To Our Customers and Friends 



At the opening of the New Year, it Ki\es us great pleasure to liaiid you a copy of 



our New Garden Annual. 



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

 liope for a continuance of your valued favors, which will have always our careful and per- 

 sonal attention. 



Tlie war has brougfht one result, that is the experience l)y many in war gardens. It lias 

 been a wonderful surprise to Iiundreds of people, as to the possibilities of a piece of ground, 

 what it will produce in supplies for the family table, when planted with a choice collection 

 of vegetables and well taken care of. 



Prices of many farm and garden products arc quite unsettled this Fall and are seeking 

 lower levels, but this must be expected before everything has come to a normal and lower 

 basis. 



This country has such great resources that it will not take long to overcome this unsettled 

 condition. If we are willing to work, produce, and economize, this will greatly help. 



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

 will have plenty of excellent and healthy food at a nominal outlay. 



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. 



SFFD CROPS "^^^^ seed harvest was not heavy this past season, but a good normal crop 

 *^ wa^s produced of most items of Garden Seeds. 



Farm Seeds have yielded a heavier crop of good quality and prices will be much lower 

 fronf the present outlook. 



TESTED SEEDS 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, 

 ajid 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 ^^^^^ ^"L^ t"*^ ^F^® 



titles are requested to send for our 



Wholesale Price List. 



OUR RESPONSIBILITY catalogue win 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 1921. 



With best wishes for the New Year, we are, 



Sincerely yours. 



PELLA, IOWA, January 1, 1921 



COLE'S SEED STORE 



