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W E PREPAY delivery charges anywhere in the United States, 
on all flower and vegetable seeds at packet, ounce, or pound 
prices, and on all bulbs purchased at quoted Catalog prices, 
when cash accompanies the order. 
On bulk shipments of peas, beans, corn, and potatoes, other 
vegetable seeds, field seeds, nursery stock, plants of any kind, fertili¬ 
zers, insecticides, implements, tools or horticultural sundries, our 
prices do not include delivery charges, except in the Boston local 
delivery zone and then only when the order amounts to SI or more. 
Outside of this zone, specified below, all such items are forwarded 
by parcel post, express, or freight, as the purchaser may direct, but 
at the purchaser’s expense. 
WEEKLY RADIO 
GARDEN TALKS 
Breck’s Radio Garden Club 
will again be on the air about 
the first of March. For exact 
day and time, see your daily 
newspaper, or telephone us 
at LAFayette 7420. 
Mailing List 
Please write us of any 
change in your permanent 
home address. This is im¬ 
portant to you and to us for 
mailing various catalogs. 
BOSTON LOCAL DELIVERY ZONE 
On all standard merchandise, purchased at retail Catalog prices, 
and amounting to SI or more, we deliver free in greater Boston 
and in the following cities and towns immediately adjacent thereto: 
ARLINGTON 
BELMONT 
BRAINTREE 
BROOKLINE 
CAMBRIDGE 
CHARLES RP 
CHELSEA 
COHASSET 
DEDHAM 
EVERETT 
HINGHAM 
LEXINGTON 
LYNN 
MALDEN 
MEDFORD 
MELROSE 
MILTON 
NAHANT 
NEEDHAM 
THE NEWTONS 
ALL OF QUINCY 
REVERE 
SAUGUS 
SOMERVILLE 
STONEHAM 
WAKEFIELD 
WALTHAM 
WATERTOWN 
WELLESLEY 
WESTWOOD 
WESTON 
WEYMOUTH 
WINCHESTER 
WINTHROP 
WOBURN 
Employment Registry 
Through this department 
we supply superintendents, 
gardeners, general farm and 
garden help, dairymen, poul- 
trymen, and greenskeepers. 
We always have in our files 
the names of reliable men who 
are seeking positions. Many 
of these men are personally 
known to our representatives. 
This service is free of any 
obligation or charge to either 
party. 
PRICES 
Our prices are net, with no discounts, and they are subject 
to change without notice and stock on hand unsold. 
REMITTANCES 
We cannot be responsible for the receipt of currency unless 
sent by registered mail. We recommend the use of Money 
Orders or Checks. 
PACKING 
We make no charge for boxes or packing on orders at the 
prices noted in this Catalog, except where unusual packing 
is required on shipments such as Flower-Pots, and other 
Pottery, Stone Garden Furniture, Hotbed Sash and other 
such fragile articles, or on certain specimen Shrubs and Plants 
that require extraordinary care in packing. 
We charge extra for Seed-Bags at value. 
CHARGE ACCOUNTS 
We are glad to open charge accounts with our customers 
upon receiving satisfactory credit references. 
ORDERS 
In filling out the enclosed Order Form, or in ordering by 
letter, please be sure to write your name and address legibly. 
PLEASE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BRECK’S, 85 STATE STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 
Joseph Breck & Sons 
LUTHER A. BRECK, President and Treasurer HAROLD S. ROSS, Vice-President and Secretary 
RUSSELL O. GARDNER, Seed Department Manager 
NEW ENGLAND’S OLDEST SEED MERCHANTS • ESTABLISHED 1818 
FARQUHAR BRANCH STORE: MAIN STORE and GENERAL OFFICES: WAREHOUSES: 
85 Franklin Street 85 State Street, Boston, Mass. 15-24 Lewis Wharf 
Telephone connecting all Departments: LAFayette 7420 
COPYRIGHT 1938, BY JOSEPH BRECK AND SONS 
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NON-WARRANTY. Inasmuch as we cannot control Nature and the conditions affecting the successful growing of Seeds, Bulbs, Plants 
and Nursery Stock, such as unfavorable weather, soil, moisture, planting, cultivation, insects and the like, we cannot and will not give any 
warranty, express or implied, as to description, quality, productiveness, or any other matter of any Seeds, Bulbs, Nursery Stock, or Plants we 
sell, and we will not be in any way responsible for the crop. Every order for such goods will be executed on these conditions only. Employees 
are forbidden to give warranties or guarantees.— Joseph Breck & Sons Corporation. 
