ALLEN'S BOOK OF BERRIES 



REMIT by Money Order, Registered Letter, or Bank 

 Draft, Postage Stamps will be accepted for the frac- 

 tional parts of a dollar, the larger denominations pre- 

 ferred. Foreign customers will please send Money 

 Order on Salisbury, Maryland, or Bank Draft payable in 

 New York. 



PAYMENT. Invariably, cash in advance. 



WRITE PLAINLY. Fill in all blanks on the order 

 sheet, as they are necessary for proper shipment, es- 

 pecially your name and address. When writing in ref- 

 erence to an order, give its number and give your name 

 the same as was sent on the order. 



TIME OF SHIPMENT. We fill orders from Novem- 

 ber 1 to May 1. Plants should be shipped early in 

 spring, February, March and the early part of April. 

 It is very important to have your plants shipped early. 

 Read on page five, under "Time to Plant." The 

 reason your plants should be shipped early in the spring 

 is that plants are dormant and will stand digging and 

 shipping much better than after the growth has started 

 and the weather has become warmer. Plants are also 

 lighter and express charges are less, early in the sea- 

 son and also stand delays in transportation better. 

 Don't order plants from us during the summer months, 

 expecting orders to be filled before the first of Novem- 

 ber. Our plants are not ready and we can't do it. We 

 don't grow potted plants. 



IN THE EXTREME NORTH. Notwithstanding your 

 season is later than ours, we can do business to our 

 mutual benefit. Have plants shipped early, as directed 

 before they are too far advanced. Heel them in, in some 

 protected place, giving a light covering of straw. 



ON RECEIPT OF PLANTS. Where the climate is 

 not so severe place the package containing the plants in 

 a cool place, protected from wind and sun, at once on 

 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, prefer- 

 ably in the shade; open the bunches of plants and bed 

 them 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. 



TWENTY-FIVE. All plants are tied twenty-five in 

 a bundle and each bunch labeled. 



PACKING. We make no charge for boxing of pack- 

 ing at rates quoted in this catalog. Everything is deliv- 

 ered f. o. b. trains at rates named. 



AT PURCHASER'S RISK. All plants shipped after 

 May 1 will be packed and shipped in the best condition 

 possible, but at purchaser's risk. 



TRUE TO NAME. While we use every precaution 

 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. 



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. 



