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My New Iowa Seed Manual will be ready for mailing, about January 1st. Write for it! A copy will then be sent to you without writing.

[covered text] [This Catalogue contains a select list of the choicest and most approved v]arieties of vegetable and flower seeds, of both foreign and domestic origin, which have been proven to be suitable to the climate of the United States.

The list is not as extended as these offered by some Seedsmen, who evidently pride themselves in confounding the purchaser by advertising unworthy or identical sorts. It is the design to offer nothing unworthy of a place in every garden.

Believing low prices would better subserve the interests of our customers than an expensive elaborate catalogue they have been given the benefit of such judgment.

No attempt is made to compete with venders of cheap or doubtful seeds.

No seeds are sold on commission.

Nothing is substituted except in cases where an article is entirely sold and having another of equa or better quality than that ordered, the substitution can make no material difference to the purchaser.

Everything is carefully and thoroughly tested in the Winter, and nothing sold that does not prove to be perfectly good.

I CLAIM—That my seeds are fresh and reliable.

That with proper treatment, the climate and soil being in a proper condition, they will grow.

That prices are as low as good, fresh seeds can be sold for.

That all papers are large and well filled.

That my business is conducted in an honorable and business like manner.

From the fact that the success of the crop depends on so many contingencies
entirely beyond the control of the seed grower, to warrant seeds to invariably produce a perfect crop would be rank quackery, and while I exercise the greatest possible care to have everything strictly reliable and perfectly satisfactory in every particular, yet I can not warrant the same and am not liable or responsible for any loss or damage arising from any seeds sold by me.

I WILL BE RESPONSIBLE that all money sent by Registered Letter, Post Money Order or Bank Draft will reach me. The expense of sending money in this manner may in all cases, where the order amounts to $2.00 or upwards, be deducted from the amount sent. Small amounts may be sent in stamps when more convenient. Do not moisten them in the least, but place them safely in sealed letter. Do not send private checks, as they have to be returned for collection.

That all seeds sent out by me will reach the purchaser in perfect condition.

Send your orders early as convement, so they may be filled before the stock is broken.

Write plainly and do not forget to sign your name with full post office address.

Terms—Cash must accompany all orders.

DISCOUNTS ON SEEDS.

All 5 cent packets, 50 cents per full dozen. All ten cent packets, $1.00 per full dozen. On all orders for vegetable seeds (except packets at the dozen rate) amounting to $5.00, and not exceeding $10.00, five per cent. On orders amounting to $10.00, and not exceeding $25.00, ten per cent. Write for special discounts on larger orders than $25.00, sending list of seeds wanted.

AM I RESPONSIBLE—A great many people naturally hesitate to send money away, fearing it will be lost; and in order that any such may feel fully satisfied that they will receive the seeds ordered, I would respectfully refer them to the PostMaster, Agents of the American and United States Express Companies, to any bank or large business house in the city.

Remember the prices quoted (with the exception of peas, beans and corn, in larger quantities than by the packet, and miscellaneous articles—except where noted)—include express or mail charges prepaid through by me.

C. W. DORR.
Des Moines, Iowa.