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 
^ASH 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 
A LL remittances should be made by postofiice or express money order, or by bank draft 
-il. 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 15 cents to cover 
cost of collection. This for the reason that the clearing-house associations all the country 
over have adopted a rate of 15 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 
C CORES 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 creden- 
tials. This will reveal his true character at once, for he will be unable to show any authority 
to sell our plants. 
Order Early 
A LL orders are booked in the rotation in which they are received. The earliei 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 wiU be shipped according to date of their receipt regardless of special 
shipping dates, provided they have been remitted for in full. 
Transportation of Plants 
pTXPERIENCE has taught us that the best and safest way to ship plants is either by ex- 
press or mail, and it is cheaper by far when you come to figure up actual results. We 
recommend express even when the order calls for a large number of plants. And with small 
orders the cost by express is cheaper than by freight because express companies charge only 
for the exact number of pounds in the shipment, and carry plants 20 per cent, cheaper than 
is done in the case of merchandise. If your plants go by freight you will be charged for 100 
pounds at first-class rates, no matter how small the package. We reserve the right to ship 
all plants by express for which orders are received after the shipping season opens. Do not 
send money to pay express or freight charges. You will pay these charges when you get 
the plants. The rate will be just the same. Although we have shipped and do ship plants 
by freight, we advise against that method of transportation. What we desire to do is to get 
the plants to you at the earliest moment possible and in the best condition. Remember 
when plants go by mail you should add 20 cents above the cost of plants for each 100 plants' 
Postage to Canada requires 40 cents for each 100 plants. Mail packages should be registered" 
This will cost 10 cents for each package. As a rule as many as 100 plants may go in one package. 
Estimated Weight of Plants 
T 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 twenty-five to thirty pounds 
for each thousand plants when the plants are packed ready for shipment. 
How to Make Up a Club Order 
VOU may join with your neighbors in getting up a club and get the benefit of thousand 
* rates on all varities of which 500 or more of each variety are ordered. The club order 
must be shipped to one address. Each bundle of 25 plants being labeled, the division is easily 
made. Catalogs will be sent to any of your neighbors, on request, to aid in making up the club 
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THE THREE RIVEHS PRESS, THREE RIVERS, MICHIGAN 
