GENERAL DIRECTIONS TO BE FOLLOWED 
WHEN ORDERING OUR SEEDS. 
TO OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS: 
IN ORDERING remember that prices are 
subject to change. They all include pre- 
payment of postage on all seeds ordered by 
packet, ounce, quarter pound and five pound 
lots, ‘unless otherwise specifically stated. 
If the order is to be sent by express or 
freight, deduct five cents per pound from 
prices’ given. Larger quantities than 
pounds will be sent by express or freight, 
the customer paying such charges. To 
count the postage on Flowering Plants 
and Trees add 15 per cent of the list ‘price. 
The postage for foreign countries must 
be added to the cost of the goods selected 
in this catalogue, or the order will be re- 
duced to allow for the postage. These 
rules will also apply to orders from the 
United States. Where no allowance is 
made for mailing, we will send by express. 
Regulations for foreign countries are as 
follows: 
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: 
Limit Weight 20 lbs. Postage Rate 12c. 
per pound. 
PANAMA: Limit Weight, 50 lbs. Postage 
ibs. 6 ounces. 
Rate 12c. per pound. 
CUBA: Limit Weight 4 
Postage Rate 12c. per pound Plus following 
Consul Fees:—Invoice for less than $5.00, 
a fee of 10c.; $5.00 to $49.99 a fee of 60c.; 
$50.00 to $200.00 a fee of $2.00. 
MEXICO: Limit Weight 20 lbs. 
Rate 12c. per pound. 
OUR TERMS.—Cash must accompany all 
orders, remittance can be made in the fol- 
lowing manner: By Post Office Money 
Orders, Express Money Orders, Checks or 
drafts on New Orleans or New York, where 
it is not possible to secure these Currency 
or U. S. Postage Stamps in good order will 
be accepted, if you send a check on a 
RURAL 
Postage 
VEGETABLES 
Postage. 
Canning and Preserving...........: $1.25 4c. 
New Rhubarb Culture..............-- 1.25 6c. 
Gardening Morr Pront..2.-.->4-..- 2.25 12c., 
Truck Farming in the South.... 1.75 10c. 
Making the Farm. Pay................ 1.75 6c. 
Cabbage and Cauliflower .......... P25 6c. 
@eleryt: Calemres sone ee eet cee 25 6c 
Asparacus. Culunre : 252+ c2-).-2=-.--0 1.25 6c. 
Left Overs Made Palatable...... 1.75 12¢. 
"Fomat Ope O MEET Cet see ee 1.25 6c. 
" Sweet -Potate, Culture, 2...22..2 1 ers 6c. 
Gardening for Young and Old.. 1.50 1e. 
Home Vegetable Gardening .... 1.75 9c. 
New Onion Culture) .22. 2: s...2.2. 5 le 3 6ce. 
Practical Irish Potato Culture .50 6c. 
Mushrooms—How to Grow...... 1.75 Ze. 
ToOpaAccOn CULE re ee ites .50 3c. 
Farmer’s Ready Reference 
SO ie ee ee ee ee 1.00 7c 
Farmer’s Cyclopaedia of Agri- 
Cultuney 2 ee eee 25 ule. 
Celery fOr SP roi a ee nonce 50 4c. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
Practical Floriculture ................ 2.50 12c. 
The Rose, Its Cultivation, ete.. 2.25 aC. 
Home <Mloriculture:s.224--23.-<..2 2.25 10c. 
The Chrysanthemum .................- 1.25 6c, 
Plant \Propazatronwsss3s.22i-.. 2.50 1c 
Atkevis ci: CFoNW GDh yi hee cues Ssh oh UR ae ee 2.50 12¢c. 
The Dahlia, Lawrence K, Pea- 
COCK ie Bey eee re SA Drea) Ae 1.25 6c. 
County Bank add 10c. extra for exchange, 
all letters containing currency or stamps 
should be registered to insure safe delivery. 
When goods are ordered C. O. D. half of 
the amount must accompany the order. 
Live stock, plants and trees will not be 
sent C. O. D. 
WHEN ORDERING write your name 
plainly, give correct P. O. address if by 
mail, if by express give your express office 
or nearest express office, to avoid any de- 
lay; also if by rail or boat, give station 
or landing, and if possible the name of the 
railroad or name ot boat. Where no instruc- 
tions are given as to how shipment should 
be made, we will use our own discretion; 
but we urge all customers to state plainly 
whether they want goods mailed, expressed 
or. shipped by boat. or ‘by rail. As Vall 
shipments by boat must be prepaid, cus- 
tomers not known to us must remit enough 
to cover freight. 
NON-WARRANTY. Note.—There are so 
many contingencies to be encountered in 
growing plants from seed and in setting 
out plants that are dependent on _ the 
weather and other conditions over which 
we have no control, that success in plant- 
ing is not altogether dependent on the seed 
or plant. We will send out only seed 
which we believe will grow and produce 
ae kind of plant and variety represented, 
ut. 
THIS COMPANY GIVES NO WABRB- 
RANTY, expressed or implied, as to de- 
scription, quality, productiveness or any 
other matter of any seeds, bulbs, plants or 
trees, we send out, and we will not be in 
any way responsible for the crop. If the 
purchaser does not accept the goods on 
these terms, they are at once to be re- 
turned and the amount will be refunded. 
BOOKS. 
GRASSES AND CLOVERS. 
Postage. 
BroocnmiOorm Culture: -:...22::.2..-.c- 25 4c. 
Clovers—How to Grow Them.. 2.25 12¢e. 
AMVGalta s (Coburn) iinss.o Fs ee 1.25 6c. 
Alfalfa (Large Edition) .......... 3.50 17c¢. 
Peanut Plant, Its Cultivation... .75 3c. 
Ginseneey 8 eo ete Ee 1.25 6c. 
HORMISCGOeTODS! 4a ate tee 2.25 12c. 
Book of Grasses and Other 
Forage Plants—J. C. Hill... .60 6c. 
The Soya Bean: Peper jand 
IVDO SOr see ee eee es 4.50 10c. 
FRUITS. 
American Peach Orchard.......... 2.00 8c 
Chorltons Grape Growers’ 
pit. Ge ae ee ae 1.75 8c 
strawberry: Culture .......:..:..... .50 se. 
‘EhegNuee Cultunist ip cues Sess. 2.50 12¢. 
Small--Fruit--Culturist—.---:--- 2.00 12¢c. 
CaAbTORmMian EORWESe: s)otes. 8 ee ee 3.75 12c. 
Peach Culture (Fulton) 22.0.2... 2.00 6c. 
Plums and Plum Culture—F, 
PNP ENT EE? SWE OE OS Ee SZ 2.75 Se. 
Bush Fruits—Fred. W. Card.... 3.00 8c, 
American Grape Growers and 
Wine Making (Husmann)...... 3.00 8c 
INSECTICIDE, MANURE, ETC. 
Insect and Insecticide .............. 2.25 12¢. 
Lew FO) Pann ees oe ae N .75 3c. 
Manure—Bommer’s Method .... .60 5c. 
The Spraying Plants (EB. L. 
OUI hr ne ene te Seed 2.75 10c, 
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