James & John Smith

JAMES & JOHN SMITH, Manufacturing Stationers, and Horticultural Printers, 92, Union Street, Glasgow.

    One of the surest indications of the commercial progress of this great centre of industry is the number and importance of the establishments engaged in the various branches of the printing trade, with which Glasgow is so amply endowed, and which are so eminently representative of the activity prevailing every department of mercantile enterprise.

    One of the oldest and best known houses in this trade is conducted by Messrs. James & John Smith, Manufacturing Stationers, and Horticultural Printers, whose business was established forty years ago, and has been continued since that date with ever increasing success. The premises occupied by Messrs. Smith are centrally situated at 92, Union Street, and comprise the upper portion of this handsome building. The warehouse and printing office are of spacious dimensions, giving ample scope for the various operative processes of the trade, and are fully equipped throughout with the most improved plant and machinery of modern construction, enabling the firm to execute with prompt expedition orders of any magnitude on the shortest notice.

    Messrs. Smith undertake every description of general printing, but constitute as their speciality the production of beautifully executed horticultural catalogues and envelopes for seed packets, with artistic illustrations in natural colours of the various specimens of flowers to which they refer. These are of absolute fidelity to nature’s choicest growths, and the harmonious blending of tints is marvellous in its exactitude to the blooms portrayed. The firm holds in stock an innumerable variety of the seed labels, representing in fullest detail the leading examples of flowers of home and exotic growth. Messrs. Smith have long enjoyed an exceptional reputation in this department of the trade, and have on their books the names of the leading horticulturalists and seedsmen in the United Kingdom. A good general local trade is also done by the firm, both in printing and as manufacturing stationers, and with the admirable resources at their command — an efficient staff of workmen and capable management — Messrs. Smith well maintain their acknowledged supremacy as the premier house in this branch of industrial enterprise.

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