Garden Seed Department 
Years ago my father ap¬ 
pointed me manager of his 
seed department, and this 
position I have held since I 
have returned from Europe 
where I studied for my work. 
I was 18 years old when I 
left for Central European 
countries. I spent three years 
there, together with my 
father who made numerous 
trips to Europe (for the pur¬ 
pose of importing new varie¬ 
ties that will do well in 
America). I made connec¬ 
tions with world famous 
growers of seeds. Connec¬ 
tions formed then enable me 
to bring to my patrons not 
only the cream of the seed 
crop of America, but also 
the best in novelties that 
European growers can produce. The seed distri¬ 
bution and the handling and selling of good seeds 
is my work. This is what I have learned, and 
perhaps all I can do, at least I would never wish 
to participate in any other line of work. Just as 
my brothers, I tend strictly to my work, we leave 
the selling of other goods to legitimate dealers; we 
leave politics to politicians, but whenever you are 
interested in Trees and Seeds that grow, I am at 
your service, with pleasure. 
ERNEST 
SONDEREGGER 
Manager Seed Dept. 
10 Reasons Why Sonderegger Seeds Are Better 
I OWN AND OPERATE A SEED TESTING LABORATORY 
for my own use exclusively. For the protection of my custom¬ 
ers, every item of seed I ship is tested for purity and germina¬ 
tion. Only the best is good enough for a Sonderegger patron. 
I REPRESENT MY SEEDS WITH ABSOLUTELY TRUST¬ 
WORTHY DESCRIPTIONS. If I were to take the witness 
stand in a court room I could defend with a clean conscience 
every word I write describing my varieties. I give you descrip¬ 
tions t© the best of my knowledge. 
I SHIP SEEDS PROMPTLY AND GUARANTEE SAFE 
DELIVERY. When your order reaches me, I ship the seeds 
at once, any live plants or trees are booked to reach you at the 
proper time for planting. If any item happens to be out of 
stock—which happens once in a great while—back orders are 
made so that you get the items that are short in time to plant. 
Write if a shipment is not entirely satisfactory; you are fully 
protected against any loss or damage while your shipment is in 
transit. 
SONDEREGGER’S NOVELTIES are tested and tried by experts 
before they are offered to the Sonderegger patron, i am not 
using the garden space of my customers to test out novelties. 
I try and test them myself, or have them tested by experts, 
and only when such novelties have given entire satisfaction, 
and only then, are they included in my book. 
THE SOURCES OF SONDEREGGER’S SEEDS are the world’s 
most famous seed plantations. It took 50 years of intense study, 
extensive traveling here and abroad, years of work in Europe, 
to develop a system whereby I can obtain the world’s finest 
seeds today, and corresponding with the varying seed crop con¬ 
ditions, have seed from the best crop of the year 
SONDEREGGER’S SEED LIST IS ONE OF THE MOST COM¬ 
PLETE seed lines offered in America. No matter where you 
live and no matter what you have tried before, you find in my 
list just the suitable variety for your locality. 233 different 
varieties of vegetable seeds, and 345 varieties of flower seeds. 
It would take a large store to display just a few packets of each 
variety I offer you in this book. 
MY GUARANTEE IS THE ONE UNIVERSALLY ADOPTED 
BY RELIABLE SEED MEN. I exercise great care to keep all 
seeds properly labeled, clean, and pure. However, I am com¬ 
pelled to make all seed sales under the following disclaimer: 
The Sonderegger Nurseries & Seedhouse give no warranty, 
express or implied, as to description, quality, productiveness or 
any other matter of any seeds they sell, and will not be respon¬ 
sible for the crop. If the purchaser does not accept the goods 
on these terms they are to be returned at once. Every rep¬ 
utable seed house is using this same disclaimer 
I PRICE MY SEEDS—CONSIDERING QUALITY—LOWER 
THAN ANYBODY ELSE. This would never be possible if my 
seeds had to pass through middlemen, either through jobbers 
or wholesalers before they get to me, or through agencies or 
stores before they come to you. 
I PUT EVERYTHING INSIDE THE PACKAGE NOT ON THE 
PACKAGE. As long as the seed goes into the ground, not the 
fancy illustrated packet, and as long as the seed must make the 
crop while the picture on the packet fades, I use plain pack¬ 
ets, and print a good planting instruction on the outside that is 
cheap. I do it on my own presses, and that gives me more 
than 20% on each packet to put inside, in quality and quantity. 
IN EVERY DOLLAR’S WORTH OF SONDEREGGER—STOCK 
OR SEEDS —is figured in the least amount of overheads and 
advertising and sales cost of any nationally known seed brand 
The saving goes into the quality of the product. 
Sonderegger’s Golden Anniversary Special—89c 
A Collection Which I Plant in My Garden: 
2 oz. Beans, Burpee’s Stringless. 
2 oz. Beans. Sonderegger’s Improved 
Black Wax. 
2 oz. Pole Beans, Old Homestead or 
Kentucky Wonder. 
1 pkt. Beets, Sonderegger’s Early Blood 
Turnip. 
1 pkt. Cabbage, Sonderegger’s Improved 
Danish Ballhead. 
1 pkt. Chinese or Celery Cabbage. 
1 pkt. Carrot. Sonderegger’s Half Long. 
1 pkt. Sweet Corn, Sonderegger’s Golden. 
1 pkt. Sweet Corn, Early Evergreen. 
These twenty packages will be sent by mail 
only 89c. Regular price would be $1.70. 
1 pkt. Cucumber, Improved Long Green. 
1 pkt. Lettuce, Sonderegger’s Extra 
Early Head. 
1 pkt. Onion, Large Red Wethersfield. 
1 pkt. Onion, Sonderegger’s Prizetaker. 
2 oz. Peas, Early May. 
2 oz. Peas, American Wonder. 
1 pkt. Pumpkin, Large Sweet Cheese. 
lb. Pop Corn, Japanese Hulless. 
\ pkt. Radish, Sonderegger’s Icicle. 
1 pkt. Tomato. Scarlet Topper. 
1 oz. Turnip. Purple Top White Globe, 
to any address in the United States for 
Birthday Collection 
for 46c 
Postpaid. 
1 pkt. Golden Acre Cabbage. 
1 pkt. Ohio Canner Beets. 
1 pkt. Burpee’s Stringless Beans. 
1 pkt. Golden Wax Beans. 
1 pkt. Long Green Cucumber. 
1 pkt. Giant Butter Radish. 
1 pkt. Sonderegger’s Icicle Radish. 
1 pkt. Sonderegger’s Scarlet Carrots. 
1 pkt. Early Curled Simpson Lettuce 
1 pkt. Extra Early May Peas. 
A Half Century of Better Seeds and Better Gardens 
