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request a set was furnished the United States Department of Agriculture. These contain 
photographs, measurements, accurate descriptions of ideal types of each standard vegetable 
and flower. For color sureness, color charts handmade by a talented artist and showing with 
exactitude even the finest gradations of color to be found in vegetables and flowers are used. 
Thus, Ferry-Morse seed breeders have before them always a clear picture of the ideal. 
More than that, Ferry-Morse seed breeders have an accurate knowledge of conditions. 
They talk with canners, inspect their pack; go to the markets and look over incoming shipments 
of vegetables; spend weeks each year in the great commercial vegetable-growing areas in the 
South and West, talking with shippers and growers, inspecting crops in the fields, learning at 
first hand the texture, size, and shape necessary for ideal packing and shipping. The need for an 
improved type once definitely established, the next step is accomplishment, even though years 
of development work are required. 
Nowhere else in the world is garden seed breeding conducted on as large a scale as at the 
Ferry-Morse seed-breeding stations. 
The tr stock seed,'" from which are grown the seeds marketed throughout the world, is grown 
only from seeds selected with the greatest care—seeds whose parentage and characteristics 
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