. Annual descriptive catalogue : seeds & Nursery stock, Massachusetts, Boston, Catalogs; Flowers, Seeds, Catalogs; Vegetables, Seeds, Catalogs; Grasses, Seeds, Catalogs; Agricultural implements, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs. AT THE more important Competitive Exhibitions throughout the United States during the year 1897 is without a parallel. The number of first prizes duplicated was very large. In Massachu- setts alone, where gardening, both professional and amateur, is a high art, and competition at the shows very keen, we doubled over Ave hundred prizes for specimens and collections of V
. Annual descriptive catalogue : seeds & Nursery stock, Massachusetts, Boston, Catalogs; Flowers, Seeds, Catalogs; Vegetables, Seeds, Catalogs; Grasses, Seeds, Catalogs; Agricultural implements, Catalogs; Fruit, Catalogs. AT THE more important Competitive Exhibitions throughout the United States during the year 1897 is without a parallel. The number of first prizes duplicated was very large. In Massachu- setts alone, where gardening, both professional and amateur, is a high art, and competition at the shows very keen, we doubled over Ave hundred prizes for specimens and collections of Vegetables and Flowers. Cultivators from nearly every State in the Union made claims on us which we gladly met in accordance with our promise. We propose continuing our encouragement to gardeners as shown on opposite page, and trust all lovers of flowers will prove for themselves, during 1898, that our claim to sell only the best strains of the different kinds of seeds is well grounded. The following examples, taken at random, will give some idea of what "We Double It" means. To John S. Bandy, E. Burnett, Vt, we paid $, being an equal amount to that awarded him at the Caledonia County Fair for Cut Flowers in variety. We duplicated the first prize for largest and best collection of Sweet Peas awarded by the Mechanicsville (Iowa) Society to Mrs. S. T. Buell. Harry F. Cross of Hingham, secured the Hingham Horticultural Society's first prize for best display of Asters ; these being grown from Breck's Seeds we doubled the prize money. S. J. B. Dunbar, Elk- horn, Wis., obtained five first prizes for vegetables, at the Wal- worth County Fair; H. P. West, Fayetteville, Wis., twelve first prizes at Wisconsin State Fair; John Grape, Waukesha, Wis., twenty first prizes at Waukesha County Fair; thus three Wisconsin horticulturalists were paid, in addition to the amounts awarded by their societies, nearly $100. William Bain of Chatham, N. Y., en- tered fourteen varietits of Row
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