS. 
The success, profit, and satisfaction that have accrued to our customers under the offer to duplicate 
all first prizes secured with the product of Breck’s Seeds and Bulbs, was a subject of almost daily corres¬ 
pondence and congratulation during the summer and fall of 1896. 
The hundreds of letters of thanks and particulars of achievements with the products of Breck’s Seeds 
against all others, received from all over the United States, have induced us to renew the offer this year. 
( There are no conditions except those mentioned on opposite page,) and knowing the quality of the seeds 
we offer, and results obtainable by planting them, we already anticipate with pleasure the demands that 
will be made on us when the exhibition season of 1897 begins. 
In 1895 highest amount paid by us under this offer, to any one party was $90.50, to Mr. West, of 
Fayetteville, Wis. Last year Mr. Kinney, of Worcester, headed the list with the grand total of $142.50, 
being an equal sum to that awarded him as first prizes at the exhibitions of the Bay State Society, the 
Worcester County Horticultural Society, and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Mr. Kinney’s 
prizes included the premium offered by the last named Society for the best collection of vegetables. 
well-known market gardeners of Belmont, 
some twenty first prizes with the product 
to Mr. Kinney in the competition for the 
Breck’s Seeds secured in this class not only 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 
Co., market gardeners, Waukesha, Wis., 
sixteen first prizes awarded to them on the 
Wisconsin State Fair; these awards again 
Messrs. Grape & Co., kindly sent us a 
us that ours were the best seeds they had 
own orders in future, and a great many 
who are satisfied as to the superior quality 
Messrs. Warren Heustis & Son, the 
Mass., w'ereas usual well placed and gained 
of Breck’s Seeds. They were only second 
best collection of vegetables, so that 
the first, but both prizes offered by the 
As a result of Messrs. John Grape & 
exhibiting,we had opportunity to duplicate 
product of Breck’s Seeds at the great 
include the best collection of vegetables, 
photograph of their exhibit, and informed 
ever bought; they also assured us of their 
from other parties in their neighborhood 
of our seeds. 
Mr.F. A. Wolfe, Salem, Oregon, who, 
Board of Agriculture, the first prize of 
growm in the State, not only again 
but also first prizes for the best collection 
MR. DANA. 
in 1895, was awarded by the Oregon State 
$20 00 for the best collection of vegetables 
captured that much competed for premium, 
of vegetables for the family garden, and 
best collection of vegetables for the market garden, in addition to eleven other firsts with the product of 
Breck’s Seeds. 'The sum we duplicated was $65.00. 
At the Newr York State Fair our seeds secured like enviable positions to those w'ho planted them ; Mr. 
E. W. Eno, Hannibal, N. Y., was awarded fourteen first prizes, including the premiums offered for collec¬ 
tions of Asters and Ten Week Stocks. 
' Mr. C. H. Dana, of White River Junction, Vt., demonstrated in that State the excellence of Breeds 
Seeds. He raised the best general collection of vegetables, for which he was paid the Vermont State Tair 
prize of $12.00, and an equal sum by us. Nine other first prizes, amounting to $25.00, were also gained at 
the same exhibition by Mr. Dana. 
Worcester County, Mass., growers made many demands on us to duplicate first prizes awarded by 
their Horticultural Society, but a single example will suffice, namely, that of Mr. C. L. Hartshorn, w r ho 
gained $34.50 in sixteen classes. This sum we doubled. 
The portraits here reproduced of a few of these enterpris¬ 
ing and skilful growers will doubtless be recognized by many 
of our friends. Lack of space prevents our entering further 
into detail on this subject. The particulars given of the success 
attending growers of Breck’s seeds at the largest and most 
keenly competed exhibitions of the country, is a sufficient evi¬ 
dence as to the quality of our seeds. 
We hope the renewal of our offer to “ Double It ” will re¬ 
sult in an increased interest in Horticultural and Agricultural 
Societies, larger and more profitable crops to cultivators, and a 
just appreciation of the excellence of 
MR. GRAPE. 
BRECK’S PEDIGREE SEEDS 
