Main Plant and General Office, Northrup, King & Co. 
Foreword to Dealers in Garden Seeds 
T HIS book is published to supply dealers with accurate information on all 
the garden seed varieties which are listed on our wholesale price list. This 
list is quite complete, containing all the varieties of both vegetables and 
flowers which are in popular use over the country. We also carry stocks of many 
varieties not listed here, but their sale is so small we are not justified in including 
them in this book. If you are interested in any varieties of either vegetables or 
flowers not named in these columns, please write us. 
Since the organization of our Company in 1884, it has been our constant aim 
to grow, acquire and distribute only the best seed obtainable. The increasing 
demand for our stocks, year after year, is evidence of appreciated accomplishment. 
We keep in direct contact with the quality of our stocks through tests in our 
modern, fully equipped seed testing laboratory—as well as in our field trial 
grounds. The laboratory tests are for germination and vigor, while the field 
trials are tests of all requisites—vigor, plant size, root or fruit size, and trueness 
to type; color, size and quality of flowers, etc. Accurate records are kept of all 
these trials. Any lots which do not measure up to our standards are immediately 
discarded. 
Dealers are naturally interested in service. The seed-selling season is such 
a short one, over the greater part of the country, that promptness in shipments 
is doubly essential. Our stocks and facilities enable us to make shipment the same 
day the order is received. 
NORTHRUP, KING & CO. 
Seedsmen 
Minneapolis, Minnesota Berkeley, California 
Garden Seed Trial Grounds of Northrup, King & Co., Located a Mile North of Minneapolis. 
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