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YOUR NURSERY ORDERS 
Your Choice of Gifts 
With your $3UH> aursory ordor, your choice of 
1 2-yr. old Herbert Hoover Rose or 
1 2-yr. old Paul's Scarlet Rose or 
3 Red Leaf Barberry Shrubs. 
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With your $5J)o nursery order, your choice of 
2 Paul’s Scarlet Roses or 
2 President Hoover Roses or 
6 Red Leaf Barberry Shrubs or 
1 Set of genuine C-K-R 8^4 Inch 
Pruning Shears (Worth 88c). 
With your $10.00 nursery order, your Choice of 
4 2-yr. old nursery grown roses, Paul’s Scarlet, 
Talisman, President Hoover, Hadley; or 
12 Red Leaf Barberry Shrubs or 
100 Chinese Elm seedling trees 
Free Gifts with Your Garden Seed 
Orders (See Page S4I 
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FIFTEEN HUNDRED BEST VARIETIES OF SEEDS 
AND NURSERY STOCK FOR YOUR 
SELECTION 
I bring America’s finest nursery stock and seeds right to your door. 
More than 1,500 varieties of seeds and nursery stock in this Catalog. 
If you don’t find exactly what you want, write me, as we have available 
one of the largest stocks of nursery products in America today. Hun¬ 
dreds and hundreds of varieties we do not have space to list. 
Just sit down in your own home, fill out the order blank for the 
things you want and mail to Earl May, Shenandoah, Iowa. You get 
the same careful filling of your order, the same high Earl May quality, 
as if you were right here at Shenandoah yourself to select your nursery 
stock and seeds. What could be easier and surer than ordering direct 
by mail. 
Be sure your name and address appears on your order blank and 
please order your seeds and nursery stock early, as orders are filled in 
rotation as they are received. 
Quick service makes many friends for us. Your merchandise and 
seeds will be sent at once, your nursery orders at the right time for 
planting in your locality. We.ship anywhere and everywhere in the 
United States. We watch weather conditions and ship nursery plants 
at the best time. 
HOW TO ORDER 
On the last page of this catalog is a complete index, telling you where 
to find any particular item you want. There are two handy order 
blanks in this book and one “postage paid” envelope. I will mail you 
more, if you want them. No order is too small, or too large to send 
to May’s. 
Sending Money 
Money should be sent only as a registered letter. Lots of folks use 
money orders and bank drafts. Your check is good with us, too. Many 
people send signed blank checks to us to be filled out for the correct 
amount. If you care to do this, I pledge that your check will be filled 
out for only the actual amount of your order at the lowest prices 
in effect the day your order is received. CASH REMITTANCES travel 
at your risk. 
Postpaid Prices 
All garden and flower seeds are postpaid and most items of nursery 
stock. Shade trees and large size fruit trees are so large that Uncle 
Sam won’t let us send them by parcel post. I pay the transportation 
charges on all nursery orders of $10.00, or more, even including the 
larger size fruit and shade trees. Balled Evergreens are excepted from 
prepayment of transportation. 
C. O. D. Orders 
Strawberries and perishable plants can not be sent C. O. D. You can 
save money by remitting the full amount with your order, as the Post- 
office Department and Express Company make a slight extra charge 
for C. O. D. collections. 
MY GUARANTEE ON NURSERY STOCK 
I guarantee all nursery stock purchased of me to reach you in good, 
live growing condition. If not received in good condition, notify us at 
once, on receipt of the stock, and we will replace free. If any nursery 
stock secured of me fails to grow with proper care, notify me by 
October 1st and I will replace at half price. 
If any nursery stock is proven untrue to description, under which it 
is sold, we will, upon proper proof, replace all such nursery stock that 
may prove otherwise, or refund the amount paid, but in no case shall 
we be liable for any sum greater than the amount originally received 
for said nursery stock. 
POSTAGE PAID ENVELOPE 
I am enclosing an envelope for you just like this one In the pic¬ 
ture. The postage is paid on it by me. Use it for orders. 
I know you will appreciate the low prices on first quality garden 
seeds, nursery stock, farm seeds, baby chicks and many other 
necessities this Spring. I’ll be waiting for your order to come 
back to me in this envelope. If you want another postage paid 
envelope for your orders, let me know and I will send it to you. 
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