Prompt and Efficient Service by Mail and Express 



T IS more convenient for many of our customers to order their seeds and bulbs by mail than 

 to cali at our store. For those customers, this catalogue is specially written and mailed, free, 

 to all who have favored us with their orders during the past year and to any others who are 

 interested in gardening and ask for it. 



Whether you call at our store for your seeds and garden supplies or order them by mail, we 

 can assure you of the same prompt and courteous attention and the same helpful interest in 

 your garden success. We make it our business to fill every mail order, large or small, successively as 

 received: throughout the year we maintain a strictly "Up-to-the-minute service." "Quick mails make 

 near neighbors of us all." 



It is our desire to serve you well. We have tried to make this catalogue a thoroughly reliable guide to 

 garden success. The varieties which we handle are carefully selected and accurately described. If you 

 are in need of further information, do not hesitate to write us; the knowledge we have gained in 50 

 years of seed-growing is at your command. If you are in doubt as to what varieties to use, you can 

 leave it to us to select those best adapted for your purposes. 



Please help us to fill and ship your orders accurately and with all possible dispatch by noting carefully 

 the following instructions: ^! 



Send Us Your Order a* Early as Possible. 



Use the Enclosed Order Sheet, listing your require- 

 ments consecutively in the order in which they appear in the 

 catalogue. Always keep a copy. 



Write Your Name and Address Distinctly on every 

 order you send us. Give your Name, Post Office, County 

 and State, also Street or Box Number. 



Send Your Remittances by Post Office or Express 

 Money Order, Registered Letter or Draft. For small 

 amounts stamps are acceptable. 



Correspondence should not be intermingled with the 

 body of the order, but should be written on a separate sheet. 



Give Complete Shipping Instructions on every order. 

 If you are not sure which method of shipment will be best 

 or cheapest you can safely leave that to us. Seeds, bulbs, 

 and plants are now entitled to special express rates, which 

 are considerably lower than on general merchandise. Con- 



sequently, we advise shipment by parcel post or express in 

 all cases where quick delivery is desired and the order is 

 not too bulky. See table of Parcel-Post Rates below. 



Substitutions and Adjustments. Late in the season 

 some stock may be exhausted, so it is advisable, if you do not 

 order early, to name substitutes, or instruct us to use our 

 judgment in filling your order if, by chance, certain varieties 

 which you desire should be sold out. We never substitute 

 unless instructed to do so. 



When a remittance is not sufficient to pay for the goods 

 ordered, we will send the quantities for which the remittance 

 pays. j 



With regard to errors, we take every possible precaution to 

 avoid their occurrence. Notify us at once if your order is not 

 properly filled and we will make the necessary adjustment. 



Postpaid. We will send postpaid all vegetable and flower 

 seed in packets, ounces, ana pounds. Fc - larger quantities 

 postage must be included in remittance. 



About Warranties and Guarantees. Because of our inability to control Nature's forces, we cannot guarantee cropi 



from our seeds and bulbs. No bonest seedsman can or does. We take all precautions, every precaution, to see that our seeds 

 are right. They are tested as to vitality and purity; they come from the foremost seed-growing specialists; they are handled 

 by experienced men and put up in the most careful manner; represent full value for money received. Beyond that we 

 cannot go, so, in common with all responsible houses, we do not warrant in any way, expressed or implied, tbe contents or 

 description, quality, productiveness, or any other matter of any seeds, bulbs, or plants solid by us, and we will not be in any way 

 responsible for tbe crop. If tbe purchaser does not accept tbe goods on these terms, he should return them at once and money will 

 be refunded. We make all sales subject to tbe above conditions. 



Parcel-Post Rates 



Parcels of seeds and bulbs weighing less than 8 ounces must pay postage to all zones at the rate of 1 cent for each 2 ounces; 



in excess of 8 ounces at pound rates. 



Parcels of general merchandise weighing 8 ounces or less must pay postage to all zones at the rate of 1 cents for 2 



ounces; in excess of 8 ounces at pound rates. 



Pittsburgh and R. F. D. Routes Nos. L 2, 3, 4, 5 



Within 50 miles of Pittsburgh 



Over 50 and under 150 miles from Pittsburgh 



Over 150 

 Over 300 

 Over 600 

 Over 1,000 

 Over 1.400 



300 

 600 

 1,000 

 1.400 

 1,800 



Fiat pound Each additional Limit of 



or fraction pound or fraction ireigbt 



. . .$0 07 $0 01 70 lbs. 



07 01 70 lbs. 



...07 01 70 lbs. 



...08 02 50 lbs. 



Local rate 

 1st zone. 

 2d zone. 

 3d zone. 

 4th zone. 

 5th zone. 

 6th zone, 

 7ih zone. 



8th zone. Over 1,800 miles from Pittsburgh 



All goods sent by parcel post are at purchaser's risk, unless insured. Insurance is S cents for $5 or less, 8 cents for $5 to 



S25, 10 cents for $25 to S50. This insures delivery only, but not damage to package. 



50 lbs. 

 50 lbs. 

 50 lbs. 



