Read Carefully Every Word Upon the Inside Cover Pages 
Of this book before making up your order, ^o that you may know 
our rules and terms, and thus avoid possible misunderstandings. 
Our Terms 
CASH must accompany each order or it will not be booked. If the amount of the order 
is $5.00 or over, you may remit not less than one-third of the amount when ordering. 
Where the amount of the order is less than $5.00, remittance should be made in full. The 
balance due on any order must be paid before plants are shipped. After March 15 all 
orders should be accompanied by full payment to insure prompt delivery. We send no 
plants to anybody, no matter what his financial standing, until plants are paid for. We do 
not ship plants to anybody C. 0. D. Do not ask us to do so. ' 
How to Remit 
ALL remittances should be made by postoffice or express money order, or by bank draft 
or registered letter. No other way by mail is safe, and we shall not be responsible for 
any currency or coin sent in a letter. When private checks are sent, add 10 cents to cover 
cost of collection. This for the reason that the clearing house associations all the country 
over have adopted a minimum rate of 10 cents for exchange on all personal checks, and the 
great volume of business done by us makes it necessary to insist upon this point. 
We Employ No Agents 
SCORES of complaints come to us every year to this effect: "The plants I bought of your 
agents are worthless. " Tree peddlers secure copies of this book and represent them- 
selves as our agents, and then deliver common stock, to the loss and disgust of purchasers. 
You can get the genuine Thoroughbred plants only by sending direct to us. Should anyone 
represent himself as our agent, offering to sell our plants, compel him to show his credentials. 
This will reveal his true character as he will be unable to show authority to sell our plants. 
Order Early 
ALL orders are booked in the rotation in which they are received. The earlier they come 
in the more certain will be the patron of securing the plants of his choice. Orders for 
early shipment are best, too, for the reason that the plants when dormant are in better 
form to transport and transplant. No order will be filled for less than $1.00, as the cost of 
handling is too great when the amount is less. Plants will be shipped at the proper time, 
as nearly as we can judge, for setting out in your locality, unless you give us specific date 
for shipment. Orders received after April 15 will be shipped according to date of their 
receipt, regardless of special shipping dates, provided they have been remitted for in full. 
How to Make Up a Club Order 
You may join with your neighbors in getting up a club, and get the benefit of thousand 
rates on all varieties of which 500 or more plants are ordered. But to secure these rates 
the club order should come in the name of one person and the entire order be shipped to one 
address. As each bunch of plants bears the narhe of the variety ordered, the division easily 
will be made upon arrival of the plants. In all cases, however, where the club order is to be 
divided and plants shipped separately to members, each member will be required to pay the 
regular rate quoted in our price list for the number of plants he orders. Catalogs will be 
sent to your neighbors on request, to aid in making up the club. 
Transportation of Plants 
EXPERIENCE has taught us that the best and safest way to ship plants is by express, 
wherever the customer is so situated as to have them come forward by express. An 
additional incentive to the use of express is the lowered express rates which lately have gone 
into effect. Remember, also, that express packages travel in an open car, whereas mail 
packages are carried in air-tight mail sacks together with heavy and bulky packages. At 
the time this page goes to press, the Postmaster-General announces that packages weighing 
as high as 20 lbs. will be admitted to the same sacks as those containing strawberry plants. 
This will make it even less desirable to ship plants by mail. Therefore, on another page in 
this book you will find both express rates and postal rates quoted, together with other infor- 
mation and suggestions. 
Estimated Weight of Plants 
IT is impossible to give the exact weight of plants, because plants of some varieties are 
much larger than others and plants steadily increase in weight as the season advances. 
But our experience has been that it is safe to calculate on from 25 to 30 pounds per each 
thousand plants as grown at Three Rivers, Michigan, and Twin Fall, Idaho, when the plants 
are packed for shipment. As the growing season at Canby is much longer than it is at our 
other farms, plants from Canby will weigh from 30 to 45 pounds when packed for shipment. 
THE THREE RIVERS PRESS, THREE RIVERS. MICH. 
