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 patron- 
age in the past. 
We arc now in a better position than ever before to please our customers, and 
will in the future as well 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 
proportions that we now find it necessaiw 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. 
Orchids in Transit—A Raft on the Magdalene River 
We are constantly receiving fresh importations of Orchids direct from the 
forests 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. 
