PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE ORDERING 
TERMS, PRICES AND SHIPMENT — Qn all orders for $5.00, or less, cash with 
order — over $5.00, 25% cash with order and balance before shipment. Unless 
full cash or at least 25% deposit accompanies order, or request to be reserved 
the order cannot be booked. 
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Orders will be accepted for any amount, but due to ereatly increased parcel 
post rates, especially to points outside of the United States, I find it necessary to 
ask that you include in your payments amounts as follows, to help toward paying 
the postage on small orders—25 cents on orders under $5.00 within the United 
States and 50 cents on orders under $10.00 from Canada or other foreign countries. 
On orders for $5.00 or more within the United States or $10.00 or more from other 
countries, transportation will be paid by me when weather will permit shipment by 
parcel post safe from freezing. Parcel post shipments cannot be made safely until 
spring, but if shipment is desired before then, | will ship by express any time you 
wish, charges collect and include additional extras to help in paying such charges. 
Express shipments are guaranteed against damage from freezing, provided you 
notify your local agent immediately as to the damage; but parcel post cannot be 
insured against such loss. As is the custom of all shippers, extras will be included 
in all orders when cash in full accompanies the order. These extras, or overcount 
if you prefer, are based on the size of your order and the larger the order, the 
larger the percentage. If you have ordered from me before, you know about my 
generosity and if you are to place your first order, you will soon be convinced. 
I cannot accept orders for less than the smallest unit quoted. For instance, 
where 2 for 30, one cannot be had for 15. Five bulbs can be had at the 10 rate and 
50 bulblets at the 100 rate only when the price is $1.00 or more per 100. Unless 
price is listed per 10, the per 10 rate does not apply, but only the rate that is 
listed 720 matter how many ordered. 
SUBSTITUTION —A]] stock offered subject to prior sale. I will not substitute erther 
size or variety without you so direct and will refund immediately on any item | 
cannot supply. If you wish substitution, please be sure to indicate your desire by 
using spaces on order blank for that purpose. If you should check substitution for 
both ‘‘nearest size” and “similar color,” | will always substitute the size first, if still 
available. If you care to make a second choice when sending your order, instead 
of leaving selection to me, it would be greatly appreciated. By following these 
suggestions it might save correspondence and also glve you a better substitution 
than could be made after exchange of letters, during which time the best substitute 
might have been sold out. The foregoing is especially applicable to orders for the 
small varieties in many of which the supply is more or less limited. I will always 
make substitutions and ask for your approval before final entry of your order. 
As I am a small grower and will not buy bulbs for resale, but sell only those 
bulbs that | have grown in my own garden (with the exception of the 1953 new 
introductions and several very recent introductions listed along with these for 1953), 
my supply is limited and in some varieties and items very, limited. As will be 
noted, in some varieties my stock is so small that | must limit sales to one or two 
bulbs to a customer. Probably | should not offer these at all, but | know they are 
something many of you would like to get as soon as possible. So in order that 
you may benefit, I will sell a few although I should probably wait another year 
until I increase my stock. The listing of these scarce items proved so popular 
last year that | feel | must repeat it again this year. By selling only these bulbs 
which have been hand dug, cleaned, and graded by myself and properly cured and 
cared for | know I am sending you quality bulbs that should give excellent results. 
In addition to this the bulbs for every order are selected and packed by myself. 
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