NOTICE TO. CUSTOMERS. 
We offer one of the largest stocks of nursery grown Evergreens in the U. S., and 
have had many years experience in growing them from seed, packing and shipping, 
and are able to'announce that our stock reaches the most distant 'points of desti- 
nation, in good condition, when no extraordinary detention occurs. 
TERMS. 
OhDEBS for SEKnUNQS AND SkKDS ARE 8DBJRCT TO THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS; 
Cash or Bank reference to acceinpany orders from unknown correspondents. 
Known established Nurserymeu or Seedsmen’s orders, subject to sight draft 80 days 
from date of shipment, unless special agreements are otherwise made ; 10 per cent, 
interest charged on all accounts over due. 
C. 0. D. orders must be accompanied with cash to half the amount of orders. 
Five per cent discount from price list rates when cash to the full amount accom- 
panies the order. 
Unknown parties ordering seedlings to be sent by freight, may deposit the 
money to the full amount of the order, with the nearest United States, American, 
Adame, or Wells & Fargo express agent, the money to be forwarded on arrival of 
goods, taking the express agents receipt therefor, and sending the receipt with the 
order. 
Express charges on all money packages should be prepaid. 
Remittances may be made by draft on New York, Philadelphia, St Louis, Chi- 
cago, or P. 0. order on Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and small amounts at our risk by 
registered letter to our P. 0. address. 
All seedlings promptly handled, and packed with great care, for which cost of 
labor and material will be charged. 
No charge is made for delivering packages to any steamer's dock, R. R. depot or 
express office in the city of Milwaukee, or express at St. Francis or express or R. 
R. depot at Oak Creek, or Bay View stations. 
After delivery to P. 0., R. R., steamer dock, or express, our responsibility 
ceases. When losses occur through detention or neglect en route, claims should 
at once be made on the forwarders. 
When plants are ordered to be sent by mail, 60 per cent should be added to 
price list rates, for postage and cost ol packing. 
Mistakes cheerfully corrected, if notified of the same within ten days after re- 
ceipt of plants. 
Parties ordering seedlings should specify the route by which they wish them 
sent, otherwise we shall ship by such route as we consider best. Letters of in- 
quiry or orders should have the P. 0. address, (R. R, Station, County and State) 
plainly written. 
Fifty seedlings of any one sort at 100 rates, 600 do. at 1000 rates. 
Faciiities for shipping by mail, express, railroad and steamer, not excelled by 
any point west of New York. 
Nursery situated two miles south of Milwaukee city limits, and one-third of a 
mile south of St. Francis station, on the Milwaukee and Chicago division of the C. 
& N. W. R. R., which passes through the nursery grounds. 
Parties wishing to examine our slock can take the cars on Milwaukee division of 
C. & N. W. R. R., at passenger depot in Milwaukee, at the foot of Wisconsin St., 
or at the Elizabeth street platform on the South Side. 
H. M. THOMPSON & SON, 
St. Francis, Milwaukee Co., Wis. 
Address Telegram Orders to “Thompson,” St. Francis, Milwaukee Co., Wis., via 
Milwaukee. 
