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JOE’S SEED BULLETIN 
Joe’s Seed Bulletin 
Joe Smith 
17 22 Madrona Drive 
Seattle, Wash. 
Editor and Publisher 
Subscription Price: 
50 cents a year. Three years for $1. 
Advertising 
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word, minimum charge 25c. Three in¬ 
sertions for 5c a word, minimum price 
50 c. 
Display advertising accepted at the un- 
precedently low rate of 50e an inch for 
each insertion, payment in advance. 
My Challenge 
I challenge the world to equal 
the bargain I am offering in the 
Bulletin in flower seed. Thirteen 
packages of fresh, hand harvested 
flower seed, your choice from over 
3 00 varieties, for only 25 cents, 
postpaid. I am able to do this be¬ 
cause good friends supply me with 
the seed, almost without cost to me. 
My Guarantee 
I guarantee all seed distributed to 
be fresh, pure and viable, and to 
give full satisfaction to purchaser. 
If any seed I send you does not 
come up to this high standard it 
will be replaced on request, either 
with seed of the same, or seed of 
another variety. So far as I know 
no other seedsman in the world 
makes a guarantee like this. Read 
elsewhere what purchasers have to 
say about the quality of the seed I 
distribute. 
Only Fresh Seed Wanted 
Just a word to those sending me 
seed. Do not send me seed of last 
year’s crop. It is nearly time now 
for the new crop. Send me seed 
only of 193 5 season’s growth. Only 
by holding to this rule can I be sure 
of distributing only fresh seed. 
Prizes For Seed 
Persons who send me seed for 
this distribution will be sent seed 
of their own selection from my 
this I will send each month a priz®* 
Of 12 Madonna Dilies, 12 Regal 
Lilies or 12 King Alfred Daffodils, 
postpaid, to the person sending me 
the most desirable package of new 
crop flower seed. Contributions will 
be graded on three points, the num¬ 
ber of varieties (in quantities of 
not less than one ounce each) of 
seed not already on hand, the ap¬ 
pearance and quality of the seed- 
sent, and the rarity or popularity of 
the varieties. I cannot divide the 
prize and send part Regal Lilies, 
part Madonna Lilies and part Daf¬ 
fodils, for the reason that they can¬ 
not be shipped in the same package. 
The prize for the month of June 
goes to Mrs. Elizabeth Burrie, Riv¬ 
erside, Calif. 
Grape Hyacinths 
Royal Blue Grape Hyacinths, Mus- 
cari Conicum, with spikes of blue 
globe shaped flowers in May, fine 
for the border or for naturalizing, 
4 0c a dozen, $2.50 per 100. Plant¬ 
ing size bulblets for naturalizing $1 
per pin* 
Hyacinths 
I grow Hyacinths in limited quan¬ 
tities, hope some time to increase 
the stock, but find them in such 
demand that I sell each season all 
I have to spare. Hyacinths grown In 
the Pacific Northwest give better 
blooms from corresponding size 
bulbs than those imported from Hol¬ 
land. Perhaps this is the reason I 
never seem to have any surplus to 
plant at the end of the season. This 
season I can offer only: 
Mixed Hyacinths, first blooming 
size, eight for $1 postpaid. 
Double white Hyacinths, small 
bulbs, 75c per dozen. 
Order from Joe Smith, 1722 Ma¬ 
drona Drive, Seattle, Wash. 
More and Better 
“Thanks to you I’m having more 
and better flowers this year than 
ever. The Columbine seed from your 
last order has germinated beautiful¬ 
ly.’’ Mrs. J. E. Goins, Alexandria* 
Va. 
