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seed. One answer to this query is this: 

 In the ordinary garden plants stand close to 

 one another, and the varieties we grow are 

 almost sure to niix, by one variety being 

 pollenized by another. The seed from these 

 plants will seldom produce plants like either 

 parent variety. Sometimes they msLj be 

 equal to them in most respects, but we can- 

 not depend on their being so. Therefore, if 

 we desh'e to grow superior varieties that are 

 of pure blood, it becomes necessary^ for us to 

 procure fresh seed each season from dealers 

 who take pains to see that there shall be no 

 mixing'' among their plants. 



Every season some enterprising seedsman 

 comes out with an announcement that he 

 has developed or discovered a remarkable 

 new variety of some standard vegetable so 

 far superior to any other variety on the mar- 

 ket that, as soon as its merits become fully 

 kno\\TL, it will drive all competitors out of 

 the field. Of course this new candidate for 

 favor is offered at a fancy price, ^'because 

 the supply is limited, and the demand for it 

 is increasing to such an extent that the en- 

 tire stock will soon be sold out. Order at 

 once, to avoid disappointment.'' Don't be 



in a hurrv to take this advice. Wait until 



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