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Winter “Price List 10438 
GATES FAMOUS 
CACTUS 
CARDENS 
CORONA, CALIFORNIA 
(Formerly of Anaheim, California) 
WHOLESALE ONLY 
Member California Cactus Growers Association 
California's Largest Cactus and 
Succulent Nursery 
Midway Between the Desert 
and the Sea 
TERMS 
Cash or Railway Express C.O.D. only. F.O.B. Corona. 
Minimum: Ten plants of a kind, one hundred plants to a 
shipment. Orders for less will not be accepted. 
DISCOUNTS 
25 or mcre plants take the 100 rate. Full count must be ordered 
to receive the 500 and 1009 rates. Orders made up of items at the 10 
cr 100 rates take the following discounts: orders totaling 500 plants 
or more, 25c per 100; totaling 1000 or more, 50c per 100. 
LABELING 
We label free with printed labels when requested, BUT ONLY 
WHEN REQUESTED. 
PACKING 
We pack free by a light and secure system which we believe is 
the best in use. Plants are packed bare root. We do not ship planted 
pets or dishes. 
SUBSTITUTIONS 
Unless instructed, ae use cur judgment in the case of short items. 
WE ARE WHOLESALE ONLY 
and believe we are the only California shippers who absolutely 
refuse retail business. 
OUR GUARANTEE 
We guarantee safe arrival by Railway Express only. Parcel 
pest and freight shipments travel at purchaser's risk for loss or dam- 
age en route. If plants should arrive in bad order, secure inspection 
reports from delivering agency and send it to us. Claims for loss in 
transit cannot be considered without it. If upon opening shipment, 
ary customer believes we have net shipped fair value and good qual- 
ity, the entire shipment or portion should be returned to us at once by 
express collect. : 
We will refund any money paid out for such stock and trans- 
portation. 

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PLAIN TALK 
Rising costs have compelled an increase in prices, and they 
may be even higher in the near future. Most of our supplies are up 
forty to fifty per cent. Our labor is up forty per cent. It averages 
better than a cent a minute for every person on the job. so careful 
monagement is necessary to propagate, grow, dig, pack and sell 
plants at the prices of this new list. 
We have the largest supply in our history, and it is probably 
larger than the supply of any other dealer, yet we know that we 
will not be able to meet all demands. We have severely pruned 
cur mailing list, and for the past six months have not advertised for 
new customers, as we prefer to try to take care of our old ones. 
Every order should list substitutes or carry instructions regarding 
short items. 
Order early. Both the mail and express services are slower than 
we have been accustomed to. All orders are numbered and shipped 
in rotation as received. Prompt shipment has always been our aim, 
but oftentimes our packers have four or five days’ work piled up 
ahead of them. Remember if your express office is different from 
your mail address, be sure to note it plainly on every order. Your 
orders will be more accurately handled if you use the enclosed order 
blank. We provide a duplicate for you to use in keeping a carbon 
copy. 
All illustrations of potted plants in this price list show plants of our 
regular shipping sizes planted in 2%” pots. We do not ship plants 
in pots. 
Don't be a Sap and hire a Jap unless you want some shrewd, mean 
and unscrupulous competition within a very short time. 
