A WORD OF 
EXPLANATION 
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T HE Buying and Nursery Department of my business has 
grown so rapidly that I found it necessary to make a 
separate business organization, known as the ELLIOTT NUR¬ 
SERY COMPANY, for its conduct, which leaves me free for my 
professional work. This business will remain under my control 
and general direction; and, to improve the service which has 
already made it one of the largest businesses of the kind in 
America, I have given the principal employees stock in the 
Company. 
The men who have served you for years will continue to 
serve you, with the additional incentive to please that they will 
get a share of each dollar made. 
I think it worth while to speak of the aims and ambitions 
of this Company. As growers, they make a specialty of Hardy 
Plants, and have the largest and best stock in the country. They 
also grow some varieties of shrubs and roses, especially the wild 
varieties of various countries and old garden sorts not obtainable 
in other American nurseries. Recognizing that no one nursery can 
excel in everything, they confine their efforts as growers to the 
things they can excel with, but supply their customers with any 
tree, shrub, plant or bulb desired, obtaining their stock from the 
very best nurseries in America, Europe and Japan. In many in¬ 
stances, the stock is shipped direct from the nursery that grows 
it to the customer. Long experience and frequent visits to the 
