EiCHAED Fkotscher's Almanac and Garden Manual. 



SEEDS BY MAIL. 



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

 ages, 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. Peas, beans and corn thirty cents 

 postage per quart. 



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

 precaution taken to insure their reaching their destination in safety. 

 Purciiasers 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 pro- 

 ,fitable than to buy from country stores where seeds left on commission 

 are, often kept till all powers of germination are destroyed. As Seed 

 Merchants, who give out their goods on commission, rarely collect 

 v/hat is not sold, oftener than once in every 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 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 hate 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 whicli 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 tihie they are needed for fall planting. By following this plan 

 I have always a full supply of fresh seeds of undoubted germinating 

 qualities, while dealers who sell on commission have o'nly those left 

 from the winter previous. 



It can not be too well impressed on the minds of all cultivators of 

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

 grow, and that all who use such seeds will be losers. 



All seeds that leave my establishment are thoroughly tested, and 

 warranted to giow. * 



Having received a great iiiany complaints that letters which con- 

 tained money addressed to me never reached me, I would caution my 

 customers not to send any money in letters, without registering 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 can not be had, letters have to be registered, which can be done 

 at any Post Office. • 



