. Annual catalogue for 1881 containing a list of garden, field and flower seeds, together with prices and cultural directions. Seeds Catalogs; Seed industry and trade New York (State) Albany. HIS year being our semi-centennial, we celebrate it by issuing a bandsomer and better Catalogue than ever before. It has been our aim to furnish our customers fresh and pure seed at a reasonable price, and it affords us great pleasure to know that our efforts have been appreciated by a constantly enlarging circle of friends, many of whom have been our customers for a long series of years. We thank them he
. Annual catalogue for 1881 containing a list of garden, field and flower seeds, together with prices and cultural directions. Seeds Catalogs; Seed industry and trade New York (State) Albany. HIS year being our semi-centennial, we celebrate it by issuing a bandsomer and better Catalogue than ever before. It has been our aim to furnish our customers fresh and pure seed at a reasonable price, and it affords us great pleasure to know that our efforts have been appreciated by a constantly enlarging circle of friends, many of whom have been our customers for a long series of years. We thank them heartily for their past favors, and trust that our future relations will be as pleasant as the past have been. To them, and to our new patrons, we can only promise to continue our efforts to furnish pure seed at fair pri(;es. As our business has increased, we have, yviw after year, enlarged our facilities, it being our aim to ship orders promptly. This we consider to be of great importance, as a delay of a few days may sometimes be a serious inconvenience to tlie buyer. Unless some special reason prevents, we till all orders within twenty-four hours after their receipt — usually they are filled much sooner than that. There are three ways in which we procure our seed. By far the greater part, in bulk, we grow ourselves from our own slocks, great care being taken to keep them pure ; part of it is grown for us by reliable men, Avhose s(<le business it is to gi ow seed, and who have supplied us with certain sorts for many years, and part of it is imported from the most reliable growers in Europe. We feel confident, therefore, that our seed is true to name. To assuie ourselves that it will grow, we test it carefully in our test-house, rejecting any that may not come up to the requisite percentage of growth. iSl"otwithstanding the utmost caution we can exercise, Ave are not able to warrant seed, because there are many causes which prevent good seed from germinating. Some of t
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