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FLANSBURGH & PEIRSON CO.’S CATALOGUE. 
Terms, Advice, Responsibility, Etc. 
Our Shipping Season for plants begins with southern orders as soon as the 
frost is out of the ground and is usually extended into June, but we do not war¬ 
rant plants after May 20. 
Terms, Cash with Order, unless from parties whom we have found to be ab¬ 
solutely responsible; but orders will be booked if one-fourth value is enclosed, 
the remainder to be sent before shipment. 
Order Early while stock is complete. If ordered late in the season, it is 
always best to name a second or third choice if possible, in case a variety should 
be sold out; or leave it with us, stating soil conditions, and other particulars. 
We will do our best to please you. 
Claims, if any, must be made upon receipt n* goods, so that mistakes, should 
any have occurred may be promptly corrected We take great pains to avoid 
mistakes, but should an error have occurred please advise us of the fact at 
once. We shall want to make it right. 
Estimates on large quantities promptly furnished; prices quoted prepaid 
whenever possible. Our plants average to weigh crated 15 to 20 lbs. per 1,000, 
and when packed in this manner the express companies guarantee to carry them 
at 20 per cent below merchandise rate. 
Special attention given to Canadian customers, owing to the duty. All orders 
accompanied with invoice and a personal guarantee of charges, to avoid delay. 
Please do not send Canadian bills or coin. 
C. O. D. Orders require one-fourth value with the order. Send remittance at 
our own risk by postoffice order, express money order, registered letter or 
draft on New York. Stamps taken for parts of a dollar. 
For Our Responsibility address with a stamp, the “Peoples Bank.” Leslie. 
Mich. Postmaster, express agent or any official, professional or business man 
of the same place. 
We grow our plants in a new place each season, rotating with potatoes and 
other crops, on new ground that is not exhausted of any of the elements that 
produce a well balanced plant and is entirely free from any suspicion of being 
or ever having been the breeding place of kno\»n or unknown pests or contagious 
diseases. Our plants are clean and healthy. 
MaK?ska Co.. Iowa. April 27. 1904. 
Dear Sirs:—Strawberry plants to hand in ^ne shape, am well pleased with 
your plants. You shall have our business in the future. 
The Great Northern Nurseries, 
W. H. Sapp, Mgr. 
Later.—Nov. 14, 1904. 
Dear Sirs: —l write at this time that you may know that I will want some 
twenty-five or thirty thousand of your strawberry plants for the coming spring 
I have always found your stock the very best grown anywhere and for that 
reason have placed my orders with you, and shall continue to do so as long as 
you fill my orders as you have in the past. WM. H. SAPP, Mgr. 
We do not write our customers for testimonials, but we are glad to get them. 
They make us feel good and encourage us in keeping on in the way we started 
out several years ago. We are sparing no expense or pains to give our customers 
the very best. If we make mistakes we want to make it right. If we please you, 
tell others. If not, tell us. 
NUMBER OP PLANTS REQUIRED TO SET ONE ACRE. 
Distance. 
Plants. 
Distance. 
Plants. 
1 
by 
1 
foot. 
43,560 
4 
by 
3 
feet. 
3,630 
2 
by 
1 
foot, 
21,780 
4 
by 
4 
feet, 
2,722 
2 
by 
2 
feet, 
10,890 
5 
by 
1 
foot. 
8,712 
3 
by 
1 
foot. 
14,520 
5 
by 
2 
feet, 
4,356 
3 by 
2 
feet. 
7,260 
5 
by 
3 
feet. 
2,904 
3 
by 
3 
feet, 
4,840 
5 
by 
4 
feet, 
2,178 
4 
by 
1 
foot, 
10.XH0 
5 
by 
5 
feet. 
1,742 
4 
by 
2 
feet. 
5,445 
6 
by 
1 
foot. 
7,260 
6 
by 
2 
feet. 
3.630 
Distance. Plants. 
Distance. Plants. 
6 
by 
3 
feet, 
2,420 
7 
by 
5 
feet. 
1,244 
6 
by 
4 
feet, 
1,815 
7 
by 
6 
feet. 
1,037 
6 
by 
5 
feet, 
1,452 
7 
by 
7 
feet, 
888 
6 
by 
6 
feet, 
1,210 
8 
by 
3 
feet. 
1,815 
7 
by 
1 
foot, 
6,222 
8 
by 
4 
feet. 
1,361 
7 
by 
2 
feet. 
2,111 
S 
by 
5 
feet, 
1.089 
7 
by 
3 
feet, 
2,074 
8 
by 
6 
feet, 
905 
7 
by 
4 
feet. 
1.555 
8 
by 
1 
feet. 
777 
8 
by 
8 
feet, 
680 
Wicomoco Co.. Md.. April 9. 1904. 
I received the potatoes and like them very much. .1, S. ROBERTS. 
