Instructions to Purchasers 
TIME TO ORDER. As soon as convenient, after 
receiving this catalog. By doing this you are more 
certain of obtaining what you desire. Late in the 
season we may be sold out ol certain varieties. By 
ordering early, the plants are reserved for you, to 
be shipped when you request them. 
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 acknowledgment 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 it is 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. Early planting in the spring is very im¬ 
portant. Our shipping season ends May I. We will, 
however, fill a limited number of orders the first and 
second weeks in May to northern customers, and 
put them in best possible condition, but at pur¬ 
chaser’s risk. Don’t wait until May to have plants 
shipped; you will have better success if they are 
planted earlier. Early in the season plants are 
dormant and will stand digging and shipping much 
better than after growth has started. Plants are 
also lighter and express charges are less, early in the 
season. After the second week in May we do not 
Bedding or trenching in plants until ready to plant 
permanently 
fill any orders until November i. Don’t order plants 
during the summer months, expecting orders to be 
filled before the first of November—we can't do it. 
We do not grow potted plants. 
In the Extreme North 
Notwithstanding your season is later than ours, 
we can do business to our mutual benefit. Our 
success depends on your success, and we want to 
help you. Now listen! Order your plants shipped 
from the 1st to the 20th of April, before they are 
too far advanced. As soon as received, open the 
bunches and heel in the plants in thin layers in a 
coldframe or some protected place (giving a light 
covering of straw, if outside) until you are ready to 
plant. By having your plants shipped early, you 
get them before they are so far advanced in growth, 
and have them at hand to plant permanently just 
when you want them, when conditions are right for 
planting. Try it. 
On Receipt of Plants 
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 moistened 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. They will keep a week or two, or longer. 
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 be at purchaser’s risk, and all plants 
shipped after May 1 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 for any stock that 
we may be out of. 
AGENTS. We do not employ agents. There is no 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 page 48 of this book. 
