2 THeEoposta B. SHEPHERD CoMPANY’S CATALOGUE 
DIRECTIONS FOR ORDERING. 
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE SENDING ORDERS. 
Our catalogue is free to all customers. The price is ten cents to new applicants, which amount 
will be added in seeas to the first order amounting to 25 cents. 
Write name and address plainly. We sometimes receive orders with the address omitted. 
Send money by Express, Postoffice Money Order, Bank Draft, or Registered Letter. We can- 
not be responsible for money lost in the mail. Stamps can be sent for small orders amounting to 
less than one dollar. 
Customers may select seeds to the value of 20 cents additional for each one dollar of their orders. 
We will send twenty 10 cent packets of seeds for $1 25: ten 15 cent packets for $1.25; twenty 
5 cent packets for 75 cents, postpaid 
Ti 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 complaints made after some time has elapsed. We 
will be pleased to receive expressions of satisfaction from purchasers regarding our plants 
and seeds. 
We fill no plant orders for less than $1.00, unless 10 cents extra is sent for postage and packing. 
Always send a second choice list, or state whether money shall be returned if we are out of 
varieties. We are often put to much unnecessary correspondence, and orders are delayed, by fail- 
ure to comply with this, our frequent request. 
Mail orders. We send only the smallest plants by mail postpaid. 
Purchasers may select 10 cents worth of plants extra on each dollar of order 
No premiums on plant orders for less than $1.00. No premiums allowed on plants by the 
dozen, or on new and rare plants. 
Express orders. All plants with soil, and the larger sizes, also all heavy bulbs, and cactus> 
will be sent by express or freight at customer’s expense : 
We will send 20 cents worth of plants extra, our selection, on each dollar, where orders are 
sent by express. . 
Write questions or requests for any information on a separate sheet of paper, leaving blank 
space for 1eplies. 
TREATMENT OF PLANTS ON ARRIVAL. 
Plants shipped by express or freight suffer little, if any, as the roots get disturbed but very 
little if taken out of pots. Some water and shade for a few days will re-establish them. 
With plants received by mail more care and precaution have to be taken on arrival. On all 
plants to be shipped by mail the soil has to be removed from the roots in order to lessen the 
weight, and damp moss and paper take the place of the soil 
If the plants are the least wilted on arrival, put them in lukewarm water in a shallow pan, for 
about one hour, leaving the paper and moss undisturbed. This will soon restore their vitality. 
In potting the plants. after removing moss and paper, use clean pots and loose, fine soil. Take 
pots only one size larger than the one the plant has grownin. Press the soil well down aiter placing 
the roots in a natural position, leaving half an inch empty space above the soil for the pot to re- 
ceive the water. Water should be applied until it runs out at the bottom of the pot. : 
Keep shady and from the wind or draught for four or five days. Sprinkle the leaves every 
day, but take care not to wet the soil in the pot too much, which would make the rvots-rot. 
In any ease avoid extremes in watering or drying out. 
If the plants are to be cultivated in pots, most of them will be ready to be shifted into larger 
sized pots in from two to four weeks, according to nature of plants. 
Bedding plants can be set out at once in the open ground by observing the above rules about 
watering and shading, provided there is no danger of frost, ete. 
