427-9 SANSOME ST. 
SAN FRANCISCO, 
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ORNAMENTAL NURSERY DEPARTMENT 
Sunset Seed and Plant Company 
INXRODUCXORY 
As those wlio have visited our beautiful and extensive nurseries at Menlo Park can testify, our 
facilities for tlie growing of all kinds of ornamental and nursery stock are most complete. In 
our nursery and lath houses are to be seen a fine lot of evergreens, deciduous trees, shrubs, and 
roses. Our greenhouses are the most extensive on the Pacific Coast. Our collection of palms is large 
and varied; our roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, cannas, Lady Washington geraniums, and violets 
are the best of their class; and we are continually adding to our collection such new plants and flowers 
as we deem worthy of continued culture. 
We would ask intending purchasers, and those interested in horticulture generally, to read carefully 
the list submitted in the following pages. We have discarded all varieties that we consider valueless, 
and have included only such trees and plants as we know will grow satisfactorily in this State. 
We have, when possible, used the "everyday" names of plants and trees, thus making it more com- 
prehensible to the laity, whom botanical names of plants confuse. Most of our illustrations are from 
photographs taken of specimens growing on our own grounds. 
Inorderlns; please state whether substitution will be permitted, as, when no instructions accompany the order, 
we feel at liberty to substitute similar sorts. Customers will please remember that we receive hundreds of orders 
daily, during our busy season, so that it may sometimes be several days before their order can have attention. We 
assure our patrons, however, of the promptest passible service. We make this note as many become annoyed at delay 
unaccounted for. 
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A TYPICAL CALIFORNIA HOME. 
Articles mentioned in our price list will be furnished at prices named only when the number specified 
be taken, except that 5 will be furnished at 10 rates and 50 at 100 rates. 
We will charge for packing sufficient to cover actual cost of same. 
While we aim to have all our fruit trees true to name, and hold ourselves ready on proper proof to replace, free of 
■charge, all stock that may prove untrue to label, or to refund amount originally paid by the customer, it is mutually un- 
derstood and agreed between the purchaser and ourselves that our guarantee of genuineness shall not make us liable 
for any sum greater than that originally peid us for such stock as may prove untrue. 
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