By purchasing Landreths' Seeds you get Quality for Cur- 

 rency — not ALWAYS the case when purchasing Seeds 



If The Landreth 

 Seed-Growing Estab- 

 lishment is the oldest 

 in America, founded 

 in Philadelphia, 1784, 

 and has for this long 

 period held a most 

 unviable reputation 

 not only in the Amer- 

 ican Seed trade, bur 

 in the Seed trade of 

 the world. 



<| Landreths' Blooms- 

 dale Seed Farms are 

 known as the home 

 of SEEDS which 

 SUCCEED. They 

 are sold in nearly 

 every country on the 

 globe. 



David Landreth ist 

 Founder of the 

 Seed Business at 

 Philadelphia 

 1784 — 129 Years 

 Ago 



QUALITY 



At last the Seed-bujang public has awakened to the very serious error of measuring the value of Garden 

 Seeds by their outward or current price instead of their inward or intrinsic merits. We say this because the 

 intelligent buyer is now certainly demanding QUALITY. 



It would seem that the "Cheap Johns" have had their day, as we have from all directions not only 

 very positive expressions to that effect, but repeated inquiries if the low prices quoted by some merchants 

 do not unmistakably indicate careless Seed growing, in other words, unreliable stocks of Seeds. To such 

 inquiries we reply, Certainly, good Seeds cannot be grown as cheaply as poor Seeds. 



Many correspondents spelling Quality with a big Q say they cannot afford to take any risk as to an 

 inferior grade of Seed, as they have had their fingers burned before, that the first cost of Seeds compared with 

 the returns is as a drop of water in a bucketful. 



QUALITY has always been our aim in Seed growing, and the QUALITY of Seed should always be in 

 the mind of Seed buyers, as they cannot afford to risk their land and labor, their hopes of profit, by the 

 purchase of Seeds because they are cheap. SUSPICION MUST ALWAYS BE DIRECTED AGAINST 

 CHEAP THINGS, PARTICULARLY AGAINST CHEAP SEEDS. 



_ Many cheap things can be scrutinized before purchasing, but dry Seeds give no indication whatever of 

 their merits or demerits. 



The Seed buyer has been fooled too often, consequently order Landreths' Seeds and sleep without 

 rocking. 



Some advertising people say no merchant can succeed unless he tells the pubhc what he has to sell. This 

 being quite correct, this book is designed for that purpose, and it will be found to be both accurate in its 

 descriptions and practical in its hints as to cultivation. 



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