Excerpt from Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Choice Hardy Perennials

WE again present our friends and patrons with a new edition of our Perennial Catalogue.

Our facilities for furnishing Hardy Herbaceous Plants are now unexcelled by any other firm in the United States, while our facilities for packing and filling orders are the best. Our collection now includes all the best species known to cultivation, and, with our numerous collectors, we can furnish all plants desired, whether native or foreign, and in quantities to suit.

We would have all remember that we can also furnish all Hardy Trees and Shrubs desired, and our reputation in this line is unequalled. Our collection of Hardy Trees and Shrubs, both Evergreen and Deciduous, as well as Climbing Plants, and our facilities for their cultivation and sale, are unexcelled. For thirty-five years we have been contributing to the embellishment-s of the suburban and country residences, parks, streets, and gardens of New England, and the Reading Nursery is a byword for first-class stock by our numerous friends. We have laid out many of the finest grounds to be seen in our own and neighboring States, while few, indeed, are the public or private grounds which have not some representatives of our stock, while many are almost entirely supplied by us. We have taken up the cultivation and dissemination of Hardy Plants for the last few years. Knowing that their value is such as to warrant their extended and popular use. Hardy Flowers are now fully admitted to be the flowers of the future, and no one with a full knowledge of the subject disputes their great advantages over tender plants for use in flower-gardens and bedding, not that they or we desire to exterminate the bedding systems or the use of tender plants, but to use each in their proper place, and not to use one at the expense of the other. Both have their uses, and both are most desirable, but for general use in dower-gardens, and for the greatest return for the least money, the Bedding Plants are inferior to Hardy Plants in desirable results. Let us look at the matter. All who have had experience with bedding-plants know ofthe enormous expense and care necessary to produce satisfactory results. When one takes into account the expense incurred in propagating-houses during the winter, the care and attention necessary to the raising of the thousands of t'ender plants, their protection from fr'ost, hardening-off in spring, and their constant renewal each year, with their planting in May or June, a season at which the flower garden should be a mass of beauty, he commences to realize that he does not receive the return for his expenditure which it is fair to expect. -now, with the expenditure of one year's cost of bedding-plants, in Hardy Flowers, one may obtain results far more satisfactory, and, instead of an utter blank of flowers in spring and late fall, as with bedding-plants, one may secure a continuous succession of bloom, and in a variety which it is impossible to obtain with tender plants.

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