Terms and Instructions for Ordering 
Read the following carefully. It will avoid delay or misunderstanding. 
Sales Tax. California customers add 3% for state sales tax. 
Order Early. Late planting results in less satisfaction with most bulbs. 
Remit with order, by check or M. O. Currency or coins are acceptable but 
we are not responsible if lost. Stamps reluctantly accepted in small amounts 
but customer must add 6% to amount remitted. 
C.0.D. Orders require more labor to fill. Cost you 25c up in P. O. fees. 
Avoid if possible. On the average we lose money on C.O.D. orders. Have a 
heart. 
Postage prepaid on orders of $1.00 or over.. Under $1.00, add 10c for 
postage and wrapping. Insurance 5c extra. 
Prices given are for one bulb unless otherwise stated. A dozen costs ten 
times the price of one. Six bulbs are sold at the dozen rate. The 100 rate, if 
not given, is 70 times the cost of one, but no less than 100 will be sold at the 
100 rate. For 50 bulbs apply the price of 4 dozen. 
Wholesale. Dealers send for our Wholesale Bulletin. Use your business 
stationery or otherwise identify yourself as a bonafide dealer. 
Garden Clubs, who pool their orders for collective buying in quantity, 
send for our Garden Club Bulletin. We give you wholesale prices and dis- 
counts on a ‘‘transportation prepaid’’ basis. This Garden Club Bulletin is 
available only to the official Purchasing Agent of actually organized Garden 
Clubs but not to individuals, even though Garden Club members. 
Foreign orders. Postage is prepaid if no greater than to our 8th zone. 
Best to remit a little extra. If too much, we send extra bulbs. 
Errors. Our packers make a few, not many. We want to correct them. 
Notify us at once, in case of shortage or error. Unpack your order as soon as 
received. Don’t wait two weeks, then tell us the bulbs were mouldy. 
Substitution. If out of a variety, we usually substitute one as near like it as 
possible, as good or better and of equal or greater value. If you do not approve 
this, say, ‘‘no substitution.”’ 
Guarantee. Our bulbs are true to name and healthy. We do not however ac- 
cept any responsibility for their performance since we cannot control the con- 
ditions of their growth. If, in your opinion, our bulbs are not up to our speci- 
fications, please notify us at once when you receive them. But do not return 
them until we explain. One of our customers this year returned Dwarf Callas 
because they were small. 
Culture directions are not sent with bulbs as all necessary information is 
given in this catalog. 
Catalogs. Spring Catalog is mailed Jan. 15. Fall Catalog. Aug. 15. Iris Price 
List, sent on request only, at any time. If no orders are received for two years, 
names are dropped from our mailing list. 
Our catalogs are inexpensive. Naturally the customer pays for his own 
catalog and for those who do not buy. We make ours as inexpensive as possible, 
thus adding little to the cost of selling. What we save in space required for 
pictures, fancy type, order sheet, etc., can be used for more complete instruc- 
tions in the growing of bulbs. Forty-three years of growing blubs, over twenty- 
five as commercial growers, (not merely selling them, but actually growing 
them) should make our culture advice valuable. 
Correspondence. Your letters and reports on growing afford us much pleas- 
ure and profit. One person could not answer all. We ask you to understand that 
this is the reason we do not reply individually if it can be avoided. Many ask 
questions that the catalog answers. Read our Personal Letter. 
BULBS Wanted 
We are always glad to buy or exchange for desirable bulbs for our own 
use. We also represent on this coast certain Holland firms who have American 
Branches. These worthy and honored firms are cut off from their Holland farms 
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