Read Carefully Every Word Upon the Inside Cover Pages 
Of this book before making up your order, so 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 not convenient to remit 
the entire amount at the time order is sent in, remit not less than one-third of the entire 
sum required to cover order, and your order will be filed and plants will be reserved for you; 
the balance due to be paid, however, before plants are shipped. We send no plants to any- 
body, no matter what his financial standing, until the cash is in hand. We send no plants 
C. 0. D. to anybody under any circumstances. Do not ask it. 
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. 
Orders sent in after March 15 must be accompanied by full payment to insure proper 
position in the files. 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 re- 
ceived 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. The club order must be 
shipped to one address. As each bundle bears the name of the variety ordered, the division 
easily is made, therefore please do not ask us to pack orders separately for individual 
members of the club. Catalogs will be sent to any of 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. Re- 
member that express packages travel in an open car, whereas mail packages are carried in 
air-tight mail sacks together with heavy and bulky packages. An additional incentive to 
the use of express is the lowered express rates which have gone into effect this season. As 
a rule, it will be found cheaper to have the plants come by express, even though it be a 
very small package, than by mail. As this is written we are advised that the new Parcels- 
Post law has been passed and will be in effect during the 1913 shipping season. But as the 
details of this law nad not been worked out as this page goes to press, we are unable to give 
you here definite information. We shall hope, however, before the last pages of the book 
go to press to be able to give our customers such information regarding the new Parcels- 
Post law as will enable those customers who do not have the advantage of express delivery 
to intelligently understand the operation of the Parcels-Post law. We always advise our 
customers against having plants shipped by freight. 
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 Falls, 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. 
THI THREE RIVERS PRESS. THREE RIVERS, MICH 
