The above snapshots were taken in our Trial Grounds August, 1935. We welcome 
all visitors who are interested in checking and comparing varieties. 
To Our Floret and Nurseryman Friends: 
We are glad to hand you this new catalog for 1936, and at the same time 
to thank you sincerely for the business you have given us in 1935. 
Our first yrear in the Seed Business brought very gratifying results,—a 
nice volume of business, and what is still more important, the many expressions 
of satisfactory 7 results received from our customers. Our representatives were 
instructed in every case possible to find out the results obtained from planting 
our seeds. We followed out the same practice in our dealings direct from the 
office, because in our minds a sale is not completed satisfactorily until our 
customers are distinctly pleased. 
It is our purpose to still further improve our catalog and the quality of 
the seeds we offer you. Our sources of supply are being selected with extreme 
care. We are running germination tests in our greenhouses and furthermore 
we maintain trial grounds as a positive check on the actual results to be 
obtained from our seed stocks. 
Last summer our trial grounds included plantings of over 90 varieties 
of Petunias and other flowers in proportion. These trials are of immense help 
in determining the real value to the grower, and the growers customers of the 
standard varieties and the many new varieties which are constantly being 
offered. Naturally we are going to maintain that service and still further 
increase the scope of our trials. 
Because of these safeguards, we are justified in asking you to buy 
Martin’s seeds for their quality. Your profits depend on having better plants 
and we feel we can promise you those results. 
AVe extend to you our sincere hope that 1936 will see a splendid advance in 
the prosperity of your business. 
THE JOSEPH F. MARTIN COMPANY 
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