NOTICE TO PATRONS The plants herein offered are propagated from Pure PcdJ- 
gree Plants and ideal plants, as explained in the chapters 
on " Improvement of Plants." We are confident they are the only plants obtainable propagated in this 
inanner, and that their f^uilin^? vigor cannot be equaled. While we practice the highest cultivatioa 
we know how to give, we have demonstrated that the vigor of our plants has been the basis of our 
success. By all means start a propagating bed this season 
ORDERS MUST AMOUNT TO 
ONE DOLLAR 
The correspondence, postage, booking and filling orders 
for less than that amount is done at a loss. 
TAKING UP STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
The whole row of plants is taken up, and all those poorly 
cooteti are thrown out. The fork used for the purpose is so 
constructed that plants are not bruised or roots broken off. 
All dead leaves and stems are picked off and roots straight- 
ened such a system that from the time they leave the 
(jround until they are ready for shipmeut they arc not exposed 
a half minute all together. 
SUBSTITUTION 
We desire to furnish each customer exactly wtiat he orders, 
but sometimes find the variety all sold before his order is 
reached, all orders being filled in the rotation in which they 
are received and booked. If no substitution is permitted, we 
Are obliged to disappoint the customer by returning the 
money late in the season. There are several varieties in 
Che same season and of equal value, and if we are out of the 
variety ordered and substitution is permitted, we will add 10 
{jer cent, to the plants substituted. Unless you expressly 
Htate "no substitution," we will understa-nd you desire 
your order filled as above stated. Tliere is very little danger 
of not getting the varieties desired, if orders are sent in early. 
PRICE OF PLANTS 
The prices quoted are net, and the lowest at which they 
oMi be grown and placed on the market. This list abrogates 
all former price lists. No charge will be made for packnig, 
crates or boxes, and delivery to forwarders. No plants sold 
for fall planting. Not less than 25 strawberry plants of any 
variety will be sold; it requires that number for a fair trial." 
NO AGENTS 
We employ no agents. Scores of complaints come to us 
every year saying, *' The plants I bought of your agents are 
worthless." Tree peddlers secure copies of this book and 
represent themselves as our agents, ami then deliver common 
atock. to the loss and disgust of purchasers. Tut all such 
parties down as frauds. Vou can only get the genuine thor- 
oughbred plants by sending direct to us. Strawberry plants 
will not endure the exposure of handling with trees and 
other plants in delivering orders and carrying around the 
country after the packages arc opened. 
MAKE UP A CLUB 
You can join with your neighbors in getting up a club and 
get the benefit of thousand rjiics on nil varieties of \shich 
ve hundred or niipre ol' each kind sirt' ordered. The club 
order must be shippiMl to one juldress. Kach bundle of 
twenty-five plants bring hiboled, thu liivision is easily made. 
Catalogues w ill be sent (o any of your neighbors on request, 
to aid in making up tliu club. 
TERMS 
Strictly cash with order. No orders are booked unless one- 
third the amount is remitted and balance bclore shipment. 
ORDER EARLY 
All ordei"s arc filled in the rotation in which they arc 
receive(X, hence the earlier they are sent in, the better. 
HOW TO REMIT 
Send m(tney by postntlice order, liank dnift, express order, 
or registered 'letter. We cannot be respuiisilile lor money 
sent louse in a letter. U'hon [irivale i lieeks arc sent, ad^ 
flfteen cents to cover the cost of collection. 
REFERENCES 
All banks, wholesale houses and manufacturers use th© 
Commercial Reports of R. G- Dun and Bradstreet, and you 
can see them by request. These reports place our capital at 
$35,000.00 and credit rating the highest given by any one on. 
that amount of capital. 
Special references : First National Bank or any merchAOt 
in this city. 
PLANTS BY MAIL 
When plants are to be sent by mail, add at the rate of 
twenty-five cents per hundred to the list prices given ; and 
to Canada at the rate of fifty cents per hundred. 
The plants are packed in moss and go perfectly safe, 
arriving in perfect condition. We send plants by mail only 
at prices given for twenty-five, fifty and one hundred, ana 
not at thousand rates. 
EXPRESS RATES 
Express charges arc twenty per cent less than general 
merchandise to any part of the country. All small orders are 
generally cheaper by express than freight, as only pound 
rates are charged, while railroads chaise for one hundred 
pounds without regard to weight when sent by freight. 
FREIGHT 
Our railroad connections are first-class. Plants leaving 
here at six o'clock in the evening arrive in Chicago, Toledo 
and Detroit the same night, and from these points they go in 
fast through freights to all principal cities and intermediate 
points. It is seldom they fail to arrive on time, but some- 
times delays occur, and when notified they are behind time, 
we hurry them forward by telegraphic tracers. We adviae 
purchasers to consult local freight agents as to time and give 
the route over which you wish them sent by freight. If no 
shipping directions are given, we exercise our best judgment 
without assuming any responsibility. 
GUARANTEE OF GENUINENESS 
The plants being propagated in special l>eds and labeled 
when taken up, would seem to preclude the possibility of 
mistake, and we gmirantee plants to be true to label, with 
express understanding that if a mistake happ-'us we are not 
to be held forauy damages beyond the amount received for 
the plants. 
GUARANTEEING RESULTS 
We send plants to the most distant slates, with entire 
success, to anyl)ody and everybody who orders them. We 
are exceedingly anxious that they shall nu'et their liighest 
expeetations, and to this end will do all in our power to 
contribute to success. But after they are delivered to express 
companies orrailroads, they belong "to the purehnsers and we 
have no control over them. We do not kn(tw what treat- 
ment they are to roeeive. hence you can readily see why we 
cannot, and do nut, guiiranfce any results whatever. Our 
responsibility ceases when delivered to express or railroad. 
CLAIMS 
.Vll claims must be made within five days of the receipt of 
plants, when they will be investigated and i£ not found 
correct will be promptly adjusted. 
ORDERS ARE ACKNOWLEDGED 
As soon as received. Jf you do not hear from us after a 
reasonable time, write again. 
JQ'Q'J* JQ5i This Booklet will be revised every year, and sent oul free to all who are interested in 
it. Do not loan it but keep it tor reference. If you want one sent to a friend, send 
his address on a postal card, and we will mail it with yoiu- compliments, so ho will know who sent it. 
Our object is to place fruit growers in possession of such facts concerning plant life and the laws which 
i^overn the development of fruit as will enable them to succeed. Our success depends on your success. 
The number of copies one person can order is limited to four. 
