SEEDS BY MAIL. 
Seeds can be sent by mail to any part of the United States, in packages 
not exceeding four pounds, at 8 cents per pound, or 1 cent for two ounces or 
fraction thereof. On seeds ordered in papers or by 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 destinationin safety. Purchasers. 
living 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 ger- 
mination is destroyed. As seed merchants who give their goods out on com- 
mission 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 asin spring, and where often the seeds have to be put in the ground 
when the weather is very warm, itis an indispensable necessity to have per- 
fectly fresh seeds. 
Our arrangements with our growers are made so that we receive the new 
crop, expressly cleaned for us, as soon as itis 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 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 $1.00 we will mail fifteen large size papers of seeds, put 
up the same as seeds sold by the pound. These papers can be selected fram 
this catalogue, andinclude four papers of either peas or beans in the fifteen 
papers. Or, for the same amount, we willmail 24smaller papers, including 
four papers of either peas or beans. This is done to enable customers to get 
reliable seeds in good size papers in places where our seeds are not sold. The 
papers put up by 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 well impressed upon the minds of the cultivators of all 
vegetables that most seeds kept through a summer in this climate w7// not grow, 
and all who use such seeds will be the losers. 
On all goods ordered C. O. D. one-half of 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 
individual checks on country banks on amounts under ten dollars, 
This Company gives no warranty, expressed 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 re- 
turned. 
