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CARTERS TESTED SEEDS INC. 
TERMS OF BUSINESS 
NEW CUSTOMERS 
New Customers are requested to send cash with order 
or else furnish satisfactory references. If this is not done, 
we will assume that our customer wishes to pay cash on 
delivery, and, in consequence, the goods will be sent 
C. O. D. 
REMITTANCES 
Post Office Money Orders, Bank Drafts, Registered Let- 
ters, or Express Money Orders are acceptable. We dis- 
claim all responsibility when remittances are made in any 
other way. All cheques, etc., should be drawn in favor 
of “Carters Tested Seeds Inc.” 
PRICES AND TERMS 
The prices quoted in this catalogue are those prevailing 
at this date and are subject to change without notice. 
All terms of payment are net cash. 
ORDERS 
Purchasers should order early to ensure a prompt, sea- 
sonable shipment of their goods. Do not wait until season 
is too far advanced; send your order in now for future 
shipment. All orders should be written separately from 
general letters or letters of inquiry, with name and ad- 
dress in full, also give the number of street or Post Office 
Box w’hen goods are to be sent by mail. When ordering 
goods forwarded by express or freight state clearly the 
express or freight station. 
DELIVERY OF GOODS 
When orders are accompanied by cash we deliver free 
to any Post Office, Railroad, Express Office, or Freight 
Station at our expense, all vegetable and flower seed 
orders at the packet, ounce, quarter pound, half pound, 
and pound prices, also bulbs at the single rates, except 
where otherwise noted. Purchasers must pay transit on 
pints, quarts, pecks, and bushel lots ; plants and bulbs, 
tools, fertilizers, grass seed, and insecticides, etc. All 
f. o. b. Boston unless otherwise noted. 
CHANGE OF ADDRESS 
Please notify us of any change of Address, in order 
that we may be able to forward our Catalogues with 
regularity. The favor of your kind recommendation of 
our House to those of your friends requiring Seeds for 
the Garden or Farm, Plants and Bulbs for the Garden or 
Conservatory, is respectfully solicited. 
NOTICE TO PURCHASERS 
Bulb and plant orders are sometimes delayed by severe 
cold or hot weather, and they at all times take longer to 
execute than seed orders in consequence of the care in 
counting and packing. Customers should always retain a 
true copy of the order sent to us. 
It is also our earnest desire that all the requirements 
and directions of customers be scrupulously attended to 
by our assistants. We therefore respectfully request that 
we be informed if at any time there is cause for dissatis- 
faction. 
AS TO CORRESPONDENCE 
Any proper letter of inquiry will receive our careful 
attention and be answered promptly, but our friends will 
favor us by stating all questions clearly and briefly. 
ACCIDENTS IN TRANSIT 
Glass, Pottery, and other goods liable to breakage are 
sent out securely packed, but beyond that we cannot be 
responsible for damage in transit. Notice of damage 
should be at once made to, and compensation claimed 
from the express or freight companies which delivered the 
article. Never sign for goods until you have examined 
the same. 
CONDITIONS OF GUARANTEE OF QUALITY 
We guarantee our Seeds and Bulbs according to the 
quality purchased to be of the highest average standard 
of vitality of the season, and it is open to the purchaser 
to confirm this by submitting the sample to professional 
analysis at his own expense. We cannot, however, be in 
any way responsible for the produce of Seeds sold under 
this guarantee, or for errors of description; and it must 
therefore be clearly understood that our responsibility 
ceases upon the acceptance of the goods, and while we 
exprcise the greatest care to have all seeds, bulbs, and 
plants true to name, we can give no warranty, express 
or implied, as to description, quality, productiveness, or 
any other matter, and will not be held responsible for the 
crop. If the purchaser does not accept the goods on these 
terms and conditions, they must be returned at once for 
credit or cash refund. 
POSTAL RATES 
Rates of Postage on Books, Seeds, Bulbs, Plants, Roots, 
and Scions Cuttings, eight ounces or less, one cent for each 
two ounces; all over eight ounces, Parcel Post rates. 
1st zone 
Boston Postal 
District 
2d zone 
50 to 150 miles 
from Boston 
3d zone 
150 to 300 
miles from 
Boston 
4th zone 
300 to 600 
miles from 
Boston 
1 lb Sc 
2 lb 6c 
3 lb 6c 
for every ad- 
ditional 2 lb. 
or part of add 
lc. 
1 lb 5c 
2 lb 6c 
3 lb 7c 
for every ad- 
ditional lb. or 
fraction of add 
lc. 
1 lb 6c 
2 lb 8c 
3 lb 10c 
for every ad- 
ditional lb. or 
fraction of add 
2c. 
1 lb 7c 
2 lb 11c 
3 lb 15c 
for every ad- 
ditional lb. or 
fraction of add 
4c. 
5th zone 
600 to 1,000 
miles from 
Boston 
6th zone 
1,000 to 1,400 
miles from 
Boston 
7th zone 
1,400 to 1,800 
miles from 
Boston 
8th zone 
all over 1,800 
miles from 
Boston 
1 lb 8c 
2 lb 14c 
3 lb 20c 
for every ad- 
ditional lb. or 
fraction of add 
6c. 
1 lb 9c 
2 lb 17c 
3 lb 25c 
for every ad- 
ditional lb. or 
fraction of add 
8c. 
1 lb 11c 
2 lb 21c 
3 lb 31c 
for every ad- 
ditional lb. or 
fraction of add 
10c. 
1 lb 12c 
2 lb 24c 
3 lb 36c 
for every ad- 
ditional lb. or 
fraction of add 
12c. 
Terms of Business, page 28. 
Anemones 
Bedding Hyacinths 
Border Hyacinths 
Calla 
Charcoal 
Chinese Lilies 
Collections of Bulbs 
Compost, Potting 
Crocus 
Daffodils (see Narcissus ) 
Double Daffodils 
Easter Lilies 
Fertilizers 
Fibre, Carbonated 
Flower Seed 
Freesia 
Grass Seed 
Gladiolus 
House Gardening 
Hyacinths 
INDEX. 
Postal and Zone Rates, page 28. 
page page 
9 Hyacinth Collections 12 
12 Hyacinth Glasses 10 
12 Insecticides 25,26 
9 Iris 12 
10 Jonquils 12 
, 7 Lilies 13, 14 
J-> Jr Lily of the Valley 14 
10,-7 Named Hyacinths 10,11 
9 Narcissus 15,16,17,18 
15, 16, 17, 18 Oxalis 14 
18 Paeonies 14 
13 Parrott Tulip 23 
27 Pasture Mixtures 25 
10 Potting Materials 10,27 
..4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Ranunculus 14 
9 Roman Hyacinths 10 
24, 25 Room Gardening 9 
9 Strawberry Plants 2 
9 Tulips 18,19,20,21,22,23 
...10,11,12 Vegetable Seeds 3,4 
