Richard Frotscher's Almanac and Garden Manual 
SEEDS BY MAIL. 
Seeds can be sent by mail to any part of the United States in 
packages not exceeding four pounds, at sixteen cents per pound or 
one cent per ounce or fraction thereof. On seeds ordered in papers 
or by the ounce I prepay the postage, except on peas, beans and corn. 
This refers to large sized papers which are sold at one dollar per dozen. 
When ordered by the pound sixteen cents per pound postage has to 
be added to the price of the seeds. Peas, beans and corn, thirty cents 
per quart 
All packages are put up in the most careful manner, and every 
precaution taken to insure their reaching their destination in safety. 
Purchasers living at any place where my seeds are not sold, are re¬ 
quested to write to me to obtain their supplies. This will be more 
profitable than to buy from country stores where seeds left on com¬ 
mission are often kept till all power of germination is destroyed. 
As seed merchants, who give out their goods on commission, rarely 
collect what is not sold, oftener than once every twelve or eighteen 
months, and as Lettuce, Spinach, Parsnip, Carrots, and many other 
seeds will either not sprout at all or grow imperfectly if kept over a 
summer in the South ; to buy and plant such is but money, time and 
labor wasted. 
Here in our climate, where we plant garden vegetables as freely 
in autumn as in spring, and where often the seeds have to be put.in the 
ground when the weather is very warm, it is an indispensable necessity 
to have perfectly fresh seeds. 
My arrangements with my growers are made so that I receive the 
new crop, expressly cleaned for me, as soon as it is matured. The 
varieties which are not raised in the North, I order from Europe, and 
have them shipped so as to reach me about the beginning of August, 
just the time they are needed for fail planting. By following this plan 
I have always a full supply of fresh seeds of undoubted germinating 
qualities, while dealers who sell on commission have only those left 
from the winter previous. 
It cannot be too well impressed on the minds of all cultivators of 
vegetables, that seeds kept through a summer in this climate will not 
(Irow , and that all who use such seeds will be losers. 
All seeds that leave my establishment are thoroughly tested, and 
warranted to grow. 
Having received a great many complaints that letters which con¬ 
tained money addressed to me never reached me, I would caution my 
customers not to send any money in letters without registering same. 
By sending one dollar or upward the cost, ten cents, can* be charged to 
me. The cheapest and surest way is money order or draft, but where 
they cannot be had, letters have to be registered, which can be done at 
any Post Office. 
