GARDNER 
SEED CO. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Growers and Importers of 
Farm Seed 
Specialties 
Descriptive Catalogue 1 QO/A 
for Spring Delivery 
ra: 
The Best Way To Get New 
Field Seeds 
The Old Way. The old way of changing seed which we suppose 
_ has existed since Abraham down, was for a 
farmer to get enough seed of some variety at quite an advance over the 
market price to plant or sow anywhere from an acre to a whole field, 
and although the seed may have been a good kind and given exception- 
ally large yields in other sections, he finds that it is not adapted to his 
particular soil or climate and the result is a failure, the farmer not only 
having lost the extra amount paid for the seed, but a loss of perhaps 
many bushels per acre on the crop grown, amounting in the whole to a 
sum he can ill-afford to lose. 
Our newer and better way r f|>oves practically all the 
_ risk and is as follows : We 
furnish the farmer small amounts of several different varieties, all of 
them new and improved seed of superior merit, the cost of any of them 
being but a comparatively small amount. He plants or sows them all, 
finds out which is best adapted to his particular soil and climate, and 
in a year or two he has enough seed for his own growing from but a 
small original outlay and without any risk whatever. 
Another gain for the farmer Z HIS \ B y g f tt , mg , ,h ! 
2 right seed stock to start 
with he can grow his own seed much cheaper than anyone else can grow 
it for him and not only grow his own seed but furnish his neighbors as 
well, who are always glad to buy when they see how much superior our 
new and improved varieties are to those they have been growing. 
We Pay All Freight and Duty ° n our seeds - and cu . s 
1 2 — tomers pay us only 
when goods have been safely received. Other seed houses require 
customers to remit in advance and pay cost of transportation. 
This CATALOGUE is for the exclusive use of our Salesmen in presenting the merits of our Seeds 
to the public. We issue Circulars for FREE DISTRIBUTION. 
We use the annual output of over 3000 acres and are one of the largest growers of Farm Seeds on this continent. 
Our special strain of Big Boston Lettuce is grown from selected heads of largest size and those showing least tendency to run to seed. 
The above photograph shows a gang cutting and stripping lettuce in order to let a seed stock come through. 
