p^EAD CAREFULLY both of the inside cover pages of this book before malting 
out yourorder and see that you conform to our rules and thus avoid making mis- 
takes. We are exceedingly desirous that all our patrons shall visit our farms, because 
everyone who visits us becomes thoroughly satisfied that we do everything we 
claim. Please consider this a personal invitation. 
'pRANSPORTATION OF PLANTS~We 
■*■ ship by three methods — express, mail and freight. 
In any and all of them we have ample facilities 
for quick handling. But we earnestly advise our pat- 
rons to have their plants go by express or mail, for even 
though the cost appear to be greater than by freight, in 
the total results it will be found the less expensive 
way, because expressed plants will be rushed through to 
you and will be set out and growing before those ship- 
ped by freight could reach you. We have shipped 
plants by freight successfully to the Pacific coast, but 
the risk is great, and we urge that all large orders go 
by express. Small packages mjy go by mail. Express 
charges are 20 per cent, less than for general merchan- 
dise to any part of the country. All small orders are 
generally cheaper by express than freight, as only 
pound rates are charged, while railroads charge for one 
huiidred pounds without regard to weight when sent by 
freight. When plants are to be sent by mall, add to 
your remittance at the rale of 25 cents per hundred to 
the list-price given; and when plants are to go to 
Canada at the rale of 50 cents per hundred. The 
plants are packed in moss and go with entire safety to 
any part of the United Stales and Canada, arriving in 
perfect condition. We send plants by mail only at 
prices given for twenty-five, fifty and one hundred 
plants, and not at thousand rates. Do not send money 
to pay freight or express charges. You pay these 
when you get the plants. 
■\A^HAT WE GUARANTEE- We send plants 
to the most distant states with entire success to 
anybody and everybody who orders them. We 
are exceedingly anxious that they shall meet your high- 
est expectations, and to this end do all in our power" to 
contribute to success. We guarantee our plants to be 
in first class condition when they leave our farms. But 
after they are delivered to express companies or rail- 
roads, they belong to the purchasers and we have no 
control over them. We do not know what treatment 
they are to receive, hence you can readily see why we 
cannot, and do not, guarantee any results whatever. 
Our responsibility ceases when the plants are delivered 
to the express or railway companies or at the post- 
office. Our plants are propagated in special beds and 
carefully labeled when taken up. This would seetn to 
preclude the possibility of mistakes, and we guara itee 
plants to be true to label, with the express understanding 
that If a mistake occurs we are not to be held for any 
damages beyond the amount received for the plants. 
QRDER EARLY— All orders arc filed in the ro- 
tation 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 trans- 
plant. No order will be filled for less than $1, as the 
cost of handling is too great when the number of plants 
SUBSTITUTION — It is our purpose to supply 
^ each customer with the varieties of plants he orders. 
and every reasonable effort is made to that end, but 
it occurs sometimes that the particular variety one de- 
sires is completely sold out before the order is received. 
If no substitution is permitted, we are obliged to disap- 
point the customer and return llie money. There are 
several varieties of the same season and of equal value, 
and if we are out of the variety ordered, unless you ex- 
pressly state "no suhslilulioit," we shall understand you 
desire your order filled with other varieties. There is 
very little danger of failure to get varieties desired if 
orders are sent in early, but you should say in your 
order whether we may substitute should it become nec- 
essary to do so. 
"JUTAKE UP A CLUB— You can join with your 
•*••■»■ neighbors in getting up a club and get the benefit 
of thousand rates on all varieties of which five 
hundred or more of each kind are ordered. The club 
order must be shipped to one address. Each bundle of 
25 plants being labeled, the division easily is made. 
Catalogues will be sent to any of your neighbors on re- 
quest to aid in making up the club. 
OUR TERMS-Cash must accompany each order 
or it will not be booked. If not convenient to re- 
mit the entire amount at lime order is sent in, re- 
mit not less than one-third of the entire sum required to 
cover order, and your order will be filed and plants re- 
served for you ; the balance due to be paid, however, 
before plants are shipped. We send plants to nobody, 
no matter what his financial standing, until the cash is 
in hand. We send plants C. O. D. to no one under 
any circumstances. Do not ask it. 
r^LAIMS— All claims should be made within five 
^ days after the receipt of plants. They will be 
promptly investigated and if found to be just and 
right, will be as promptly adjusted. If you fail to hear 
from us promptly after sending in an order, so advise 
us, as we acknowledge all orders as soon as possible after 
their receipt. And in writing always advise us as to the 
way money was sent, the size of the order, etc. Be sure 
to see that your full name and address, clearly written, 
are attached to all communications. 
yHE STRAIN OF PLANTS WE OFFER is propagated from ideal mother 
planfs. We are confident that they are the only plants propagated in this man- 
ner obtainable and that their fruiting vigor cannot be equalled. While we practice 
the best hiethods of cultivation known, we have demonstrated that the vigor of our 
plants is the real basis of our success, and all who use them will find this to be true. 
