ITH a New Year’s greeting we send you our Garden and Floral Guide 
once more, trusting that Uick Quality Seeds and Plants still hold a high 
place in your esteem. It gives us great pleasure to find in our files of 
customers the names of many who have purchased seeds of us year after 
year. For the confidence implied in their continued purchasing, whether 
for five or fifty years, we express our sincere appreciation. 
Since our first catalogue was issued there has been a great in¬ 
crease in the number of varieties of Flower and Vegetable Seeds, and a 
corresponding improvement in the quality of the stock offered. But have 
you ever thought of the amount of study and patient effort it has required 
to improve these varieties ? It is an immense task to sort out from the 
many novelties which constantly appear, those which surpass older and 
better known varieties; and it is still a larger task to develop and perfect 
some new strain. As an illustration : In our first catalogue we offered only seven vari¬ 
eties of Sweet Peas, which were practically the only ones grown ; now there are over two 
hundred named varieties, while hundreds of other sorts have long since been discarded. 
On our seed farm at Despatch, we yearly devote a number of acres to the exclusive 
purpose of testing every variety of seed offered in our catalogue. In this way, we are able 
to speak with confidence of the quality of our stock and know positively that every variety 
; s a worthy representative of QicR Quality, the best and purest in the world. 
The best assurance we can give prospective buyers of the superiority of our seed is to 
refer them to the thousands of satisfied purchasers of QicK Quality seed all over the world. 
We assure them, also, that no concern is more careful about all the details of filling orders, 
and that we give all orders, large or small, just as satisfactory service as lies in our power. 
“ Vick Quality” Novelties for 1907 
When making out your order don’t overlook the novelties of this year. We fully 
realize that many of the so-called novelties listed by some seedsmen are either humbugs or 
old varieties renamed and for this reason we are particular to test thoroughly the new things 
before offering them, discarding many as worthless. Here are a few new varieties of seeds 
and plants described in this year’s Garden and Floral Guide, which we have tested carefully 
and which we can recommend as worthy of a place in every garden. 
Asters. (See pages 41 to 46) 
Vick’s Purplish Violet Upright. 
Vick’s White Upright. 
Vick’s Cardinal. 
Vick’s Royal Purple Branching. 
Vick’s Rosy Carmine Branching. 
Vick’s Sunset. 
New Rambler Rose Lady Gay. Page 75 
Lily, Auratum Platyphyllum. Page 71 
Lily, Philippense. 
Lily, Speciosum Magnificum. 
Bean, Powell’s Yellow Giant. Page 7 
Cabbage, Volga. Page 10 
Corn, Hiawatha. Page 14 
Onion, Ailsa Craig. Page 22 
Potato, Carman Seedling. Page 27 
A Special Catalogue of the Best New and Old Hardy Plants 
The growing demand for Hardy Plants which will live for years without the trouble of 
replacing annually, and which will give abundance of bloom from early spring until late in 
the fall, has induced us to issue a special Catalogue of the Best New and Old Hardy Per¬ 
ennials. This Catalogue will contain full descriptions and will be handsomely illustrated. 
It will be issued about February 1st. We shall be pleased to mail you a copy if you are interested. It is free. 
IT’S 
FREE, 
