Suggestions to Pupchaseps. 
Espensive Catalogues, extravagant advertisements and 
costly traveling agents are a tax upon the buyer, resulting 
either in higher cost or inferior stock. Business men usually 
prefer facts, if given with clearness and brevity, to expensive 
magazines and costly engravings. 
Our Pocket-Catalogue, to be carried without folding, has 
been so frequently commended that we continue to publish it 
on heavy paper, in the same compact form, giving brief and 
truthful descriptions and advice, such as will enable our cus- 
tomers to select and order trees and plants suited to their 
locality and purposes. 
The character of our business is such that in order to do 
good work it is important th^t buyers give us their orders 
early. We do what we can to please our customers, but in the 
spring we invariably have more work on our hands and more 
orders to be filled tlian we can deliver in the best manner. At 
that season we are over-worked. It would greatly help us 
were grounds laid out and prepared in the autumn ; the 
delivery and planting could then be done at the proper time 
in the spring, giving us more credit and the purchaser in- 
creased profit. 
This is of the greatest importance, and for these reasons 
we advise buyers to place their orders early. Some of our 
customers send their orders several months before they will 
be ready to plant. 
On such early orders we do not require cash with the 
order ; but payment may be deferred until the time of ship- 
ment. Such orders are always filled and forwarded at the 
proper season. 
This Catalogue contains most of the varieties which we 
have at the time it is printed. Towards the close of the sea- 
son, our trees and vines of some varieties are certain to be 
sold out. Our customers, therefore, when ordering Fruits 
or Hoses, are requested to state if we are at liberty to replace 
such varieties as we may no longer have of the proper size, 
with others of equal merit. 
The proprietors, having made horticulture a life study, 
are supposed to be capable of choosing varieties of superior 
merit, and they have frequently been entrusted with the entire 
selection of large quantities. In our nursery, having decided 
which promise the best results, we aim to produce the finest 
specimens, and in such quantities as we can handle and per- 
sonally superintend, and from long experience to deliver to 
our customers such trees and plants as will give them the 
greatest satisfaction. Our assortment is so large and com- 
plete in the lines herein described that wholesale buyers will 
find it to their advantage to correspond or examine our stock; 
for we oflfer many things for less prices than they can be im- 
ported or obtained elsewhere. 
Our prices, though less for many kinds than at other nur- 
series, are for first-class trees, superior in every respect. Such 
