DESCRIPTIVE PRICED CATALOOUE. 
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BOX I NG. We make uo charge for boxing and use the best packing 
material we can obtain. 
FREIGHTS PREPAID. ETC- We always arrange to secure the 
most advantageous rates, and ship by most direct route, (when no route is 
specified,) but cannot be responsible for delays in freight; after goods are prop- 
erly packed, marked and placed in hands of forwarders our responsibility 
ceases. If stock does not arrive promptly, place your shipping bill (which 
will be mailed you when stock is shipped) in the hands of your rail road 
agent, and he will trace your shipment from your end of route without expense 
to you. 
We can arrange to prepay your freight and add same to your bill, when re- 
quested to do so, but this cannot apply to orders which reach us in the rus/i 
of the packing season. 
We always put in enough extras to help pay fret'gltl charges. Any one who 
will as;ree to pay your freight charges out and out will either add enough to 
the purchase price to do so or will give inferior stock, depend on it. 
EXPRESS- Small orders in bales if to go a long distance, would be 
better to send by E.xpress and many times can be sent as cheaply, as a 20 per 
cent discount from regular rates is applied to trees and plants. 
Trees at three cents and five cents can be supplied if you want cheap stuff. 
but in the end they are all a disappointment and loss, and we had sooner burn 
them than to try to work up a trade with them, because it cannot be done. 
PT FASF NOTF six points 
r 1 1:- BEFORE ORDERING. 
1 St, We are growers. Are you not safer in buying stock of growers than 
in buying of jobbers? 
2d, Before placing your order, if not acquainted with the parties from 
whom you wish to buy, write to some of the business men in the town where 
nursery is located, and find out whether the man from whom you intend to buy 
has any nursery or not. 
3d, Beware of any man who cannot give you as reference the business 
men of his own town, regardless of what his customers may say ; smAhs doubly 
cautious of any man who cannot furnish a certificate of inspection, according 
to law. See certificate below. 
4-th, We most cordially invite prospective buyers to make personal exam- 
ination of our stock by calling on us at our nursery. 
5th, Pon'tbe cajoled and hoodwinked by men who are handling altogether 
the product of other nurseries, yet so skillfully wording their statements in 
their catalogues as to deceive their patrons, and make them think they are ex- 
tensive growers, simply because located at a nersery center, though not own- 
ing a rod of nursery anywhere on the face of the earth. 
6th, Order Early. If all buyers understood the importance of this it 
would save much confusion, and they would get better service all around. All 
orders should be taken in their turn. A customer who gets his order in in Feb- 
ruary should be served before an April buyer, as a matter of course. 
No. 100. STATE OF NEW YORK 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Certificate of Inspection of Nursery Stock 
This is to Certify that the stock in the nursery of Wiley & Co. of Cayuga, 
County of Cayuga, State of New York, was duly examined in compliance 
with the provisions of Chapter 482 of the Laws of iS()8 and it was found to be 
apparently free in all respects from any contagious or infectious plant disease 
or diseases, or the San Jose scale or other dangerously injurious insect pest or 
pests. This certificate expires June 30, 1900. 
Dated, Albany, N. Y., August 17, i8gg. 
C. A. WIETING, 
COPY. Commissiener of A gnciiltHve. 
