Items of Interest 
Orders should be given early for they give us the opportunity to 
select and reserve the trees you wish while our assortment of varieties 
is most complete. 
When ordering roses, please name substitutes, to avoid delay in 
shipment. We will not substitute without your permission. 
Immediate notice should be given of any omission or error in the 
filling of an order. 
Our terms are cash with order or C. 0. D., shipped either by parcel 
post or express. When cash accompanies a parcel post order please remit 
postage and we will refund any balance. 
All orders are boxed and packed without charge. The boxes are 
lined with heavy paper to guard against stock drying out, while the trees 
and plants are packed in moist excelsior or straw. 
We believe in good packing and therefore can guarantee the arrival 
of stock in good condition. 
Selecting and Buying Trees 
There ore two classes of people who purchase trees and plants. The first know 
what they wont and order direct from some reliable’firm.' " Tile second do not know' 
what they want and order from a traveling salesman who can make one’s mouth water 
by showing beautiful, highly colored pictures, even if not true to nature, and explaining 
the wonderful virtues of the plants which he has for sale. Perhaps you give him an 
order amounting to several dollars for plants which later prove to be of common 
varieties and which you could have purchased for less than a quarter of the amount 
paid the agent. Not all tree agents arc dishonest, but why deal with a stranger when 
for a postal card you can get information in a catalogue from a reliable nurserymnn 
In fact, send for several catalogues, study them, discuss the subject with the family, 
and make out your order at your leisure. 
There is a right and a wrong way of using catalogues. The wrong way is to read 
what the catalogues have to say and then select only those varieties or kinds which 
have the longest and most flowery write-up. The right way is to put aside the cata¬ 
logues and decide first what you are going to plant, whether apples, pears or peaches: 
whether you want early or late varieties, for home use or for market, and how many 
of each. For example, perhaps you decide to have ten apple trees for family use and 
of those ten you want a succession throughout the season of both sweet and sour. 
Now you huve something to work on. Take your catalogues and pick out the varieties 
which best fulfill your ideas and requirements. In the same way select the other fruits 
and plants. 
The question is often asked if home grown trees are better than those grown several 
hundred miles away. The best answer to this question is, that many of our successful 
growers purchase their trees where they can secure the best stock at satisfactory prices. 
A saving of two or three cents a tree ut the time of purchase may result in a loss of 
dollars per tree in future years. In any case, get first cluss slock regardless of cost. 
If you can visit the nurserymnn personally, do so, talk over your plans and often he 
will make helpful suggestions in regard to varieties and methods of handling the trees. 
Make up and send in your order now. Don’t wait until time to plant the trees 
and then receive word that they are all sold out of the varieties which you decided to 
have. 
PROF. S. P. HOLLISTER, 
Horticulture Department , 
Conn. Agri. College 
