OUR TERMS OF BUSINESS 
All seeds, but not bulbs or plants, are sent postpaid. 
Safe arrival is guaranteed. 
We try to send out only good seeds, but we cannot con- 
trol the conditions of planting. We give no warranty, ex- 
press or implied, as to description, quality, productiveness, 
or any other matter of any seeds, bulbs, or plants we sell, 
and we will not be responsible for the crop. 
PLEASE REMIT BY POSTAL ORDER. if you can. It is a 
thoroughly safe and inexpensive way of making remittances, 
convenient for both buyer and seller. We will, though, accept 
personal checks in instances where it is not easy to get a 
postal order. If you pay by check, will you please add ten 
cents to whatever the total amount would otherwise be. This 
ten cents is to cover our costs in making records, also the 
fee that our bank charges for cashing the check. Sometimes 
actual currency is enclosed with orders. That’s fully safe if 
the letter is registered, but if it is not, there is some slight 
risk of loss in transit, and that risk is definitely the remit- 
ter’s. Note, please, that order minimum on seeds is fifty 
cents, on plants and (or) bulbs, one dollar, for due to fixed 
charges and packing costs, any smaller orders would be filled 
at a direct loss to us. C. O. D. shipments not made. 
HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
Put them out now, no better months for planting than 
September and October, for the cool fall days will start the 
newly moved perennials to root making so they will be ready 
for vigorous growth and free blooming the first season. We 
no longer have room for the hardy perennial plants in this 
present Autumn Offer, so now we have put them in their 
own separate folder. It is called SPECIAL HARDY PLANT 
OFFER, and it lists some hundreds of kinds, many of them 
new and unusual. Interesting descriptions. The Special 
Hardy Plant Offer is sent gladly to all who ask for it, but 
only to those whoedo. Drop us a post ecard request, and 
your copy will come quickly. 
AUTUMN AND WINTER SOWING 
Seeds of certain hardy perennials, and of many bulbs, 
shrubs and trees, seem to need a period of exposure to 
low soil temperatures in order to put them in shape to 
germinate. The best way to handle such seeds is to sow 
them in open ground seed-beds, or in cold-frames, in late 
autumn, October or November, but in regions with mild 
winters, or elsewhere whenever the ground thaws for a 
few days, the sowings may continue during December, 
January and February with excellent results. 
NOT MUCH MORE TIME 
Our collectors of rare seeds in many, not all, parts of the 
world are now shut off from us, and likely to still be for 
some while to come. It’s the war, of course, and it all adds 
up to the sum that right now is near to last opportunity to 
put these kinds into your garden. Some of the species may 
not be commercially obtainable again in our life-time. We 
still have seeds of them in good viable stock, but they won’t 
hold up indefinitely, and many will necessarily be out of our 
next catalog. We suggest that you get and sow them now, 
at least so far as they are species marked ‘“‘y, yt, or kt’’ in 
Catalog 37 as needing cold for germination. 
SEEDS OF CERTAIN BULBS 
Most effective propagation method with these is to sow 
seed in open ground beds or frames in late autumn, ger- 
mination coming in spring. Eranthis cilicica 144 oz. 40c, 4 
oz. 75c, 1 oz. $2.50; Eranthis hiemalis 1 oz. 40c, 44 oz. 75c; 
Crocus Tomasinianus 1 oz. 40c, % oz. T5c, 1 oz. $2.50; 
Hyacinthus azureus 14 oz. 35c, 14 oz. 60c, 1 oz. $2.25; Chion- 
odoxa Lucilliae 4% oz. 40c, %4 oz. 75e, 1 oz. $2.50; Galanthus 
Elwesi 14 oz. 30c, %4% oz. 50c, 1 oz. $1.75; Muscari Heavenly 
Blue 4% oz. 20c, %4 oz. 35c, 1 oz.. $1.25, 144 lb. $3.75; Scilla 
sibirica 4% oz. 80c, %4 oz. 50c, 1 oz. $1.75; Scilla campanulata 
Excelsior 14% oz. 30c, %4 oz. 50c, 1 oz. $1.75; Anemone blanda 
1/346 oz. 35c, 4 oz. 60c, %4 oz. $1.00; Anemone coronaria His 
Excellency 14 oz. 35c, %4 oz. 60c, 1 oz. $2.25 (Anemone cor. 
Sylphide same price). See next page for other bulb seeds 
needing late fall sowing. 
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