Plates made 
directly from the apple 
by our own process 
OR six or eight months, in presenting our case as to horticultural 
printing on this page, we have constantly advised nurserymen that 
WE DO NOT MAKE COLORED PLATES 
That this announcement is to save us constant bother, in having to decline 
orders for a half-dozen "hand-painted" plates of some specific variety, and not 
because of inability, we show above, in connection with the plain truth, that 
WE CAN MAKE COLORED PLATES 
The " King" apple picture above shows that we can give a moSt life-like 
presentation of a fruit. To do it, however, we have to make, by our 
superior methods, a complete set of printing engravings of each subject from 
nature , and this preparation is the same for a million as for a dozen — BUT 
it is too expensive for the dozen, or the hundred! So that again, by reason 
of the awful things that pass current as "colored plates," and because nursery- 
