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IN SENDING OM/ our Catalog for IQ14 we are taking advantage of the opportunity to become more closely acquainted with our patrons 
of former years. Our business is one of the largest horticultural cstabHshments in the United States, comprising, as it does, three 
businesses: Wholesale and Retail Seeds, Greenhouses, and Nursery business. Our seed warehouses, situated on Como Avenue, St, 
Paul, cover 250,000 square feet and are completely equipped with the most up-to-date facilities for seed handling. Freight may be de- 
posited from the car to our door without intermediary hauling. Our cellers of concrete are dry. airy and commodious. Our cleaning 
machines, bag-making and filling machines, etc., are run by our own dynamos as are also the large presses which print this catalog. 
We do all our own printing, envelopes, bag, and casemaking, ourselves. 
ALL SEED is thoroughly f/tran^i/ (zn(^ i^"//-'*/, and mucii of it is hand-picked to insure 
its purity. Our method of seed testing is that used by the government bureaiT of 
agriculture at Washington, D. C, and is therefore the best and most thorough known. 
As WE constantly receive bulletins and statistics from the department of atfnculturc 
as well as reports of crop and weather conditions, adaptability of soils, etc., we 
are glad to place our knowledge at your disposal and to answer any question that we 
arc able with regard to the culture of any variety of plant life. 
Oi;r creenhouses, 53 in number, arc also on Como Avenue, St. Paul, and 
contain 75,000 square feet of glass. Here are grown the flowers and plants listed 
in this catalog and also the cut flowers retailed at our Fifth Street store. 
OUR NURSERIES at Mayfield, near Lakeland, Minnesota, cover 500 acres of ground. 
Here is grown and tested all nursery stock, and among the most interesting 
features are the arbors, similar to those instituted by the German government in its 
forest reserves in (Jermany, where forest trees arc started from seed. Hardy peren- 
nials are grown here and all stock is subjected to the rigors of the Minnesota winters. 
We enjoy the most northerly situation of any nurseries in the United iStates and stock 
grown here can safely be recommended to grow anywhere on the continent. 
OUR OFFICES rtrr- at Covio Avenuf, St. Paul, the heads of the various departments 
being so situated as to be able to confer and work together to obtain the best 
res\ilis. All orders are promptly cared for and executed. We guarantee their 
prompt acknowledgement and if we can not fill your order in any variety we will 
immediately return the money sent for the same. 
THE SEEDS o/our Star grades as listed in this catalog are guaranteed to prove of high 
gertnination and purity, failing which they may be returned to us at our expense 
within ten days and the money sent for them will be cheerfully refunded. 
AT LAKELAND. MINNESOTA, our nursery '.vorehoiises and packing, sheds cover 40,000 
square feet. Here stock is stored during the winter which enables us to make our 
spring delivery several weeks in advance of the season and allows us to supply our 
southern trade in ample time for their very early planting. Here again our trackage 
facilities are such that cars may be run up to the door of the warehouse and loaded or 
unloaded directly. 
WE FEEL our northerly position gives us an advantage in the matter of seed growing, 
for the bulk of our seed is grown directly under our supervision in the fertile 
soil of Minnesota, making our Northern Grown Seed earlier, hardier and more pro- 
ductive than any other grown elsewhere. 
Instructions for Ordering — Terms of Business 
WE DELIVER FREE all seeds by ihc packet ounce, quarter pound, pound, pint 
or quart, postage paid at the prices quoted in this catalogue. 
ON SEEDS IN LARGER pUANHTIES, by bushel and peck, then the purchaser 
is to pay charges on receipt of the goods by express or freight. Also all plants, 
bulbs, fruits, trees, fertilizers, implements, machinery, etc., priced by express or 
freight, the purchaser pays the transportation charges. You can deduct 8 cents per 
pound from postage prices on seeds you wish sent by express or freight, and 7 cents per 
pint and 15 cents per quart, from postpaid prices on Beans and Peas; 5 cents per pint 
and 10 cents per quart, from postpaid prices on Corn. 
Cf\ Y\ OHIPMENTS. Our terms are strictly cash :nth the order. We 
• V-/» J--'* O must decline to ship goods C. O. D. unless the purchaser 
remits in advance sufficient money to pay transportation charges and cost of packing, 
etc.: or at least one-third the amount of the order. 
HOW TO SEND MONEY. Mnney can be sent safely by P. O. order, bank draft, 
express order or registered letter. If your order amounts to ]5i.DO or more, it is 
best to send by one of the above methods.' 1/ local checks are used they must be certified, 
ff 'i receive postage stamps the same as cash, Canadian included. 
NAME, ADDRESS, ETC. When ordering, give name and full address. Many 
orders reach us every season in which the name or postofficc address is lacking. 
It is, of course, impossible to fill these orders until they are identified. 
YOUR ORDER, no matter ko:e large or small, will always receive our prompt and 
careful attention. 
ORDER EARLY. IFe earnestly request all customers to place their orders early, as 
it will assist us greatly in getting eveiyihing out promptly. 
USETHE ORDER SHEET in this book. If you wish to order a second lime, write 
your order on a separate sheet of paper and do not mix it up in the body of a 
letter. Tins will assist us greatly in filling your order. Blank order sheets wiil be 
scut at any time upon request. 
IN ORDERING GOODS forzvardcd by frei(:kt or express be sure to write plainly your 
express or freight office, county and stale in full, giving the express or railroad 
company you prefer to have them sent by. This saves time and delay and disappoint- 
ment at your end of the line. 
PREPAID STATIONS. Many small railroad stations are prepaid stations, and the 
railroads will not accept freight for such points unless charges are fully paid. It 
will save delay if you ascertain if your station is a prepaid one liefore sending your 
order and include enough money to cover freight charges If it is. 
IP SHIPMENTS DO NOT ARRIVE promptly after being notified by us. please advise 
and we will have them traced at once. Our plant and fruit cicpartment arc entirely 
separate. Often the seeds or plants on a combined order ;hay be sent 24 to 48 hours 
before the balance of the order is iilled. If only part of of-der is received, please wail 
two or three days for balance before writing us. 
OUR GUARANTEE. While we guaranUe all seeds which we ship out 10 be of 
strictly fresli growth and to have shown with us a high germinative tesi. still 
crops are contingent upon so many conditions of soil and weather, time and manner 
of planting, cultivation, etc., over which we have no control, that we can not be 
responsible for the product, and give no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the de- 
scription, quality, quantity or prtxiuctivencss of any seeds, plants or bnibs which we 
send out. Every order received for goods enumerated in this catalog will be 
executed and sent out only on these conditions. 
OUR NURSERIES, the most Northern in America, are governed by the same 
principles that h.ive developed and buili up our immense seed business, viz.: strict 
integrity in discarding worthless varieties and rigid tests in scrutinizing new ones. Noth- 
ing but well-known, tested varieties are offered, and only the best stock shipped out. 
A certificate of inspection from the State Inspector of Nurseries, shorving our stock to be 
free from San Jose Scale and all other injurious insects and diseases, will accompany 
each shipment. 
CULTURE INSTRUCTIONS: S'rs"ErDrXE°^^^g MAY'S HANDY BOOK ?S^Hl^'§^nfFul2 ^f,^ FREE 
