PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING 
of Sale) 
All seeds, but 
Safe arrival 
(Being Conditions 
Seeds and bulbs are forwarded as 
not actual buibs or live plants, are 
ready. 
postpaid. 
is guaranteed. Goods are offered subject to arrival or 
harvest. All previous prices are withdrawn. 
I try to send out only good seeds, but I cannot control 
the conditions under which they are planted. I give no 
warranty, express or implied, as to description, quality, pro- 
ductiveness, or any other matter of any seeds, bulbs, or 
plants I sell, and I will not be respons.ble for the crop. 
Please remit by postal money order if you can. It is a 
thoroughly safe and inexpensive way of sending money, 
convenient tor both the buyer and the seller. (Be sure, 
though, that clerk makes out order clearly to Moorestown, 
for there is another~ postoffice of similar name in the 
state). We will accept personal checks in _ instances, 
where it is inconvenient to get a money order, providing 
that an additional ten cents (not 10%) is added to what- 
ever amount would otherwise be that of the check. This 
ten cents covers our office costs in connection with receipt 
of check remittances, the fee that our bank charges for 
handling the check, etc. Sometimes actual currency is 
enclosed with orders. That’s fully safe if letter is regis- 
tered, but when it is not registered, there is some slight 
risk of loss, a risk that is definitely the remitter’s. 
A minimum order size must be set, for due to fixed 
charges and packing costs, we lose money on orders below 
certain amounts. No order should call for less than 50c 
worth of seeds, nor, if it includes plants, for less than 
$1.00 worth of them. In this reckoning, bulbs may be con- 
sees, as plants. We reserve right to refuse smaller 
orders. 
About certain taxes that are, or may be, in effect when 
your order comes in: please include in your remittance the 
amount due on your purchase in any applicable tax, 
whether State or Federal. This includes any sales, use. 
compensating or other taxes of similar nature that may 
have been, or may he, enacted, that would apply on such 
purchases. 
REX. D. PEARCE 
New Jersey 
PLANTS AND BULBS BY MAIL—Seeds are postpaid at 
catalog prices, but plants and bulbs are not, and will 
normally be sent by express. If you prefer having plants 
and bulbs come by mail, will you please add to your re- 
mittance for them, 5% for shipments to points east of 
Pittsburgh and north of the Potomac, 10% for points be- 
yond these limits but still east of the Mississippi, and 15% 
for destinations west of that river. This additional allow- 
ance is to cover postage, and the cost of mail packing. 
Plants will go safely enough either way, mail or express. 
ABOUT PLANT ORDERS—Orders for plants offered in 
this catalog can be handled only to extent that labor is 
available for the purpose at shipping time. Orders will 
be filled so far as practicable, in rotation according to date 
of receipt. Refunds will be made on any orders that we 
find at shipping time cannot be filled. We hope that we 
shall be able to fill all orders as given, but orders for 
plants and bulbs are accepted only subject to above con- 
dition. SAFE ARRIVAL of plants in good, growable con- 
dition IS GUARANTEED, but they must be examined im- 
mediately upon arrival, and any request for adjustment 
made promptly then. We do not accept responsibility for 
Moorestown 
faulty care given them after arrival, nor for losses due 
to unfavorable weather conditions. 
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TRUE HARDY EASTER LILY 
of purest whiteness, 
May be grown 
but really no need to 
handle it that way unless you wish, for this Lily has a 
wax-like, un- 
in pots 
Immense trumpets 
stained. Delightfully perfumed. 
as florists grow it for Easter, 
very fair degree of winter-hardiness, no difficulties with 
it at all here in the Philadelphia area. We have plant- 
ings several years old that have yet to show the slightest 
winter damage. It thrives out of doors at Boston and in 
similar climates if given some protection of straw or 
leaves in late autumn. Seeds germinate readily from either 
late autumn or early spring sowings, and quite often there 
will be an occasional flower first year, with many the 
second. The photograph above was taken of second-year 
Lilies of this variety in an untransplanted seed-bed at 
our Old Orchard Farm. This is LILIUM LONGIFLORUM 
TAKESIMA, the Giganteum Lily of florists, but not of 
botanists. Seeds saved at Old Orchard. Pkt. 20c; 1/32 oz. 
5DC Hye OZ. 91.005 146 oz. $1853. 14 oz. = $3.35. 
POTENTILLA THURBERI 
A branching, sturdily upright Potentilla for rock garden 
or border, a full hardy perennial blooming in late spring 
and early summer, loaded then with blossoms of usual 
Potentilla size, but quite unusual in their coloring. The 
flowers are deep, dark maroon at center, lightening to 
bright cherry-red at petal edge. ‘“‘kt’? culture. 14 inches. 
Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for. 40c: 
HIBISCUS PARAMUTABILIS 
A rather new and rare shrubby Hibiscus from central 
China that has proved fully hardy at Old Orchard where 
we now have fine specimens ten feet tall. It makes well- 
shaped branching shrubs and carries continually from early 
summer until mid-autumn rather large white bowl-flowers 
each with a dark crimson center, petal texture silky, 
somewhat fluted. Large downy leaves, roughly five-pointed, 
that remind one of big grape leaves save that the leaf 
base is deeply cordate. Though hardy here, it is possible 
that this Hibiscus may need sheltered position or some 
protection in exposed northern locations. So far as we are 
aware, our present offering represents the first time that 
seeds of Hibiscus paramutabilis have been listed in an Amer- 
ican catalog, nor have we noted any nursery that offered 
plants, so there has been scant opportunity to test extent 
of hardiness range. Seeds saved at Old Orchard. Pkt. 
ZoCe so epKts. storm LOC. 
POLYGONELLA AMERICANA 
A very lovely flower, perennial, fully hardy without 
winter protection at Philadelphia. It makes low massed 
foliage that reminds of Arbor-vitae or White Cedar. In 
early autumn come flowers in airy sprays, very many of 
them, so many that the whole seems a mound of fleecy 
new snow. This is the effect for many weeks, but as the 
nights grow colder, the tiny, lacy blossoms suffuse gradu- 
ally with soft pink until the whole planting is all a-blush. 
It cuts well. Despite disparaging statement in one horti- 
cultural reference work, this is a plant of high horticul- 
tural merit, as beautiful as any Astilbe. Height 20 inches. 
“kt”? culture. A shy seeder. Pkt. 25c. 
