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County Directory of Scotland Advertiser. Ixv
AGRICULTURAL SEEDS.
Our descriptive PRICED CATALOGUE OF AGEICULTURAL SEEDS is published
early in February, and will be posted to any address on application.
During upwards of Sixty Years' active engagement in the general Seed Trade, it has
been our aim to furnish all Seeds requisite for the Farm or Garden, as perfect iov freshness,
purity, and correctness to name as can be produced. In regard to the last-mentioned point,
"we scrupulously avoid the practice, now too common, — and which we consider unfair and
misleading, — of affixing our own name to varieties that have not, in the strictest sense,
originated with ourselves.
In the raising of TURNIP SEEDS, we continue year by year to make new selections to
start with, which, with other means acquired by experience, cannot fail to ensure the three
great requisites of size, shape, And firmness of texture. The study of the NATURAL GRASSES
has long engaged our attention, and we were among the first to recommend their use in the
formation of PERMANENT PASTURE.
By a faithful adherence to the line thus indicated, along with constant personal
oversight and promptness in the execution of orders, we have been rewarded by a most
encouraging increase of business, to meet which we have greatly extended our arrangements
for raising, and otherwise securing more ample supplies,, and are thus enabled to give
purchasers, however large,, every advantage.
In referring to prices^ nothing requires to be explained to the Noblemen and Gentlemen
who have done business with us over a long series of years, and who make quality alone the
standard of value ; however, it is perhaps necessary to submit a remark on this head to
those who look to price only as their guide in purchasing. Wherever the matter be duly
^ weighed, it must be conceded that no small share of the farmer's success is dependent on
what he sows. This, however, either with or without his knowledge, seems to be discarded,
if we may judge from the very large proportion of old, weedy, spurious, and adidterated
seed which is constantly in the market, all of which, somehow or other, finds purchasers,
and into the land it must go ; the result being a meagre crop of the article wanted, with a
superabundant growth of ' noxious weeds,' that are not wanted. Let the same amount of
money that is given per acre for the ' cheap ' seeds be expended on the lest qualities, as
supplied by the experienced and responsible seedsman, and although the quantity of seed
may be less than in the former case, it will at once be seen which givea the better result.
WM. DRUMMOND & SONS.
Seed and Nursery Establishment,
Stirling, January 1875.
WASTE PAPER.
WANTED to Purchase for Re-Manufacturing, Old Ledgers, Day-Books,
Letters, Old Newspapers, Railway Papers, Session Papers, and every
Description of Written and Printed. The Highest Price given, and the whole sent
out of the Kingdom.
Apply by letter, or personally, to
GILBERT ADCOGK & SOIVS.
NO. 11 SOUTH ST. ANDREW STREET, EDINBURGH.
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