Au Invitation 
To enable you to fully appreciate your Peonies and be kept up 
to date on new introductions, methods of cultivation, etc., you 
should join the American Peony Society. The dues are $3.00 per 
year and this will include the bulletins issued by this society. 
If interested, send your remittance to us and we will attend to 
the rest, or if you desire to forward direct, address W. F. Christ- 
man, Secretary, American Peony Society, Northbrook, II. 
In addition to the invitation extended to join one of the Horti- 
cultural Societies, you have a standing invitation to visit our fields. 
We are constantly adding new varieties to our already extensive 
collection and will welcome the opportunity to acquaint you with 
them. 
If you have a garden-loving friend who would like a copy of our 
catalog, kindly send us his name and address and we will see that 
one is promptly mailed. 
CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION WITH EACH SHIPMENT 
We exercise the greatest care to keep our plants true to name 
and are willing at any time to replace, on proper proof, all stock 
that may prove untrue. We ship healthy, thrifty roots freshly dug 
from our fields and gardens. Anyone not entirely satisfied should 
return stock immediately and proper adjustment will be made. 
We CANNOT assume responsibility after safe delivery. Of course, 
you would not expect us to replace stock lost due to freezing, 
bad drainage, drought, heat, carelessness, neglect, or lack of ex- 
perience on the part of the planter. The above mentioned condi- 
tions are entirely beyond our control and we cannot be held re- 
sponsible for stock when lost because of them. No complaints can 
be entertained more than one month after delivery. 
THIS CATALOG CANCELS ALL PREVIOUS PRICES 
AND QUOTATIONS 
TRANSPORTATION is F. O. B. Sarcoxie, Missouri. Refer to 
Zone Map for parcel post rates. To ship orders postpaid, we would 
have to increase our prices. This would be unfair to nearby cus- 
tomers, and our policy is to keep our prices as low as possible. 
Comparison proves this. Be sure to state your express office if 
different from postal address. When order is to be sent by PAR- 
CEL POST, be sure to send sufficient amount for parcel post costs. 
Should you send too much for postage, amount not used will be 
refunded in stamps, or we will send additional plants. Iris, when 
packed for parcel post, average about one-half pound per plant; 
Hemerocallis average about one pound per plant; and Peonies 
weigh about one and one-half pounds when packed for mailing. 
TERMS are cash with order, either check, draft, or money or- 
der. We do not advise the enclosure of currency with your order. 
We ask that you refrain from requesting C. O. D. shipments, as 
this adds to the cost and places us in an embarrassing position 
when such deliveries are sometimes unclaimed or addressee post- 
pones acceptance. 
TIME OF SHIPMENT. Peonies shipped from August 15th 
until March 15th; Iris shipped from July 1st until April 1st; Daffo- 
dils shipped from August 1st until freezing weather; Hemerocallis 
shipped any time except during the winter months. We schedule 
your shipment as near the time you wish as possible, otherwise 
the orders are filled in the sequence as received. 
KODACHROME SLIDES 
In addition to our own movies, we are glad to recommend the 
sets of Kodachrome Flower Slides which have been prepared for 
renting to Garden Clubs and other groups by Philip Corliss, of 
Somerton, Arizona. Included in the thirty programs that are avail- 
able, is a set which features our Peonies. There are also four 
different sets of Hemerocallis slides, and four of Iris slides, one 
of the latter featuring the species other than the Tall Bearded. 
Most of the sets rent for Five Dollars, plus postage. Write to 
Dr. Corliss for further details. 
THE HEMEROCALLIS SOCIETY 
INVITES YOU TO BECOME A MEMBER 
Already we have an enthusiastic membership drawn from nearly 
every state in the Union. If you are interested in Hemerocallis, 
the flower of the future, this new organization needs you and you 
need it. We want personal experience reports from hundreds of 
gardens. These, and the best advice from leading hybridizers, will 
be carefully collected and annually sent back to you in an attrac- 
tice and useful yearbook which will also contain the names and 
addresses of our members to date. There will be bulletins and 
printed matter from time to time, and there is a loan library of 
Hemerocallis literature. 
Annual dues are three dollars ($3.00) and should be mailed to the 
Secretary-Treasurer, Pearl Shewood, Atlantic, Iowa. 
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l Mr. and Mrs. Gordon T. Nightingale, who are helping with 
| our hybridizing here now, purchased a summer resort on 
1 Lake Taneycomo. If you wish to spend a vacation on a 
| famous Ozark lake, write them at Kirbyville, Mo. 
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