ADVICE AND TERMS. 



Remit by Money Order on Little Silver, N. J., Registered Letter, Draft, or Express Money Order. Please 

 do not send private checks. Money Orders from Canada and other foreign countries should be made payable at 

 Red Bank, N. J. Always enclose your remittance in same letter with order. Address all letters, THE LOVETT 

 COMPANY, Little Silver, N. J. Telegraph Office at Little Silver, N. J. Telephone 2A. Registered Cable 

 Address " Lovett, Littlesilver." 



Payments invariably in advance. Goods sent C. O. D. only when one-fourth the amount is sent with order, 

 with charges for returning money added to bill. 



The Prices of this catalogue abrogate previous quotations. The prices affixed are for the quantities specified, 

 but not less than six, fifty and five hundred of a variety will be supplied at dozen, hundred and thousand rates 

 respectively. With apples, pears, peaches and other Fruit Trees, fifty in assorted varieties of a class may be 

 ordered at hundred rates and five hundred at thousand, rates; but hundred lots of strawberries, raspberries and 

 other Small Fruits cannot be made up at hundred rates, of less than fifty of a variety and thousand lots cannot 

 be made up at thousand rates, of less than five hundred of a variety. 



Orders. Please be sure to write your name and address plainly — give Post Office, County, and State — and do 

 this every time you write. Be particular to say how goods are to be sent; whether by mail, express or freight. 

 When these conditions are not complied with, we use our judgment and ship by the way we deem best. Keep a 

 correct copy of the order and check off the stock when it arrives; people often forget what they order and make 

 unjust complaint. Ladies will oblige us by prefixing their names with " Miss" or " Mrs." as the case may be. 



Goods by Wail. Please note that the additional charges for postage are given under each heading throughout 

 this Catalogue wherever the articles can be sent by mail, and where amount of postage is not so stated the arti- 

 cles are unmailabie. When articles are desired to be sent by mail it must be so stated in the order and the neces- 

 sary amount for postage included in the remittance. Please note that the rates of postage -to Canada on Seeds, 

 Plants, etc., is double that of the United States, hence in ordering goods by mail Canadian customers will please 

 remit double the amount of postage asked for in Catalogue. Nothing by mail at thousand rates. Except where 

 small lots are desired, we recommend shipment by express or freight as larger stock can then be sent. 



Shipping'. We deliver all goods to forwarders here without charge, after which our control ceases, conse- 

 quently our responsibility also. We particularly caution patrons against ordering Strawberry, Greenhouse, and 

 Herbaceous Plants shipped by freight: they should always go by express, or in small lots by mail. We have 

 secured from the express companies a special low rate on our shipments of Trees, Plants, Bulbs, Seeds, etc. 



Packing is executed with the utmost care. Special care is taken to pack lightly, thereby reducing the expense 

 to a minimum. All goods at prices quoted are packed free. Everything is labelled. 



Claims, if any, must be made on receipt of goods, when they will be carefully and cheerfully examined and, 

 if just, all made satisfactory. Claims made after fifteen days from receipt of goods will not be entertained. We 

 send out only good stock in good condition, carefully packed in all cases, but success or failure depends in so large 

 a degree upon the weather and the care and management after received, that we do not, because we cannot, un- 

 dertake to guarantee stock to live. 



Substitution. It is our custom, should the supply of a variety be exhausted (which will occasionally occur in 

 all establishments), to substitute in its stead a similar sort or give the value of another grade of the variety 

 named. When it is desired that we shall not do this, it must be so stated in the order. To simply affix the words 

 " No Substitution " is all that is necessary. 



Guarantee. We warrant our stock true to name, with the express understanding that should any not prove 

 so will refund the money paid or replace it with other stock, but are not liable for damages beyond this. A sure 

 indication of the purity of our stock is the fact that customers of former years continue to deal with us. 



THE LOVETT COMPANY, Little Silver, N. J. 



September 15th, 1898. 



FALL PLANTING. 



The advantages of planting in the Autumn are so many and so great that we cannot refrain from again 

 endeavoring to impress them upon our patrons. With the exception of Cap Raspberries and Evergreens, the 

 very best way to handle nursery stock is to have it shipped in the Autumn and planted at once in the orchard or 

 garden. If circumstances prevent the planting of stock in the fall then it should be 

 " heeled in " upon one's own grounds so as to be ready at hand for planting in Spring at 

 the earliest possible moment. Our springs are treacherous. If the procuring of trees and 

 plants to be planted is deferred until Spring, the preparing of the soil where they are to 

 be set is liable to be also; and by the time the stock can be obtained and planted it is so 

 late that growth has started and dry, hot weather almost always follows before it has had 

 a chance to get a hold and become established, causing a good share of the very best 

 plants and trees to die. More nursery stock is lost from late planting in Spring than 

 from any other cause. Not only this, but those that live become more or less stunted and 

 make only a feeble growth compared with those planted in Autumn, for these have the 

 advantage of the early and heavy Spring rains to settle and firm the soil about the roots, 

 and the first warm days to make growth which will not be checked. In the Autumn the 

 planter has more time to prepare his ground carefully and thoroughly than in the Spring, 

 and the rush upon the nurseries during March and April is often such as to render it prac- 

 tically impossible to make shipments promptly. When trees are planted in Autumn a 

 small mound of earth should be made at the base of each one to prevent swaying, as 

 shown in the accompanying figure, which should be reduced to the level in the Spring as 

 soon as the ground has become " settled." Blackberry and Raspberry canes, after plant- 

 ing, should be cut back to within six inches of the ground and the soil mounded over them to prevent heaving 

 t. and the ground again leveled in the spring. 



