Part of the Home Plant at Cambridge, N. Y. 
TO OUR GARDENING FRIENDS 
J EROME B. RICE SEED CO. are exclusive Wholesale Growers of Garden Seeds, with no retail department 
but have prepared this catalogue for the use of those merchants and dealers who make a specialty of seeds and 
who procure their supplies from us, in order that they may have a complete, concise, reliable and descriptive 
Garden Manual for distribution among their customers who plant seeds. We ask all of our friends, who receive this 
catalogue, to send their orders direct to the merchant, whose name appears on the cover, and who will give such 
orders prompt and careful attention at all times. 
Our list of varieties is very extensive and amply sufficient to meet every want in the line of vegetable seeds. Our 
descriptions in the catalogue are not flowery or overdrawn, but are exactly as we find the various stocks in our 
trial grounds and can be thoroughly depended upon. We offer nothing which has not been tested by ourselves and 
proven worthy of cultivation. Our facilities for the practical testing of all new and standard vegetables are most 
extensive and complete; the trials are thorough and exhaustive, and our friends can therefore absolutely depend on 
the value and excellence of every variety we offer. It is vitally important to every purchaser of seeds, either in large 
or small quantities, to know if the seeds will grow strongly and well, and whether they are pure and will produce 
true and perfect types of their kind. No experienced or practical gardener ever asks, “Where can I get my seeds the 
cheapest?” but rather, “Where can I get the best and most reliable?” and no one can afford to look at this matter in 
any other light. It is especially true of seeds that “The best is always the cheapest.” 
In conclusion, we wish to say that our seeds are the very best which untiring watchfulness and intelligent, pains¬ 
taking care can produce, and we are quite sure no better seeds can be procured anywhere. We respectfully ask that 
you give Rice’s Northern Grown Seeds a trial. 
AS TO PRICES, your dealer is in a position to sell you Rice’s Seeds as reasonably as you can buy seeds of equal 
quality elsewhere and will take pleasure in quoting you either by mail or in person. Market Gardeners and other 
large planters requiring seeds in large quantities are invited to submit a list of their requirements to our dealer who 
will be glad to name special prices. 
WE DO NOT WARRANT SEEDS 
The fact that no reputable seedsman now warrants seeds in any respect being well known, renders it unnecessary 
for us to say very much on this point, as it must be apparent to every intelligent person that no seedsman can 
afford to send out poor or worthless seeds. There could be no more certain way of destroying his business. We beg to 
append the following notice: 
While we exercise great care to have all seeds pure and reliable, we do not give any warranty, express or im= 
plied. If the purchaser does not accept the goods on these terms and conditions, they must be returned at once, 
and the money that has been paid for same will be refunded. 
IMPORTANT NOTICE 
We wish it distinctly understood that we do not accept retail orders, and beg all our friends who receive this 
book to send their orders to the dealer, whose name appears on the cover. By so doing you will receive your seeds 
promptly, and save the expense of transportation. 
Accept no substitution, insist on being supplied with RICE’S SEEDS. 
