From then on, D. M. Ferry & Co. and C. C. Morse & Co. made great strides in seed- 
breeding accomplishment and devoted a steadily increasing acreage to the development of new 
and improved varieties. 
Today, at Oakview, near Rochester, Michigan, eight hundred and fifty acres, and at San 
Juan Bautista, California, and Salinas, California, more than twelve hundred acres are devoted 
to trials, breeding work, and the growing of the stock seed necessary to plant the more than 
Red Cored Chantenay Carrots. Brilliant orange-red and tender 
clear through the core. They are a fine example of the accom¬ 
plishments of Ferry-Morse seed breeders 
Danvers Carrot to the right. Red Cored Chantenay to the left; 
revealing the solidity of color of Red Cored Chantenay 
Detroit Dark Red Beet, originated by D. M. Ferry & Co. in 1892. 
The best known and most popular variety of beet 
Resistant Detroit Cabbage, another Ferry-Morse introduction. 
Yellows resistant,yet as crisp and tender as if no additional hardiness 
had been bred into it. A resistant type of Golden Acre 
