CAUTION ! ! 
We should caution nnscriipulons niirserymen and tree dealers in the 
East against the stealing of our cuts, and more particularly the appro- 
priating of said cuts to varieties that they " do not represent;" our 
California Large Fruited Proeparturieus, which we propagate only by 
grnftinf!, having been made to represent the common Knglish or Ma- 
dera Walnut, and our California Grafted Marron de Lyon a common 
Italian or Spanish seedling chestnut. (See the catalogue of a leading 
New Jersey nurseryman, and that of a well-known tree and seed firm 
of l)etroit,'Michigan.) 
This wrong appropriating of cuts is simply an imposition on the 
public, a fraud on those parties' palrons, and cannot but bring discredit 
on the nurseries of this country, as being unreliable and deceiving. 
Cuts bolUly appropriated by Eastern pirates to represent other 
varieties of Siits. 
I California Large Fruited California Grafted 
Prceparturiens Walnut. Marron de Lyon Chestnut. 
Notice to Eastern Customers. 
All orders from the East for Walnuts, Chestnuts, Filberts, and other 
kinds of fruit trees and plants, to be forwarded by mail in the spring, 
should be sent during the winter (with the cash nccompanying the 
order), so as to enable us to take )ip the trees before the sap starts 
up, and put them away in the cellar, hilled up in sand, ready to be 
mailed at any time from the 1st of March to the second week of April; 
thanks to our superior method of packing trees shipped by mail — 
the tree being done in damp moss, barley sack cloth, oiled paper, 
and a dried stick inside the package to prevent bending and bruising — 
we guarantee the trees to reach in fresh and splendid condition to any 
part of the United States. 
