STOKES 



SEEDS 



OUR STOCKS ARE AT 

 YOUR SERVICE 



r^HIS catalogue is the spokesman of a firm specializiing in a few 

 chosen stocks of fine vegetable seeds for market gardeners, and 

 we have tried to make this emissary of ours faithfully picture our 

 modest effort. We have discovered unexpected strength in concen- 

 tration, for we can now apportion adequate time to the development 

 of each of our 112 varieties, our program being spread over as much as 

 four years in some cases. It is this analytical work that is producing 

 results, and results count. If you are an old customer, you no doubt are 

 sharing in the successes we hear of from many sources, such unusual 

 successes that we have reason to believe we are helping to make real 

 money for our customers. To all of our old customers, we extend greeting, a 

 grateful word for your patronage, and the assurance of continued vigilance. 



If you are reading a Stokes catalogue for the first time, you at least 

 recognise the old names and thus feel that you are on familiar ground. 

 Our forty-eight years as seedsmen have given us a certain respect for 

 these names, and we cannot approve of marching them out under 

 strange titles. If you are shocked at being asked to pay $8 for a pound 

 of Cabbage seed, at least take time to read the description and then 

 figure out whether $3 seed is more profitable than $8 seed. Remember 

 that profits lie in that extra yield after cost of production is paid for. 



And just a word about these descriptions. First of all, we have tried 

 sincerely to make them really say something, to be precise and informa- 

 tive. If Ear liana Tomato does not perform well on heavy soil, or if Golden 

 Plume Celery must be handled promptly after blanching, we try to 

 summon up the courage to say so. If, on the other hand, we have the honor 

 of offering a new tomato like Marglobe, which is resistant to a very serious 

 disease, we take time enough to explain precisely just how it all came 

 about, giving credit where credit is due. 



Briefly, we offer: 



1. Vegetable seeds only. 



2. Simplicity of variety. 



3. Germination on every package. 



4. Twenty-four-hour delivery service, all charges paid. 



5. A really illuminating catalogue — the truth, even 



though it hurts. 



If this kind of business appeals to your shrewd instincts as a market 

 gardener, we are yours to command. 



FRANCIS C. STOKES ^ CO. 



235 East ashington Square 

 Fhiladclphia, Fennsylvania 

 December i, 1925 



Copyright 192$, by Francis C. Stokes & Co. 



