SEEDS BY -MATL. 
Seeds can be sent by mail to any part of the United States, in -packages not 
exceeding four pounds, at eight cents per pound, or one cent for two ounces or 
fraction thereef. On seeds ordered in papers or by the ounce, we prepay the post- 
age, 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 thejr sup- 
plies. 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 merehants 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 commission have 
only those from the winter previous. 
On the receipt of $1.00 we will mau fifteen large size papers of seeds, put 
up the same as seeds sold by the pound. ‘These papers can be selected from this 
Catalogue, and include four papers of either peas or beans in the fifteen papers. 
Or, for the same amount, we will mail 94 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 vege- 
tables that most seeds kept through a summer in this climate vil not grow, and all 
who use such seeds will be the losers. ; 
On all goods ordered C. O. 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 Hxchange. No 
individual checks on country banks on amounts under ten dollars. 
This Company gives no warranty, express 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 ac- 
cept the goods on these terms, they are at once to be returned. : 
