To Our Customers and Friends 



We have the pleasure as another year has passed by to hand you a copy of our new 

 GARDEN ANNUAL for L920. 



After the passing of the New Year and with the arrival of the Seed Catalogues, we are 

 longing and our natures are quickened with Springtime hopes, all wishing for a new and 

 glorious season. 



We 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 alwavs our careful and personal 

 attention. 



It is a year ago when the Armistice was signed and still many questions of the World 

 War are to be settled. It has brought great unrest among the people with the cry of high 

 eost id* living, followed by strikes everywhere, but this will not bring lower prices on food 

 products, but danger of forcing the Country into a panic. 



The only remedy is to work and economize and produce more on the farm, garden, and 

 factory. Plant a good vegetable garden — vegetables are the basic food of life. The home 

 gardener will have plenty of excellent food at a low price. The American public has been 

 aroused to the pleasure and profit of gardening; this will reduce the living expense of many 

 a family and the surplus can be sold to supply the great demand for food products. 



We appreciate the orders that you have given us and assure you that all orders, whether 

 large or small, shall have our most careful attention. 



We come to you again offering in seeds the best that our wide experience can procure. 

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

 whatever you require in seeds, or for 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. 



SFET") PROPS With a few exceptions seed crops were good the past season. The short 

 &£j£j±j items are Peas, very short; Clover and Grass Seed, all kinds, and Onion 



Sets, and prices will rule a little higher on these. Most other seeds are down to a normal 

 price again, as you will note by the lower prices in Catalogue, compared with last year, on 

 many items. 



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

 i£!^j.u-/ &j^±j±sk> es t a hii S hment 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 J^lSTSS&lS* JSnWSSr 



Wholesale Price List. 



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

 ^jm* vnwimm* i 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 1920. 



With best wishes for the New Year, we are, 



Sincerely yours, 



COLE'S SEED STORE 



PELLA, IOWA, January 1, 1920 



