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Our Twenty -Fifth Birthday 
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T is with pleasure that we hand you herewith our TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL 
CATALOGUE celebrating the quarter of a century mark of this business, and 
we believe the beginning of the greatest era of peace and prosperity the world 
has ever known. 
Twenty-Five years is a very brief period in the flight of time, but it is a long 
time in the history of any commercial enterprise. And in a business such as ours, 
where faith and good-will play such an important part, we say with a pardonable degree 
of pride that we have stood the “Test of Time,” and are steadily increasing our services 
to the seed users of this continent year after year. In fact it may interest you to know 
that our business last year reached such a volume (over twice our yearly average), that we 
were compelled to add largely to our storage capacity, and to install more modern machinery 
so that our facilities for purifying, testing and distributing the many varieties of seed we 
handle would be capable of taking care of our increasing trade properly. 
We handle absolute nothing that we do not believe to be the best obtainable. Our growers 
of seed in the United States, England, Germany, Holland, France and Denmark realize that 
we are expert judges, that we pay the highest market price, which insures proper growing 
on their part, and that our personally conducted trials keep us properly informed as regards 
their stocks. Our advantages for the production of the best seeds enable us to offer them 
at the lowest prices for which well grown and selected seeds true to name can be furnished. 
Cheap seeds should be resolutely shunned for no one can afford to buy them The best is 
always the cheapest, for the best seed means the best crops. It takes reliable seed to prevent 
loss and to get the most from nature’s help, and we are striving to help farmers and gardeners 
get better results from their land and the work they put on it. It is just as essential to 
get new blood into your crops as it is into your live stock, and you must use the same 
principle to do it. 
One of the greatest pleasures of our business life has been to see the same old salesmen 
and the same old customers back with us year after year. It makes life really worth living 
to see your orders coming to us each year, for we know then that the result of years of 
effort in propagating, selecting and growing the highest quality seed has won for us the 
CONFIDENCE and GOOD-WILL of our patrons. 
We are now in a better position than ever before to handle any business with which we 
may be favored, and assure our trade that the same standard of excellence will still be 
maintained in the quality of our seed as for the past twenty-five years. 
GARDNER SEED COMPANY 
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