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1 urchascrs ordering by mail may rely upon their orders beiDg 
as satisfactorily filled as though they made the selection in person. 
It is very important that persons ordering plants should write 
their name and address in as plain and distinct manner as possiblo, 
thus : 
“DEXTER SNOW, 
Chicopee, Hampden Co., Mass.” 
Then there will be no trouble in directing tho package correctly, so 
that it may reach its destination in due season. All orders for 
plants from unknown correspondents, to secure attention, must be ac- 
companied with remittances in current bills, or satisfactory drafts 
upon New York or Boston, using post stamps for fractions of a 
\ dollar, and for sums of throe dollars and under, remittances may 
be made in gold or ten cent post stamps. 
lo facilitate the making out and filling orders, as well as to ac- 
commodate those who may not be acquainted with tho difierent 
varieties, the subscriber has selected some sixty or seventy of the 
choicest, including new ones, and arranged them in packages 
which he believes will be found very satisfactory, as they are 'se- 
lected with care, both, as regards quality, and variety of color, and 
no varieties included that arc not strong growers, good bloomers 
and will stand the sun. 
Persons ordering from a distanco can save themselves at least 
two-thirds the expense in freight charges, by forming Clubs and 
having their plants forwarded together. This has been very gener- 
ally practised heretofore with entire satisfaction. Id some cases as 
many as twelve persons clubbed together and had their plants for- 
warded in the same box. It would not bo advisable, however, to 
have over three hundred plants packed in the same box. The 
plants are put up in such a manner that tho packages can be distrib- 
uted without the least difficulty, as each package is kept separate 
from the others, and the persons name who orders it, is attached. 
It is very desirablo that tho order for such packages bo enclosed 
