OEAD carefully both of the inside cover pages of tliis booli before mailing out your order, and see tliat you 
V conform to our ruies, and thus avoid malting mistaiies. 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 to do. 
TRANSPORTATION OF PLANTS— We ship by 
three methods— express, mail and freight. In 
any ai;id 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 he found the 
less expensive way, hecatise expressed plants will 
be rushed through to you and will be set out and 
growing before those shipped 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 ex- 
press. Small packages may go by mail. Express 
charges are 20 per cent less than for general mer- 
chandise to any part of the country. All small 
orders are generally cheaper by express than 
freight, as only pound rates are charged, while 
railroads ch ■ rge for one hundred pounds without 
regard to weight when sent by freight. When 
plants are to he sent by mail, add to your remit- 
tance at the rate of 25 cents per hundred to the 
list-price given; and when plants are to go to 
Canada at the rate of 50 cents per hundred. The 
plants are packed in moss and go with entire 
safety to any part of the United States and C'an- 
ada, 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 wheiv you get the plants. 
W^HAT WE GUARANTEE— We send plants to 
W the most distant states witli entire success 
to anybody and everybody who orders them. We 
are exceedinglyanxiousthat they shall meet your 
highest 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 railroads, they belong to the 
purchasers and we have no control over them. 
We do not know what treatmetit they are to re- 
ceive, 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 conipatiies orat the post- 
olTlce. Our platits are propagated in special beds 
and carefully labeled when taken up. This would 
seetu to preclude the possibility of itiistakes, and 
we guarantee plants to be true to label, witii tlie 
express understanding that if a mistake in curs we 
are not to be held for any damages beyond the 
amoTint received for the plants. 
ORDER EARLY— All orders are filed in the 
rotatiim in which they are received. The 
earlier they coitic in the more certain will he the 
patron of seeuritig theplantsof hischoice. Orders 
for early shipment are best, too, for the retis(ut 
that the plants when dormant are in better form 
to transport and transplant. No order will be 
filled for less than $1, as the cost of handling is too 
great when the amount is less. 
SUBSTITUTION— It is our purpose to supply 
each custonu'r with the varieties of plants he 
orders, and fvvry reasonable cffiU't is maile to that 
end, but it occurs sonu'tiines that the particular 
variety one desires is completely sold out before 
the order is received. If no substitution is per- 
mitted, we are obliged to disappoint the customer 
and return the money. There are several varieties 
of the same season and of equal value, and if we 
are out of the variety ordered, unless you expressly 
state "no substitution." we shall understand you 
desire your order filled with other varieties. 
There is very little danger of failure to get the 
varieties desired if orders are sent in early, but 
you should say in your order whether we may 
substitute should it become necessary to do so. 
NO AGENTS ARE EMPLOYED BY US .Seores 
of complaints come to us every year saying, 
"The plants I bought of your agents are worth- 
less." Tree peddlers secure copies of this book and 
represent themselves as our agents, and then de- 
liver common stock, to the loss and disgust of pur- 
chasers. You can get the geimine thoroughbred 
plants only by sending direct to us. Should any- 
one represent himself as our agent, offering to sell 
our plants, compel him to show his credentials. 
This will reveal his true character at once; for he 
will be unable to show any authcu'ity to sell our 
plants. 
MAKE UP A CLUB— You can join with your 
neighl',ors 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 laV)eled, the di- 
vision easily is made. Catalogues will he sent to 
any of your neighbors on request to aid in mak- 
itig up the cUib. 
REfllTTANCES— All remittances should be 
made by PostoflJce or Express Money Order 
or by bank draft or registered letter. We shall 
list be responsible for any currency or coin sent 
in a letter. When private checks are sent, add 15 
cents to cover cost of collection. 
OUR TERMS— Cash luust accompany each or- 
der or it will not be hooked. If not ccm- 
venient to remit the entire amount at time order 
is sent in, remit not less than one-third of the en- 
tire sum required to etjver order, and your order 
will be filed and plants reserved for you; the bal- 
ance due to be paid, however, before plants are 
shipped. We send no jilatits to anybody, no mat- 
ter what his financial stamling, until tlie cash is 
in hand. We send no plants C. O. D. to anybody 
under any circumstances. Do not ask it. 
CLAIMS— All claims should be made within 
five days after the receipt of plants. They 
will be promptly investigated and if found to be 
justaiul right, will be as promptly adjusted. If 
you fail to hear fmm us promptly after iseruling 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 siire to see 
that your full nante and address, clearly written, 
tire attachetl to all commuitications. 
REFERENCES— Dun's and Bradstreet's com- 
mercial reports give us a high credit rating. 
Onrspecial references are the First National Bank 
and the First State Savings Bank of Three Kivi rs, 
Michigan, or any other business bouse of this ciiy. 
'T'HE STRAIN OF PLANTS WE OFFER is propagated from ideal mother plants. We are confident that 
1 they are the only plants propagated in this manner obtainable and that their fruiting vigor cannot be equalled. 
While we practice the best methods of cultivation known, wc have demonstrated that the vigor of our plants is the 
real basis of our success. You may win as remarkable success with the Kellogg strain of plants as we are doing. 
