OSCAR H. WILL & CO., BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA 
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W ITH our new 52d annual catalog for 1935 we wish to call 
to the particular attention of our customers and friends 
the lady on the front cover. The lady and her ancestors have 
raised crops in North Dakota for three hundred years or more, 
and her people never starved out in all that time, because they 
raised adapted crops and stored always some supply for a pos¬ 
sible lean year. When crops were poor, grass too was poor, 
and the buffalo sought distant and better pastures so that a 
reserve in the cellars was doubly necessary. 
C.it seems therefore that our drought problems are in reality 
over 300 years old and have been met successfully for that long 
a period. 
C. So why be discouraged? Surely we can survive with reason¬ 
able living conditions and fair success if our aboriginal prede¬ 
cessors could farm with profit and security on the very same land. 
C. Let us remember that droughts may come and go, that most 
of the years are productive, that land is cheap and our debt 
burden cannot be comparable to that of higher valued sections. 
C. Our corn crop around Bismarck was the nearest to a total failure that we have seen in 53 years. Our 
gardens and experimental patches were dried out, hailed out, eaten by blackbirds, rabbits, pheasants, rats 
and bugs, and we had the earliest frost in years. Just the same we have faith in the Northern Great 
Plains and the whole Northwest and we plan to raise just as good a crop this year as can be produced. 
C. We offer you Will’s adapted and acclimated seeds and plants and invite you all to join with us in our 
plans for the year of 1935. 
Sincerely, 
OSCAR H. WILL & CO. 
Keeping the deer, crows' and blackbirds 
out of the corn. 
We will accept seed orders or coupons issued by relief agencies at face value in exchange for 
m _ seeds at catalog or list price. __ 
Will’s Flower Seed Seeds Prepaid 
WILL’S Old-Fashioned Flower Garden Collection 
One packet each of the following: 
Flower) Mixed 
Single Mixed Hollyhock 
French Mixed Marigold 
Mignonette Machet 
Mixed Morning Glory 
Phlox Drummondi Grand- 
i flora 
Poppy, Mixed Carnation 
Mixed Single Portulaca 
Dwarf Ten Weeks Stocks 
Antirrhinum (Snapdragon) 
Mixed Giant Flowered 
Mixed Bachelor’s Button 
Double Camellia-Flowered 
Balsam 
Cosmos, Early Mammoth 
—Flowering Single 
Mixed 
Dlanthus—Chinese Pink 
Helichrysum, (Straw 
Sweet William 
Dahlia-Flowered Zinnia 
Gold Medal Mixture 
Also one ounce each of the 
following: 
Will’s Pioneer Brand 
Dwarf Mixed Nastur¬ 
tiums 
Will’s Imperial Mixed 
Sweet Peas 
This #1.30 Value—Postpaid for Only.... , 
75c 
Special Flower Seed Collection No. 2 for School Children 
To children interested in flowers we offer seven packets of ** r< 
flower seeds of our selection. Seven packets, postpaid, for. uO C 
In order that our customers may plant and grow with better understanding, we 
make use of the following symbols: 
(A) Annuals—These complete the cycle of growth, flowering, and death, the first 
year. 
(B) Biennials—These grow from seed the first year, bloom and die the second. 
If started indoors these commonly bloom the first year. 
(P) Perennials—These live and flower year after year. 
(T) Tender—Plants so marked should be started inside and transplanted after dan¬ 
ger of frost is past. 
(C) Climbing Plants. 
AC'EK-ATTTM—Blue Perfection. (A), pne of the best border and bedding plants, bloom¬ 
ing from early Summer to frost. Grows 10 inches tall. Pkt., 5c; *4 ox., 20c. 
ALYSSOl_Little Geir). (A). One of the finest annuals we have for edging. Com¬ 
pact white plants, six inches high, are completely covered throughout the season 
with pretty flowers. Pkt., 5c; Vz ox., 15c; oz., 25c. 
ALYNSfM—Lilac Queen. (A). Deep lavender lilac blossoms. Pkt., 5c; *4 oz., 15c. 
ANTIRRHINUM_SNAPDRAGON. Maximum Giant Flowered. (A). The newest in 
Snapdragons and a marked advance in size of bloom and brilliancy of color. Readily 
raised from seed in any sunny bed. Spring seedlings bloom by midsummer, and, 
if cut freely, the flowering is continuous until Fall. If then taken up, cut back, 
and potted, plants will bloom in the house during the Winter. One of the finest 
flowers for cutting. Our mixture is unexcelled. Pkt., 10c; % oz., 45c. 
If you wish any sort of Flower Seed not listed here, ask us about it. If 
we do not have it, we can get it, or tell you where it may be procured. 
Antirrhinum—Snapdragon 
