stud Wow for the GIFT OFFERS 7°% “4e Gear of 
FIRST and MOST IMPORTANT to remember in connection with 
these GIFT OFFERS (and that truly means no extra charge) is THE ONE 
EXCEPTION that the purchase of PRIZEGRO (page 5) DOES NOT 
PARTICIPATE IN OR QUALIFY FOR ANY GIFT because the offer of the 
BONE MEAL jis IN REALITY THE GIFT ITSELF and is the OUT- 
STANDING so-called GIFT of this F.S.B. 
HOW OUR GIFT OFFER WORKS 
All we ask in exchange for THE GIFT is to send us the names of FIVE 
(5) NEIGHBOR GARDENERS. Please turn to page 22. Fill in the 
5 names, tear out that part of the page and attach to your order. We are 
trying to build our mailing list with the names of real (big or small) 
gardeners. 
OUR “GIFT OFFERS” are rather an expensive method of this accom- 
plishment, but we simply want YOUR gardening friends to have the same 
G&O advantages that we are offering you. 
No need to repeat ‘that the offer of these GIFTS is GENUINE. Our 
patrons do not pay ONE CENT for them beyond the purchase price of such 
other products as they might regularly need and would buy anyway and 
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from any source for their garden or home so that means that our GIFTS 
represent a substantial discount never expected by the customer. 
Of course, trying to convince EVERYBODY of a different or unheard 
of example, in business, of sincerity (and you might even say honesty) is 
probably a waste of time. Converting those who are only happy when in a 
state of abject suspicion seems unworthy effort, but not with our manner of 
almost nationally known frank expression in advertising because we say— 
“if you ever have occasion to doubt us and can’t clear that doubt—then both 
of us are unhappy and we ought to quit doing business together. 
Maybe we should say here (since these F.S.B.’s go all over the country 
and so some G&O customers who really don’t know where Skillman is) that 
nearly 30 years ago this company started in a Long Island City cellar of 
700 sq ft. 
Today we have over 7 acres with nearly all R.R. frontage and a 7 car 
spur track into six buildings with nearly 60,000 sq. ft., all modernly 
equipped. The start and the present—under the same management. 
Just a little pedigree but enough to pledge—BUSINESS ON THE 
HIGHEST LEVEL. Our guarantee on back of last page is enough—COUTE 
QUE COUTE. 
GIFT No. ONE 
For your purchase of one or any number of as- 
sorted products amounting to from ($5.00 to 
$10.00 (our average F.S.B. mail order is almost 
$10.00) our GIFTS to you are 
(A) Our standard 5 oz. package of WUND-O- 
BEST PLANT FOOD (making 8 gallons) 
selling for 45c and shown on page 12. 
(B) Also a copy of the 1954 ANNUAL HOME 
GARDEN GUIDE selling for 50c on news- 
stands. About 100 pages to guide any 
gardener. 
GIFT No. FOUR 
For your purchase amounting to from $35.00 to 
$50.00 our GIFTS to you are 
(A) A copy of “BUCKS COOKS” and so that 
you won't be troubled too much in turning 
to other pages to learn about probably the 
most FAMOUS of all cook books because of 
the national personalities involved, we are 
briefly describing it on this same page. We 
wager one thing—you'll preserve your copy 
for life. 
(B) The combination SPRINKLER and DUSTER. 
See page 21. 
(C) ALSO the 50c copy of HOME GARDEN 
GUIDE. See page 28. 
gentleman). 
~— 
GIFT No. TWO 
For your purchase amounting to from $10.00 to 
$20.00 our GIFTS to you are 
(A) A pair of those nationally advertised GREEN 
THUMB gardening gloves shown on page 
28 (state size and whether for lady or 
(B) ALSO a PINT of RID-O-SPOT shown on 
page 26 (and believe us—you'll like it). 
GIFT No. FIVE 
For your purchase amounting to from $50.00 up 
to $75.00, our GIFTS to you are 
(A) Again that “Collector's item’—-BUCKS 
COOKS. 
(B) ONE (1) PAIR of GREEN THUMB 
GLOVES (state size). See page 28. 
(C) A POUND OF GRASS SEED. See page 24. 
(State whether SUN or SHADE). 
(D) ALSO a copy of the 1954 ANNUAL HOME 
GARDEN GUIDE. See page 28. 
GIFT No. THREE 
For your purchase amounting to from $20.00 to 
$35.00, our GIFTS to you are 
(A) The combination SPRINKLER and DUSTER. 
See page 21. 
(B) ALSO the 45c package of WUND-O-BEST 
as shown on page 12 and as a companion to 
(A) 
(C) ALSO the 50c copy of HOME GARDEN 
GUIDE. See page 28. 
THIS SURELY IS A GENEROUS ARRAY OF 
GIFTS—You must admit. 
GRAND SLAM No. SIX 
Here’s where we go “overboard” with GIFTS 
based on your purchases between $75.00 and 
$100.00 or over (believe it or not we get mail 
orders for over $350.00). 
(A) BUCKS COOKS (cook book described 
below). 
(B) The combination SPRINKLER and DUSTER. 
See page 21. 
(C) A pair of KNEE GUARDS. See page 21. 
(D) ONE (1) PAIR of GREEN THUMB 
GLOVES. See page 28. 
(E) A FIVE pound pkg. of HOPEWELL VAL- 
LEY GOOD EARTH. See page 7. 
COOK BOOKS! HOW "ZANY” CAN AN F. S. B. GET? 
We live in the Princeton, Delaware River and New 
Hope, Bucks County area—as interesting and _his- 
torically American as any section of the U.S.A., 
settled by “English Quakers” and “Pennsylvania 
Dutch.” 
Our GIFT “selection” committee ran into this 228 
page, 386 recipes book entitled BUCKS (the artists’ 
county) COOKS with its facsimile of hand lettered 
type, 30 drawings by 20 famous artists, now in its 
3rd large printing. In addition to hundreds of local 
and cosmopolitan favorites, here are Pearl Buck’s 
Chinese recipe for “Sweet-Sour Fish,’ Mrs. Oscar 
Hammerstein’s “French Dressing,’ George Papa- 
shvily’s recipe for “Shashlik,” “Know Nothing Break- 
fast Cake,’ “Idlab Rice Muffins,” etc. The book store 
price is $2.95. 
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From Basil, Ohio:—‘“I have found your recent F.S.B. of such interest and sibly send me 40 more? I feel you would have response from doing so. I intend 
It’s more than a cook book and more than an art 
collection and when the book is out of print, it could, 
with the copies of signatures of all of these nationally 
known personalities, well prove to be a costly collec- 
tor’s item and you'll agree if you are lucky enough to 
win a copy. They call it a guide to “Estimable 
Comestibles” but it is more. Attractive enough for a 
living room table and yet tough enough to take an 
every-day licking in the kitchen. 
You'll say, after getting a copy, that G&O are as 
“unusual” in GIFTS as they are in their merchandise. 
It was selected by the jurors of the Philadelphia 
Book Show for its excellence in graphic art so who 
are we to pass it by. 
know it would be of importance to members of our Garden Club. Could you pos- sending you an order soon.’ 
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