1896 
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DESCRIPTIVE 
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OF TESTED 
-GROWN AM> FOR SALK »Y 
A. T, COOK. SEEDSMAN, HYDE PARK, 
DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW YORK. 
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ANNUAL GREETING, 
•‘May seed-time leave your doubts no room, 
The summer find your fields a-bloom. 
The harvest, as ’tis gathered in, 
Crowd every barn, and every bln." 
KIND FRIENDS: fu sending you my SEED CATALOGUE I take this oppor¬ 
tunity of thanking you for the liberal patronage bestowed on me, and for the many kind letters 
and testimonials, in regard to the good quality pf my seeds. I am happy to say I do not know 
that I have a single dissatisfied customer; but should there be any such, if they will write to me, 
I will do my best to reader satisfaction. I do not boast of having the largest seed house in the 
country, or of issuing the most magnificent Catalogue, tilled with, illustrated beauty, and bewitch¬ 
ing rhetoric, (which' all understand the customer really has to pay for in high-priced seeds.) But 
rather, I am glad to ay that what l do, 1 mean to do well, and that by growing many of 
the Seeds,' carefully testing them, and putting th£m up myself I KNOW WHAT I AM SELL¬ 
ING; and am able to supply GOOD-SIZED PACKETS at ft reasonable price. 
__ Mv business the past season has been greatly in excess of any previous year; and I find 
people fully understand the great advantage of buying tested seeds direct from the grower. I 
now have a very large and carefully selected stock of seeds to offer. To strangers, I would say- 
YOU WILL NOT FIND IN MY CATALOGUE 
“store seed” venerable with years, and of unreliable quality, seed saved from all the odds 
and ends of various crops; seed saved from unsalable melons, and onions; headless cabbages, 
sprangling carrots; refuse corn, beets, and vegetables of,all sorts. But if you want Northern seed, 
honestly raised, homegrown, carefully tested: and warranted to give satisfaction [or order re¬ 
filled gratis], then I should be pleased to count you among my customers. 
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‘Sowing in the sunshine, 
Sowing In the shadows; 
Fearing- neither clouds, nor 
Winter’s chilling breeze; 
By and by the harvest, 
And the labor ended, 
We shall come rejoicing. 
Bringing in the sheaves. 
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