CLARKSVILLE, TENN.. 
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IN REMITTING, 
send Money Order or Draft : if in currency, invariably register the letter, as we 
will not be responsible for remittances otherwise made. 
PLEASE USE THE ENCLOSED ORDER SHEET. 
If you have other matter to write, use separate paper or the opposite side ot 
the sheet, but do not mix the order up with other matter. 
PACKING BY MAIL. 
We use a strong wooden box to pack in. Plants are all laid one way and 
securely fastened, thereby avoiding any crushing or mangling of leaves. 
POSTAGE STAMPS. 
When you cannot procure a Money Order and cannot make change otherwise 
we will accept Postage Stamps. We would prefer 2, 5 and 10-eent stamps. 
OOR AIM. 
Our desire is to deal with our customers, that they may continue to favor us 
with their orders in the future, and they may rely on our endeavors to give sat- 
isfaction in every instance. 
POSTAL NOTES 
are very convenient for small amounts, but are no more safe than money sent 
in an ordinary letter, as they cannot be duplicated if lost, and anybody that 
gets them can collect them. 
HYACINTHS, T0LIPS AND PALL BULBS. 
We will issue about September 1st, a Catalogue of Bulbs and Winter flower- 
ing plants, which will be mailed to all of our customers who have ordered of us 
during the last year. Others who wish it are requested to write for it. 
OUR SHIPPING FACILITIES. 
Our shipping facilities are first-class, and the rates by express or freight from 
this point are much less to all the States South of us than they are from any of 
the Eastern floral establishments ; the time occupied in transit is also much less. 
HAVE YOUR GOODS SENT BY EXPRESS, 
if possible, is always our advice, as you invariably get yoqr plants in better con- 
dition ; and, as an inducement, we send a lot of plants extra to help pay express 
charges, and we feel ourselves repaid by the better satisfaction our sphipments 
will give you. 
ORDERS FOR LESS THAN ONE DOLLAR 
will not be filled unless fifteen cents additional to the price of the plants to be 
sent to pay postage. It is quite as much trouble to handle, and requires nearly 
as much postage to mail, a fifty cent order as it does one for two or three dollars’ 
worth of plants. 
COLLECTIONS. 
Parties having no knowledge of the different habits and adaptability of plants 
will do well to write and give us the particulars of the kind of beds they wish 
them for, or if for window culture, we can select them in most all cases to give 
the best satisfaction desired. 
WHEN OUR LIABILITY FOR L0S3 CEASES, 
We take a receipt for all plants delivered in good order to carrying company, 
when our liability ceases, and the plants are at the risk of parties ordering. 
We make no charge for drayage or packing. If mistakes occur, notify us at 
once ; otherwise, we are not responsible. 
LETTERS AND PACKAGES. 
Letters travel somewhat faster in mails than packages, so, if we write you a 
letter, and it reaches you before the plants, wait a day or two before writing, 
and give them the necessary time, and in ninety-nine cases in every hundred 
all will came out right, saving both of us the trouble of writing. 
BE PATIENT. 
Tn our busy season the office work is so pressing that packages of plants fre- 
quently leave the greenhouse before we get an opportunity to write, and as this 
is unavoidable, we beg our customers, if any plants are missing, to kindly wait 
two or three days for a letter of explanation before informing us of the shortage. 
OUR LOW PRICES. 
A careful comparison of our prices with those of other growers will show that 
we offer plants much cheaper than the same grade of stock can be purchased 
for at any other establishment in the country. In proof of this we are willing 
to duplicate the prices of any first-class and reliable house in the United States 
on plants, in this Catalogue. 
