Market Gardeners and Large Planters 
SPECIAL FREE 1918 PREMIUM 
Farming our own farms, we have the decided advantage from time to time in the cultiva- 
tion of our mammoth crops and in our breeding plots to develop new and meritorious varieties, 
and our custom has always been to offer these seedlings to our customers for trial free of charge 
awaiting their reports on them prior to listing in our general catalog. Last year we gave you 
Golden Sunburst Sweet Corn, and the year before Ultimatum Peas, and this year we recom- 
mend Condon's Earliest Market Lettuce, listed on the previous page, as well as the other rare 
premiums, and in addition we have another BIG PREMIUM for you, and we think you will 
find it worth more than anything offered before. It's our BIG CULTURE BOOK and CAN- 
NING GUIDE, photographed below. You will find in its pages worlds of information covering 
just what you need from the proper preparation of soil to the planting and cultivation and har- 
vesting of your crops, and also special information as to How to Can Your Surplus. It's a Big 
Volume of information properly classified that can be carried in your coat pocket and referred to 
a hundred times in a season. This is not a theoretical story book, but a Culture Book, written 
in every-day, common-sense way for the amateur or the professional gardener. Sent to YOU 
FREE with orders amounting to $1.50 or more if requested when ordering. 
CONDONS COMMON SENSE 
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C0MX3N BROS.. SEEDSMEN 
RoekRivCT Valleij Seed Farm 
ROCKFORD. ILLINOIS. U.S.A. 
IT'S WHAT THE OTHER 
Fellow Says That Counts 
Hailey, Mo., Sept. 8, 1917. 
Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Rockford, 111. 
Dear Sirs: I am writing to let you know 
that I am well pleased with the Cabbage Seed 
I received from you last spring. We have 
raised the best cabbage this year that we ever 
did. The New Prosperity is the only flat 
headed cabbage that has done any good for 
us and I can fully recommend it as a fine 
cabbage. Yours truly, 
C. A. Phillips, Hailey, Mo. 
Orange Center, Fla., Aug. 29, 1917. 
Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Rockford, 111. 
Gents: I received a sample of Golden Sun- 
burst Sweet Corn and it was the best corn 
we ever ate and I want more of it. 
Mrs. A. W. Flathers. 
Tampico, 111., April 9, 1917. 
Condon Bros., Rockford, 111. 
Gentlemen: I received the potatoes all O. 
K. and note vi-hat you say on slip enclosed. 
I wish to express my appreciation of your 
manner of doing business and must say am in 
honor bound to you to have a "come back or- 
der" in the future. Thanking you for same 
and also seeds enclosed, I am, 
Yours truly, F. C. Thackaberry. 
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