188 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



Such concerns will examine the goods as packed 

 for shipment and send only such as in their judg- 

 ment will grow and 'be satisfactory under all ordi- 

 nary circumstances and conditions, but they can- 

 not be expected to make good such failures as 

 may result, except where it is so specifically 

 agreed, and then it usually may be looked for to 

 have the extra service charged in the price. 



If your judgment and the sellers do not agree, 

 and the goods when examined on arrival do not 

 look as good to you as they did to the shipper, 

 and you have any doubts whatever about the vital- 

 ity or value of the plants, then the right thing 

 for you to do, in fairness to all, is to immediately 

 write the facts as you think them to be, to the 

 shipper, or to return the goods. 



If you do not do this, but instead go ahead and 

 set out the plants, the only possible and fair- 

 minded inference is that the plants looked all 

 right when they were received, and that any fail- 

 ures have been due to causes over which the shipper 

 has no control, and you cannot therefore, with 

 justice, look to him to replace the plants that have 

 failed to pull through. 



It is well to remember that about the only sure 

 things in this life are death and taxes. Those 

 we have always with us. All other things are more 

 or less of a chance. If we expect every plant we 

 set in the ground to grow, we are soon going to be 



