LAKEVIEW SEED FARM 
For more than twenty years I have been engaged in garden- 
ing and seed growing. My experience in gardening has been: 
very useful to me in growing seeds. It taught me the import- 
ance of having pure and reliable seeds, and gave me a practical- 
knowledge of the great variety of vegetables grown at the pres- 
ent time, and how to secure the best types of the different varie^ 
ties. Good seed cannot be produced from inferior stocks, nor 
can good stock be secured without careful and constant selection 
of the best types. This I have been doing for years, and I be- 
lieve I now have as fine strains of onions, cabbages, beets, carrots^ 
etc., as can be found anywhere. I am willing to have my seeds 
tested by the side of any there is grown. My efforts to produce 
and sell seed of the best quality have met with a generous and 
gratifying response from my friends and customers. My sales 
last year were double those of any previous year. 
I make a specialty of Vegetable Seeds. In this age of in- 
tense competition, we must confine ourselves to some special lin& 
of effort if we wish to reach the highest development and success. 
It is better to do a few things thoroughly well than many things 
fairly well " Divide and conquer" is a maxim as applicable to 
business life as to military affairs. There is always room at the 
top. 
Lakeview Seed Farm is situated on the Ridge Road, just 
north of the City of Rochester and three miles from Lake Ontario. 
It is easily reached from the city, by taking the horse cars on 
State street labeled "Lake Ave. to Ridge Road," which run 
nearly to my farm. I shall be glad to welcome my customers at 
any time during the growing season, and have them inspect my 
method of growing seeds. It is generally conceded that Northern 
grown seeds, with few exceptions, will produce earlier and more 
satisfactory crops than seeds grown further south or where the 
season of growth is longer. As a rule, seeds of quick growth and 
maturity are the best adapted to our climate. This fact has 
made Rochester one of the great seed growing centers of the 
country. There is great advantage in 
BUY^G SEED OF THE GROWER. 
Only those who grow their own seeds can know that their 
seeds are fresh and pure. The seed dealer may take the greatest 
care in selecting his stock of seeds, and, after all, he may be im- 
posed upon by those of whom he buys, either in the purity or 
age of his seeds. But he who grows his own seeds knows for a 
certainty just what the character of his seed is Seeds can now 
be so readily sent by mail or express to the most distant parts of 
the country, that gardeners and others can procure fresh seeds 
direct from the grower, as cheap, and often cheaper, than they 
can procure them from stocks that have made annual trips 
around the country, till their only claim to respect is their age. 
SOWJ^fG THE SEED. 
Having secured seed which we believe to be fresh and relia- 
ble, the first step toward securing a crop, is to sow or plant it in 
such a manner and at such a time that it may have a reasonable 
chance to grow. Seeds must be sown shallow or deep, according 
to their size and ability to push up through the soil. Small seeds 
are very apt to be sown too deep. If small seeds, like celery, 
lettuce, etc., were sown as deep as onion and beet seed, very f^^w 
would ever appear above the ground, and the seedsman would be 
called a cheat, and his seed worthless, when the fault was wholly 
with the man who sowed the seed. Then, again, some seeds are 
hardy and can be sown as soon as the frost is out of the ground 
and it is dry enough to work, while others are tender and will 
rot if put into the ground before it becomes warm. The seeds 
that can be sown early, and those that should be sown later, are 
specified below. 
