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As shown on the map above, Hamburg is within 24 actual 
train hours of more than half the entire United States. The 
mailman makes us neighbors. Right there in the quiet of your 
own home, you can carefully look through this catalog and 
select exactly what you want. In a few hours your letter 
reaches us. Then soon your order is on its way to you and a 
few hours later your postman will deliver it to your door. 
course stock which is ordered early in the season is not 
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Please note that almost everything you order from this 
catalog is DELIVERED TO YOU, POSTPAID. This is a 
big saving to you as many firms charge extra for post- 
age and the postage on the average $5.00 order is 65c. 
In some cases we send by prepaid express instead of 
parcel post. 
Some Fruit and Shade Trees are too large to go by 
parcel post. Therefore they are shipped by express 
(you pay the express charges). Nursery stock takes 
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shipped until the right time for planting. Our stock is packed 
very carefully, using the best materials, and is guaranteed to 
reach you in first-class, live, growing condition, with all its 
natural vigor and vitality. 
Thus you have right at hand, all the stock, all the service of 
the Inter-State Nurseries—STOCK AND SERVICE THAT 
HAVE MADE THIS THE LARGEST INSTITUTION OF 
ITS KIND IN AMERICA. 
second class express rates which in most cases are as 
cheap or cheaper than freight. 
In some orders, there are large trees which must go 
by express and also some stock which would be post- 
paid by us. In order to avoid making two separate 
shipments, we send the entire order by express. For 
_this privilege, we always include some extra 
which has a much greater value than what the addi- 
tional express charges amount to. 
