HELENA. MONTANA 
SEED DEPARTMENT. 49 
SPRING, 1913, TWENTY-THIRD YEAR 
Seed Department 
SUGGESTIONS TO OUR CUSTOMERS 
IN-ORDERING FROMlTHIS CATALOGUE, THE READING OF WHICH^WILL AID 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 company plainly with ink, on every 
order, and also when you write us concerning it. Give plain 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 as received. Sometimes items may be sold out or will follow 
later, in which case a slip is enclosed with other goods, or notice sent. 
MlSTAIiES. — These will happen in spite of all care. Write us at once with copy of original order if possible, and 
errors will be promptly rectified. Please do not return goods until you hear from us. 
ORDERS ARE PROMPTLY FUELED — Or in case of extreme delay, you are notified by postal card. If you do not 
hear of an order sent us, within a reasonable time, send us a duplicate of it, giving date 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 the special reduced rates 
of 20 per cent, less than general merchandise 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., 
OUR TERMS — Are strictly cash with order. We prefer not to send C. O. D., but if wanted by this method, cus- 
tomers should please notify us. 
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. Parcel 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 ac- 
cepted. Make money orders or checks payable to State Nursery Co. 
Our success in discovering and compiling what we know concerning the best flowers and vegetables, what varieties 
are of greatest value and how these are best grown, is the result of intelligent effort. We are glad to give you in the 
following pages a summary of this knowledge. If you desire full information, we shall be pleased to answer as well 
as we can any inquiry you may make. Call upon us, if possible, or write if you are too far away for a personal in- 
terview. 
Our seeds we believe to be as good as can be obtained anywhere and our facilities for testing same unexcelled 
Our descriptions are brief and accurate and our illustrations as true to nature as possible. 
We catalogue only such seeds as have proved suitable to our climate. We trust that our efforts to simplify the 
task of selection of seeds will meet the approval of our many friends. 
SEEDS BY 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, two ounce or quarter-pound rates. 
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 FILL ORDERS OF ALL VALUES from the smallest to the largest, and all receive the same careful and prompt 
attention. 
All Flower and Vegetable Seeds in pkt., oz., %-lbs., pint, or quart, sent prepaid to your Railroad Station or Post- 
office, except where noted. Field Seeds by freight at purchaser's expense. 
DISCOUNT ON ORDERS FOR SEEDS IN PACI4ETS AND OUNCES ONLY:— 
Customers sending $ .50 $1.00 $2.00 $3.00 $4.00 
May select extra seeds in packets and ounces to value 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 orcjers sent at dif- 
ferent times during the season. 
WE PROPOSE TO TREAT ALL ORDERS LIBERALLY. WE THROW IN EXTRAS FOR TRIAL. 
GROW YOUR OWN VEGETABLES.— Probably most of our readers have a garden, but more than likely it is a 
flower garden, and there must be many who have never known the pleasure derived from planting a vegetable garden. 
If you have never known the pure delight of growing your own vegetables and of taking them fresh and cool from the 
garden to the kitchen, you should begin this year. 
WHY NOT HAVE THEM? A dollar's worth of seed, a square rod of good soil, a little labor, and a little water will 
get them for you. If you have never tried a vegetable garden, try one this year. 
OUR RESPONSIBILITY. — 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 like 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 responsi- 
bility as to the crop which may be raised from seeds which wo 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 Go. 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 re- 
turned. See below). We wish it understood that all our seeds are sold under the following general non-warranty: 
We do not warrant in any way, expressed or implied, the contents or the description, quality, productiveness or any 
other matter, of any seeds, bulbs, plants, shrubs or trees sold by us, and we will not be in any way 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 CO., Incorporated. 
