OUR GUARANTEE 
After years of experimenting, we have round a method of packing, 
which our most distant customers tell us, bring their plants to them as 
fresh as if they had just been dug from a nearby^ field. This allows us to 
guarantee our plants to arrive in perfect growing condition, and to re¬ 
place any that fail to start growth when properly planted. 
We do not substitute without your permission. 
All mistakes cheerfully adjusted. 
SHIPPING INSTRUCTIONS 
You will greatly assist us in giving you better service, if you will order 
early, giving instructions as to just when you would like your plants 
shipped. 
All plants are sent postpaid to any address in the U. S. A. 
Make remittances payable to E. B. Drake, Lakebay, Wash. 
THE SIZE OF THE PLANTS WE SHIP 
Our plants are sent out at the age and size to give best results when 
transplanted to your garden, for instance, only the new growth of most 
spreading, or mat-forming plants are shipped, while some of the slow 
growing alpines may be as much as three years old before they are 
ready. 
PRICES 
To avoid confusion we are putting the price after each plant. 
One dozen plants of one kind for the price of ten. 
On orders of less than $1.00, please add 15 cents for postage and 
packing. 
Customers living in the state of Wash., will please add sales tax to 
their orders, unless plants are to be shipped to other states. 
A POINT WORTH REMEMBERING 
A plant does not necessarily have to be expensive to be beautiful, but 
must of necessity be priced according to the cost of production. This 
production cost varies greatly in different localities, and in favored 
climates, such as we enjoy, is, in some instances, less than half that of 
our less fortunate competitors. We are glad to pass this saving on to 
our customers, and ask you to remember that each plant has only one 
latin name, and will be found listed in all catalogs under that name, and 
will be the same plant, regardless of price. 
DON’T LET THE WORD ALPINE MISLEAD YOU 
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While we grow more than 1000 different species of Alpine and peren¬ 
nial plants—from all over the world—for our local trade, we list only 
those we believe suited to gardens in all parts of the country. This in¬ 
cludes many plants from high altitudes which have been found to be¬ 
have very nicely at sea level. 
While we specialize in plants that are suitable for the rock garden, 
we do not neglect those suited to the border or poolside. 
