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To Our Friends, Our Customers : 



The greatest thing that has happened in our business Uves and in the almost hundred years' experience of our 

 establishment, is the fact, the seed business in the last few years, has emerged from a business of some indefiniteness to one of 

 almost absolute certainty. 



The three great points of Trustworthy Seeds are : First, Stock Purity ; Second, Mechanical Purity ; Third, Germination 

 and Vitality or Viability. 



The first and most important point, Stock Purity, rests almost entirely upon the knowledge and integrity 

 of the Seed Grower. The accumulated experience of four generations, almost a hundred years, has taught us who are the 

 most Trustworthy Specialists among the Seed Growers of the world. 



The second point. Mechanical Purity, for many years, was decided by the accuracy of the human eyes and yecurs 

 of experience, but now, nothing so indefinite is done, for with Graduate Botanists making use of scientific and minutely 

 accurate apparatus working in our completely equipped Seed Laboratory, we are able to know to the one-hundredth part of 

 one per centum, the pure seed; the amount of small sticks, dirt and other inert matter; the number and kind of foreign 

 seeds, if any, of every variety of seed we buy or sell. 



Mechanical Purity has never entered into Vegetable Seeds for they are grown under such intensive cultivation, foreign 

 seeds are entirely absent. 



Man's genius has perfected cleaning machinery that recleans all Field Seeds, Clover and Grasses within an extremely 

 small fraction of being absolutely pure. 



The third point. Germination and Vitality or Viability, To be of value, all seeds must grow and grow 

 vigorously and with the aid of the most recent scientific information and test chambers constructed on principles laid 

 down by the Agricultural Department Experts, together with our hot house tests and field tests ; the germination properties 

 of our seeds are frequently and accurately tested — several tests being made of each item at the same time under different 

 environments, so as to tally not only the number of seeds that grow, but also the vigor and strength with which they grow. 



What You Are Justly Entitled To 



Surrounding Our Seed with all these earnest efforts to have them Trustworthy, Pure and True, we can with confidence 

 solicit your order for seed for 1912 and believe that unless you secure seeds that have been as carefully watched and protected 

 from start to finish, you are not getting what you are justly entitled to. Good seeds are at the bottom of all good agriculture, 

 they are the foundation stones, success is impossible without them. Our chief ambition for 1912 is to make happy and more 

 prosperous every customer of our house. Yours respectfully. 



/. Bolgiano & Son. 



January 1st, 1912. 



