BRIARCLIFF 
Nursery Department 
We offer only the highest quality 
nursery stock obtainable. It is clean, 
healthy, and always gives satisfaction. 
Inspection invited. 
To Our Friends 
and Customers: 
W E take pleasure, with the advent of another plant¬ 
ing season, in presenting this instructive booklet 
listing the hardy and tested varieties of plants suitable 
for this district, with proper instructions for their 
successful cultivation. 
VISITORS are always welcome to inspect our store 
and nursery. It is situated in a garden district where 
there is plenty of parking space for cars. Having a 
seed-store and nursery combined, patrons will find it 
convenient to make all their garden-supply purchases 
at one time. Courteous and expert advisers are always 
on hand to help. 
THANK YOU. We thank the many patrons who 
favored us with orders during the past season, and 
trust that everything we supplied came fully up to 
expectations. 
PLEASE ORDER EARLY. The best time is just as 
soon as this catalog reaches you. The stock may not be 
ready by then, but your order will be given immediate 
attention, and be filled just as soon as the stock is 
available. 
TERMS. Cash must invariably accompany order. 
Our prices are very low—as low as consistent with 
honest treatment and first-class stock—and we can¬ 
not, under any circumstances, open an account or 
do a credit business, regardless of how responsible a customer may 
be. Our liberal terms of prepayment and low prices will not admit 
it. All postpaid items are delivered free within the Fourth Zone. 
On all plant orders to be sent Parcel Post for less than $1 add 15c 
to cover cost of packing and postage. Do not forget to add the State 
Sales Tax of 3% within the state of California. 
When our busy season commences, 
we are rushed with orders, but there 
will be no unnecessary delay in ship¬ 
ping. We aim to ship orders the same 
day as received. 
GUARANTEE. We warrant all trees 
and plants to be good and thrifty, but 
having no control over them after de¬ 
livery to the transportation companies 
or over the planting and care after 
they are received by the buyer, we will 
not be responsible any further than 
stated. We exercise great care to have 
our nursery stock true to name. Never¬ 
theless, should any stock prove other¬ 
wise, we shall not be liable for any 
sum greater than that paid us for only 
such stock as shall prove untrue. 
C. O. D. ORDERS. We do not send goods “Collect on Delivery” 
outside of San Francisco. 
MAKING OUT AN ORDER. Please write all orders plainly. Be 
sure to sign your name to the order, and give your post office ad¬ 
dress, county, and state, also express office address if different from 
that of the post office. Please keep a copy of your order to check up 
stock on arrival. Make remittance by Bank Draft, Post Office or 
Express Money Order, or Personal Check, payable to the Sunset Seed 
and Nursery Company. 
SUBSTITUTIONS. As a rule, we do not substitute unless given 
permission to do so. Occasionally a variety may be sold out. and on 
small items it is generally better to make a good substitution than 
to send the order short. When ordering late in the season, it is al¬ 
ways best to name a second choice—but it is always the customer’s 
privilege to order “no substitutions.” We rarely have to substitute 
except at the end of the season, but it is best to provide for the 
contingency. Our advice is to order early. 
NURSERY INSPECTION. Our nur¬ 
sery stock is inspected by Government 
inspectors, and our nursery is regular¬ 
ly inspected by county and state in¬ 
spectors. Nevertheless, it is necessary 
by a state law that all shipments be 
inspected again when entering another 
county or state. If you have no local 
inspection service, the postmaster will 
forward the parcel to the nearest in¬ 
spector. Ask your postmaster for par¬ 
ticulars. If you have no inspector in 
your locality kindly mention this in 
your order so we may ship the parcel 
to the nearest inspector who will then 
forward it to you without delay. 
SAFE ARRIVAL GUARANTEED. We guarantee all stock to reach 
customers in good condition. Any just complaint should be made at 
once upon receipt of shipment. We ship to nearly every state in the 
Union, and with many years’ experience in packing and shipping, 
we can safely agree to deliver stock to the most distant points in 
good condition. In case of unreasonable delay in arrival of stock, 
notify us, send copy of order, when originally mailed, how remitted, 
and amount. 
NON-WARRANTY. Most of the failures with seeds, plants and 
bulbs are due to causes entirely beyond our control, such as unfavor¬ 
able weather, too deep and too shallow plantings, slugs, etc., there¬ 
fore we give no warranty, expressed or implied, as to description, 
purity, productiveness, or any other matter of any seeds, plants, 
bulbs, etc., we send out, and will be in no way responsible for the 
crop. 
All nursery stock shipped at pur¬ 
chaser’s expense, except where marked 
postpaid. We deliver all nursery stock 
free in San Francisco. Items marked 
postpaid are delivered free within the 
Fourth Zone. 
Our References 
SUNSET SEED & NURSERY CO. 
“Always Reliable” 
1720 Ocean Avenue (Westwood Park) 
San Francisco, Cal. 
(Open Sunday Mornings 9 to 1) 
Bank of America, Ocean-Faxon Phone RAndolph 4098 
Branch; American Trust Company, 
Westwood Park Branch. Members of the Central Calif. Assn, of Nurserymen 
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