. Briggs and Bro.'s illustrated catalogue of flower and vegetable seeds. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. We take pleasure in presenting to the public, our second annual Illustrated Catalogue OF Flower and Vegetable Seeds. v'i-', The assortment of Fl6wer Seeds consists of about two hundred packe^P'^rSacli packet; containing, generally, several different kinds. We have mixed in eaf^Jteket, all the varieties -y of a species where the height, habit and time of flowering would adnin; our objec^i^ng to \ enable purchasers to get the largest, best and most useful show flft''we"
. Briggs and Bro.'s illustrated catalogue of flower and vegetable seeds. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. We take pleasure in presenting to the public, our second annual Illustrated Catalogue OF Flower and Vegetable Seeds. v'i-', The assortment of Fl6wer Seeds consists of about two hundred packe^P'^rSacli packet; containing, generally, several different kinds. We have mixed in eaf^Jteket, all the varieties -y of a species where the height, habit and time of flowering would adnin; our objec^i^ng to \ enable purchasers to get the largest, best and most useful show flft''we"V^fl'«< money. li^Kjdallec- * tion in this Catalogue will make a more extensive exhibition of kinds and colort-'tjSaii" six hundred packets of separate varieties. Where it is desired to make tiie best display with the least expenditure of space, time and funds, this assortment is uneqbaHtxl. Dwing the past 8?ason, we had in our Flower Garden, nearly one thousand distinct varieties of Flowers in bloom, and in making up the assortment for this Catalogue, we passed over the grounds, and selected, without regard to cost or the value of seeds, the most desirable, and such as any amateur would choose were he desirous of securing six hundred of the leading or finer sorts. It will not be out of place for us to state here, that with Flowers from our own garden, grown from our last season's assortment of seeds, we made at the New York State Fair, at Utica, the last year, the largest and best exhibition of Annual Flowers, ever shown in the State. At the Fair of our own County, open, to the competition of the whole country, here at Rochester, where competition is not inconsiderable; the First Premium was awarded us for the largest and best exhibition of Cut Flowers. Wo import largely our Flower Seeds .from the- mo^t,; j1jej,iable growers of England, Ger- many and France, the quality of seeds-being the chief dbj&jtrin view. The collection of Vegetable Seeds contained in thi!s
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