Our Guarantee 
WE GUARANTEE that all plants shipped to our customers are grown upon our own 
farms and under our methods of selection and restriction- that they are pure and 
true to name, and that a full count will in all c; s?s be given. That the plants are 
freshly dug and carefully put up in damp packing material, and securely crated or wrapped. 
(We never place any plants in cold storage, but they remain in the ground where grown 
until we dig them to fill the customer's order.) 
We also guarantee that every package is examined by a competent inspector, and that 
both plants and package must be in perfect condition before allowing them to leave our hands. 
Our plants are thoi'oughly and scientifically sprayed throughout the entire growing 
season, and we guarantee them to be absolutely free from all diseases and insects. Read the 
Michigan State Inspector's certificate. 
Certificate of Nursery Inspection No. 842 
This is to certify that I have examined the nuisery stock of R. M. KELLOGG CO., Three Rivers, 
Mich., and find it apparently free from dangerous insects and dangrerously contagious plant diseases. 
L. R. TAFT, State Inspector of Nurseries and Orchards. 
In short, we guarantee that every detail of the work of producing and shipping plants, 
so long as they remain under our control and observation, is perfectly carried out. We are 
exceedingly anxious that 
alize his highest expec- 
of success with our 
thing in our power to as- 
desired result. But we 
ourselves responsible for 
ceases, and, of course, it 
our plants are turned 
tion company we have 
them. Should they fail 
tion it will be due to im- 
less treatment while in 
have been growing and 
plants for twenty-five 
ces have plants failed to 
ideal condition; and our 
parts of the United 
Canada and to many of 
With our careful 
plants it would seem 
mistake should occur in 
but we guarantee plants 
the express understand- 
curs, we are to be held 
ages beyond the amount 
The fact that we 
TN presenting this book we ask your 
consideration of a strain of straw- 
berry plants grown by a concern 
whose purpose it is to develop a 
line of varieties adapted to any soil 
in anycountry. We have spent yeat.'-. 
i n exhaustive experiments with many 
varieties, seeking for a line of the 
best. We do not offer any untried 
varieties, but the old and tried ones 
which we have grown under ideal 
conditions and which we now have 
built up into a strain of Thorough- 
breds that have won the world's 
highest fruiting records. All we ask 
is that you read every word in this 
book and study our methods of pro- 
ducing these plants. If you do this 
we are confident you will be con- 
vinced that the Kellogg strain of 
plants is what you need to insure 
success as a strawberry grower. 
every customer shall re- 
tations in the direction 
plants, and we do every- 
sist him to attain this 
cannot and do not hold 
plants after our control 
is understood that when 
over to the transporta- 
no further control over 
to arrive in good condi- 
proper handling or care- 
transit. However, we 
shipping strawberry 
years, and in few instan- 
reach the purchaser in 
plants have gone to all 
States, the Dominion of 
the countries of Europe, 
methods of labeling 
quite impossible that a 
the matter of varieties, 
to be true to label with 
ing that, if a mistake oc- 
responsible for no dam- 
received for plants, 
receive orders from the 
ter year is the best evi- 
same customers year af- 
dence of our success in the work of delivering high-grade plants in perfect condition— a fact 
further emphasized by the increase, year by year, in the acreage divoted to the production 
of our Thoroughbred strawberry plants, which reaches 110 acres for the crop of 1910. 
Substitution 
THIS year we have an exceptionally large stock of plants which reach the high-water 
mark of Kellogg quality, and we confidently expect to be able to supply the wants of 
all our customers. However, certain varieties always sell far in excess of other va- 
rieties, and this contingency must be reckoned with. When it comes time to ship your 
order, is it your wish, should we be sold out of any varieties that you have selected, that 
we substitute some other varieties of equal merit in their place? In making out your order 
be very explicit on this point. Please note that at the bottom of the fourth page of the 
order sheet for 1910 is a blank space with dotted lines for your answer to this question. 
If satisfactory for us to substitute, write "Yes" on the dotted line. If not satisfactory, 
write "No. " In the latter case we shall return your money for any varieties we are unable 
to supply. In case you write neither "Yes" or "No" on dotted line, we shall understand 
it is your desire that we shall use our judgment in the matter. Rest assured that we shall 
substitute only when it is necessary to do so, even though you give us the privilege to sub- 
stitute. We make this matter so clear as to avoid delays at shipping time, and any mis- 
understandings. If you have second choice as to varieties, please indicate what they are; 
this will aid us very much and also will give you double assurance of getting desired plants. 
COPYRIGHT 1909 BY H. M KELLOGG CO. 
