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.O.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. 
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 discounts 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, 
accept any responsibility for their performance since we cannot control the 
conditions of their growth. If, in your opinion, our bulbs are not up to our 
specifications, please notify us at once when you receive them. But do not 
return them until we explain. One of our customers last 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 reecived 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 pos- 
sible, 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 in- 
structions in the growing of bulbs. Forty-four years of growing bulbs, 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 
pleasure and profit. One person could not answer all. We ask you to under- 
stand 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. 
Identifying Bulbs. We try to identify bulbs. We can often do this from 
the flowers and leaves, tho it is better to include a bulb. Sometimes a bulb 
must be grown on. If so, we label it and inform you when it flowers or is 
identified. The service is gratis. We cannot undertake, however, to identify 
horticultural varieties of lris, Gladiolus, etc. 
