"Plow Deep While Sluggards Sleep." 



— Benjamin Franklin, 



Your success in market gardening is based on your ability to 

 grow vegetables that are consistently, week by week, better than 

 those of your competitor. To know the mechanics of gardening is a 

 prime necessity if this result is to be accomplished but unless the seeds 

 which you plant are what they should be, your chances of success in 

 the keenly competitive years that lie ahead, will be seriously jeop- 

 ardized. 



For a long time there has been a cry among vegetable growers 

 for better seed, for stocks which could be depended upon in all ways. 

 To help meet this demand we have brought back the old Stokes Stand- 

 ards which were well known to market gardeners in pre-war days. 



The elevation of a strain of seed to that of a Stokes Standard 

 indicates that it has passed the rigid requirements of type, germination 

 and stability of growth, and that under normal growing conditions it 

 will produce uniformly true specimens. As such they are of special 

 interest to those gardeners who strive for strict uniformity of product. 

 The business honor of our company is pledged to maintain the in- 

 tegrity of the Stokes Standard. Our forty-four years' experience is 

 placed at your service. 



STOKES SEED FARMS COMPANY. 



FRANCIS C. STOKES, 



President and General Manager. 



