SEEDS BY MAIL 



Seeds can be sent b\^ 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 thereof. On seeds ordered in papers or b}^ 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 precau- 

 tion is taken to insure their reaching their destination in safety. Purchasers 

 livino- 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 germina- 

 tion 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 Au- 

 tumn 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 that 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 $i.oo we will mail 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, w^e will mail twenty smaller papers, including 

 four papers of either peas or beans. This is done to enable customers to get re- 

 liable seeds in good size papers in places w^here our seeds are not sold. The 

 papers put up b}' 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 w^ell impressed upon the minds of all cultivators of all 

 vegetables, that most seeds kept through a summer in this climate will nol grow, 

 and all who use such seeds will be the losers. 



On all g-oods ordered C. 0. D., one-half 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 individ- 

 ual 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 pur- 

 chaser does not accept the goods on these terms, they are at once to be returned. 



