2,000 IN CASH PRIZES 
AT THE WORLD’S FAIR, CHICAGO. 
TTfTEU receiving many circulars and invitation to make an exhibit at the World’s Fair at Chicago, we decided the best way to 
/ ' make an interesting and profitable display was to offer $2,000 in cash prizes to be competed for by our customers. 
We contemplated making the largest exhibition of Flowers and Vegetables ever brought together. Plans were being perfected 
to literally cover the walls and ceiling3 of Horticultural Hall with festoons and hanging baskets of rare Flowers, while the tables 
were to be loaded with the finest specimens of Vegetables. The proper authorities were notified of our intentions and asked if the 
plans could be carried out under the rules. After receiving a favorable reply and having a certain portion of Horticultural Hall 
assigned to us, with the request that we use it between September loth and October 1st, we went to considerable expense advertising 
the fact and calling attention to our offer in several places in Vick’s Floral Guide, 1893. How as we are about to mail the Floral 
Guide a letter comes from the authorities saying that a higher power, “The Committee on Awards of the Columbian Exposition,” 
has just decided not to allow goods to be entered for competition. This decision, coming at this late date, after Vick's Floral 
Guide is printed, has subjected us to great unnecessary expense and embarrassment, 
We feel doubly annoyed because we intended doing a grand thing for the Columbian Fair, and we anticipated the pleasure of 
meeting thousands of our friends and customers in Horticultural Hall, which we should have made a place of beauty to be 
remembered as a “joy forever.” 
We are full of regret and disappointment over this unexpected change in our plans, and can but experience a degree of righteom 
indignation towards the “ Commissioners of Awards,” who were so slow in maturing their plans. 
There is one thing we can do to make up for the disappointment. Let each of us plant Charmer Peas, 
Golden Nugget Sweet Corn, Maggie Murphy Potatoes, Dixie and Irondequoit Melons, and Danvers 
Yellow Onion in the Vegetable Garden, numerous seeds in the Flower Beds and the Brazilian Morning Glory over our front piazzas, 
then amid festoons of dainty blossoms and decorated walls we can feast like princes from tables loaded with luxuries unknown to 
the poor “ Committee on Awards.” 
REVENGE. 
$325 CASH PRIZES ON POTATOES. 
A S an incentive to potato growers, and that they may to a greater extent bring before the public the excellent qualities of our new 
Potatoes, the American Wonder, introduced last year, and the Maggie Murphy, to which attention is called this year for the 
first time, we offer the following cash prizes. Not only potato growers, but every farmer’s boy can make a trial and stand a good 
chance of winning. For description of these potatoes, see pages 15 and 28c. 
$175. MAGGIE MURPHY. 
AMERICAN WONDER. $150. 
For the best dozen..- -.... .$70.00 
“ “ second best dozen ___ 35.00 
“ “ third best dozen__- .. 25.00 
“ “ fourth best dozen _ A .. 10.00 
“ “ seven next best dozens, each, $5__ . .. 35.00 
For the best dozen .._ _. .$00.00 
“ “ second best dozen ___ .30.00 
“ “ third best dozen _ 20.00 
“ “ fourth best dozen_ ... - 10.00 
“ “ next six best dozens, each, $5 . 30.00 
$175.00 
CONDITIONS. 
$150.00 
Potatoes to be grown from seed purchased from us during the year 1893. 
Potatoes must be delivered at Rochester, N. Y., free of charge, on or before October 15th, 1893. 
Every person desiring to compete must state the fact, with their name and address on a separate piece of paper, and enclose 
same with their order for seeds. 
Potatoes must be shipped to James Vick’s Sons, Rochester, N. Y., prepaid, and in time to arrive here on or before Oct. 15, ’93. 
The names of winners will be announced in the November number of Vick’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine. 
Judges will be appointed from Monroe County Grange. Their names, with the decisions, will appear in November number of 
Vick’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine. 
JAMES VICK’S SONS, Rochester, N. Y. 
