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REMIT by Money Order, Registered ijektfciUJartrBank 
Draft, Postage Stamps will be accepted for the frac¬ 
tional parts of a dollar, the larger denominations pre¬ 
ferred. Foreign customers will please send Money 
Order on Salisbury, Maryland, or Bank Draft payable in 
New York. 
PAYMENT. Invariably, cash in advance. 
WRITE PLAINLY. Fill in all blanks on the order 
sheet, as they are necessary for proper shipment, es¬ 
pecially your name and address. When writing in ref¬ 
erence to an order, give its number and give your name 
the same as was sent on the order. 
TIME OF SHIPMENT. We fill orders from Novem¬ 
ber 1 to May 1. Plants should be shipped early in 
spring, February, March and the early part of April. 
It is very important to have your plants shipped early. 
Read on page five, under “Time to Plant.” The 
reason your plants should be shipped early in the spring 
is that plants are dormant and will stand digging and 
shipping much better than after the growth has started 
and the weather has become warmer. Plants are also 
lighter and express charges are less, early in the sea¬ 
son and also stand delays in transportation better. 
Don’t order plants from us during the summer months, 
expecting orders to be filled before the first of Novem¬ 
ber. 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 
before they are too far advanced. Heel them in, in some 
protected place, giving a light covering of straw. 
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 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, prefer¬ 
ably 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 charge for boxing of pack¬ 
ing at rates quoted in this catalog. Everything is deliv¬ 
ered f. o. b. trains at rates named. 
AT PURCHASER'S RISK. 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 precaution 
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 
CJ$ost of the stock, should any prove otherwise than as 
COepresented. 
92 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 
Jias been received, or for misfortunes caused by drought, 
: .jloods, insects, etc. These things are entirely beyond 
,^-pur control. 
