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I ORDERS should be sent m just as early as possi¬ 
ble i® better for you as well as the nurseryman. 
TIME OE SHIPMENT.—From the time you receive 
this catalog to May 1st. Our heaviest shipments 
are made in March and first half of April. 
GUARANTEE.—I guarantee plants ordered by 
mail or express to reach customers in good condi¬ 
tion when promptly taken from the express office 
and opened at once. 
CLAIMS, if any, must be made on receipt of goods, 
as I can not become responsible for neglect of pur¬ 
chaser to attend to stock after received, or for mis- 
ortune perpetrated by drouths, floods or inseots. 
AT PURCHASER’S RISK.-Plants ordered to be 
shipped by freight after March 20th will be at pur¬ 
chaser’s risk. Plants ordered to be shipped after 
May 1st are shipped in best possible condition, but 
alway* at purchaser’s risk. 
TRUE TO NAME.—While I use every precaution 
to have all stock true to name, and am sure that I 
am as successful in doing this, as anyone in the bus¬ 
iness, x will not be responsible for any sum greater 
than the cost of the stock, should any prove other¬ 
wise than represented. 
PACKING.—I make no charge for boxing or pack¬ 
ing at rates quoted in this catalogue. Everything 
is de ivered f. o. b. trains at rates named. We do 
not charge one price for the plants and then extor¬ 
tion on our customers by charging them a big price 
on old boxes and barrels. In buying plants I have 
had very satisfactory prices quoted, and when the 
nice little profit charged 
up for packing, boxes, etc. When we go to our 
grocer and buy a barrel of flour for $5.00 we do not 
expect to pay an additional 25 cents for the barrel, 
and if we buy two pounds of sugar for 10 cents, we 
do not expdct to pay 2 cents more for wrapping it 
up, and if such charges were made we would not go 
back to that grocer. Not so much that we would 
care for the amount of 2 cents for wrapping the su¬ 
gar, or the 2i cents for the barrel, but we would not 
stand for the principal of paying the price quoted 
for an article and then having a lot of additional 
charges tacked on and why should we ? The prin¬ 
ciple Is the same when we are charged for the pack¬ 
age in which our plants are packed. Our price in¬ 
cludes the packing and the package. 
TWENTY-FIVE’S—All plants are tied twenty five 
in a bundle. 
PAYMENT.—Invariably cash in advance. 
REMIT by Money Order, Registered Letter or 
Draft. Postage stamps for the fractional part of a 
dollar accepted; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, It) and 15 cents 
preferred. Foreign customers will please send 
Money Order on Salisbury, Md. 
DO YOU KNOW of two or three persons who buy 
plants and seeds and want the best of everything? 
If so, they are the people that I should like vsry 
much to get acquainted with. Their nnmes and ad¬ 
dress on a postal, or enelosed with vour order, ad¬ 
dressed to W. F. Allen, Salisbury, Md., would serve 
as an introduction. Will you attend to it? Now 
please don’t forget it. 
THIS IS IMPORTANT 
bill came there was quite 
The Most Liberal Prizes Ever Offered For 
^—NEW VARIETIES__ 
$200.00 For the Best Dozen Strawberry Plants 
$100.00 For Second Best Dozen Strawberry Plants 
These prizes are offered for the best dozen plants 
all points considered. It does not matter whether 
the varieties are early, medium or late, the most 
valuable ones will receivethe prizes. The only con¬ 
ditions are that the varieties winning the prizes 
must be new varieties that have never been intro¬ 
duced (That is no plants having been sold, or 
otherwise disposed of, at time prizes are awarded.) 
Anyone can compete with one or more varieties, 
not to exceed five kinds from one person. When 
sending plants be sure to write your name and ad¬ 
dress plainly on the outside of each package so that 
I may be sure who it is from. Make all corres¬ 
pondence short, and write plainly. When plant* 
are received each lot will be numbered and that 
number written opposite the name and address of 
■J the sender and when the selection is made it will be 
made by the numbers, without any knowledge as to 
who sent the plants until after the awards are made, 
then I will go to my records and see who sent the 
lucky numbers and pay the prizes accordingly. 
Everything shall be absolutely fair. The prizes will 
be awarded immediately after the fruiting season of 
June, 1909, and all plants not capturing a prize will 
be destroyed, absolutely, unless I have written in¬ 
structions from the sender not to do so. All plants 
should be sent as‘soon after March 1st, by mail or 
express prepaid, and packed in moss. No plant* 
should be sent after May Ise, but as much sooner 
as possible. SEND 12 GOOD PLANTS OF EACH 
VARIETY AND NO MORE. I hope that my 
offer may be attractive enough for many to compete 
for it, and I shall be glad to hear from those who 
intend doing so. As to my reputation for living up 
to my contracts and my financial ability to do so, 
I refer you to any commercial agency or any bnsi- 
ness man in this city. Address plainly, 
W. F. ALLEN, Salisbury, Md. 
