Richard Frotscherh Almanac and Garden Manual 



SEEDS BY MAIL. 



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

 packages, riot exceeding 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. This refers to large sized papers which are sold 

 at one dollar per. dozen. When ordered by the pound, sixteen 

 cents per pound j)ostage has to be added to the price of the seeds. 

 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 germina- 

 tion are destroyed. As Seed Merchants who give out their goods 

 on commission, rarely collect what is not sold, oftener than once 

 in everj^ twelve or eighteen months, and as Lettuce, Spinach, 

 Parsnip, Carrots and many other seeds will either not sprout at 

 all or grow very imperfectly if kept over a summer in the South, 

 to buy and i)lant such is but money, time and labor waited. 



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, it is an in- 

 dispensable necessity to have x>erfectly 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 ^tsTorth, I order from Eu- 

 rope, and have them shipped so as to reach me about the begin- 

 ning of August, just the time they are needed for fall planting. 

 By following this plan I have alwaj^s a full supply of fresh seeds 

 of undoubted germinating qualities, while dealers who sell on 

 commission have only those left from the winter previous. 



It cannot be too well impressed on the minds of all cultiva- 

 tors of vegetables, that seeds kept through a summer in this cli- 

 mate will not grow, and that all who use such seeds will be 

 losers. 



All seeds that leave my establishment are thoroughly tested, 

 and warranted to grow. 



Having received a great many complaints that letters which 

 contained money addressed to me never reached me, I would cau- 

 tion my customers not to send any money in letters, without reg- 

 istering same. By sending one dollar or upward 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. 



