SEEDS BY MAIL. 



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

 not exceeding four pounds, at 8 cents per pound, or 1 cent for two ounces or 

 fraction thereof. On seeds ordered in papers or by the ounce, we prepay the 

 postage, except on peas, beans and corn. This refers to large size papers, which 

 are sold at one dollar per fifteen papers. When ordering by the pound, nine 



CENTS PER POUND POSTAGE HAS TO BE ADDED TO THE PRICE OF SEEDS; TO PEAS, 

 BEANS AND CORN, 15 CENTS PER QUART. 



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

 taken to insure their reaching their destination in safety. Purchasers living at 

 any place where our seeds are not sold are requested to write to us to obtain their 

 supplies. This will be more profitable than to buy from country stores where 

 seeds left on commission are often kept until all power of germination is destroyed. 

 As seed merchants who give their goods out on commission rarely collect what 

 is not sold oftener than once every twelve months, and as Lettuce, Spinach, 

 Parsnips, Carrots and many other seeds will either not sprout at all, or grow 

 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 have to be put in the ground when the 

 weather is very warm, it is an indispensable necessity to have perfectly fresh 

 seeds. 



Our arrangements with our growers are made so that we receive the new 

 crop, expressly cleaned for us, as soon as it is matured. The varieties which are 

 not raised in this country we order from Europe, and have them shipped so as 

 to reach us about the beginning of August, just the time they are needed for fall 

 planting, and from that time up to January shipments are made to us at the 

 beginning of every month. By following this plan we have always a full supply 

 of fresh seeds of undoubted germinating qualities, while dealers who sell on com- 

 mission have only those from the winter previous. 



On the receipt of $1.00 we will mail fifteen large size papers of seeds, put 

 up the same as seed sold by the pound. These papers can be selected from this 

 catalog, and include four papers of either peas or beans in the fifteen papers. Or, 

 for the same amount, we will mail 24 smaller papers, including four papers of 

 either peas or beans. This is done to enable customers to get reliable seeds in 

 good size papers in places where our seeds are not sold. The papers put up by 

 Northern seedsmen are so small that of some varieties they hardly contain 

 enough to do any good. The low prices charged to merchants are made at the 

 expense of the consumers. Our papers are large and worth the full value of the 

 money paid for them. 



It cannot be too well impressed upon the minds of the cultivators of all 

 vegetables that most seeds kept through a summer in this climate will not grow, 

 and all who use such seeds will be the losers. 



On all goods ordered C. 0. D. one-half of- the amount of the bill 



MUST ACCOMPANY THE ORDER; OTHERWISE THE SAME WILL NOT BE FILLED. ALL 

 BILLS ARE PAYABLE IN NEW ORLEANS OR NEW YORK EXCHANGE. No INDIVIDUAL 

 CHECKS ON COUNTRY BANKS ON AMOUNTS UNDER TEN DOLLARS. 



This Company gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to description, 

 quality, productiveness or any other matter of any seeds, bulbs or plants 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 returned. 



