2 J. STECKLER SEED CO., LTD. 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS TO BE FOLLOWED 
WHEN ORDERING OUR SEEDS. 
TO OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS: 
IN ORDERING remember that prices 
quoted here are always subject to change. 
They include prepayment of postage on all 
seeds ordered by packet, ounce, quarter- 
pound and five-pound lots, unless other- 
wise specifically stated. If the order is to 
be sent by express or freight, deduct five 
eents per pound from prices given. Larger 
quantities than pounds will be sent by 
express or freight, the customer paying 
such charges. To count the postage on 
flower or: vegetable plants add 15 per cent 
of the list price. 
The postage for foreign countries must 
be added to the cost of the goods selected 
in this catalog, or the- order will be reduced 
to allow for the postage. These rules will 
also apply to orders from the United States 
where no allowance is made for mailing or 
we will send by express. Regulations for 
foreign countries are as follows: Central 
and South America, 20 lb. limit, 12 cents per 
pound; Cuba, 4 Ibs. 6 oz. limit, 12 cents 
per pound; Panama and the Canal Zone, 50 
lb. limit, 12 cents per pound. 
plants add 15% of the value for postage. 
OUR TERMS—Cash or § satisfactory 
reference. On all goods except Live Stock 
and Plants ordered C. O. D. half of the 
amount must accompany the order. No 
Plants or Live Stock sent C. O. D. Orders 
from unknown parties whose financial 
rating is not recorded, must be accom- 
panied by Registered Letter, or Money 
Order. Where neither of the above can be 
obtained, send remittance in United States 
postage stamps. Stamps must be in good 
Trees and 
order, and placed so they will not stick 
together. 
WHEN CRDERING write your name 
plainly, give correct P. O. address if by 
mail, if by express give your express office 
or nearest express office, to avoid any de- 
lay; also if by rail or boat give station or 
landing,’ and if possible the name of the 
railroad or name of boat. Where no in- 
structions are given as to how shipment 
should be made, we will use our own dis- 
cretion; but we urge @ customers to 
state plainly whether they want goods 
mailed, expressed or’ Shipped by boat or 
by rail. As all Shipments by boat must 
be prepaid, customers not known to us 
must remit enough to cover freight. 
NON-WARRANTY. Note.— There are 
sO many contingencies to be encountered 
in growing plants from seed and in setting 
out plants that are dependent on the 
weather and other conditions over which 
we have no control, that success in plant- 
ing is not altogether dependent on the seed 
or plant. We will send out only seed 
which we -believe.will grow and produce 
ths kind of plant and variety represented, 
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THIS COMPANY GIVES NO WAE- 
RANTY, expressed or implied, as to de= 
scription, quality, productiveness or any 
other matter of any seeds, bulbs, plants or 
trees, we send out, and we will not be in. 
any way responsible for the crop. If the 
purchaser does not accept the goods on 
these terms, they are at once to be re- 
turned. : 
NEW VALUES IN VEGETABLES. 
VEGETABLES are more important to- 
day than ever before. Recent discoveries 
of science have shown that vegetables— 
especially the green, succulent kinds—are 
vitally necessary in the diet of all civilized © 
people. Within the last dozen years, physi- 
cians and chemists, in several 
different countries to find the connection 
between diet and disease, have discovered 
that fresh vegetables, milk, yeast, and 
some other foods contain substances called 
“vitamines,”’ 
working 
growth, and even life itself. 
These vitamines, as a rule, are most 
abundant in the green, leafy vegetables, 
such as lettuce, chicory, and other salads; 
spinach, turnip and mustard greens, cab- 
bage, kaie, and collards, which, up to 
twelve years ago, were Supposed to have 
little food value, as compared to meat, 
bread and dried beans, corn, and potatoes. 
that are essential to health, - 
In fact, the experts of ten or twenty 
years ago declared that these vegetables 
were needed in the diet only to supply 
water, certain mineral salts, and “rough- 
age.’ 
Now, however, it is known that the 
newly-found vitamines contained in these 
salad vegetables, and in such roots as 
carrots and yellow turnips, and such 
“vegetable fruits’ as tomatoes and squash, 
and also in fresh snap-beans and green 
peas, give “pep” to the mind and body, 
make children grow, and keep the system 
in good working order. 
Those who, through poverty, famine, or 
are unable to get fresh 
milk and butter, suffer and 
eventually die from certain diseases— 
scurvy, rickets, beri-beri, pellagra, and a 
kind of sore eyes which blinded thousands 
of children in war-stricken Europe. 
imprisonment, 
vegetabies, 
