Dreer's garden calendar . dreersgardencale1890henr Year: 1890 T the dawn of the New Year we seud to our customers our Garden Calendar, trusting that the incessant care bestowed on our stocks and the reputation of the house for straight and honest dealing will induce you to place with us your orders for seeds, plants and the necessary appliances for garden and farm operations. Our quarters at 714 Chestnut street having become too small for our rapidly increasing trade, we have leased for storage purposes the warehouse No. 11 North Water St. The past summer we in- creased our glass surface at R
Dreer's garden calendar . dreersgardencale1890henr Year: 1890 T the dawn of the New Year we seud to our customers our Garden Calendar, trusting that the incessant care bestowed on our stocks and the reputation of the house for straight and honest dealing will induce you to place with us your orders for seeds, plants and the necessary appliances for garden and farm operations. Our quarters at 714 Chestnut street having become too small for our rapidly increasing trade, we have leased for storage purposes the warehouse No. 11 North Water St. The past summer we in- creased our glass surface at Riverton by the addition of three houses, each 125 by 21 feet, built in the most approved and substantial manner. We trust by these additions to our jjlant to give our customers even better service than we have in the jjast. Our seed stocks have been kept up to our high standard of excellence, our plants are well grown and thrifty, our tools and implements are from the best manu- facturers in their respective lines, and our fertilizers are of the highest grades procura- ble. It is our aim to send out only the very best goods at prices commensurate with quality, and not to depreciate quality to obtain cheapness, for in no branch of business do cheap prices depreciate quality quicker than in the seed trade. In making our Catalogues we give descriptions free from all appearance of outrageousness, and make our engravings as true to type and nature as possible, con- sidering well the ftict that a seedsman's Catalogue should be rational in its tone, educational in its matter, and as clearly descriptive of the things offered as a limited space will allow. It is our desire to make our Catalogue ser- viceable as a book of reference, and as clear as possible, so that it will not be simply looked at and then thrown aside. Our policy has been and still is to send out but few ' novelties,' believing it to be better to send out the best grades of the old and tried sorts rather than a multitud
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