FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL NURSERY STOCK 
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Our Guarantee. We are careful to label all 
stock, check it and pack it correctly. Except for 
our own mistakes, we cannot assume the respon¬ 
sibility of stock reaching its destination safely. 
We do assume the responsibility for the true names 
of all our stock, and are ready, on proper proof, 
to replace, free of charge, anything sent by us that 
proves untrue to label; but it is understood and 
agreed, between the purchaser and ourselves, that 
we are not to be held liable for any greater sum , 
than that paid for such trees as may prove untrue. 
No Substitutions. We do not substitute. If 
we are sold out of one or more varieties in your 
order we tell you so. If we are sold out of a variety, 
and you are willing to have us send another, selected 
with our twenty years’ experience in fruit-growing, 
please mention it on your order, and possibly we 
can give you something just as good or better than 
your order calls for. 
Claims. We are extremely careful in filling and 
packing all orders, and are always willing to do 
as much or a little more than we agree to; yet during 
our rush season, slight errors will sometimes be 
made, in which event we want you to notify us 
promptly, and we will make satisfactory adjust¬ 
ment. All claims for errors, etc., must be made 
within five days after arrival of shipment. 
When Writing for Information or Prices, 
Please Give us Full Details—It is Important. 
It will help us greatly to give you the books and 
papers that you will need if you will explain in your 
letter, or on your card, just what information you 
want. Give us something to base our suggestions 
on. If it is prices you want, and you have your 
mind made up, give us approximately the number 
of trees or plants of the different kinds that you 
need, also the varieties and the number of each 
variety. We are willing to go to considerable trouble 
to see that you get what you want and need- 
advice, information or trees. Will you meet us 
part way? Don’t hesitate to write at length. You 
will find in this catalogue an information blank, 
and if you will fill it out carefully and enclose it 
with your letter, you will help us greatly in giving 
an intelligent reply to your inquiry. 
No Unnecessary Delays in Shipping. During 
the past year we built a new packing-house which 
doubles the packing space at our nurseries. A new 
concrete loading platform, 300 feet long and 36 feet 
wide, enables us to handle boxes from house to 
cars in the shortest possible time. You will find 
that these improvements will work to your advan¬ 
tage when you want stock in a hurry. As far as 
possible, we get your trees to you at exactly the 
time you ask for them; but many times the trees 
will be better if shipment is delayed, and you will 
be benefited decidedly by our holding your order 
for a little while. 
First, consider fall shipments. Planters in nor¬ 
thern sections want their trees early for trenching- 
in or for fall planting. But, if the trees are kept 
growing in the nursery as fast as required to make 
them as big and sturdy as they should be, they will 
not start to ripen their wood until in September, 
and will not be thoroughly ripe until in October or 
November in normal seasons. Seasons vary, how¬ 
ever, as much as six weeks, and leaves fall anywhere 
from August to November. 
Some growers dig trees before they are ripe and 
strip the leaves off. This makes trees look all 
right, but they still have soft, sappy wood, and ragged 
wounds where the leaves were torn away, instead 
Disc Harrows give the proper"cultivation in the orchard 
WE TRY TO SHIP YOUR TREES AT JUST THE TIME YOU WANT THEM 
