HARRIS SEEDS 
OUR FIRST AND LATEST 
CATALOG UES, 1880-1936 
W HEN Joseph Harris first started to grow 
and sell seeds here on More ton Farm over 
fifty-five years ago, he determined to offer only 
the finest seeds of the best varieties obtainable. 
This has been our firm policy ever since. 
Since that time there have been great im¬ 
provements in the seed growing industry. Scien¬ 
tific plant breeding and selections have actually 
created many new varieties of vegetables and 
flowers each of which has contributed some im¬ 
provement in earliness, quality, yield, trueness 
to type or beauty. 
We realize that you wish your garden to be up 
to the minute but have not the space or time to 
try all the new things that are constantly being 
offered. This is where we come in. We get samples 
of seed from all over the world; many that have 
not yet been offered for sale, and grow them 
under ordinary garden conditions by the side of 
the older varieties. If they turn out to be better 
we put them in our list and tell you just what we 
think about them. In the same way we discard 
old varieties that have been superseded, thereby 
keeping our list of vegetables and flowers a truly selective one 
from which you may order with perfect confidence. Beside try¬ 
ing out new things, we are constantly working on the standard 
varieties to improve them in both earliness and trueness to type. 
We have been working at this right here on our farm for over 
half a century and we look back with pride on the results that 
we have been able to obtain. 
Officeand Main Warehouse at Moreton Farm 
Roadside Store and Garden at Moreton Farm. (Seed drying houses appear in the background.) 
