/FOR DEALERS ONLY./ 
It is a pleasure to present to Merchants and all who deal in Seeds my Wholesale 
■Catalogue for 1882 , because I think a finer and truer lot of seed was never offered to the 
public. The prices, I hope, will be satisfactory, for they are as cheap as good seed can be sold. 
•Of the quality I have no concern. They will make those who sow them happy, and do the rest 
of us great credit. 
Poor seeds have been scattered all over the country—left at stores to be sold on Commission. 
I send out no Seeds on Com?nission , nor have I any Commission Seeds to sell. No Seed 
grower can afford to Commission Fresh Seeds of First Quality, one-half of which are 
returned at the end of every season, to be thrown away or Sent out again as Fresh Seeds. 
Merchants have preferred Commission Seeds because in handling them they take no risk, 
and only pay for what they sell; but it is not well for the credit of the Merchant, nor for his 
conscience if he wishes to deal justly with his customers, and in many cases both discourages 
and wrongs the purchaser, who often sows in vain and seldom reaps the reward of his labor. 
I propose to furnish Merchants and the People with fresh seeds, that with ordinary care 
will grow and produce the most improved and choicest Vegetables and the most elegant Flowers, 
and thus encourage their culture, until every table shall be supplied ith healthful food, and 
every little, yard and every cottage garden shall blossom as the rose. 
As I furnish Dealers with seeds of last season’s growth, not more than five per cent, of all 
stock that may be leftover will be less valuable the second than the first. Of such varieties as 
are not reliable the second year I give customers full information. 
WHOLESALE PRICES. 
All Flower Seeds in papers at Sixty per cent, off retail prices. 
Vegetable Seeds in our usual papers at one-half retail prices. 
Ounces, not otherwise priced, forty per cent, off retail prices. Four quarts, or more, at 
peck prices; pints at quart rates. 
Cloth Bags, when necessary, will be charged only cost. No charge for packing, boxes or 
cartage, but we pay no Postage, Freight or Express charges, except on the Flower and Vegetable 
Seed Boxes described on the three next pages. When goods are ordered by mail, postage will 
be 20 cents per pound additional. 
Special prices will be given on Miscellaneous Articles, such as Pots, Vases and other 
Ornamental Goods and Garden Requisites, and Catalogues furnished. 
Prices by the pound, bushel, peck, &c., will be found in the body of this Catalogue. 
TERMS. 
All accounts for Seeds, Bulbs, Plants, etc., made before the 1 st of June will be due at that 
date, and all made after that time will be due December 1 st. A discount of one per cent, per 
month will be allowed when payment is made previous to these dates. Bills for Florists’ Re¬ 
quisites, such as Baskets, Bouquet Papers, Tin Foil, Immortelles, Wire Designs, etc., due sixty 
days after date of bill. 
Grass Seed, Clover Seed and Onion Sets net cash. 
Satisfactory reference required from all new or unknown correspondents desiring credit. 
