SEEDS BY MAIL. 



Seeds can be sent by mail to any part of the United States, in packages 

 not exceeding four pounds, at eight cents per pound, or one 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 ordered by the pound, 

 eight cents per pound postage has to be added to the price of the seeds, to peas, 

 beans and corn, fifteen cents per quart. 



All packages are put up in the most careful manner, and every precaution 

 is taken to insure their reaching their destination in 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 germination is 

 destroyed. As seed merchants who give their goods out on commission 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 

 Autumn as in Spring, and where often the seeds have to be put in the ground 

 when the weather is very warm, it is an indispensible necessity to have perfectly 

 fresh seeds. 



Our arrangements with our growers are made so that we receive the new 

 crop, expressly cleaned for us, as soon as it is matured. The varieties which 

 are not raised in the North we order from Europe, and have them shipped so as 

 to reach us about the beginning of August, just the time that 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 b}' the pound. These papers can be selected from 

 this Catalogue, and include four papers of either Peas or Beans in the fifteen 

 papers. Or for the same amount, we will mail twenty smaller papers, including 

 four papers of either Peas or Beans. This is done to enable customers to get 

 reliable seeds in good sized 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 mer- 

 chants are made at the expense of the consumers. Our paoers are large and 

 worth the full value of the money paid for them. 



It cannot be too well impressed upon the minds of all cultivators of all 

 vegetables, that most seeds kept through a Summer in this climate will not grow, 

 and all who use such seeds will be the losers. 



On all goods ordered C. 0. D., one third 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 individ- 

 ual checks on country banks on amounts under ten dollars. 



