Excerpt from Park's Floral Guide, 1901 Libonia, Franklin em, Pa.friendship, and wish you better success auu gruuwcr p your floral work this season than in the season that is gone. My dealings with you in the past, I trust, speal to you of my friendly interest and sincere good wishes must admit that there is a bond of sympathy and fellow, among. Those who really love the true, the good and t tiful which insures manifest friendship. It is always a pie me to mail my floral. Guide as the spring season app for the kind acknowledgements and friendly words whi from my esteemed patrons soon after are a source of pleasui and an inspiration in the delightful avocation to which my ergies are devoted. Such cordial greetings indicate the app] of my efforts to supply the best seeds and plants at the lowest nd they promote renewed zeal and faithfulness in my patron's service. Arly boyhoo'd I began the business Which is my life-work - that of Se ind Publisher - and throughout all these years I have had one aim and p honestly and satisfactorily with everyone who favored me with their pa rather lose a sale than to get gain by dishonesty or deception.. This strz siness course has gained and retained for me many - yes, hosts of friends, 13 bowing the names of more than patrons, some of whom have bee] a for more than a score of years - whose names I revere because of long-a ge, and whose annual letters seem as greetings from old friends - which th ej oice in this friendly intercourse, and assure all who deal with me that m3 ihall ever be to serve my patrons so well that I shall deserve the confid About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com