About Ordering 
Write Your Name Plainly. 
When you sign your name to your letter, for 
our sake write it nice and plain. 
Express Office and Postoffice. 
Give us tlie name of Express Office to which 
you want goods shipped, and also the Post- 
office where your mail goes. Postoffice and 
Express Office are not always the same, and 
mistalces will occur if both are not given. 
Your Freight OfHce. 
If different from Express Office, mention 
same in your letter. 
Freight Sliipments are Successful. 
When made early in spring or in the fall. 
Cane plants can be sent if you are in no hurry 
for them. It is safer in the long run to ship 
by express and goods almost invariably reach 
their destination in good condition. 
Shipping Season. 
Our soil and situation enables us to make 
early shipments. If you will look at the map 
you will see that we are very close to the Indi- 
ana State Line, and being close to the lake, 
which is one of the greatest bodies of fresh 
water in the world, our soil never freezes very 
deep, and when a few warm days of spring 
come we are ready to go to it and fill your 
orders We can ship earlier than any nursery 
not situated as favorably. The cool winds com- 
ing from the lake make our season a long one. 
Our shipping season commences the latter part 
of March and should end the middle of May, 
but we fill straggling orders as late as the mid- 
dle of June. 
Discount on Early Orders. 
On all Strawberry and Raspberry plant or- 
ders received before and up to March 1st, cash 
with order, we will make the following reduc- 
tion. $10.00 and over, 4%. 
You Need Not Pay in FuU When You Order. 
Our custom has been to receive one-third 
cash with the order, and the balance when you 
order it shipped. 
No C. O. I>. Shipments. 
We can pay but little attention to requests 
for COD. shipments. We are here to supply 
you with plants of the finest quality and at 
the lowest price possible, and cannot afford to 
gamble on any C. O. T>. shipments. It is on a 
strictly cash basis that we can sell as we do. 
If we sold on credit our prices would be much 
higher. 
Reference. 
We refer you to the Union Bank and Com- 
mercial bank of St. Joseph, Mich,, and the State 
Bank of Bridgman. Mich. 
Second Choice. 
If you have any second choice please mention 
this in your order. This will not be necessary 
until late in the spring, when perhaps we may 
be sold out on some one variety you want. 
True to Name. 
We ship you plants that are true to name, 
and take great pride in doing it. Should any 
prove untrue we will gladly replace same free 
u[>on proof upon arrival, but will not be held 
responsible for any greater amount than was 
originally paid for the plants. If plants are 
not as guaranteed let us know upon arrival, 
also if railroads have not done their part either 
by slow delivery or getting the packages to you 
in poor condition let us know. 
Weight of Plants. 
Per 100 
Plants. 
Strawberry, Dunlap 2 lbs. 
Belt, Pocomoke, Gibson 4 lbs. 
Hed Raspberries 5 lbs. 
Black Raspberry tips 6 lbs. 
Dewberries 4 lbs. 
Grapes 12 lbs. 
Gooseberries 15 lbs. 
These weights vary some, but it will give you 
an idea of the amount of postage it will re- 
quire. 
No. of Plants Required to Set an Acre. 
31/2 by 18 8,297 
24 by 31/2 6,222 
30 by 31/2 4,356 
24 by 48 5,445 
When you buy our plants you are starting 
right. They are perfect in every way, and the 
results will be more than satisfactory. You can 
look back with gratification and pride when you 
have realized what wonderful success you have 
had with them. No where will any person be 
able to produce a finer crate or box of berries 
than you can from our Lake Zone Plants. We 
want you to know this. 
One of our St. Joseph, Mich., grocery men 
said, "Stahelin, these are the finest six cases of 
berries that ever went through our store." And 
that was in the heart of the greatest fruit belt. 
You run no risks when you buy our plants. 
Rush Orders. 
We have Western Union Telegraph and Long 
Distance Telephone in our Office. If you are 
in a great rush for your plants, wire us. Ship- 
ments are very often made the same day order 
is received. We have no agents for berry plants. 
No one is authorized to collect money for us. 
