4 RICHARD FROTSCHER’S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL 
SEEDS BY MAIL. 
Seeds can be sent by mail to any part of the United States in packages not ex- 
ceeding four pounds, at sixteen cents per pound, or one cent per ounce, or fraction 
thereof. On seeds ordered in papers or by the ounce I prepay the postage, except 
on peas, beans and corn. Thisrefers 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 requested to write to me to obtain their 
supplies. This will be more profitable than to buy from country stores where seeds 
left on commission, are often kept till all power of germination is destroyed. As 
seed merchants, who give their goods out on commission, rarely collect whatis 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 imper- 
fectly if kept over asummer 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 seeds have to be put in the ground when the weather 
is very warm, itis an indispensable necessity to have perfectly fresh seeds. 
My arrangements with my growers are made so thatI 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 full supply of fresh seeds of undoubted germi- 
nating qualities, 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 wanted. 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 reliableseeds 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 grow, and that all who 
se such 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 have to be registered, which can be 
done at any Post Office. 
