Prompt and Efficient Service by Mail and Express 



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

 call 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 53 

 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 as 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 t ) special express rates, which 

 are considerably lower than on general merchandise. Con- 



sequendy, 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 remittance is not sufficient to pay for the goods 

 ordered, we will send the quantities for which the remittance 

 pays. 



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, and ounces. For larger quantities postage 

 must be included in remittance. 



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

 from our seeds and bulbs. No honest 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, the contents or 

 description, quality, productiveness, or any other matter of any seeds, bulbs, or plants sold by us, and we will 

 not be in any way responsible for the crop. If the purchaser does not accept the goods on these terms, he should 

 return them at once and money will be refunded. We make all sales subject to the above conditions. 



Delivery Service 



We maintain truck delivery service to all parts of the city as well as to Wilkinsburg, Edgewood, Swissvale. South Hills, West 

 View, Avalon, Ben Avon, Sewickley, Sharpsburg, Aspinwall and Crafton. 



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. 



On the local rate, Pittsburgh and R. F. D. Routes Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, the rate is 7 cents for first pound or fraction thereof; 

 for each succeeding 2 pounds the rate advances 1 cent, viz. 



Over 50 and under 150 miles 

 Over 150 " " 300 " 

 Over 300 " " 600 " 

 Over 600 " " 1.000 " 

 Over 1.000 " " 1,400 " 

 Over 1.400 " " 1,800 " 

 Over 1,800 miles from Pittsburgh. 



or 3 lbs, 8 cents, 4 or 5 lbs. 



9 cents, etc., to a limit of 70 lbs. 



First Pound 



Each Additional 



Limit of 



or Fraction 



Pound or Fraction 



Weight 



07 



01 



70 lbs. 



07 



01 



70 lbs. 



08 



02 



70 lbs. 



08 



04 



50 lbs. 



09 



06 



50 lbs. 



10 



08 



50 lbs. 



12 



10 



50 lbs. 



13 



12 



50 lbs. 



1st zone. 

 2d zone. 

 3d zone. 



4 th zone. 



5 th zone. 

 6th zone. 



7 th zone. 



8 th zone. 



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

 $5 to $25, 10 cents for $25 to $50. This insures delivery only, but not damage to package. 



