To Our Customers 
It is with great pleasure that we submit this Catalogue to our customers, 
extending to them, at the same time, our cordial thanks for their liberal patronage 
in the past. 
We are now in a better position than ever to please our customers, and will in 
the future as in the past do our utmost to insure satisfaction. 
Although we have only been in business (which embraces the collecting, 
importing and growing of Orchids) since 1896, our business has assumed such pro¬ 
portions that we now find it necessary to publish this Catalogue, which includes 
the most useful and ornamental Orchids for general culture. 
This Catalogue is by no means complete, but represents the bulk of our stock 
at the date of publication. 
INDIANS BRINGING IN PLANTS FROM THE WOODS. 
We are constantly receiving fresh importations of Orchids direct from the for¬ 
ests of Mexico, Central and South America, and the East Indies; and upon receipt 
of such importations our customers will be notified by letters or circulars stating 
varieties received and prices thereof. 
