D. M. Ferry & Co^s Descriptive Catalogue. 127 



TERMS OF 



VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



OUR CERMS ARE SCRICCLY CASH WICH CHE ORDER. 



FREE OF POSTAGE or EXPRESS CHARGES.— Where Packets, Ounces, Two Ounces, Quarter 



Pounds, Half Pints or Pounds are ordered at list prices, they will be sent free by mail or express (except Bird 

 or Flax seeds, to which sixteen cents per pound must be added for postage) unless Congress alters the present 

 postal law to our prejudice. 



PINTS and QUARTS.— Where Pints, Quarts and Four Quarts are ordered at list price, thirty cents 

 per quart, fifteen cents per pint must be added for postage or express charges, and they will then be sent free. 



PECK, BUSHEL and BARREL LOTS,— Where Peck, Bushel or Barrellots are ordered the freight 

 or express charges must be paid by the party ordering, as they have the advantage of our bushel rates even when 

 ordering only one-quarter bushel. 



J^"In those cases where perishable or other goods are ordered to be sent by freight or express to such great 

 distances that the cost of transportation will nearly or quite equal the value of the goods, we must decline to for- 

 ward goods unless purchasers remit us, m addition to the price of goods, sufficicient funds to prepay transportation 

 charges. When this requirement is not complied with, we reserve the right of declining the order and returning 

 money to the person ordering. 



SEEDS BY MEASURE.— One-fourth bushel and over sold at bushel rates; Four Quarts and over, 

 up to one-quarter bushel sold at four quart rates , iess than Four Quarts sold at quart, pint or half pint rates. 



SEEDS BY WEIGHT.— Half Pound and over at pound rates; less than Half Pound lots are charged 

 at ounce, two-ounce, or quarter pound rates. 



BAGS. — To every order for one-quarter bushel and upwards, to the amount of two bushels, 25 cents must be 

 added, for a new bag, in which to ship. 



DO NOT ASK US TO SEND C. O. D., as the cost of collecting return charges is quite an unnecessary 

 item of expense ; and the prices being given, we can conceived of no necessity to warrant goods being so sent. 



HOW TO SEND MONEY.— Remittances may be made .a.t our risk by either of the following methods, 

 viz : Post Office Order. Draft on New York Express. Express Co's Money Order, or by Registered Letter. 



If currency is sent by express, the charges should be prepaid, and if local checks are used, 25 cents must be 

 adde</to cover the cost of collection 



The rates charged for Post Office Orders are now so low that this is the very best way to remit where P. O. 

 Orders can be obtained. Postal Notes are cheaper, but are little, if any, safer than the currency, because if lost, 

 duplicates will not be issued, and if stolen, they are payable to bearer. 



When P. O. Orders cannot be obtained, letters containing money should always be registered. Money in ordi- 

 nary letters is tiiisa/e. 



SIGN YOUR NAME. — There is hardly a day that we do not receive letters containing orders and 

 money, which we cannot fill, because the party has failed to sign any name; again, they often neglect to 

 give P. O. address, and the post mark, being blurred, we are unable to fill the order, no matter how much we 

 desire to do so. Use our Order Sheet and Envelope, in all cases where you can, and fill out the blanks and sign your 

 name, and you will have no occasion to censure us. 



CLUBS. — Persons desiring to form a Club, or to order in larger quantities than usual, or even for their own 

 use in large or small quantities, will be supplied at the following liberal discounts, and the seeds sent by mail, post- 

 paid. This applies to seeds in packets only, a>id at catalogue prices, and not to seeds by weight or /neasure. 

 Send us $1.00, and select packets to the value of. $1.15 

 2.00, " " " " .. 2.35 



•' 3.00, " " " " .. 3.60 



" 4.00, " " " ■' .. 4.85 



GUARANTEE. — Complaints made that seeds are not good, may quite as often be attributed to other causes 

 as to the quality of the seeds. There are hundreds of contingencies continually arising to prevent the best seeds always 

 giving satisfaction, such as sowing too deep, too shallow, in too wet or too dry soil ; insects of all descriptions de- 

 stroying the plants as soon as, or before they appear ; wet weather, cold weather, frosts, chemical changes in the 

 properties of seeds induced by temperature, &c. For the above reasons, it is impracticable to guarantee seeds under 

 all circumstances, and while we exercise the greatest care to supply every article true to name, and o/the 7'ery 

 best quality^ and believe \our seeds to be the purest and best to be found, we xvish it to be distinctly un- 

 derstood that we sell no seeds with any warranty, express or implied, and we will not be in any way 

 responsible for the crop. 



Send us S5.00, and select packets to the value of . ,$6.15 



lO.OG, " " " " ..12.50 



" 20.00, " " " " ..26.00 



