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GREEN’S NURSERY COMPANY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Part of a block of two year old apple trees. This photograph waa 
taken this past summer, and the trees have since made a consider¬ 
able growth. 
THE BEST VARIETIES TO PLANT—There are hun¬ 
dreds of varieties of apples, peaches, pears, plums, cherries, 
currants, peonies, phlox, in fact all kinds of fruits and orna¬ 
mentals. Some nurserymen offer all these numerous varieties 
without knowing whether they are good varieties or not. 
We have a large experimental or test orchard and farm, 
where these numerous varieties are tried out and tested. 
The varieties that are offered in this catalog are the ones that 
we have found to be the best. They are the cream of nearly 
fifty years of careful selection. Confine your selection to 
this catalog and you will be getting only the choice varieties. 
TREES AND PLANTS BY PARCEL POST—To those 
who live a great distance from our nurseries, along the Pacific 
coast and in the far southern states, w T e recommend our 
special grade of trees which we send by mail. Owing to the 
postoffice regulation limiting the size of package that can be 
sent by mail we cannot send by mail, trees or shrubs over 
three feet in height. We guarantee safe arrival of all orders 
sent by parcel post. 
SPECIAL PRICES ON LARGE ORDERS.—Special 
quotations on large orders will be given on application. 
When writing tell us what varieties are wanted, the number 
of trees of each variety and the size. 
TO OUR CANADIAN CUSTOMERS.—Nursery stock 
is not admitted from the United States into Canada at all 
seasons. It is admitted in the spring, commencing March 
15th and continuing till-May 15th, and in the fall, commenc¬ 
ing September 26th and continuing until December 1st. 
Nursery stock is not admitted through the mails into Canada 
at any season of the year, so kindly order shipments made by 
freight or express. We cannot send by parcel post into 
Canada. 
CLAIMS.—We are extremely careful in filling and pack¬ 
ing all our orders and are always vailing to do as much or a 
little more than we agree to do. We want you to notify 
us promptly of any seeming error in filling your order. We 
will make satisfactory explanation or adjustment. All claims 
for errors, etc., must be made within five days after the 
arrival of shipment. We will send you good, live, vigorous 
and healthy trees and plantSj fully up to grades and sizes 
specified in our catalog, and will pack very carefully to insure 
safe delivery, so that everything you order will be in abso¬ 
lutely A No. 1 condition when you receive it, but we cannot 
guarantee them to live. If it were possible for us to do all 
the planting, pruning, selecting of soil, and the giving of 
after care and attention, and had we also control over climatic 
conditions, we would gladly replace everything that did not 
live, but not having control over these things, we feel that 
our responsibility ought to cease when we make delivery to 
our customers in first class condition. We will do our part, 
and then if you give them ordinary care and attention they 
will live ana be a source of pleasure and profit. 
FREIGHT AND EXPRESS RATES.— Freight and ex¬ 
press rates on trees, plants, vines, etc., have been so reduced 
that they are now a minor consideration in the purchase of 
trees. The argument very often used by tree agents in 
trying to persuade planters to pay their exorbitant prices is 
that they pay transportation charges, and as a rule catalog 
or direct dealing nurserymen do not, and as most people do 
not realize how small freight and express charges usually 
are, they often gain customers by their absurd arguments. 
Nursery stock travels at second class rates, and after averag¬ 
ing up the year’s business, one of the leading catalog nursery 
men found that the average transportation charges amounted 
to 5 cents for every dollar's worth of nursery stock purchased. 
This is the average taken from erders received from every 
state in the Union. . If you live at a great distance it would 
cost you more, but if you live close by it would cost you less, 
so do not let transportation charges be a bugaboo and keep 
you from buying trees direct of the grower at slightly above 
cost prices. 
CLUB ORDERS.—Get your neighbors or friends to join 
you in sending us a club order. We will tie each individual 
order up separately, carefully labeling it with a tag giving the 
name of the person to whom it belongs, and pack all the 
orders together in one box or bale. This will save you quite 
a little on transportation charges, as large shipments travel 
at a lower rate than small ones, and if you will plainly specify 
who is sending the order in, so that there is no misunderstand¬ 
ing, we will be glad to include some extras, of our own selec¬ 
tion, as a gift. 
POSTAGE FOR PARCEL POST.—The additional charge 
made for sending items by parcel post covers not only the 
postage, but the additional care in packing and the very 
high grade of expensive moss necessary to use in parcel post 
shipments, so if the actual postage on your package when 
you receive it is less than the amount you have paid, please 
bear in mind that part of this charge was made for packing 
and packing material. Do not ask us to refund unused post¬ 
age. We cannot tell just what the postage and extra pack¬ 
ing will amount to. Sometimes it is more than is allowed, 
sometimes a little less. 
NO ORDERS FOR LESS THAN $1.00 ACCEPTED.— 
Inasmuch as it costs us just as much to pack and prepare 
small orders as it does large ones, and inasmuch as the prices 
we ask are so close to the actual cost of production, we cannot 
afford to fill orders amounting to less han$1.00. It is advis¬ 
able to order all your needs at one time as this saves trans¬ 
portation charges, because the heavier the box or bale is 
the less it costs per pound for freight and express shipment. 
Packing a box of trees for freight shipment. Boxes are lined with 
heavy paper to keep the frost out and the moisture in. 
