To Our Gardening Friends 
• • • 
• The JEROME B. RICE SEED CO. are exclusive Wholesale Growers of Garden Seeds. 
• We have prepared this Annual for the use of our Merchant Dealers who make a specialty of 
seeds that they may have a complete, concise and reliable descriptive Garden Annual for distribu¬ 
tion to their seed buying customers. 
• We do not have any retail department and request all our friends to place their seed orders di¬ 
rectly with the merchant whose name is imprinted on the cover of this Annual. He will give you 
prompt and careful attention at all times. 
• Our list of varieties is very extensive, up to date and amply sufficient to meet every vegetable 
seed want. The descriptions given are accepted as standards. They are conservatively stated ex¬ 
actly as we have found the various stocks in our Trial Grounds. They may be depended upon. We 
offer nothing which we have not tested ourselves and proven, by critical test and examination, to 
be worthy of cultivation. Our facilities for practical testing are extensive and complete. Our 
trials are thoroughly and exhaustively conducted under expert, experienced supervision. 
• Our seeds are the very best which untiring watchfulness combined with intelligent, painstaking 
care can produce. We are sure that no better seeds can be secured anywhere. 
• It is vitally important to every purchaser of seeds, whether in large or small quantities, to know 
that the seeds will grow strongly and well; that they are pure and will produce true, perfect types 
of their kind. The original cost of the seeds is a small percent of the total growing cost. The Cheap¬ 
est is rarely the best but—The Best is Always the Cheapest. 
• As To Prices, your dealer is in a position to sell you RICE’S SEEDS as reasonably as you can buy 
seeds of equal quality elsewhere and will take pleasure in quoting you either by mail or in person. 
Market Gardeners and other large planters requiring seeds in large quantities are invited to submit 
a list of their requirements to our dealer who will be glad to name special prices. 
• We Do Not Warrant Seeds. The fact that no reputable seedsman now warrants seeds in any re¬ 
spect being well known, renders it unnecessary for us to say very much on this point, as it must be 
apparent to every intelligent person that no seedsman can afford to send out poor or worthless seeds. 
There could be no more certain way of destroying his business. We beg to append the following 
notice; 
• While we exercise great care to have all seeds pure and reliable, we do not give any warranty, ex¬ 
press or implied. If the purchaser does not accept the goods on these terms and conditions, they 
must be returned at once, and the money that has been paid for same will be refunded. 
Cordially yours, 
JEROME B. RICE SEED CO. 
• Attention, Please. Insist on being supplied with RICE’S SEEDS at your local dealers. You will 
then have your seeds promptly and save yourself transportation expenses. 
• We do not sell retail, but a postcard request will bring you the name of your nearest dealer pre¬ 
pared to supply you with Rice’s Seeds. 
