Te My Patr6ns. 
TAKE this opportunity to thank my many friends for their 
very liberal patronage during the past season. Although my 
Catalogue was sent out at about the eleventh hour, yet the 
quick and generous response which followed its distribution 
has so encouraged me that it is with a tenfold assurance of 
a heavy spring trade that I enter upon the preparation of 
this new list. It has afforded me the keenest delight to 
receive so many kind acknowledgments from those whose 
orders have been filled from my nurseries. I .am glad so 
many of you have had the good will to express your satis¬ 
faction with the plants you received. I want you to con¬ 
tinue to tell me just what you think of them, and if, by chance, any of you have 
occasion to feel dissatisfied, don’t hesitate to tell me so. I assure you that if 
there is good reason for it, it will be made right. 
I have both taken from and added to my last list, and you will see many new 
faces whose acquaintance you will wish to make. 
Let me counsel you to order by express or freight, when possible to do so. A 
journey of a thousand miles by freight over any of the trunk lines is not too far for 
most of these plants, if ordered in early spring. In this way the best specimens 
can be sent with soil about their roots, and it is my habit, when plants go by 
express or freight, to add extras to cover cost of carriage. By mail such liberality 
is impossible. 
You who have not yet given me a trial order, and hesitate to do so, possibly on 
account of the distance, cost of transportation, etc., should consider the advan¬ 
tage of having plants from this cold climate. It is not only an advantage to have 
them proved sufficiently hardy here, but also to have them reared and acclimated 
here. Northern-grown stock of all kinds, whether it be garden seeds, fruit, shrubs 
or trees, has already a reputation of its own. How much more, then, may hardy 
perennial plants claim on this account ! 
My prices include boxing, packing and delivery to the nearest freight, post or 
express office, but do not include postage. Following the price of a plant will be 
found one of the following letters: a , b , c y d and e , which stand for 5c., 10c., 
15c., 20c. and 25c., indicating the amount of postage per doz. If the letter a 
comes after the price, it means that if the plant is to go by mail 5 cts. should be 
added to the price of the plants for each dozen. If the letter c follows price, then 
