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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 16, 18 August 1893, Page 24

]\/r ESSRS CROSS, PABMEB. If l AND COMPANY, GRAIN, SEED, WOOL, and GENERAL AGRICULTURAL MEB- „ CHANTS AND AGENTS, "* «- Having entered into Partnership this day, bave secured the premises lately occupied by a seed company at 68 Manchester bt South, Christchurch ,N.Z, With a specialty in Colonial-grown and Im- ' ported NURSERY TREES, AGRICULTURAL, VEGETABLE and FLOWER BEEDS, Wholesale and Retail, which shall be known as "The Christchurch Nursery and Seed Depot." Our Warehouses have extensive storage, built of brick, with cement floors, and are prepared to store for farmers' interests and take every advantage of the markets. Having Agents in every part of the Australian Colonies nnd Europe, we are prepared to SHIP ON OWNERS' ACCOUNT As above. Estimates given for shipping to any part of tbe World. MB CROSS is well known in South Oaaterbuiy in the Wool, Grain, Seed, and Stock World, and also in the General Merchandise Departments. The Land, Estate Agency and, Surveying Department is under the able management and supervision of MR FARMER, who is a practical Land and Mining Surveyor and Engineer. CROSS, FARMER, AND CO. Estates, Crops and Clearing, and Contracsors' Work measured accurately on the shortest notice at a cost which will compart favourably with anjother firm in the Colonies We have engaged, at a great expense, in charge of the Nursery and Seed Depot Department, a gentleman who acts as Seed Expert to tbe Government, and has gained (open to all-comers) the following Awards and Prizes, viz., for SEEDS, at tbe Canterbury Agricultuml and Pastoral Association's Shows, Held at Christchurch and other places, as follows :— 1882— First Prize for Seeds at Christcburch. 1883— First Prize for Seeds at Chriatchurch. 1884— First Prize for Seeds at Chnsichurch. 1881— First Prize for Seeds at Ashburton. 1884— First Prize for Grass Seed for Machinery at Ashburton. 188b — Firat Prize for Seeds at Christchurch. 1885 — First Prize fir Grass Machinery, and Medal for Seeds. 1886— Fust Prize for Seeds and only Silver • ednl, CbiiHtchurch. 1887— First Pnzo for Seeds and Special Medal. 1887 — First Prize lor Seed^ and Champion Medal. 1888 — First Prize for Seedsand Special Medal, 1888 — First Prize for Seeds and Champion Medal. 1889— First Prize for Seeds and Champion Medal. 1890— First Prize for Seeds and First Award, Rangiora. 1888-89— Open to Australian Colonies — First Order of Certificate and Medal at the Centennial International Exhibit ion at Melbourne. Also (open to the World) for Seeds, the First Order of Merit and Medal, at the Exposite and Universal Exposition, hel I at Paris, France, 1889-90. Estimates given from Half an Acre to 1000 Acres for pasturage or otherwise. Finest MIXED GRASS SEED for Lawns and Bowling Ureens a speciality. TREES AND PLANTS of all kinds on sale. A Trial Order kindly solicited. Grain and Seed Experts and Agents for first-class British, Continental. Colonial, «>nd American Houses. Arbitrators and Valuers. AGENTS in Canterbury for Quibeli's BHEEP DIP, POWDEB DIP, LIQUID DIP, PASTE DIP. Cheap, Safe, Leliable, end Handy. In the GRAIN and PRODUCK DEPARTMENT we bave secired the bervices of a gentleman who has had over twenty years' experience, and it will be found, amongst our Btaff of experts, thtt we have some of the best talent either in Christchurch or that can compare favourably with any other firm in the Australian Colonies. We have entered into numerous engagements of unimpeachable firms in the Home and Colonial World. And it is hoped we will obtain a fair fehare of public support and patronage. OBOSS, FARMER, AND CO.