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How to 



Our Terms are strictly Cash, which must accompany all orders. 

 C. O. I>. No seed sent C O. D., unless One Third of the amount of pur- 

 chase is sent with the order 



In ordering be sure, name, address and order is plainly written. We 



have received many letters which could not be read, some without name 

 and to others w^ith no address. Don't fail togive your^Post Office address, and if 

 shipping by Kxpress, nearest Express Office, b}' Freight, Rail Road station or by Boat, 

 your landing. 



How to send Money. In remitting, send Post Office or Express Money Order, 

 Draft or Check on New Orleans or New York;or by Registered Letter. If individual checks 

 are sent on local bank, 15 cents must be added to amount of invoice to cover cost of col- 

 lection. 



Seeds by Mail. Seeds can be sent by mail to any part of the United States in 

 packages "Not Exceeding Four Pounds", at eight cents per pound, or one cent for 

 two ounces or fraction thereof. On seeds ordered in papers or by the ounce and not more 

 than one pound, of each variety, we prepay the postage, except on Beans, Peas and Corn 

 on which postage amounts to fifteen cents per quart. 



By special arrangements which we have v»'ith the different Express Companies in our 

 city we are enabled to' send out Express Packages at the regular Postal rate which is 

 eight cents per pound, for larger packages often pounds and over a special rate has been 

 granted us, bringing the charges even below postal rate. Express charges have to be pre- 

 paid at the shipping point. When you v.'ish to have advantage of this rate by Express 

 add 8 cents per pound. Our packages are put up in the rcost careful manner, and every 

 precaution is taken to insure their reaching their destination in safety. Purchasers living 

 at anj^ place where our seeds are not sold, are requested to write to us and obtain their 

 supplies direct. 



Our special Offers. On receipt of One Dollar, we will mail to any part of the 

 United States, postpaid, F'lf teen large papers of assorted vegetable seeds, or Twenty-five 

 smaller sized papers. The selection can be made from this catalogvie and ma}' contain 

 among this number Four papers of either Beans. Peas or Corn, or may be left to us, in 

 which case we will select only such varieties as to our knowledge will suit that particular 

 section of the country and the season. 



Of Flower seeds, except such varieties where special prices are given in our catalogue 

 we offer Twenty papers, postpaid for One Dollar; Bulbs which are too heavy are not in- 

 cluded in this offer. On Bulbs eight cents on every pound extra will be charged for 

 postage. 



To Merchants in the Country, in order to enable them to handle our seeds we will 

 offer special inducements, but will send out no seeds on commission, because we want to keep 

 before you nothing but strictly fresli and reliable seeds. Seed Merchants, who give 

 their seed out on commission, rarely collect that which is not sold more than once a 

 year, and as in our southern climate many varieties if kept over summer will loose their 

 vitality, this seed must be thrown away or mixed in with new seed, and in either case the 

 purchaser is the loser ; first, because if thrown away it necessarily increases the cost of 

 the seed as this has to be added to the selling price, and if mixed in with new seed you 

 lose the cost of labor and time in planting seed which will not properly germinate. 

 vSending out seed to merchants as we do, they take their own risk, consequentl}^ are con- 

 servative in ordering and have no more reason to have old seed, than old rice or an old 

 stock of goods generally ; and by this system we are enabled to put a much larger quantity 

 of seed in papers than you find in commission papers. Many a reliable merchant who 

 sells commission seed, sows our seed to produce vegetables for his own use. A certain proof 

 of the superioritj^ of our seeds. 



