64 SEED DEPARTMENT. 
State Nursery and Seed Co. 
Spring 1 9 1 8-— Twenty- Eighth 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 fomes in I he months of March aud April. Orders sent AT ONCE secure 
prompt sliipment at. the proper time from full stocks. 
HOW TO ORDER — ^^"rite your name, postoffiee, slate and express office and railroad 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 the order sheets enclosed in this catalogue are a great help to us in filling and 
shipping orders. Instructions for use are on the sheets. More will be sent on receipt O'f a postal asking for same. 
Flower or Vegetable Seed orders should plainly stale quantity before the name of Ihe variety. Plant orders should 
give quantity, variety and price. Do not write letters on order sheet. 
KEEP A COPY OF YOUR ORDER and mark off goods as received. Sometimes ilems may be sold out or will follow 
later, in which case a slip is enclosed with other goods, or notice sent. 
ORDERS ARE PROMPTLY FILLED -and as far as practicable, in rotation. All orders not shipped on day of receipt 
are acknowledged by a postcard giving the number of the order on our files. If you do not hear from an order sent 
us within a reasonable time, send us a duplicate of it giving date of order, amount of same, form of remittance, your 
full name and address, and if you have received the card of acknowledgment, the number of the order given on that 
card. If you will, in case of what appears to you to be an unreasonable delay, give us these items of information in 
your letter regarding the order, it will aid us greatly and save valuable time in the rush season in tracing the order. 
ALWAYS, IF POSSIRLE, in writing in reference to an order, give the number of the order above referred to. 
MISTAKES — These will happen in spite of all care. Write us at once with a copy O'f original order if possible, and 
errors will be promptly rectified. Please do not return goods until you hear from us. 
FREIGHT OR EXPRESS— All express lines in the United Slates and Canada carry seeds at special rates. Plants 
come at the some special rate when out of pots and this includes imrsery stock. On moderate sized orders, we advise 
express shipment rather than freight. 
HOW TO SEND MOMEY— Send cash with order (as we do not open book accounts for small amounts) by Draft 
Postoffiee 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 post- 
office, and your receipt sent you by return mail, by which you know it has reached us. LO'cal checks are accepted. 
Make 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 nf 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 selection will 
meet the approval of our many friends. Our seeds are the best that can be obtained, and our facilities for testing 
same are unexcelled. 
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 or quarter-pound rates. 
All Flower and Vegetable Seeds in pkt., oz., %-lb., pint, or quart, sent prepaid to your Railroad Station or Post- 
office, except where noted. Field Seeds by freight at purchaser's expense. 
REGARDING PREMIUMS— In conformity with the law |t;i>scd by the 1917 session of the Montana Legislature, abso- 
lutely prohibiting the giving or offering of premiums in lany foiTU or manner, we have discontinued this form of ad- 
vertising. We will endeavor to more than offset this by giving if possible better goods and more goods, based on cur- 
rent market prices. iVote the following, formerly given as premiums: 
FARMERS READY REFERENCE BOOK— The most complete fai'm booik on the market. Every department of farm 
life covered in detail by experts. Each (Postpaid), 15c, while Ihe supply on hand lasts. Well worth several times its 
cost. 
NATIONAL COOK BOOK— A manual of Good Recipes, carefully chosen from the eoni ribul ions of over two thou- 
sand successful cooks and chefs in this and foreign counlries, also useful iKiles on the various classes of good thmgs to 
eat all of which have been carefully checked and re-checked by coinpeh iit authority. Special attention has been given 
to Bread and Pastry Making and the various dainties dear to good cooks. Each (Postria.id) 15c while the supply on 
hand lasis; in every respect the equal of any book of its kind ever published. 
SPECIAL FOR THE FARMER— A set of 20 varieties of Farm Seeds— Alfalfas— Clovers— Milli ts- Grass Seeds, etc., 
mounted under glass, wilh seeding (able accompanying. A most useful outfit for the farmer desiring to know seeds 
and to have the ineans of identification on hand. Price (Postpaid), 25c. 
OUB BESPONSIBIIiITy — It i.s so manifestlv impossible for tlie seller of any perishable article to be responsible for wliat may 
haoDen to it after it Ii-aves bis hands, especially one lilte seeds or plants, which are planted in the ground under varying conditions 
of soil and climate tliat we. in cominosi with all American seed houses, disclaim responsibility as to the crop which may be raised 
from seeds wliicli we sell. At the same time in case of any failure to secure proper results caused from some inherent fault in 
the seeds themselvfs the .State Nursery and Seed 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 returne l. See below.) We wish it understood that all our seeds are 
sold under the folimving- general non-warranty. 
We do not warrant in anv way. express on implied, the contents or the description, quantity, productiveness or any other 
matter of anv seeds bulbs, plants, shrubs or trees sold by us. and we will not in any way be responsible for the crop, If the pur- 
chaser does not accept these goods on above terms, no sale is male tliereof, 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., Ineorporat«d. 
