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1818 pr One Hundred Year^ We Have Won Confidence 19I8 ^ 



Not by Chance - Not by Luck 

 Butbyeariieshinhrin^efforts-everstrivingtoproduce the purest and truest seeds that 



Mother Earth could produce 



Froma modest beginning in the year 1818 by the present management's Great Grandfather, the house of Bolgiano has been 

 one of steady growth for four generationsjuntil today we place at your service one of the Largest and Best Equipped Seed Growing 

 and Seed Distributing Organizations in the World. 



From a small building covering 4.000 square feet, we have grown until, now we occupy our mammoth buildings corner Pratt 

 and Light Streets, covering a floor space of 50,000 square feet. Also our new piers and warehouses covering a floor space of over 

 75.000 square feet located on Key Highway and the harbor just opposite. Baltimore's new:ten million dollar piers. Our water front 

 property includes our Onion Set and Seed Potato Warehouses, Bulk Seed and Grain Warehouses, our immense new Poultry Food 

 Manufacturing Plant with a capacity of 5.000, 100 pound sacks Poultry Food daily, also our special Grass. Clover and Field Seed 

 Cleaning Machinery Buildings. We have located at Raspeburg, Md,, our seed trial and testing grounds. Our Poultry Farms and 

 Hatcheries, are located at Rossville, Md. 



Such a steady, substantial growth as we have made could not have been accomplished by supplying our customers with half 

 good seeds. No half good seeds could have held their reputation through all these long years, let alone become more and more pop- 

 ular as the years roll by. 



Bolgiano's Seeds are the results of generations of most careful and painstaking selections. - We have given our entire time and 

 attention in surrounding the growing and the handling of our seeds with every safeguard that would insure the highest quality pos- 

 sible. We have keenly felt the responsibility placed on us by our customers who have intrusted us with their orders for seeds, 

 many of whom their entire business depended upon the quality of the seed we furnished. This confidence we appreciate and 

 respect and we do' everything in our power to prove worthy of it. 



We carefully select all the highest grade stocks, eliminating those which our test gardens prove unprofitable for the trucker 

 or gardener to grow. We never recommend any article, unless we are certain by actual tests it possesses merit superior to anything 

 the trucker already has. We watch for improvement in character, shape, form, color, attractiveness and best selling qualities. 



Remember when you read through this catalog, what we say about each article has been gathered from our accumulated 

 experience of one hundred years, together with the experience of the most up-to-date and successful Market Gardeners and Truck- 

 ers in every part of the World.. 



On account of the climatic conditions and soils, some seeds are produced better in different localities than others. .For this 

 reason, we produce our seeds in many states of the Union as well as some abroad, always growing those varieties in the localities 

 that produce the strongest and purest seed stocks. 



Carefully trained men of many years experience, conscientious men who hold honor, integrity and fair dealing above anything 

 else on earth, such men as these grow Bolgiano's Seeds. 



Under the direct personal supervision of one of the United States Department of Agriculture experts, we were the first seedsmen 

 to establish an up-to-date completely equipped seed analyzing and seed testing laboratory. Our laboratory today is second to none 

 outside the United States Department of Agriculture. We make scientific tests both for purity and germination of every sack of seed 

 we sell. Our seeds more than comply with the Seed Laws of the United States and the Seed Laws of the different states. 



One hundred years of ever increasing success has placed over a half million customers on our books. Grandfathers, fathers 

 and sons have planted Bolgiano's Seeds year after year, with the best of success. With this record, we solicit your trade for 1918 and 

 will give your orders our personal care and attention, 



J. BOLGIANO & SON. 



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