CLAIMS, if any. must be mnde on receipt of goods, when they will be care- 
fully and cheerfully examined, and, if just, all made satisfactory. Claims made 
after fifteen days from receipt of goods will not be entertained. I send out only 
good stock in good condition, careiuily packed, in all cases, but success or fail- 
ure depends in so large a degree upon the weather and the care and manage- 
ment after received, that I do not, because I cannot, undertake to guarantee 
stock to live. 
PACKING is executed with the utmost care. Special pains are taken to pack 
lightly, thereby reducing the expense to a minimum. All goods at prices quot- 
ed are packed free. Everything is labeled. 
SPECIAL LOW EXPRESS RATES.— By special arrangement we are now 
able to ship our customers by express, to any part of the country, plants at the 
hundred pound merchandise rate, less a special reduction of 20 per cent, there- 
from. Thus we secure for our customers a low express rate on all shipments. 
PAYA1ENTS invariably in advance. Goods sent C. O. D. only when one 
f ourth the amount is sent with order, with charges for returning money added 
to bill. 
REMIT by Money Order on Salisbury, Md., by Registered Letter, by Check, 
or by express. Postage stamps taken for fractional parts of a dollar. 4, 5, 6, 8. 
10 and 15 cent stamps preferred. Canadian customers will please remit by Ex- 
press, Money Order or Canadian bills. Foreign customers will please remit by 
Money Order on Baltimore. Md. 
&&"\t sometimes happens that we send two catalogues to one address. Should 
you receive more than one copy please hand the extra one to some friend who will be 
interested in it. 
MY PLANTS. 
I call your special attention to my fine large stock of plants, which is pro- 
bably the largest and most valuable selection to be found in this country. N© 
time or expense has been spared to find the best of everything in the strawberry 
family for our customers. The past season I have traveled far and near that I 
might see the new varieties claimed to be of great merit, in fruit. I have found 
but few if any that were equal to the new varieties I offered last year, and for 
this reason they have not been added to my collection, or offered in my cata- 
logue. Many varieties of claimed importance have been found wanting and 
have been left out of my list. I would also draw your attention to the fact 
that my stock is strictly pure. Agents may tell you that because I sell stock 
at one half their prices it is not true to name. But if it should be found other- 
wise I will be found at Salisbury. Md. : but if theirs should be badly mixed. 
where would you find the agent? Echo answers, where? My business is 
directly with the growers and I invite one and all who can do so to examine 
my stock. Some unscrupulous Western nurserymen, struggling to direct trade 
to themselves, have been publishing the claims through their catalogues that 
'•Maryland stock, or Eastern stock, is very inferior to Western grown.** That 
claim has no foundation whatever, and no respectable person would allow such 
a statement to be printed over his name. The fact is. there are good plants and 
poor plants grown throughout the East, and there are good plants and poor 
plants grown throughout the West, and the kind of plants you get depends 
largely upon the kind of man you buy from. I have bought plants from a great 
many different sections and different men and I have almost invariably found 
that the m*n I bought from had more to do with the quality or the plants re- 
ceived than the section of country from which they came. Some of those West- 
em men who have been makiug claims that Maryland stock ie inferior to West- 
ern stock are among my largest customers, and I -challenge airy Western grower 
to produce finer, larger and hcaltheir and better looted strawberry plants than I 
ean and do grow here in Wicomico county. Maryland. 
