BVBBANK'S 1921 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
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unsightly stalks so generally grown. No grower of any other kind can ever com- 
pete with this productive Snow White variety. It will transform the business as 
the Burbank Potato has transformed the potato business. 
I offer no seed of this for sale now, as "Prolific White" will everywhere sup- 
plant even this wonderful Sunflower. 
Yankton, S. D., July 29, 1919.— You will remember that we purchased from you last year some 
of the large sunflowers and we wish to state at this time that we certainly have a wonderful crop 
from the seed we purchased from you. We are about ready to harvest these, and as we have 
never done any harvesting of sunflowers, we are writing to find out the best manner of harvesting 
and threshing the seed. q 3 qq 
Santa Rosa, Cal., Jan. 4, 1920. — The "Manteca" Sunflower produced a head twenty-two inches 
in diameter. L B W 
SUNFLOWER— "NEW PROLIFIC WHITE." 
— PJiolo by Herbert Gleason, Boston. 
The New Sunflower — "Prolific White" "Manteca" ("the fat") has 
proven its value and now I 
offer a new wonder, "PROLIFIC WHITE," the most remarkable and most useful 
sunflower ever produced; one which will forever supplant the older kinds and 
make a new record in the world of horticulture. "Prolific White," like "Manteca," 
produces great single heads of purest white seeds and while growing only three 
feet in height, yields even more seed per acre and as much foliage closely crowded 
on the big, short stalks; very inconvenient for the birds, but very convenient in 
a windy country and exceedingly so for cultivation and harvesting. Never before 
offered. Packet of fifty plump seeds, 25c; one hundred seeds, 40c; five hundred 
seeds, $1.50; pound, $8. 
Oakland, Cat.., Nov. 23, 1920. — Your seeds, as usual, gave me immense satisfaction, especially 
the odd colors in your red hybridized sunflowers. I raised "Manteca" Sunflowers that measured 
almost twenty inches across, not including the flower petals. W. S. P. 
St. Louis, Mo., July 7, 1919. — Wc are in the market to buy one to five cars of new crop sunflower 
seed for September, October shipment. If you will wire us your lowest price upon receipt of this 
we will be glad to try to trade with you. If you can not offer it, will you please refer us to anyone 
who will contract to sell the new crop seed? P. L. Zimmerman Co. 
The sunflower is almost as valuable as the fabled cocoanut, which produces butterfat, milk, 
food, fiber, etc., for its tropical owner. The sunflower seed produces an oil unexcelled for 
culinary purposes, almost as bland and pure as olive oil. It requires the minimum of culture, 
and thrives under adverse conditions of soil and climate. In China the sunflower seed like 
pumpkin seeds have medicinal value; in Russia the moujik eats his roasted sunflower seeds as 
the boys do peanuts. Some day we may have them "salted" as part of the menu, or sold as a 
confection. — Weekly California Slate News Letter. 
