Vick’s Floral Guide for 1875.
By Uriah Smith
THERE is an ineffaceable conviction in our minds that there is some connection between a man’s manner of conducting his business, and his manner of making it known. If that which a person throws out before the public as a representative of any enterprise in which he may be engaged is first class, we conclude his work is equally excellent. If this is a correct principle, then James Vick, of Rochester, N. Y., is the best seed grower in all the world; for his Floral Guide, in which he illustrates and advertises his business, is the most beautiful production of the kind of which we have any knowledge. We have received the first number for 1875. It contains over 100 pages, and 500 engravings, descriptions of more than 500 of our best flowers and vegetables, with directions for culture, colored plate, &c. The illustrations are pleasing in design and artistic in finish. It is a treat to look through the book, even if we do not procure any of the beautiful and useful things which it presents to us. The Guide is published at the merely nominal price of 25 cents a year. Address, James Vick, Rochester, N. Y.