When You Buy 



Stokes Seed Services 



Copyright, 1927 



Tomato 



Marglobe (Stokes) 



Color purity 99.9 % 



Type purity 96% 



Germination 98^ 



Date of Test: October, 1927 



Disinfectant: Dipdust (Bayer) 



Days to maturity: 100-135 



FRANCIS C. STOKES & CO. 



Stokes Seed You Buy — 

 Acccording to Specifications 



THE seal of Stokes Seed Services noted herewith, under which 

 Stokes Seeds will be sold after December 1st, 1927, is a device 

 which cannot fail to be an added protection to the seed buyer. 

 Any comparison of these specifications with the seed under which 

 they are sold will show that we are maintaining a high standard. 

 There being no official standards of type purity, we have of neces- 

 sity had to establish our own standards. The germination figures 

 represent the latest available tests either from our own or from our 

 growers' laboratories. In some instances the test has not been 

 completed and therefore cannot be given. The information under 

 the seal of Stokes Seed Services is given for what it is worth. It does 

 not imply warranty and is not in any sense a guarantee of crop yield. 



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When You Plant Stokes Seed You Plant 



Treated Seed 



1928 will be the fourth season we have been treating our seed. Although a number of seed houses sell an 

 organic mercury product in one form or another, we have yet to hear of any other firm which is regularly disin- 

 fecting all of their seed before offering it for sale. We now use a powerful disinfectant made for us by the Bayer 



Company, — our preference for it being established by a thorough investigation 

 into the whole subject of seed treatment both in Europe and America. We are 

 offering a much more worth-while product in selling seed that has thus been freed 

 of many of its enemy organisms. We are convinced that our unusually high 

 germination average is due directly to this disinfecting process which in many 



cases has made a difference of over w% 

 yield. This is especially noticeable dur- 

 ing cold, wet weather when the damping- 

 off fungii are particularly active. We 

 look on our seed disinfecting room as one 

 of the most important in our establish- 

 ment for it is a definite factor in making 

 the Stokes seed service more complete. 



When You Order Stokes Seed There Are 

 No Delivery Charges 



The prices in this catalog include cost of deliver}'' to any post office 

 in the United States or Canada. There are no exceptions to this rule. 

 Our Philadelphia Headquarters and all of our branch stores are now 

 equipped to fill all orders the same day received. Canadian business 

 is handled through our St. Catharines, Ontario, store. Canadian 

 customs duties are assumed by us. 



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