Schell’s Quality Seeds for 1934 
THEY GROW BETTER THEY YIELD BETTER 
They are Preferred by Successful Gardeners and Farmers 
Everywhere because they know they can depend on Schell’s 
Strains producing Quality Vegetables. 
Be Sure of Success—Always Plant Schell’s Quality 
Seeds—And You Will Always Have Quality Crops. 
To You Who Have Been Sending Your Orders to Me: 
I thank you again and extend my sincere wishes for a good 1934, 
with health and contentment, and I will look with pleasure to 
receiving soon your order for this year. 
To Those Receiving Our Catalogue for the First Time: 
I know you want the very best seeds you can secure, and I can 
assure you if you will send us your order this year you will be 
so well pleased with your crops that you, too, will then be one 
of our permanent customers. 
WE PAY THE POSTAGE, Express, or Freight on all 
Garden Seeds and Flower Seeds at the prices quoted in this 
Catalogue, to all points in the United States except where 
quoted “By freight”; this means you pay the freight or express 
in these larger quantities of Peas, Beans, and Corn, for which 
we have made exceptionally low prices F.O.B. our store. We 
send them whichever way is cheapest, unless you specify the 
way. Be sure to put your nearest express or freight station on the order sheet if it is different from your post office. 
EXTRA SPECIAL: To do our part this year to help you folks, many of whom have been buying your 
seeds from us for a quarter of a century, to help you now when you need it most, I am going to give you this very 
liberal extra-special cash discount. Here it is: 
This applies to Vegetable Seeds and Flower Seeds only, not to Field Seeds. 
On all Orders of from $ 2 to $ 5 you may deduct 6 per cent cash discount. 
On all Orders of from $ 6 to $10 you may deduct 8 per cent cash discount. 
On all Orders of from $11 to $25 you may deduct 10 per cent cash discount. 
On all Orders of from $26 to $50 or $100 or more you may deduct 12 per cent cash discount. 
We Are Giving You Schell’s High-Quality Seeds at Low Prices and this Big Cash Discount. 
Send your order early. Make it out for your full requirements for the year’s plantings. 
HOW TO SEND CASH. Send either Post Office Money Order, Check, or Express Money Order for amounts 
above 50 cts., and stamps for less amounts. However, send whichever is most convenient to you. 
NON-WARRANTY. Walter S. Schell, Inc., give no warranty, express or implied, as to description, quality, productiveness, 
or any other matter of any seeds, bulbs, or plants they sell and will not be responsible for the crop. If the customer does not 
accept the goods on these terms, they are at once to be returned and the amount paid for them will be refunded. 
Schell’s Seed House—Central Pennsylvania’s 
Largest Seed Store. The Place Where “Quality” 
Rules and Prices Are Less Because of the Enormous 
Business We Do. 
ASPARAGUS 
HOW TO GROW ASPARAGUS.—One ounce of seed will pro¬ 
duce about 200 plants. I will furnish a special Leaflet with full 
directions for preparing the bed, how to set the roots, etc., free to 
all my customers who ask for it. Roots should be planted in 
early spring. 
For your home-garden, 50 roots will plant a space 25 feet long 
and 6 feet wide; 100 roots, 50 feet by 6 feet; 8,000 roots per acre, 
1 % feet apart, in rows, 3 feet between the rows. For small gardens, 
rows can be iK feet apart. 
Mary Washington Rust-Resistant 
Asparagus 
A variety bred up by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, at 
Washington, D. C., from a careful selection of plants of the Wash¬ 
ington variety, and now more popular and more widely grown 
than any other. It produces large, beautiful, straight, dark green, 
tender shoots of the most delicious flavor. As this variety has 
proved superior to all others, we have therefore discontinued listing 
the others, but can furnish them if preferred. 
Large Two-Year-Old Roots of Genuine Mary Washington. 
Doz. 50 cts. (postpaid 60 cts.); 50 roots Si.50 (postpaid Si.75); 
100 roots $2.50 (postpaid $2.85); 1,000 for $14; 5,000 for $65. 
Seed of Mary Washington. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 25 cts.; ] 4 \b. 70 cts.; 
lb. $1.90. 
BORECOLE or KALE 
Sow in July for fall use and in September for spring use 
One ounce will produce about 5,000 plants 
Schell’s Dwarf Curled Blue Scotch or Extra Curled_ (also 
known as "Jamaica” and as “Bloomsdale Kale”). This Kale is 
of a dark bluish green color without yellowing, even after several 
days of shipping. It grows to a large size and produces a mass 
of foliage. Very hardy and passes through the severest winters 
without being harmed. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 15 cts.; K’lb. 35 cts.; 
lb. 90 cts.; 5 lbs. at 85 cts. per lb. 
Dwarf Siberian. A dwarf grower, with large, broad leaves, slightly 
curled at the edges. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; y£\h. 25 cts.; lb. 80 
cts.; 10 lbs. at 70 cts. per lb. 
Dwarf Green Curled Scotch or Dwarf German. The leaves 
are very curly, bright green, tender, and of delicate flavor. 
Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; %lb. 25 cts.; lb. 80 cts. 
BROCCOLI 
Calabrese or Green Sprouting. You grow it as you do 
cabbage plants, starting indoors in February or March 
and transplanting outdoors later, or sow outdoors in May, 
then transplant 30 inches apart each way. The plants pro¬ 
duce from the center small green heads about 4 inches 
across. These are cut out and used before the flower- 
buds open, then from the axils of the leaves there devel¬ 
ops thick, fleshy, light green sprouts, each with small 
buds from 1 to 2 inches across. These are cut with 5 
to 6 inches of stem and prepared like asparagus. Pkt. 
ioc.; 3 pkts. 25c.; J4oz. 45c.; oz. 75c.; Klb- I2; lb. $6.50. 
Extra-Early White. Head is large, firm, white, like cauli¬ 
flower. Pkt. 15 cts.; yioz. 85 cts.; oz. Si.50; Xlb. S4.50. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
HOW TO GROW THEM.—Grow the same as cabbage. 
One ounce of seed will plant a row 200 feet long. 
Half-Dwarf Paris Market. Sprouts are medium-sized, 
closely set, very firm, and rounded. Stems are 20 to 28 
inches long. This variety is preferred by all. Pkt. 5c.; 
oz. 25c.; Xlb. 75c.; lb. S2.50. 
Schell’s Dwarf Curled Blue Scotch Kale 
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