We Save A Fine Lot Of House Plants, At Low Prices, To Keep 
four Home Cozy Ani Cheery During The Winter 
During the past Winter and Spring our greenhouses have been taxed to. capacity, and, 
as explained earlier in this Introduction, we are now working out plans with builders ol 
greenhouses for the erection of three monster houses, and for a Picking-Out and Packing 
House that will be, at the start, at least fifty feet wide and from a hundred to a hundred 
and fifty feet in length, as the beginning of a great range of modern, thoroughly up-to- 
date hothouses. This new construction will double our indoor plant growing facilities, 
and more than quadruple our packing space, which is very greatly needed in the prompt 
filling of orders, so essential in a mail-order business. When we look back to the cramped 
condition of our present Packing House it is a wonder to us that we have been able to fill 
this p ast season’s orders as prompdy and as satisfactorily as we have. Our friends all 
know more or less what a lot of time, planning, patience and work it takes to modernize a 
very old business that has got behind the times in methods of propogating and handling , 
and the buildings of which were inadequate for taking care of an increasing business, and 
our business has increased in unexpectedly large strides every year since we bought the 
property. But, having at last taken a radical step in the way of building, additions to the 
new construction can be arranged to keep pace with the growth of the business itself. We 
shall continue to use the old greenhouses for awhile, but the plan is to gradually take 
those houses down and out of them erect larger houses alongside the new ones,which are to 
be located in a seventy-five acre field, with the superb soil ol Lancaster County stretching out 
all around them for the growing of outdoor stuff, Ikeonies, Iris, Phlox, and all sorts of 
Plants and Shrubbery, in acres instead of beds, handy to be drawn right into the Packing 
House ready for shipping to our customers in every state in the Union. 
The basic idea in the new building has been ability to fill orders in less time and with 
less labor than any mail-order grower in the United States, and this economy helps us to 
keep our prices down. 
In our Spring Seed Book and Floral Guide, to be mailed in January, we shall hope to 
show photographs of the new farm and greenhouses. 
But to get back to the Plants themselves: all our Plants are fine, stropg, healthy, 
vigorous specimens, produced from splendid propogating stock and thoroughly well rooted. 
In our visits of investigation among other growers we saw no stock that compared with 
ours : n healthiness and thriftiness. 
We are very careful about the packing at Lapark, and it rarely happens that the Plants 
do not reach our customers in fine, growing condition, even when mailed to far away Cal¬ 
ifornia, and it so happens that California is one of our very best states as far as cumber of 
customers is concerned. When a package is delayed on the road, though it can be no 
fault of ours, and does not reach our customer in proper condition, we refill the order at 
our own expense. , 
In closing this somewhat personal letter we want to thank you all for the splendid busi¬ 
ness you have given us during the past exceedingly busy season, and to assure you that a 
committee of the owners of this business, composed of active, aggressive, far-seeing men 
has taken hold of the building programme of our business, and they will see to it that our 
facilities for filling and handling orders will be adequate, so that Lapark may be known, 
not only as the place where your money will buy more and finer stock than anywhere else 
in the whole country, but where your order will be filled with that promptness and courtesx 
that we have determined upon. 
A .MIXED BORDER OF FALL PLANTED BOLBS 
