FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL NURSERY STOCK 



Our Guarantee. We are careful to label all 

 stock, check it and pack it correctly. Except for 

 our own mistakes, we cannot assume the respon- 

 sibility of stock reaching its destination safely. 

 We do assume the responsibility for the true names 

 of all our stock, and are ready, on proper proof, 

 to replace, free of charge, anything sent by us that 

 proves untrue to label; but it is understood and 

 agreed, between the purchaser and ourselves, that 

 we are not to be held liable for any greater sum 

 than that paid for such trees as may prove untrue. 



No Substitutions. We do not substitute. If 

 we are sold out of one or more varieties in your 

 order we tell you so. If we are sold out of a variety, 

 and you are willing to have us send another, selected 

 with our twenty years' experience in fruit-growing, 

 please mention it on your order, and possibly we 

 can give you something just as good or better than 

 your order calls for. 



Claims. We are extremely careful in filling and 

 packing all orders, and are always willing to do 

 as much or a little more than we agree to; yet during 

 our rush season, slight errors will sometimes be 

 made, in which event we want you to notify us 

 promptly, and we will make satisfactory adjust- 

 ment. All claims for errors, etc., must be made 

 within five days after arrival of shipment. 



When Writing for Information or Prices, 

 Please Give us Full Details — It is Important. 

 It will help us greatly to give you the books and 

 papers that you will need if you will explain in your 

 letter, or on your card, just what information you 

 want. Give us something to base our suggestions 

 on. If it is prices you want, and you have your 

 mind made up, give us approximately the number 

 of trees or plants of the different kinds that you 



need, also the varieties and the number of each 

 variety. We are willing to go to considerable trouble 

 to see that you get what you want and need — 

 advice, information or trees. Will you meet us 

 part way? Don't hesitate to write at length. You 

 will find in this catalogue an information blank, 

 and if you will fill it out carefully and enclose it 

 with your letter, you will help us greatly in giving 

 an intelligent reply to your inquiry. 



No Unnecessary Delays in Snipping. During 

 the past year we built a new packing-house which 

 doubles the packing space at our nurseries. A new 

 concrete loading platform, 300 feet long and 36 feet 

 wide, enables us to handle boxes from house to 

 cars in the shortest possible time. You will find 

 that these improvements will work to your advan- 

 tage when you want stock in a hurry. As far as 

 possible, we get your trees to you at exactly the 

 time you ask for them; but many times the trees 

 will be better if shipment is delayed, and you will 

 be benefited decidedly by our holding your order 

 for a little while, 



First, consider fall shipments. Planters in nor- 

 thern sections want their trees early for trenching- 

 in or for fall planting. But, if the trees are kept 

 growing in the nursery as fast as required to make 

 them as big and sturdy as they should be, they will 

 not start to ripen their wood until in September, 

 and will not be thoroughly ripe until in October or 

 November in normal seasons. Seasons vary, how- 

 ever, as much as six weeks, and leaves fall anywhere 

 from August to November. 



Some growers dig trees before they are ripe and 

 strip the leaves off. This makes trees look all 

 right, but they still have soft, sappy wood, and ragged 

 wounds where the leaves were torn away, instead 



Disc Harrows give the proper' cultivation in the orchard 



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WE TRY TO SHIP YOUR TREES AT JUST THE TIME YOU WANT THEM 



