SUPER - STANDARD STRAINS 



Stock-Seed Selection 



Seed-growing based on single-plant selection is the 

 ideal toward which we are constantly working for all 

 of our stocks. Variety simplification is the first step 

 in our new control system of seed-growing. We are 

 not boasting against possible human error, but we 

 can give reasonable assurance that our seed will 

 perform according to its label, given right growing 

 conditions. In this connection we want to pay our 

 respects to the assistance which we have received 

 from certain plant-breeders, both of Europe and 

 America, men who have contributed greatly to our 

 present list. There seems to be no problem which 

 has been presented to them of late which they have 

 not solved when given sufficient time. The out- 

 standing triumph of the present record is Mr. F. J. 

 Pritchard's new tomato hybrid, Marglobe, certainly 

 the most important variety brought out in twenty 

 Our good friend Mr. Drevers making a stock seed years. It has been our pleasure to lead in the corn- 

 selection of Giant Crimson Radish mercial development ot this particular strain. 



Seed-Disinfection 



Development of organic mercury compounds by the Bayer Company of Leverkusen, Germany, in 1911, 

 was the outstanding discovery of this age in the line of plant-disinfection. Europe is fully ten years ahead of 

 this country on this whole subject. Through the good offices of Dr. C. R. Orton, Pathologist, our firm has 

 been brought into close contact with the subject. We have recently supported this by further investigations 

 in Europe. The year 1927 will be the third in which Stokes Seeds have been thus chemically treated. We 

 believe we were the first seed-house in the United States to adopt the practice. This year we are privileged 

 to use a new product, one that is far more effective than any so far brought out. 



We use a number of different treatments. Most of them are in the dust form, which not only disinfects 

 against seed-borne disease but which actually protects the seed against soil-infection by the dust on the 

 seed going into solution after coming in contact with the damp soil. These treatments give greater assurance 

 of strong germination, especially during cold, wet weather. They hasten as well as strengthen germination 

 and eliminate a large proportion of seed-carried organisms. If you have not had experience with the value 

 of organic mercury treatments, a comparative test with untreated seed will be of great interest. We feel 

 that as seedsmen we are offering a more worthwhile product in selling seed that has been thus disinfected. 

 We look on our new seed-disinfection room as one of the most important in our establishment. 



Testing for Germination 



Stokes Seeds are submitted to exhaustive germina- 

 tion tests. The latest results of these tests are printed 

 on the reverse side of all our packages, for we fed 

 that this information should rightly accompany their 

 sale. Making germination tests is no trouble in this 

 establishment. Customers having stocks of seed on 

 hand are invited to send us samples for testing. 

 There is no charge. All of our tests are made in our 

 newly equipped seed laboratory, modeled partially 

 after the Danish system and partly after the American. 

 We are now in a position to take advantage of the 

 most approved practices in seed-germination work 

 and our tests should be much more accurate than 

 has heretofore been possible. We are indebted to the 

 following seed analyists who have been of great 

 assistance to us: M. Francois Ninin, late of the 

 Institute of Agronomy of Paris; Miss Anna Beck, of 

 the Danish State Seed Testing Station, Copenhagen; 

 and Prof. M. T. Munn, of the New York State Ex- 

 periment Station, Geneva. ' 



STOKES 



GROWINC SINCE 1»7> 



SEEDS' 



THE RESULTS 



Wades Point-on-Chesapeake-Bay, McDaniel, Md. 



August 19, 1926. 



Gentlemen: 



The seeds bought of you in the early spring have given me 

 the most valuable garden I ever had. 



All of your seeds are most reliable. No one will ever go 

 wrong in using them. This I have proven in many years trial 

 of them from the time when the firm was known as Johnson & 

 Stokes. 



From a small investment the result has returned us many 

 fold. 



Cordially yours, 



Mrs. J. O. Kemp, 



Sunnyside Farm, Suffield, Conn. 

 Dear Mr. Stokes: September 15, 1926. 



As the season draws to a close, I would like to tell you again 

 how very much I am pleased with the seeds which I bought 

 from you this spring. The season has been about the worst 

 ever — too cold, too hot, too dry, too wet — but for all the 

 handicaps we have raised the finest crops ever. I will let the 

 enclosed pictures speak for themselves. If I described them 

 I could not find suitable words to do so. 



The Marglobe tomato is the finest tomato I ever raised, but 

 Bonny Best is the money-maker. You may keep the photos if 

 you care and I will send you some of my other crops later. 



Yours very truly, Herman Ude. 



