TERMS: 
Orders for Seedlings and Seeds are subject to the following 
CONDITIONS : 
Cash or Bank reference to accompany orders from unknown cor- 
respondents. Known established Nurserymen or Seedsmen’s orders, 
subject to sight draft 30 days from date of shipment, unless special 
agreements are otherwise made, 10 per cent, interest charged on all 
accounts over due. 
C. O. D. orders must be accompanied with cash to half the amount 
of order. 
5 per cent, discount from price list rates when cash to the full 
amount accompanies 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, Adams, or Wells & Fargo express 
agent, the money to be forwarded on arrival of goods, taking the 
express agent’s receipt therefor, and sending the receipt with the order. 
Expresss charges on all money packages should be prepaid. 
Remittances may be made by draft on New York. Philadelphia, 
St. Louis, Chicago, or P. O. order on Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 
small amounts at our risk by registered letter to our P. O. 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. O., R. R., steamer dock, or express, our 
responsibility ceases. When losses occur through detention or neg 
lect en route, claims should at once be made on the forwarders. 
When plants are ordered to be sent by mail, 50 per cent, should be 
added to price list rates, for postage and cost of packing. 
Mistakes cheerfully corrected, if notified of the same within ten 
days after receipt 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 inquiry or orders should have the P. O. address 
(^R. R. Station, County and State) plainly written. 
Fifty seedlings of any one sort at 100 rates, 500 do. at 1000 rates. 
Facilities for shipping by mail, express, railroad and steamer, not 
excelled by any point west of New York. 
Nursery situated two milse 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 stock can take the cars on Milwau- 
kee division of C. & N. W. R. R., at passenger depot, 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., Wi.s., via Milwaukee. 
