“DIRECTIONS FOR ORDERING. — | 
- PLEASE READ. CAREFULLY. BEFORE see 
SENDING ORDERS. ea 
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Our catalogue is free to all customers. The price is ten cents to new 
applicants, which amount will be ee in ee to the first apie 
amounting to 25 cents. 
Write name and address plainly. We sometimes receive orders with 
the address omitted, 
Send money by Express, Postoffice Money Ordos Bank Draft, or. 
Registered Letter: We cannot be: responsible for money lost m_ the 
mail. Stamps ean be sent tor) sneex orders “amounting to less than one 
dollar. 
Customers may select seeds to the value of 25 conts additional for Ar 
each one dollar of their orders. sant apse 
We will send twenty 10 cent packets of ceeds for $1. 50; ten 45 cent 
packets for $1.00; tweuty 5 cent packets for $1. 00, postpaid, No prem- 
iums at these prices. 
If plants or seeds arrive in bad condition, report must be made within 
ten days, and we will replace same; but can pay no attention to com- — 
plaints made after some time has elapsed. We will be pleased to receive xe 
expressions of satisfaction from purchasers regarding our plants and seeds. 
TO PATRONS: As will be seen in perusing ia catalogue, eas is” 
probably not another in this country where so many novelties are to be 
had that have been originated by the persons offering them. Many are 
now disseminated far and wide, while mane others are as yet offered ug | 
no one but ourselves. 3 
Mrs. Shepherd has done much work with Cosmos, Nasturtiums, Be- ge 
gonias, Geraniums, Chrysanthemums, Amaryllis, and we claim that a 
of these beautiful creations are very superior. . 
We make a specialty of the above, and also of Ginsean and especially 
we commend the lovely Epiphyllam or Xmas Cactus, and Echinopsis 
Mulleri, which we grow in great numbers. Both are varieties that 
everyone can grow, both are showy and beautiful; blooming in early — 
winter and spring at a season when other flowers are scarce. « aber make }: 
splendid house plants. 
We will be pleased to give prices on spacial: aouiaue of any. num: Rg 
ber of plants, or any class of plants, in large quantities. “it | 
We give the trade one- -third discount. frowi catalogue prices. % 
THEODOSIA B. SHEPHERD co. 
