Instructions to Purchasers 



TIME TO ORDER. As soon as convenient, after 

 receiving this catalog. By doing this you are more 

 certain of obtaining what you desire. Late in the 

 season we may be sold out of certain varieties. By 

 ordering early, the plants are reserved for you, to 

 be shipped when you request them. 



REMIT by Money Order, Registered Letter or 

 Bank Draft. Postage Stamps will be accepted for 

 the fractional parts of a dollar, the larger denomi- 

 nations preferred. Foreign customers will please 

 send Money Order on Salisbury, Maryland, or 

 Bank Draft payable in New York. 



PAYMENT. Invariably, cash in advance. 



LOST ORDERS. All orders are acknowledged by 

 postal card the same day as received. Should you 

 not receive this acknowledgment in a reasonable 

 length of time after sending order, write us, giving 

 date order was sent, amount of money sent, form of 

 remittance, and your name and address. 



WRITE PLAINLY. Fill in all blanks on the order 

 sheet as they are necessary for proper shipment, 

 especially your name and address. When writing 

 in reference to an order, give its number and give 

 your name the same as was sent on the order. 



TIME OF SHIPMENT. We commence to fill 

 fall orders November I and ship all winter to sec- 

 tions where it is suitable for fall and winter planting 

 as in California and some parts of the South. Early 

 spring — March and April — is by far the best time 

 to set Strawberry plants in the middle and northern 

 states. Early planting in the spring is very im- 

 portant. Our snipping season ends May I. We will, 

 however, fill a imiited number of orders the first and 

 second weeks in May to northern customers, and 

 put them in best possible condition, but at pur- 

 chaser's risk. Don't wait until May to have plants 

 shipped; you will have better success if they are 

 planted earlier. Early in the season plants are 

 dormant and will stand digging and shipping much 

 better than after growth has started. Plants are 

 also lighter and express charges are less, early in the 

 season. After the second week in May we do not 



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Bedding or trenching in plants until ready to plant 

 permanently 



fill any orders until November I. Don't order plants 

 during the summer months, expecting orders to be 

 filled before the first of November — we can't do it. 

 We do not grow potted plants. 



In the Extreme North 



Notwithstanding your season is later than ours, 

 we can do business to our mutual benefit. Our 

 success depends on your success, and we want to 

 help you. Now listen! Order your plants shipped 

 from the 1st to the 20th of April, before they are 

 too far advanced. As soon as received, open the 

 bunches and heel in the plants in thin layers in a 

 coldframe or some protected place (giving a light 

 covering of straw, if outside) until you are ready to 

 plant. By having your plants shipped early, you 

 get them before they are so far advanced in growth, 

 and have them at hand to plant permanently just 

 when you want them, when conditions are right for 

 planting. Try it. 



On Receipt of Plants 



Place the package containing the plants in a cool 

 place, protected from wind and sun, at once en 

 arrival. Be sure to keep the roots moistened while 

 planting. If it is impossible to set the plants as 

 soon as received, take them out of the crates, and 

 bed them in by digging a V-shaped trench in soft, 

 moist soil, preferably in the shade; open the bunches 

 of plants and bedsthem in the trench by pressing the 

 soil firmly to the roots, being careful not to cover 

 the buds or crowns. Water thoroughly as soon as 

 bedded. They will keep a week or two, or longer. 



TWENTY-FIVE. All plants are tied twenty-five 

 in a bundle and each bunch labeled. 



PACKING. We make no charges for boxing or 

 packing at rates quoted in this catalog. Everything 

 is delivered f. o. b. trains at rates named. 



AT PURCHASER'S RISK. Plants shipped by 

 freight will be at purchaser's risk, and all plants 

 shipped after May I will be packed and shipped in 

 the best condition possible, but at purchaser's risk. 



TRUE TO NAME. While we use every precau- 

 tion to have all plants true to name (and we believe 

 we come as near doing this as anyone in the business) 

 we will not be responsible for any sum greater than 

 the cost of the stock, should any prove otherwise 

 than as represented. 



GUARANTY. We guarantee plants ordered by 

 mail or express to reach customers in good condition 

 when promptly taken from the express office and 

 opened at once. 



CLAIMS, if any, must be made on receipt of 

 goods. We cannot become responsible for stock 

 that is allowed to lie around your station, or express 

 office, for neglect of purchaser or his employees to 

 care for stock after it has been received, or for 

 misfortunes caused by drought, floods, insects, etc. 

 These things are entirely beyond our control. 



Substitution 



Early in the season we usually have in stock 

 everything listed in this catalog, but late in the 

 season we frequently run out of some of the va- 

 rieties; therefore, when you order late, please state 

 on order sheet whether we shall substitute something 

 equally good and as near like the variety ordered as 

 possible, or return your money for any stock that 

 we may be out of. 



AGENTS. We do not employ agents. There is no one authorized to act in that capacity for us. We deal direct 

 with all our customers, and have but one price-list, which you will find on page 48 of this book. 



