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REID'S NUESEEIES, UPLAND, OHIO 
Items of Interest 
TERMS 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. 
All Messages are telephoned direct to the office. 
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 orders 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 ORDER RECEIVED FOR 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 ORDER. — 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. 
Our location, just opposite Wheeling, W. Va., gives us many advantages over our own town, as it is just as handy 
to ship from this point as from Bridgeport. Further, we have the Ohio river, by which we can reach many points 
at very low freight rates from Pittsburg to New Orleans, St. Louis and other points. 
OUR SHIPPING SEASON usually begins about March 1, and continues until December 15. We can get stock 
out in good time for our southerYi 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 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 seeing 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 Califor- 
nia 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 ?— 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 P. C. C. 
and St. L., or " Panhandle Route.” By the C. and P. wo reach and bill direct with cars east and west via Pitts- 
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, or Pennsylvania railroads, or over any of the lines operated by the Penna. Company, 
We have also the B. & 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. 
We have represented here in express companies the Adams, Southern, United States, Pacific, Wells, Fargo & 
Co. With such a number of transportation companies, we can insure you lower rates than from any other point. 
This, with the reduction of 20 per cent on express charges, and being on a direct line, is quite a point 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 stock, should any prove otherwise than 
as represented. 
PACKING. — We make no charge for boxing or packing above rates in this Catalogue. Everything is delivered 
free on board of trains at rates named. 
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. 
