Instructions to Purchasers 
TIME TO ORDER. As soon as convenient, after 
receiving this catalog. By doing this you will be 
more certain of obtaining just the varieties you want. 
Late in the season we may be sold out of certain va¬ 
rieties, but if ordered early, the plants are reserved 
for you, to be shipped when you are ready for them. 
This is especially important this year when the crop 
of plants is very short. Our own crop is not more 
than half that of last year, and reports we have had 
from other plant-growers indicate that the crop is 
very short all over the country. The best varieties 
will be taken first. And, to be doubly sure of getting 
just what you want when you want it, order early. 
REMIT by Money Order, Registered Letter, or 
Bank Draft. Postage Stamps will be accepted for 
the fractional parts of a dollar, the larger denomi¬ 
nations preferred. Foreign customers will please 
send Money Order on Salisbury, Maryland, or 
Bank Draft payable in New York. 
PAYMENT. Invariably, cash in advance. 
LOST ORDERS. All orders are acknowledged by 
postal card the same day as received. Should you 
not receive this acknowledgement in a reasonable 
length of time after sending order, write us, giving 
date order was sent, amount of money sent, form of 
remittance, and your name and address. 
WRITE PLAINLY. Fill in all blanks on the order 
sheet, as they are necessary for proper shipment, 
especially your name and address. When writing 
in reference to an order, give its number and give 
your name the same as was sent on the order. 
TIME OF SHIPMENT. We commence to fill 
fall orders November i and ship all winter to sec¬ 
tions where the conditions are suitable for fall and 
winter planting, as in California and some parts of 
the South. Early spring, March and April, is by 
far the best time to set Strawberry plants in the 
middle and northern states. Our shipping season 
ends May i. We will, however, fill a limited number 
of orders in the first and second week of May and 
put them in the best possible condition, but at 
purchaser’s risk. It is very important to have your 
Bedding or trenching-in plants until ready to plant 
permanently 
plants shipped early. Read on page 4, under 
“Time to Plant.” The reason your plants should be 
shipped early in the season is that plants are dor¬ 
mant and will stand digging and shipping much 
better than after the growth has started. Plants are 
also lighter and express charges are less, early in the 
season. Don’t order plants from us during the sum¬ 
mer months, expecting orders to be filled before the 
first of November. Our plants are not ready and we 
can’t do it. We don’t grow potted plants. 
IN THE EXTREME NORTH. Notwithstanding 
your season is later than ours, we can do business to 
our mutual benefit. Have plants shipped early, as 
directed on page 4, before they are too far ad¬ 
vanced. Heel them in, in some protected place, 
giving a covering of straw. Or, put the crate, with¬ 
out unpacking, into some cool protected place and 
the plants will keep in excellent condition, and they 
will be right at hand to plant, just when you want 
them, when conditions are right for planting. 
ON RECEIPT OF PLANTS. Where the climate 
is not so severe place the package containing the 
plants in a cool place, protected from wind and sun, 
at once on arrival. Be sure to keep the roots moist¬ 
ened while planting. If it is impossible to set the 
plants as soon as received, take them out of the 
crates, and bed them in by digging a V-shaped 
trench in soft, moist .soil, preferably in the shade; 
open the bunches of plants and bed them in the 
trench by pressing the soil firmly to the roots, being 
careful not to cover the buds or crowns. Water 
thoroughly as soon as bedded. 
TWENTY-FIVE. All plants are tied twenty-five 
in a bundle and each bunch labeled. 
PACKING. We make no charges for boxing or 
packing at rates quoted in this catalog. Everything 
is delivered f.o.b. trains at rates named. 
AT PURCHASER’S RISK. Plants shipped by 
freight will lx* at purchaser’s risk, and all plants 
shipped after May I will be packed and shipped in 
the best condition possible, but at purchaser’s risk. 
TRUE TO NAME. While we use every precau¬ 
tion to have all plants true to name (and we believe 
we come as near doing this as anyone in the business) 
we will not be responsible for any sum greater than 
the cost of the stock, should any prove otherwise 
than as represented. 
GUARANTY. We guarantee plants ordered by 
mail or express to reach customers in good condition 
when promptly taken from the express office and 
opened at once. 
CLAIMS, if any, must be made on receipt of 
goods. We cannot become responsible for stock 
that is allowed to lie around your station, or express 
office, for neglect of purchaser or his employees to 
care for stock after it has been received, or for 
misfortunes caused by drought, floods, insects, etc. 
These things are entirely beyond our control. 
Substitution 
Early in the season we usually have in stock 
everything listed in this catalog, but late in the 
season we frequently run out of some of the va¬ 
rieties; therefore, when you order late, please state 
on order sheet whether we shall substitute something 
equally good and as near like the variety ordered as 
possible, or return your money if we are sold out. 
AflFNTS We do not em P lo y agents. There is no 
1 one authorized to act in that capacity 
for us. We deal direct with all our customers, and have 
but one price-list, which you will find on the third cover 
page of this book. 
HF AT THY PI ANT^ Every year before any are 
* ** * I 1 O. shipped our plants are in¬ 
spected by the State Entomologist and State Pathologist. 
Every package we ship has one of the Certificates of Nursery 
Inspection attached to it. 
