60 SEED DEPARTMENT. 
State Nursery and Seed Co. 
SPRING, 1916— TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR 
SEED DEPARTMENT 
Suggestions to our Customers in Ordering from this Catalogue, the reading 
of which will aid both you and us. 
EARLY ORDERS — Our rush season comes in the months of March and April. Orders sent AT ONCE secure 
prompt shipment at the proper time from our full stocks. 
HOW TO ORDER — Write your name, postoffice, state and express office and railroad company plainly with ink, on 
every order, and also when you write us concerning it. Give piain express, mail or freight directions; where none are 
given, we route goods at buyer's risk. 
USE ORDER SHEET — The use of our order sheet enclosed in this catalogue is a great help to us in filling and 
shipping of orders. Instructions for use are on the sheet. More will be sent on receipt of a postal asking for same. 
Flower or Vegetable Seed orders should plainly state quantity before the name of the variety. Plant orders should 
give quantity, variety and size. 
KEEP A COPY OF YOUR ORDER and mark off goods asreceived. Sometimes items may be sold out or will follow 
later, in which case a slip is enclosed with other goods, or notice sent. 
JUST.'VKES — These will happen in spite of all care. Write us at once with ,a copy of original order if possible, and 
errors will be promptly rectified. I^lease do not return goods until you hear from us. 
ORDERS ARE PRO.MPTLY FILLED— Or in case of exbremo delay, you are notified by postal card. If you do not 
hear from an order sent us, within a reasonable lime, send us a duplicate of it, giving dale of order, amount of same, 
and form of remittance, your name and full address. If you cover these points in your first letter, a long delay is 
often saved in tracing. 
FREIGHT OR EXPRESS — All express lines in the United States and Canada carry seeds at special rates. Plants 
come at the same special rate when out of pots, and this includes nursery stock. On moderate sized orders, we advise 
express shipment rather than freight. 
HOW TO SEND MONEY— Send cash with order (as we do not open book .accounts for small amounts) by Draft, 
Postoffice or Express Money Order whenever possible; these are cheap and safe. Postage stamps are taken as cash for 
small amounts and we prefer denominations such as 5c, 10c or 15c. Registered letters can be sent from any postoffice, 
and your receipt sent you by return mail, by which you know it has reached us. Local checks are accepted. Miake 
money orders or checks payable to State Nursery and Seed Co. 
RECOMMENDATIONS— We tender our sincere thanks to the numerous customers who have been kind enough to 
recommend us. We are always pleased to mail our catalogue to friends of our customers on request. We catalogue 
only such goods as have proved suitable to our climate. We trust that our efforts to simplify the task of selecton will 
meet the approval of our many friends. Our seeds are as good as can be obtained anywhere and our facilities for 
testing same unexcelled. 
SEEDS RY WEIGHT— All our seeds are sold by weight, which we believe to be the most satisfactory method. Half 
pounds and over, at pound rate; less than half-pounds at ounce or quarter-pound rates. 
All Flower and Vegetable Seeds in pkt., oz., %-lb., pint, or quart, sent prepaid to your Railroad Station or Postoffice, 
except where noted. Field Seeds by freight at purchasers expense. 
DISCOUNTS ON OKDERS FOR SEEDS IN PACKETS AND OUNCES ONLY:— 
Customers sending I .50 $1.00 $2.00 $3.00 $4.00 
May select extra s&cds in packets and ounces to vialue of 10 .25 .50 .75 1.00 
THIS DISCOUNT applies only to orders for Vegetable and Flower Seeds in packets or ounces and does not include 
Seeds by weight (%-lb. or over) or collections, or bulb and plant orders, nor can it be applied to orders sent at dif- 
ferent times during the season. 
FARMERS READY REFERENCE BOOK— The most complete farm book on the market. Every department of farm 
life covered in detail by experts. One book free with $5.00 order for seeds or plants; one book to a customer. Please 
mention this offer when ordering. 
NATIONAL COOK BOOK— A manual of Good Recipes, carefully chosen from the contributions of over two thou- 
sand sucessful cooks and chefs in this .and foreign countries, also useful notes on the various classes of good things to 
eat, all of which have been carefully checked and re-checked by competent authority. Special attention has been 
given to Bread 3nd Pastry Making and the various dainties dear to good cooks. One Book free with $5.00 order of Seeds 
or Plants; one Book to a customer. Please mention this offer when ordering. 
SPECIAL PREMIUM FOR THE FARMER, a Set of Weed Seeds showing 20 varieties of weeds with their common 
and botanical names, also instructions for testing seed of all kinds, a set free with a Ten Dollar order for Field Seeds. 
OUB BBSPOWSIBIMTY — It is so manifestly impossible for a seller of any perishable article to be responsible for what may 
happen to it after it leaves his hands, especially one lilje seeds or plants, which are planted in the ground under varying conditions 
of soil and climate, that we, in common with all American seed houses, disclaim responsibility as to the crop which may be raised 
from seeds which we sell. At the same time in case of any failure to secure proper results caused from some Inherent fault In 
the seeds themselves the State Nursery Co. accepts responsibility, not for crop, but to the extent of the amount of money paid for 
the seeds, if immediately advised. <Or seeds may be returned. See below.) We wish It understood that all our seeds are sold 
under the following general non-warranty: 
ao not warrant in any way, cvpress or implied, the contents or the description, quality, productiveness or any other matter, 
nf anv seeds bulbs, plants, shrubs or trees sold by us, and we will not in any way be responsible for the crop. If the purchaser 
does not accept these goods on above terms, no sale is made thereof, and he must return them at once, and money will be refunded. 
Subject to above conditions, we sell at the moderate prices herein quoted. 
STATE NURSERY AND SEED CO., Incorporated. 
