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 the amount of the 
order is $5.00 or over, you may remit not less than one-third of the amount when 
ordering. When the amount of the order is less than $5.00, remittances should be made 
in full. The balance due on any order must be paid before plants are shipped. (After 
March 15 all orders must 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. O. 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 neces- 
sary 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 rep- 
resent themselves 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, com- 
pel 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, pro- 
vided 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 thou- 
sand 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 name of the variety 
ordered, the division easily will be made upon arrival of the plants. In all cases, how- 
ever, 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. If plants are to be divided in the box the charge for plants 
will be the same as though each individual order was shipped separately. 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. 
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. Experience shows that the average weight of 1,000 plants grown at Three 
Rivers, Mich., is 30 lbs. to the thousand; those grown at Twin Palls, Idaho, weigh 35 
lbs. to the thousand, and those grown at Canby, Oregon, weigh 50 lbs. to the thousand. 
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