Richard Frotsclier's Almanac and Garden 3fanual 



SEEDS BY MAIL. 



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

 packages not exceeding four pounds, at sixteen cents per pound, or 

 one cent per ounce, or fraction tliereof. On seeds ordered in papers 

 or by the ounce I prepay the postage, except on peas, beans and corn. 

 This^ refers to large sized papers which are sold at one dollar per dozen. 

 When ordered by the pound sixteen cents per pound postage has to 

 be added to the price of the seeds ; to peas, beans and corn, thirty 

 cents per quart. 



All packages are put up in the most careful manner, and every 

 precaution taken to insure their reaching their destination in safety. 

 Purchasers living at any place where my seeds are not sold, are re- 

 quested to write to me to obtain their supplies. This will be more 

 profitable than to bu}" from country stores where seeds, left on com- 

 mission, are often kept till all power of germination is destroyed. As 

 seed merchants, who give out their goods on commission, rarely col- 

 lect what is not sold, oftener than once every twelve or eighteen 

 months, and as Lettuce, Spinach, Parsnip, Carrots, and many other 

 seeds will either not sprout at all or grow imperfectly^ if kept over a 

 summer in the South — to buy and plant such, is but money, time and 

 labor wasted. 



Here in our climate, where we plant garden vegetables as freely 

 in autumn as in spring, and where often the seed have to be put in 

 the ground when the weather is very warm, it is an indispensable 

 necessity to have perfectly fresh seeds. 



My arrangements with my growers are made so that I receive the 

 new crop, expressly cleaned for me, as soon as it is matured. The 

 varieties which are not raised in the North, I order from Europe, and 

 have them shipped so as to reach me about the beginning of August, 

 just the time they are needed for fall planting. By following this 

 plan I have always a fall supply of fresh seeds of undoubted germi- 

 nating ciualities, while dealers, who sell on commission, have only those 

 left from the winter previous. 



On the receipt of one dollar I will mail thirteen large size papers 

 of seeds, put up the same as seeds sold by the pound. These papers 

 can be selected from this Catalogue, and include four papers of either 

 Beans or Peas, if so Avanted. Or, for the same amount, I will mail 

 twenty smaller papers, including four papers of either Peas or Beans. 

 This is done to enable consumers to get reliable seeds in good size 

 papers in places where my seeds are not sold. The papers put up by 

 Northern seedsmen are so small that of some varieties they hardly 

 contain enough to do any good. The low prices charged to merchants 

 are made at the expense of consumers. My papers are large and worth 

 the full value of the money paid for them. 



It cannot be too well impressed on the minds of all cultivators of 

 vegetables, that seeds kept through a summer in this climate will not 

 groic, and that all who use sueh seeds will be losers. 



All seeds that leave my establishment are thoroughly tested. ' 



Having received a great many complaints that letters which were 

 addressed to me and contained 'money, were not answered, I must 

 state that these letters never reached me, and, therefore, would caution 

 my customers not to send any money in letters without registering- 

 same. By sending one dollar, "or upwards, the cost, ten cents, can be 

 charged to me. The cheapest and surest way is money order or draft, 

 but where they cannot be had, letters Imve to be registered, which can 

 be done at any Post Office. 



