THE FLANSBURGH & POTTER CO. CATAIiOG-UE. 
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Estimates on Large Lots promptly furnished, prices quoted prepaid when¬ 
ever possible. Our plants average to weight crated 15 to 20 lbs. per 1,000 early 
in the season and when packed in this manner the express companies guarantee 
to carry at 20 per cent, below merchandise rate. Later in the season, when 
there is more growth of foliage they weigh much more and require more moss 
and more space in packing often costing double for the express, which must be 
taken into account. 
Canadian Shipments accompanied with invoice, owing to the duty, with 
charges guaranteed to avoid delay. Please do not send Canadian currency or 
stamps. 
Por Our Responsibility address with a stamp the People’s Bank. Leslie, 
Mich., postmaster, express agent, or any official, professional or business man 
of the same place. 
Some Reasons. Important. 
We grow our plants in a new place each season rotating with clover and 
other crops, on good soil that is still new and capable of producing well bal¬ 
anced, best grade plants. The kind we advertise. 
We Maintain Our Grade by a careful selection of stock plants, and right 
methods of propagation from year to year, that tend with such a soil, to pro¬ 
duce stock of the greatest health and vigor, striving for the ideal fruiting row 
and perfect fruit from any plants that may be left unsold. 
Our Flants are Fresh Dug as wanted, nicely trimmed ready for planting, 
carefully resorted and tied in bunches of 25; roots washed in cold water if 
necessary to make them clean and packed with live moss in new handle baskets 
lined with oil paper, or in light ventilated crates, in such a manner that we 
guarantee safe arrival in good condition by express or mail, to all parts of U. 
S. and Canada. Plants by freight at buyer’s risk. 
True to Name. We take great pains to have stock true to name and hold 
ourselves ready upon proper proof to refund money or replace any that prove 
untrue; but it is mutually agreed that we shall not be liable for a greater sum 
than the amount paid for such stock. 
Our Prices average lower than can be found elsewhere, when quality of 
stock and guaranteed conditions are considered. Our references for responsibility 
are ample.. You take no risk whatever. See elsewhere a certificate of health 
from State Inspector of Nurseries, L. B. Taft. Read our unsolicited testimo¬ 
nials.. We invite investigation at all times. 
Leslie is in Ingham County 22 miles south of Lansing, the state capital, and 
18 miles north of Jackson. It is on the J., L. and S. division of the M. C. R. R., 
with an electric line being built in addition, connecting the two cities, and has 
a population of about 1,200. Our plant beds are all within a half mile of the 
depot, telegraph and express office. We take pleasure in looking after the in¬ 
terests of our customers in person, serving them promptly and on demand, ac¬ 
knowledging all orders and sending notice when plants are shipped. If we 
know we are sold out of a variety we will tell you so at once. In short, we aim 
to satisfy by honorable dealing both our customers and ourselves. Try us. 
We will do our best to please you.. 
, Jay, Essex County, New York, May 9, 1905. 
Thank you lor the line plants, liberal count and promptness in filling my order. 
The plants are in marked contrast to some I have received from your state recently, 
which were not even trimmed. Express comes high on plants loaded with dirt as they 
were. Please mail me 100 Uncle Jim. If out send Parsons Beauty. 
IT. D. STICKNBY. 
Northern Grown Plants. 
A strawberry plant is never in so prime a condition as when fully grown, 
matured and dormant. Our friends in the South have recognized that our 
northern-grown plants are safer to set, because of their more dormant condition 
on arrival, while commercial growers in the North and West would not think of 
setting Southern stock of a more advanced growth. We also hold that, while the 
strawberry will grow and thrive nearly everywhere, the North is its natural 
home, where it fits the conditions more naturally for a higher development. 
