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REID'S NURSERIES, UPLAND, OHIO 
ITEMS OF INTEREST 
TEEMS AND ADVICE. — Cash with order. Address all mail to Reid’s Nurseries, Upland, Ohio. Remit by 
Post Office Order on Upland, which is now a Money Order office — or Express Money Order or Draft on New York 
or Chicago. If by private check, add 25 cents for collection. Telegraph and freight address is Bridgeport, Ohio. 
All Messages are telephoned direct to the office. Long Distance Telephone 58, Bridgeport. 
C. 0 . D.— We will send goods in this way, provided one-fourth the amount is sent with order, but this is an 
expensive way to ship, as you have the return charge to pay on remittance. Goods will be sent in this way 
by freight, if requested. No order from entire strangers will be booked unless one-fourth of the amount is paid 
on them as a guarantee. 
When making out your order, do so on the Order Sheet mailed in the Catalogue, and do not mix it with 
your letter. If you have any special directions, place them on the Order Sheet, naming the road or express 
company you wish us to use. Otherwise we will use the best route laid down in the Shippers’ Guide. 
NO OEDEE EECEIVED FOE LESS THAN $ 1 , — Please bear this in mind. We have made quite a list of 
collections, so that you can get stock low, and we cannot enter orders for a less amount. 
WHEN TO OEDEE. — Early, in all cases; then you are sure of stock named, and we have time to advise 
you in regard to anything you may want to know. We also give early orders on trees, etc., a discount. Our 
stock in many cases will be exhausted before the season is over. We will hold stock if one-fourth of the value 
is paid, but in no case will we book orders unless that amount is paid as a guaranty. 
BENEFITS OF LOCATION.— We are on the high hills back of the Ohio river, hence our stock always 
matures, and is not injured by winters. 
OUE SHIPPING SEASON usually begins about March 1, and continues until December 15. We can get 
stock out in good time for our southern customers, as we fill orders from this section first. 
ESTIMATES. — If you want large orders, write us for estimates, and in many cases we can quote you rates 
below catalogue prices, as oftentimes we have a surplus of stock. Many times, if customers when ordering 
would add an extra dollar or so to order, and request us to send its value in surplus stock, we could send them 
almost twice the regular amount of the best fruits and ornamentals. 
We will be pleased to have our customers look after our interests in their localities. While we do not employ 
agents, we are pleased to have clubs, or any parties wanting stock to club together, and send their orders as 
one. In this way you can save quite a percentage; you can get stock at a less rate, and save in freight. 
Besides, you save 50 per cent in price over the cost if bought from an agent. 
Our packing department is under the personal supervision of our Mr. E. W. Reid and assistants, who are 
all old and experienced hands, who have grown up with the business, and who spare no pains in seein" that the 
stock is fully up to our high standard of grading. More than that, you receive stock true to name. “ 
Our facilities for shipping are unsurpassed, as we have all the leading trunk lines represented, and six express 
companies. This competition insures us the lowest rates as well as prompt attention. 
MAIL ORDERS. These we make one of our specialties-sending plants, vines and trees by mail; in many 
cases it is much cheaper than by express. We send plants by the thousand by mail at a much less rate to 
California and other distant points. This part of the business is looked after by Mr. E, W. Reid himself. You 
may be sure that after a life’s experience he is an expert at the business. 
HOW FAR CAN WE SHIP t — A question we cannot answer. Never have we tried to send stock to a 
customer, no matter how far, but that word has come to us that stock has arrived in good condition. It has been 
packed forty-five days, and received in good condition. 
SHIPPING FACILITIES.— Combining this point with Wheeling, W. Va. (see Location), we have the best 
shipping point of any Nursery in the United States. There are but few points that we cannot reach direct both 
by freight and express. We have two lines of the Pennsylvania Company— Cleveland and Pittsburg and l>’c C 
and St. L., or “Panhandle Route.” By the C. and P. we reach and bill direct with cars east and west via 
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, or Pennsylvania railroads, or over any of the lines operated by the Penn- 
sylvania Company. We have also the B. and O., including all its lines east, west, north and south ■ the 
Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling, which represents the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern; and the “Big 
Four,” the Wheeling and Lake Erie, which represents the great Erie system. Also the Ohio River railroad 
which reaches all points along the river between Pittsburg and Cincinnati, and gives us connections with the 
C. and O. Besides this, to all points that can be reached by the Ohio river we have the Pittsburg and 
Cincinnati packets every day. b 
We have represented here in express companies the Adams, Southern, United States, Pacific, Wells, Fargo 
& P°' With such a number of transportation companies, we can insure you lower rates than from an’v other 
point. This, with the reduction of 20 per cent on express charges, and being on a direct line, is quite a noint 
in our favor. * 
FORMER PRICES are set aside by this Catalogue^ and prices affixed to dozen, 100 and 1 000 are for 
quantities named ; but half-dozen, 50 and 500 will be supplied at dozen, 100 and 1,000 rates. 
GUARANTY — All our stock is true to name and carefully labeled; yet, while we use the greatest care to 
do this, we will not be held responsible for any sum greater than the cost of the stock, should anv Drove 
otherwise than as represented. 
SUBSTITUTION.— When a variety of stock is exhausted, which occurs at times in all nurseries we will 
substitute a similar variety or another grade, unless the words " No substitution” are written on order. 
PACKING.— We make no charge for boxing or packing above rates in this Catalogue 
delivered free on board of trains at rates named. 
Everything is 
CLAIMS or errors must be reported immediately on receipt of stock, and will be rectified promptly if 
just ; no claims entertained after 14 days, as we do not guarantee stock to live after arriving in good condition. 
TESTING FRUITS.— We are always glad to receive new fruits for testing, so that we can see how they 
do on our soil. They are as safe with us as with the originator, and any time he wants any information in 
regard to them it will be given. 
SEE OUR TESTIMONIALS.— They prove the value of our stock, and the full address of each party is given. 
