PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING 
Seeds and bulbs are forwarded as ready All seeds, but 
not actual bulbs or live plants, are postpaid. Safe arrival 
is guaranteed. Goods are offered subject to arrival or 
harvest. All previous prices are withdrawn. 
I try to send out only good seeds, but I cannot control 
the conditions under which they are planted. I give no 
warranty, express or implied, as to description, quality, pro¬ 
ductiveness, or any other matter of any seeds, bulbs, or 
plants I sell, and I will not be responsible for the crop. 
Please remit in full with your order, by postal 
or express money order, if possible. Personal 
checks will be accepted, however, should it not be 
convenient to get a money order, but if remittance 
is made by check, be sure to add five cents, (not 
5%) to the total sum, this being about our 
average cost per check, (not per dollar), for 
handling, bank collection charges, etc. 
Orders of less than fifty cents are filled at an 
actual loss, and I must reserve the right to re¬ 
fuse such. 
REX. D. PEARCE 
Merchantville Now Jersey 
CASH ENCLOSURES—If you enclose actual cash, cur¬ 
rency in any form, with your order sent in by ordinary 
mail, it must be at your own risk. I cannot be responsible 
for possible losses under such circumstances. Money orders 
are cheap, safe, and easily obtained. I suggest their use so 
far as possible, in making remittances. 
ORDERS FROM ABROAD—I send seeds to all parts of 
the world without charge for regular postage, but cus¬ 
tomers in isolated regions where additional special transit 
charges are levied, should remit for these. Customs duties, 
(if levied at all, these are usually low on flower seeds), are 
payable by the purchaser, usually at his local postoffice. 
Remittances with order can readily be made by purchasing 
an International Postal Money Order at your own post- 
office. I cannot use stamps, or actual currency of other 
countries. Please allow for differences in exchange. 
This catalog is a descriptive listing of newer garden 
materials; new in that many of them have hitherto 
been unavailable commercially. Naturally botanists 
have known most of them, and garden-connoisseurs 
many of them, but they have, nevertheless, not been 
generally accessible. In no fair sense should it be 
considered a catalog of “novelties,” it is not in¬ 
tended as such, although I offer, and shall continue 
to offer as obtainable, certain new species of horti¬ 
cultural value as discovered by botanical exploration 
expeditions. Neither is it a “bargain” catalog. I 
keep my prices always as low as my costs will per¬ 
mit, allowing a fair margin for my own services, and 
for further extensions of service to my customers. I 
attempt no price competition with those who may 
have lesser standards. 
KEY TO LETTERS USED IN DESCRIPTIONS 
a—Prefers acid soil, 
at-—Tolerant of acidity, 
b—Suitable for the hardy border, 
bt—For background or screen plantings, 
c—Of value as a cut flower, 
d—Will grow in rather dry soils, 
e—Of easy culture for the beginner, 
f—Protect with mulching in winter, north, 
ft—Lift in autumn, and store in frost-proof place 
through winter. 
g—Ground cover or carpeting plant, 
h—Sow in early spring or late autumn, or if 
sown in summer, shade the seed-bed. 
ht—Makes a good pot or house plant, 
j—Tree. 
k—Sow in early spring. 
1—Needs lime. 
It—Tolerant of, or slightly prefers, lime, 
m—Likes moist soil. Keep watered, 
n—Effective for wild naturalizing, 
o—An annual, 
ot—A biennial. 
p—For pavements, step crevices or walls, 
q—Shrub. 
r—Of value in rock garden, 
s—Prefers shade. 
st—Tolerates light shade, but will grow in sun 
also. 
t—Means nothing alone. Must always be takeD 
in combination with letter before it. 
u—Bulb or tuber, or of bulb-like habit, 
ut—Bulb for forcing or pot culture, 
v—Vine. 
w—Sow in heat in sunny window, frame or con¬ 
servatory. 
x—Sow in spring or summer, up to August, 
y—Sow in late autumn, (November through 
February), in open ground or frames, for 
spring germination. May usually be sown in 
spring also, if stratified or given refrigerator 
treatment. See cultural leaflet sent with 
seeds for directions. 
z—Annuals of course, flower first year, biennials 
and most perennials the second season. The 
symbol “z” indicates that a longer period is 
required. Not used with trees, or other woody 
plants. 
keep my prices always as low as my costs will per¬ 
mit, allowing a fair margin for my own services, and 
for further extensions of service to my customers. I 
attempt no price competition with those who may 
have lesser standards. 
WHERE NEW SEEDS COME FROM 
I list seeds of almost twenty-eight hundred separate var¬ 
ieties or species. Of these, eight hundred and thirty-one are 
of my own gathering, saved at my nursery and trial ground, 
or collected elsewhere. Other kinds come from specialist 
growers in this country or abroad; many are saved on 
private estates, or from noted collections, as of named 
Peonies, Lilacs and the like. Other seeds come from the 
more than one hundred professional or amateur botanical 
collectors with whom I have contacts in various parts of 
the world. Manchuria, China, Japan, India, Palestine, 
Anatolia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, The Canaries, 
Alaska, Canada, New Zealand, Tasmania, Western Aus¬ 
tralia, South America, and almost every European country 
and American state, contribute to the supply. I personally 
make more than 5000 miles of special botanical and study 
trips each season, in the area from the Great Smokies on 
the south to the Adirondacks on the north. The correspon¬ 
dence alone, incident to gathering theme rare seeds together, 
and to tracking down sources of supply f«r specific rarities, 
runs into many thousands of letters each year. 
NUMERALS IN PARENTHESIS indicate season and 
duration of bloom, as follows: (1) early spring, (2) late 
spring and early summer, (3) summer, ( 4 ) late summer and 
early autumn, (5) all autumn, (6) late autumn, (7) winter, 
(8) tends to be ever-blooming, (9) grown for fruit, form 
or foliage, rather than flowers. 
NUMERAL FOLLOWING PARENTHESIS indicates nor¬ 
mal mature height in inches, under good culture. Height 
of trees and many shrubs is given in feet. 
STAR (*) before variety name, indicates an an¬ 
nual. 
STAR (*) following name indicates a hardy per¬ 
ennial that will bloom first season if sown early. 
HARDY HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS — No 
sign is used to show these, but it is to be as¬ 
sumed that any variety is a hardy perennial un¬ 
less the key signs, or the description, indicates 
otherwise. 
When part of the key letter group is enclosed in parenthesis 
an alternative cultural method is indicated. 
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