TO OUR PATRONS 
I 
PON handing you our Catalogue for the coming season, we are forcibly reminded 
that we have now completed a round “FORTY YEARS” of business experience, 
1858 - 
and during this time we have made hosts of friends. We wish first of all, to extend a most 
hearty greeting to the scores of old, and the hundreds of new customers, who have stood by 
us, and second, we would solicit a further continuation of their liberal patronage. 
In the Catalogue will be found the names of well-known standard varieties of seeds, 
proven by experience to be the most valuable of their kinds for this climate, and we would 
request that you give all our specialties a space in your gardens. We will assure you that no 
new varieties or novelties will be offered you, except those in which we have the fullest 
confidence, and which will repay your attention. We have always paid special attention to 
the purity of our seeds, and complaints made that seeds are not good, may more often be 
attributed to other causes, than to the quality of the stock, and to insure the purchaser 
further protection against loss incurred from planting inferior strains, we will add that “all 
our seeds have been tested,” and the merit of the stock is beyond question. 
flarket Gardeners, requiring large quantities of Seeds, are invited to write for 
Special Prices. 
We forward seeds by flail or Express as the purchaser may wish. 
All sums to the amount of one dollar and upwards may be sent at our risk if forwarded 
according to the following directions, viz: by Post Office Money Orders, Bank Drafts or 
Cash sent in a registered letter. 
In sending an order please give your Name, Post Office, County and State in full, as 
plain as possible; your name especially written very distinctly. We receive many letters 
without the signature of the writer, which causes much trouble to us and anxiety to them. 
Please be particular in this respect. 
Greenhouse Plants of every description can be furnished at short notice. 
In shipping we make no charge for delivery to railroads or express companies. 
Bags charged at cost. 
Very respectfully yours, 
KENDALL & WHITNEY. 
