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TERMS 
The terms of payment are cash with order unless otherwise agreed. Re- 
mit with postal or express order, registered letter or draft on Chicago or New 
York. 
We never substitute without instructions from purchaser. 
We offer uo chromos or prize packages as an inducement to buy our plants 
but give our patrons more than their value in quality of stock, careful packing, 
etc. 
We have unsurpassed facilities in central locations for storing and packing 
and numerous routes for shipping to all parts of the country, with express and 
freight rates as low as those of any other establishment. 
Our responsibility ceases on delivery of goods at railroad or express office. 
Our plants are warranted true to name and as represented. 
Should any stock prove not true to name we will either refund the purchase 
money of same, or replace the stock with stock true to name free, but are not 
liable for further damages, and while we are exercising great care to prevent 
mixtures, the above is to be a condition on which all stock is delivered. 
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OUR LOCATION. 
Bridgman is eleven miles south of St. Joseph. Our office and ground is one 
mile north of the Chicago and West Michigan depot, on the St. Joe drive. 
Our advantages in shipping are unsurpassed in the United States. Time, 
only three hours run to Chicago over the C W. & M. railroad. Via St Joseph 
by the great Graham & Morton elegant steamers twice a day. 
Within fifty miles the Chicago and West Michigan connects with all the 
great trunk lines, east, west, north and south, to wit: At Benton Harbor with 
the Big Four; at St Joseph with the Vandalia (Penn. R. R. ); at New Buffalo 
with the Michigan Central; at I.a Porte, Ind., with the L. S. & M. S. and Lake 
Erie & Western; at Belfast with the L. E. & W. ; at McGee with the 
Wabash; at Wellsboro with the Chicago & Grand Trunk and B. &. O ; 
at Hanna with the Pitts. & Ft. Wayne , at Tliomaston with the Nickel Plate; 
at La Crosse with the Pan Handle, Motion, and C & I. C. 
X have a special rate from St. Joseph to Milwaukee by the Graham & Mor- 
on Transportation Co. of 25c per cwt., with early transfer at Milwaukee to Ex- 
press or railroad companys’ freight office Freight from here at 6:30 p.m. is in 
Milwaukee the next morning 
Our express is the American, which connects with all of the above lines 
within one hour. The company gives me a discount of 20 per cent, to my trade 
which all of you get the benefit of. 
I do not send anything by mail, as it is necessary to strip and trim which 
injures the crown of the plant. 
With the prices I quote, and the express charges low, we think it will 
reach all. 
I do not send any pi ants c. o d 
We are able at any time in its season to supply any- quantity of select fruit 
to- wit: Berries, Apples, Peaches, Pears, Grapes and Cranberries. 
Our farm and nurseries are one mile from Lake Michigan . 
