Bloom sd ale Farms and 

 Garden Vegetable Grounds 



THE farm views, taken from a library of 1200 photo- 

 graphic negatives of barns, fields, crops, and vege- 

 tables, will clearly indicate to the observer that the 

 Landreth Establishment is one intensely engaged on a 

 very broad scale in the production of Seeds, for in these 

 pictures throughout this Catalogue are illustrations of 

 the absolute necessities of a large Seed business of 

 home-grown Seeds — that is, the lands and seed-drying 

 houses. 



The location of the Bloomsdale Offices in the very 

 midst of the growing crops has a very practical advantage 

 over a location in a city, although some seed competitors 

 inform their customers that the Landreths are nothing 

 but a country establishment, these same competitors fail- 

 ing to perceive that being in the country on the producing 

 farms is a most practical advantage. 



The Landreth Trial Grounds for Garden Vegetables 

 for the long period of 128 summers, or since 1784, have 

 been the most practical in the United States. 



Readers of this Price List are not only invited, but 

 most earnestly pressed, to visit these Experimental 

 Grounds, that they may see for themselves the compara- 

 tive merit of sorts of similar habit of growth, as much 

 can be learned in one-half hour's observation of these 

 Experimental Grounds as can be acquired in years under 

 ordinary circumstances. 



MANY SEED SUPPLIES NEVER SO SHORT 



AS it is doubtful if there exists, either in America or in Europe, as much as a third of the 

 quantity of Garden Seeds of the biennial character required to meet planting demands 

 . in the spring of 1912, it is evident that little or nothing will , be carried over to serve 

 for 1913. • ' " , . ' ' ' . / 



But the worst is not comprehended in the , present short-crop conditions,, as those same 

 influences which resulted in the production of limited seed crops at the same time influenced the 

 production of a short crop of all biennials in growth the past summer, as, for example. Cabbage, 

 Kale, Carrot, Celery, Parsnip, Beet, Mangold, Onion, Leek, _ Turnip, and all other under-ground 

 and over-ground plants which have to be developed sufficiently thie first summer to produce a 

 seed crop the second summer. 



In other words, the seed famine as respects biennials must continue over two seasons as it 

 is now too late to grow crops requiring two years to produce seeds. It is not likely that seeds of 

 biennials will be held a year hence at lower values than the present-day values, if indeed as low. 



