FACTS I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER 
In presenting this, my fifth annual catalogue, I wish to call the attention of intend¬ 
ing planters to the following reasons why I can render them superior service and offer 
seeds and plants unsurpassed for California and the Southwest: 
Experience. — To new and prospective customers I would like to say that having- 
had over twenty years practical experience in the Seed and Nursery business (fifteen 
years of which has been spent in Southern California), I feel I am in a position to give 
advice regarding all horticultural matters pertaining to this section. 
Sources of Supply. -My sources of supply are world wide, and my stocks 
are purchased wherever the best seeds are obtainable. Having traveled extensively 
through the principal seed-growing centres of England, Germany and France, as well as 
this country, I am personally acquainted with most of the growers. I have seen their 
crops and observed their methods, and therefore am in a position to secure the best seeds. 
Vegetable Seeds. In my list of vegetable seeds will be found varieties thoroughly 
tried in California, and adapted to prevailing conditions of soils and climate. I have 
written special instructions for the growing of each kind. 
Flower Seeds. This is a great specialty of mine, and I wish to call your 
attention to my superior strains of Pansy, Stock, Cineraria, Coleus, Calceolaria, Aster, 
Scabiosa, Sweet I ea and Mammoth Zinnia. I have written instructions for the growing 
of annuals undei California conditions, and special directions for all other flower seeds, thus 
making this portion of my catalogue the most complete ever published on this coast. 
Eucalyptus Seeds. I his is a department to which I have given much studv and 
many yeais of caieful observation. I shall be pleased at any time to give intending 
planters advice on this subject. In these pages will be found full directions for sowing the 
seeds, laising and liansplanting the plants. Of those species obtainable here, my seeds 
are collected under my own personal supervision from specimen trees, and can be relied 
on to be of the highest quality and true to name. For those species not yet obtainable 
here, I am in direct communication with the very best and most reliable authorities in 
Australia, who collect the seeds for me in their native habitats. 
Tree and Palm Seeds.— Of these I have the largest and most complete assort¬ 
ment offeied on the 1 acific coast, including rare and desirable species, f enjoy a large 
trade in these among nurserymen, who will testify^ to their genuiness and quality. 
Nursery Department. — In this department I have a most complete list of Roses, 
specially adapted to Southern California conditions. In Carnations, many varieties of 
great merit. Fruit trees, all the standard sorts in No. 1 grade trees, besides a full assort¬ 
ment of Climbing and Flowering plants, Ornamental Trees and Palms. 
Thanking fiiends and customers for their generous patronage in the past, and assurin'’' 
them that I will use every endeavor to merit a continuance of their favors, 
Sincerely, TIIEODORE ’PAYNE. 
MY OTHER PUBLICATIONS 
Trade Price List.— For Nurserymen and Florists. I publish a special list of Tree, Palm and 
Flower seeds which will be mailed free to bona fide Nurserymen or Florists upon application. 
California Native Flower Seeds.— For many years I have made a study of the California Flora. 
1 collect annually seeds and bulbs of over fifty of the choicest species ; these I have fully described in my 
special illustrated booklet, which has the unique feature of being the only catalogue published of 
exclusively California Wild Flowers. A copy of this will be mailed free upon application 
OBSERVE WHEN ORDERING 
How to Order.— Write plainly your name, town, county, and state, giving street numbers and 
^office box when expedient. Send all money by postoffice or express money order, bank draft or 
check, and small sums by registered letter. Postage stamps received in sums up to one dollar. 
Terms-— Orders must invariably be accompanied with the cash, or satisfactory reference. 
Postage Prepaid.—I prepay postage at prices quoted in this catalogue on all flower, tree, palm 
and vegetable seeds, except peas, beans, corn, grass and clover seed, stock beets, or where otherwise 
noted. Prices subject to change without notice 
Non-Warranty of Seeds.— While I exercise the greatest care to have all seeds pure and reliable, 
Lt° re warrant y> expressed or implied. If the purchaser does not accept the seeds on these 
terms and conditions they must be returned at once, and the money paid for the same will be refunded. 
