FLANSBURGH & PEIRSON CO.’S CATALOGUE. 
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A Change of Name. 
We take pleasure in introducing to our customers, Mr. J. D. Nysewander, 
formerly of Ben Davis, Indiana, now of Leslie,' Michigan, and an equal partner 
and co-worker in our firm now designated The Flansburgh & Peirson Company. 
Many of our customers will recognize the name as identified with articles 
along the line of horticulture that have appeared from time to time in the Rural 
New Yorker and other papers of national reputation. To others in Indiana he is 
better known from a personal acquaintance as a practical horticulturist and an 
active member of the State Horticultural Society. 
Mr. Nysewander had been a customer for several years, while yet the writer 
was building up a plant trade out of town and before the firm of Flansburgh & 
Peirson was organized six years ago at Leslie, for better accomodations and a 
prompter service for our patrons, who often bought plants of one and seed pota¬ 
toes of the other. The present move Is in the same direction. It becomes neces¬ 
sary to enlarge our plans to keep up with our growing trade, which demands 
and ever will demand the same careful attention to every detail, and the same 
personal supervision that we have ever given, and it is better for ourselves and 
for our customers that we share with one of them, whose heart is in the work, 
the good will of the others, and a part in the increasing management. 
The writer’s hobby is strawberries, and ever will be. Life is too short to go 
too fast a pace, we are apt to miss some joys that line the way and there are 
many in a business such as ours. We want to keep close touch with all of our 
customers, to be of benefit, not only to those who have been with us from the 
beginning, but to the rising generation, the boys and girls at home on the farm. 
One source of pleasure and profit to the home is strawberries, and if the young 
folks are ambitious to branch out a greater revenue may be derived from these, 
in a small or a larger way, than from any crop we know of. $500 from an acre 
is not uncommon, as much has often been received from half an acre of choice 
varieties. We want to interest these young folks, to help to make the home for 
them the dearest spot on earth and where our catalogue will be thankfully re¬ 
ceived each spring for many years to come. 
We have 146 acres of good land and have leased 70 acres more, all devoted to 
the business, and all but 80 acres within a half mile of the'depot. We are right 
in town, and situated to give our customers the promptest service. 
Our personality is in no way changed by the new arrangement, our old friends 
are our old friends still, and we hope to find more time to visit you upon oc¬ 
casion or visit with you when you come to see us, and in many ways to improve 
upon and make our service more complete. 
Thanking you for favors past and for future favors we remain, 
Yours truly, 
THE FLANSBURGH & PEIRSON CO. 
Lakeside, Ohio, December 3 9, 1904. 
Gentlemen:—Two years ago Mr. Belmken got plants of you to set an acre on 
my father’s land. The first harvest made him $500.00, or more. He moved away 
and father has given me the land. Please look up what sorts he ordered. I 
think Dunlap, Uncle Jim, Marie and others. I will also want of you some rasp¬ 
berries, blackberries, corn and potatoes. Please advise me and oblige. My soil 
is- etc. C. G. REIDMAIER. 
Oak Harbor, Ohio, December 28, 1904. 
Dear Sirs:—I got nearly 8.000 quarts of strawberries the next year from 
plants got of you in 1902, and I want some more next spring. Please change 
my address and mail catalogue to this place where I now live and oblige. 
Yours truly, TEES BELMKEN. 
