It’s Easy to Order 
d By Mail from Alfred Moses 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ORDERS: As soon as your order is received it is booked as an 
original and three copies. The pink goes to you as an acknowledgement of your order. The yellow and 
orange copies go to the warehouse for filling the order. When the order is filled the yellow copy is put 
in the package as a check list for you. This is not a bill, but a packing sheet. The original stays in the 
office as a permanent record at all times. In writing regarding your order PLEASE mention the num- 
ber. This will save us considerable checking. 
ORDERS OF LESS THAN $2.00 cost us as much expense in labor and trouble as those over. PLEASE 
DO NOT SEND ORDERS FOR LESS THAN $2.00. 
On retail orders of $3.00 to $10.00 you may add 5% of the total order in extra bulbs of your choice. 
Add 10% on orders from $10.00 and up. BUT this does NOT apply on items taken from the quantity 
or wholesale list, nor does it apply on those items marked NO DISCOUNT. Do not select “No Discount” 
bulbs for extras, or figure the discount on “No Discount” purchases. No discount allowed from pages 
30 and 31 or pages 41 to 52. If you have a preference for certain varieties as extras, please specify. It 
helps. We try to give orders some extras depending on the size of the order. 
PAYMENTS: Please send check, postal or express money order, or drafts. Do NOT send cash as 
it can easily be lost. If it is lost we could very well be accused, and we don’t want that. 
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SHIPMENT: All retail orders shipped to any place in continental United States will be shipped 
prepaid parcel post except those shipped C. O. D. All C. O. D. orders are sold F. O. B., Lima, 
N. Y. Orders outside of continental U. S., are shipped F. O. B., Lima, N. Y. 
WHOLESALE orders are shipped express collect unless otherwise specified, as express is insured against 
freezing. We ship as soon after January first as possible unless customer specifies otherwise. From 
March 15 to May 15th we are usually rushed and may delay shipment a few days. 
BULB SIZES: Bulbs are graded in six different sizes from No. 1 to No. 6—The largest size is No. 1 
which is 114 inches in diameter or over. No. 2 bulbs run from 1%4 inches to 114 inches with %4 inch 
variation in each size down to No. 6, which is 1% inch or under. These are all diameters. Do not be fooled 
by offers of bulbs sized by circumference. Gladiolus are usually sold by diameter. Retail lists are made 
up of Large, Medium and Small sizes. Large is No. 1 and No. 2 sizes; Medium No. 3 and No. 4; and 
Small No. 5 and No. 6. We always use the larger of the two sizes as long as they last. When they are gone 
we send the second size. If your order calls for Medium and you get part No. 3 and part No. 4, please do 
not write us about it, say we sent the wrong size. It is simply that we were out of the larger size so we 
sent the next size which is still Medium. You cannot depend on getting bulblets after May Ist. 
Medium size bulbs will bloom, although the spike will not usually have as many buds as the large size 
bulbs. Small size will bloom if they have a long season in which to grow. 
We list in our retail list 5 bulbs at the 10 rate, but we do not send less than the smallest quoted unit. 
If a variety is listed 2 bulbs for 20 cents, we will not send one bulb for 10 cents, as the clerical work, filling 
and packing orders will be too expensive. 
GUARANTEE: Above all, we take great pains to keep our stock absolutely true to name, but mistakes 
do happen in spite of all we can do. Let us know about them and we will try to make a satisfactory ad- 
justment. If you tell someone else we may never hear about it directly and cannot rectify our error. We 
have declared war on bulb diseases and feel confident we are winning the battle. Our program calls 
for thorough roguing, pre-planting and post-planting treatments of bulbs, dry kiln storage and hand work 
throughout. This adds to the labor cost materially, but we must do our utmost to give you the best we can. 
But we do not warrant in any way, expressed or implied, the contents or the description, quality, produc- 
tiveness, or any other matter of any seeds, bulbs or plant sold by us, and we will not in any way be 
responsible for the crop. If the purchaser does not accept these goods on these terms no sale is made and 
goods must be returned in ten days. 
SUBSTITUTION: We do not substitute varieties unless you give express permission. We do oc- 
casionally substitute the next size larger or smaller, when we are out of the size ordered, and give you 
value in bulbs to the amount you send. It helps us if you will give permission to substitute and we will 
always try to substitute in color if so permitted. Very often you win because we send you something better 
than you ordered. 
Explanation 
After each variety name in parenthesis ( ) is the originator’s name and date of introduction. The 
other numbers (216-80), the first series is the classification number and the second the average 
number of days to bloom. 
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