LOiVG BROTHERS' CATALOGUE— SPRIjYG, 1S76. 
By ordering the work immediately ufter our Catalogue is received, an opportunity will be afforded for study 
ing its contents before stock will be needed, which will be advantageous if not directly prof table. BEAR IN 
MIND, that the certificate we enclose in each copy will be received by us the same as cash, in payment for stock. 
Discount allowed on I*nrgc Orders.— We offer three distinct inducements, which apply to stock of 
different kinds and character, but no fart of an order can be counted under more than one inducement. 
INDUCEMENT No. i.-We will allow plants and BULBS at Catalogue priccs- 
INDUCEMENT No. ,.- 
70.00 " " " 53.50 
o may select seeds at Catalogue prices, amounting to $1.15 
2.00 " " " " " 3.30 
3.00 " ' " " 3.55 
4.00 " '* " 4.90 
5.00 " " " " " 6.25 
10.00 " ... .. I3(X) 
=0.00 " " " " " 27.00 
.These rates can only be allowed on Vegetable and Flower Seeds in packets. 
INDUCEMENT No. 3.— On Copies of the Home Florist. To any person who will send us ? 1.50 for 
5 copies of the Home Florist in fafer co-oers, we will add ONE COPY IN PAPER COVERS FREE of CHARGE, 
For $2.10 sent us for 7 copies bound in fafirr, we will add one copy IN. CLOT II BINDING free of CHARGE. 
For 53 00 sent us for 5 copies of the Home Florist bound in cloth we will send one additional copy BOUND IN 
CLOTH free of charge. Each copy, as well as the premium one, thus ordered will contain one of the 30 cent 
certificates alluded to above, and will be sent postpaid to one or more addresses as best suits the sender. 
PERPLEXITIES OF CORRESPONDENCE. 
It is in the experience of every person or business house that is in the receipt of much correspondence, to meet 
with numerous instances where writers have made important omissions in penning their communications, or have 
written some parts illegibly, or otherwise inaccurate. These may generally be supposed to come from persons, 
who not being much in practice in writing business letters, and being desirous to render the contents of such 
plain, arc apt to overlook such important parts as getting their Post office address. Stale, or even their own nnmc 
-for it is in these things that the imperfections we allude to usually occur- plain and accurate. Each of us is so 
perfectly familiar with our own name and address, that in writing, it is easy to have it seem ns though the party 
addressed knows it as well, and, while dealing in our communication with matters nnd facts that the receiver 
is likely to be familiar tuith, the name and address is to a great degree the most important part of the letter. 
We venture to say that one out of every fifty, perhaps every thirty, letters we receive by mail, is deficient in 
the one particular of the Stale or Territory in which the writer resides, having been omitted, l'rom the frequency 
with which this occurs, it looks as though many writers considered that to give the name of their Slnle was of 
little consequence. We give an example of this character, it being one of many that are now in our office, nnd 
which remain unattended to This particular one is given because of its brevity. The writer's name was signed 
plainly and in full, but is here omitted, save the initials. 
U6a> -d 6- 
This is received from Berlin, somnuhere, but to show how utterly impossible it is for us to decide where the 
Berlin is to which wc arc to address the work ordered, we give a list of the post offices— eighteen in number- of 
this same name in our country. 
Berlin, Hartford Co., Conn. Berlin, Worcester Co.. Mass. Berlin, Holmes Co., Ohio. 
Berlin, Sangamon Co., III. Berlin, Ottawa Co , Mich. Berlin, Somerset Co., Pa. 
Berlin, Hardin Co.. Iowa. Berlin, Steele Co., Minn Berlin, Marshall Co., Tenn. 
Berlin, Riley Co., Kansas. Berlin, Gentry Co., Mo. Berlin, Washington Co., Vt. 
Berlin, Bracken Co., Ky. Berlin, Camden Co., N. J. Berlin, Southampton Co.. Vu. 
Berlin, Worcester Co., Md. Berlin, Rensselaer Co., N. V. • Berlin, Grccnlake Co., Wll. 
