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Where Your Seed Orders will be Filled. 
Quality of Our Seeds 
The permanent success of any business depends almost wholly upon 
the quality of the goods produced or handled. In no other line of 
business does this rule apply with greater force than in the seed business. 
While with most goods your eyes can be your judge to a large extent, 
when buying seeds you must wait until the harvest to know the value 
of your purchase. 
The reasonable conclusion of the general public, is that seeds sold 
at the nominal price of one cent per packet must of necessity be of inferior 
quality. Elsewhere we give some of the reasons why it is possible to 
supply the very best seeds grown at these prices. We wish to emphasize 
the fact that no seedsman can be more careful than we in selecting only 
seeds of the highest quality. We believe it is of more importance that 
the child who spends its first pennies for seeds, with high expectations of 
success, should have the best seeds—better than the adult who is used to 
disappointments—. 
We always contract for our seeds a year in advance with growers 
of known reputation, many of whom have been personally known for 
more than twenty-five years. We spend much of our summer vacation 
visiting the growers and inspecting the growing crops. Last season we 
spent three months visiting the growers in Europe. We were dis¬ 
appointed in not being able to visit our growers in Germany, but hope to 
return again after the war is over. 
We contract for our anticipated requirements a year in advance, and 
our requirements are becoming so large that we are able to secure the 
lowest hundred pound, and ton rates. Last season it required ninety 
bushels of Nasturtium seed to fill our orders. The reason for this 
phenomenal demand is that they are absolutely the finest mixture of 
Nasturtium seed that can be procured anywhere. We do not hesitate 
to say that we believe them to be superior to mixed Nasturtium seed 
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