“J. D. Sez, Sez ’e”— 
TIPS ABOUT ORDERING 
Don’t worry if you 
can’t lay hands on an 
order blank when ready 
to make out your order. 
We have received or¬ 
ders written on about 
everything from a slab 
of wall paper to a tiny, 
highly perfumed corre¬ 
spondence card. 
It helps a whale of a 
lot, however, if you fol¬ 
low a few simple sug¬ 
gestions. Make your or¬ 
der on sheet separate 
from letter, if any. 
Pirst, write or print 
your name and full ad¬ 
dress plainly, giving also your express office 
(if different from postoffice). 
Write only one item on a line and carry each 
price out to the right on the page. 
Bead Business Terms, page 64, and comply 
as closely as possible. Note that c. o. d. 
orders require one-fourth or more cash with 
order. We hate to ask this, but some cus¬ 
tomers have left us holding the sack, when 
we filled and shipped c. o. d. orders in good 
faith, without a down payment. 
If wish extra order blanks and envelopes, 
just drop a post card and these will come 
romping back to you in a hurry. 
HOBBIBDB BBAMFDB: Time and again 
we get orders something like this to unscram¬ 
ble: Quote please send me enough radish seed 
to plant three rows no make it four rows and 
a dimes worth of cabbage seed that is sure 
to mature in our country and speaking of 
cabbage I want to tell you about the won¬ 
derful sweet peas we had from your seed last 
year that is what was left after our neighbors 
dog pawed out a lot looking for a bone and 
that reminds me my glad bulbs froze last 
fall so better send me enough to look nice in 
front of our shrubbery I dont know how much 
this comes to so send me the bill though I 
see your terms are cash TJuquote. 
But after all is said and done, don’t think 
for a minute that ordering is a complicated 
job, or that we are fussy as to how the orders 
are made out. I do feel that you will appre¬ 
ciate these suggestions, which apply not only 
to orders made out for us, but to all mail 
orders for any firm. The plainer the order is 
made out, the quicker we can fill it, which is 
fine for both you and us. “We thank you.” 
That 59 Cent Dollar! 
Far be it from me to say I understand this 
currency problem. I’m still looking for the 
guy that does. 
But we have heard much about our dollar 
being worth around 59 cents. Personally, I 
haven’t lost much sleep over the matter yet. 
What I want is a non-skid dollar. I like to 
keep dollars moving, but prefer to control 
their destination, to some extent, at least. 
What I started out to say is that this season 
we have made up many more Special Collec¬ 
tions than ever before. Ramble through these 
pages and see the many offers in which you 
get around a dollar’s worth for about 59 cents, 
or on that basis. 
And all special offers are for good up-to-date 
items, many listed by seedsmen for the first 
time this spring. 
Here’s a tip. If you do not need all items 
in a Special Collection, get a friend to share 
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it with you. That will make two customers 
grow where but one grew before! 
Speaking of Dollars, look up “Money Plant,” 
and try growing your own Money. (See page 
19.) 
Use Index More—Page 64 
You may say there’s no rhyme or reason in 
the way we have listed most items in this 
catalogue. We have not attempted to ar¬ 
range many items in alphabetical order. 
My own experience is that one might as well 
refer to the index at once, anyhow. It’s a 
matter of only a few moments—and there you 
are! 
Get the index habit, whether using this book¬ 
let or any other, sez I. 
And while you’re browsing through the in¬ 
dex, take a peep at the Zinnias on opposite 
page from index—the east page, we might 
say. And note also the special Zinnia Col¬ 
lection offer. 
“Your Subscription Expires” 
As the magazines announce, “Your subscrip¬ 
tion expires with this number.” 
There is one way to renew your subscrip¬ 
tion to a magazine. Pay up. 
There are two ways to keep yourself in good 
and regular standing on our mailing list. 
One is to send an order. The other is to drop 
us a line asking for catalogues. 
We do not expect an order from everyone, 
every year. No mail order house does. And 
we are not stingy with catalogues, so long as 
they last. 
If you have the gumption to write a post¬ 
card or letter asking for catalogue, that pays 
your subscription another year. 
We appreciate names sent us by customers 
and friends. But wish such names “hand 
picked.” Only one, or a few, from any one 
person. Cannot use long lists. Do not offer 
any pay or premiums for names. Consider 
that you do your friend as big a favor as you 
do us when you have us place a name on our 
list for “Long’s Garden Book.” 
T elegrams—Special 
Deliveries 
If wire, please use WESTERN UNION serv¬ 
ice. Reason, no other telegraph company has 
office in Boulder. If wire us otherwise, your 
message must be phoned or mailed from Den¬ 
ver to us, causing delay and possible errors, 
if phoned. 
Special Delivery Letters seldom reach us 
sooner than regular mail, sometimes not so 
soon. Reason, we get our mail hot off the 
griddle soon as mails come in and are sorted 
at postoffice. The Boulder postoffice folks 
give us wonderful co-operation, and put mail 
into our big BOX 19 as quickly as possible, 
every mail. And we are there to grab the 
letters at once. Many orders filled same day 
received. 
From Michigan: The Zinnias purchased 
from you were perfectly marvelous in spite 
of the adverse weather conditions. Gave 
some of the young plants to the rural girls’ 
Garden Club along with some Glad bulbs, and 
they won a blue ribbon and a $10.00 cash prize 
at the country fair. Had good success with 
my_ Glads this past season: 65 ribbons of 
which 45 were blue. Also won several cups. 
Hope and expect to go places next year.—A. 
