JOHIT BOZ-G-IANO 



Five Generations 

 in the Seed 

 Business 



1818— 19 2 2 



FBANK W. BOIiQIAITO 



President 



Dear Folks: 



In no line of human endeavor is the accumulated experience acquired with the passing years of 

 more value than in the growing and distributing of seeds. It was in 1818 that Samuel Ault, my great 

 grandfather, made his first small beginning in the seed business. After him came John Bolgiano my 

 grandfather and Joseph A. Bolgiano my father, all having one object in life, which was to make the 

 house of Bolgiano the leaders in the seed business. Known from coast to coast, from north to south, 

 in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America and the islands of the sea, the ambition of my forefathers 

 has been realized. 



During the war period, my fellow seedsmen urged me to accept the presidency of the Amer- 

 ican Seed Trade Association which I did for two years, feeling that this position was a patriotic duty 

 to my Country. When other businesses were being regulated, the Department of Agriculture, seeing 

 the vast importance of our business, were almost in constant conference with me to stimulate the pro- 

 duction and conservation of food. I was requested to act for one dollar per year by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture in an advisory position. Believe me when I tell you I had all of a man's job. The re- 

 sults speak for themselves. 



But 1 am not willing to stop there. I have devoted a life time to the work, starting as a boy 

 on a farm and continuing through various trials and hardships until the present time, with but one 

 idea always and ever present at all times, Bolgiano's "Seeds that Succeed. " I have associated with 

 me, men trained in every department as specialists so as to have their valued advice. TTien, I have 

 given my son Charles W. Bolgiano, a very special training for the future continuance of the large bus- 

 iness already built up; starting at the public school, going to the Agriculture School of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, spending one season on the Experimental grounds of the Department of Agriculture and then 

 four years on the largest Seed Farms of America, North, East and West. 



It is this constant attention which has been spent for five generations and which continues on 

 today with ever increasing vigilance, that recommends Bolgiano's "Seeds That Succeed " to truckers, 

 market gardeners and home gardeners. Indeed it has not been the ambition of any Bolgiano to make 

 money solely, but rather to select and grow for you the very best. For over one hundred years 



Grandfathers, Fathers and Sons have planted 

 Bolgiano's seeds with the very best of success. 

 It is with this record that we solicit your seed 

 orders for 1922, and we assure you the same 

 careful and prompt attention as if you were here 

 in person giving your order over our counter. 



Cordially yours, 



FRANK W. BOLGIANO, 



or Mister B. 



P. S. — The only members of the Bolgiano family 

 in the seed business are now located in 

 Washington. 



JOSEFS BOI.CrIAITO 



