TO OUR PATR0N5. 



WE take great pleasure in presenting to our many patrons throughout the 

 country, and the public generally, our Annual Catalogue of Pot Grown 

 Strawberry Plants, for July and August planting, and Layer Plants for 

 September and October planting. 



THE QUALITY OF OUR POT GROWN STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 



We beg to draw the particular attention of planters to the quality of our pot- 

 grown strawberry plants, and to the care which we exercise in growing, lifting, 

 handling, and packing them. Being desirous of furnishing the very best stock, we 

 take great pains to produce large, healthy, and well grown plants, and we can recom- 

 mend them with confidence to all who desire to obtain a crop of the choicest fruit 

 quickly and with the least trouble and expense. 



RELIABILITY OF OUR LISTS. 



We aim to make our lists as reliable as possible by constant revision, adding 

 the good sorts and rejecting the indifferent ones, and we hope to merit a continuance 

 of the extensive trade with which we have been favored during the last sixty years. 



ADVICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Please Read Before Making Out Order. 



Correspondenis will oblige by observing as far as possible the following regula- 

 tions : 



1. All orders should be legibly written out. 



2. When particular varieties are ordered it should be stated whether, and to 

 what extent, other varieties may be substituted, in case the order cannot be filled to 

 the letter, as happens occasionally in all establishments. Our rule is not to substi- 

 tute in any case, without being expressly requested to do so. 



3. It is requested that post-office address, as well as explicit directions for mark- 

 ing and shipping packages, accompany EACH ORDER. All articles are at the 

 risk of the purchaser after being shipped, and if delay or loss occurs, the forwarders 

 alone must be held responsible. 



4. All orders from unknown correspondents must be accompanied with a draft 

 on some of the principal cities, or money order for the amount. If neither can be 

 had, enclose currency in a registered letter. 



5. Our customers are requested to notify us instantly of any errors that may be 

 committed in filling their orders, in order that we may at once make ample amends, 

 as we desire to conduct our business in all respects satisfactory to those who favor 

 us with their confidence. 



STRAWBERRY PLANTS BY EXPRESS NOT PREPAID. 



Unless especially ordered otherwise, we always forward strawberry plants by 



express at purchaser's expense. They cannot be sent with safety by freight. 

 Plants by express are now carried at a reduction of 20 per cent, from regular merchandise 

 rates. 



STRAWBERRY PLANTS BY MAIL. 



NOTE. — Only layer plants can be sent by mail. 



For the convenience of those who cannot be reached by the express companies, 

 we will forward by mail, prepaid, layer plants of all the varieties enumerated in this 

 list. At the ten rate the plants will be mailed at the prices annexed, without 

 extra charge. At the hundred rate, if sent by mail, 25 cts. additional per hundred 

 plants must be remitted for postage. This is an actual outlay for postage. Pot 

 grown plants cannot he sent by mail. 



