PEDIGREE SEEDS 



AN APPELLATION WHICH HAS FOR MANY YEARS BEEN ATTACHED TO 



LANDRETHS' 



SEEDS which SUCCEED 



1§ Now, what does "pedigree" mean as applied to Seeds? 

 It means just the same as "pedigree" attached to 

 horses, cattle, dogs, chickens — choice breeds. It is 

 the direct opposite of mongrel or unselected stock, 

 and it is just as applicable to Seeds as to horses. 



^ Plants by selection year after year can in their growth 

 and development be steered in new directions as to 

 shape, color, flavor, time of maturity, various values 

 either for ornament or for eating. 



IJ The results of selection are quite wonderful. Crops 

 grown from selected Seed are often twice and thrice 

 as productive or better in other ways than before. 

 A familiar example is Indian Corn, the product in 

 grain of which raised from an acre can by selection 

 be raised from the national average of about 30 

 bushels per acre to 130 bushels — that is, over 300 

 per cent, increase. Of course, it is only on good soil 

 that 100 bushels can be raised to the acre, but no 

 matter what the soil, Corn crops can proportion- 

 ately be raised to twice their average production in 

 any Corn-growing locality. 



^ Such productive Seeds are Pedigree Seeds, and the 

 same thing appears not only in yield, but in color, 

 shape, texture, flavor, size. 



THEY ARE 



SEEDS which SUCCEED 



MERCHANTS FIND THEM GOOD SELLERS 



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