To Our Correspondents. 
KINDLV READ BEFORE ORDERING. 
TERMS.— Cash in advance from unknown parlies, unless accompanied 
witli satisfactory references. 
REMIT by cashier's clieck on any New York or Boston banlc. Small 
amounts can be forwarded by Registered Letter, Post Office or Express 
Money Order, drawn on South Framingliam, Mass. 
SHIPPING DIRECTIONS.— Be particular to write your address carefully, 
givin;.; street and number; also note whether goods are to go by Express 
or Freight, 'and by what Hue. Where no transportation directions are given, 
our best judgment will be exercised in the matter. 
PACKING.— All stock is packed in the best possible manner, citlier in 
bales or boxes, sufficient moss or other packing material being u.sed to pro- 
tect the stock from injury in transit. Only the actual cost of such inaterial 
is charged to customers. Where cash accompanies an order, no packing 
charge whatever is made. 
DELIVERY. — All goods are delivered free of cost to the freight or 
express companies at South Framingham. Our responsibility (or safe deliv- 
ery there ends. The transportation companies alone are to be held respon- 
sible for injury to the goods in transit. 
ERRORS. ■ In case of errors in filling orders, we shall be glad to promptly 
correct such; but complaints must be made within ten days after the goods 
are in the purchaser's hands, otherwise they will not be attended to. 
GUARANTEE.— We guarantee all trees and plants to be true to name and 
in good condition on leaving our hands ; but we do not guarantee them to live 
under adverse conditions, nor do we make up loss due to climatic effects, or 
neglect in after-culture on the part of the purchaser. Should errors occur in 
naming plants, we agree to replace them with the true varieties, as originally 
ordered, but are not to be held liable for more than their original invoice 
value in i-efunding money. 
NO SUBSTITUTIONS are made unless es.iecially requested by customers. 
Order early, in order to get your goods as early as possible in the season. 
,\ll orders are, so far as possible, filled in strict rotation. 
SHIPPING SEASON. "Deciduous tret-s and shrubs are dug and shipped as 
soon as the frost leaves the ground in the spring, and up to the unfoldmg of 
the foliage, on or about May 15. They are shipped again in fall, from the 
ripening of the foliage, about October r, until the ground becomes perma- 
nently frozen Evergreens are shipped in spring, from about mid-April to 
mid-June, and in fall from mid-.\ugust to mid-September. Fall shipping of 
evergreens, however, is dependent on absence of severe drought. 
