To Our Customers and Friends 



In presenting 1 this our New Garden Annual for the year 1 J»2 12. you will find it an honest 

 and straightforward guide to iMi^cr and bettor crops for the garden and farm. Our main 

 efforts are directed to obtain these results for our customers, in the Choice Assortment of 



Seed We offer. 



We wish to thank you sincerely for the many kind orders sent us the past season and we 

 hope for a continuance of your valued favors, which will have our careful and personal 

 attention. 



Prices for P.122 are lower all along tin- line in seeds to meet the deflation in farm pro- 

 ducts and the 5 ct. packet contains an increased number of seeds in both vegetable and 

 flowers. 



Plant a good vegetable garden — vegetables are the basic food of life. Seeds are cheap 

 and it will surprise hundreds] of people, as to the possibilities of w piece of ground what it 

 will produce in supplies for the family table. The home gardener will have plenty of ex- 

 cellent and healthy food at a nominal cost. Such seeds like Beans, Beets, Sweet Corn, 

 Lettuce. Spinach, Radishes and Peas can be planted in succession if you have enough space 

 and like to keep up a supply for the season. 



Price of farm products have about touched bottom, it appears they never have been so low 

 on some items, but we can confidently look to a slowly rising market after this and it is to 

 be hoped that brighter things are in store for the farmer for the year 1922. He has stood 

 the brunt of the deflation and next comes the business man who had his share also, this can 

 readily be seen by the many business failures every week for the last year, among which are 

 many Seed Houses. 



We are offering in seeds the best that our wide experience can procure. We select and 

 offer only the best of the standard varieties, and we hope you will come to us for whatever 

 you require in seeds and information as to growing them. 



Our motto is "satisfaction to everyone," so if customers have any cause for complaint 

 we hope they will notify us at once. 



We like to have our Catalogue in the hands of every person that expects to buy seeds. 

 We will appreciate the courtesy if our customers will send the addresses of their neighbors 

 that may want good tested seeds, and will return the favor by sending some extra packets of 

 seeds. 



We can assure our customers that we will use our best efforts to furnish them with the 

 choicest Seeds that can be grown. We know that planters of Seeds buy them entirely on con- 

 fidence and we try to hold the confidence of our patrons, by furnishing them reliable pedigree 

 Seeds. If you have never used our Seeds, try them this year. Good Seeds like drugs require 

 knowledge and care to handle them. 



SFFD PROP^J ^ ne see< ^ harvest was not heavy this past season, but a good normal crop 

 was produced of most items of Garden Seeds. 

 Farm Seeds have yielded a heavier crop of good quality and prices will be normal. 



TESTED SEEDS < " >ur Seeds are all tested as to vitality, and none is sent out from our 

 establishment until we are satisfied that they are absolutely of the best 

 quality and of the highest germinating power, and are certain to grow under favorable condi- 

 tions and planted at the right time. With bad weather and careless planting the very best 

 Seeds may fail to grow and no seedsman is to blame for this. If any fail to grow when 

 properly tested, we stand ready to replace the same or give value in other Seeds. 



WARRANTY Failure of Seeds to produce a good crop is dependent upon so many causes, 

 as every experienced cultivator well knows, that the utmost care with the 

 seeds and planting cannot control it, and the maturing of a crop also sometimes fails from 

 causes that no human power can control. We know that the seeds we offer are unsurpassed 

 in quality, yet with our practical experience of many years as growers we find that crops 

 sometimes fail no matter how good the seed. Hence to guarantee seed to invariably produce 

 a perfect crop would be sheer folly. Under all these circumstances, while we exercise the 

 greatest care to have all seed pure and reliable we give no warranty express or implied as to 

 description, quality, productiveness, or any other matter of any seeds or bulbs we send out, 

 and we will not be in any way responsible for the crop. If the purchaser does not accept 

 the goods on these terms, they are at once to be returned. 



MARKET GARDENERS AND DEALERS ^ ho buy seeds in bulk and in L arge quan_ 



titles are requested to send for our 

 Wholesale Price List. 



OUR RESPONSIBILITY As this Catalogue will go into the hands of many who have 



never dealt with us, we kindly ask for a trial from you, which 

 shall have our best attention. As to our standing, we refer you to the Pella National Bank, 

 to the Postmaster, or to the Express Agent. 



In conclusion we tender you our thanks for past favors. We shall be much pleased to 

 hear from you in 1922. 



With best wishes for the New Year, we are, 



Sincerely yours, 



COLE'S SEED STORE 



PELLA, IOWA, January 1, 1922 



